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Intuition and Psychic Senses
Your intuition is a navigation system for your soul's evolution, not a safety net for your ego's comfort.
As an empath, you are operating on a high-fidelity frequency that picks up subtle data the rest of the world misses. You aren’t imagining things, and you aren’t “too sensitive”. Developing your intuition and psychic senses is about tuning your internal dial so you can distinguish the clear signal of your truth from the loud static of the world. By understanding how your energetic machinery works, you can finally use your intuition and psychic senses as a reliable GPS to navigate the unknown without needing a map.
Table of Contents
Core Concepts to Explore
Understanding Your Internal GPS
The biology of your intuition and psychic senses usually shows up in two distinct ways. Clairsentience (Clear Feeling) allows you to feel the vibration of truth viscerally in your body, while Claircognizance (Clear Knowing) provides sudden "downloads" of information without logical explanation.
Signal vs. Noise (Anxiety vs. Intuition)
A major challenge for empaths is knowing which voice to listen to. The desire for certainty feels like anxiety—it is loud, loops constantly, screams urgency, and demands proof. Intuition, on the other hand, is neutral, quiet, and arrives as a singular “knowing”.
Trusting the Breadcrumb
We live in a culture that teaches us to hoard information and demand a five-year plan before we make a move. But your guides and your intuition operate on “Just-in-Time” economics. They will not give you the whole map; instead, they give you the breadcrumb for the very next right step.
The Empath’s Blind Spot (The Glitch)
When tuning into our intuition and psychic senses, empaths often perceive a person’s Soul (their highest potential) but are completely blind to their Incarnate Self (their unhealed ego and actual behavior). This explains why intuitive people still get hurt in relationships; we hallucinate potential instead of reading the reality in front of us.
The Language of Energy
Glossary of Terms
For those who are unfamiliar with the psychic world, this is an attempt to make sure we are speaking the same language. We use a lot of words in this work that may be unfamiliar to some people, and sometimes other practices and schools of thought offer slightly different meanings.
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Intuition
The practice of connecting to your higher self, your deepest truth, your own connection to a higher power, for the purpose of living an authentic, satisfying, and fulfilling life. Making choices and decisions from your own divine guidance instead of following the “societal script.”
Psychic
Clairvoyance
The psychic sense or ability to perceive information about an object, person, location, or physical event through a “sixth sense” or “second sight,” clairvoyance allows a practitioner (a clairvoyant) to tap into visual information that is otherwise hidden by time, distance, or physical barriers.
Clairsentience
The psychic sense or ability to sense feelings both emotional and physical; psychically sensing the mood or physical pains of a person, place, or animal.
Claircognizance
The psychic sense or ability to just know things; interpreting your environment through energy to instantly understand the message behind an emotion or physical sensation.
Medium and Mediumship
The practice of acting as a mediator or bridge of communication between the world of the living and the world of spirits (such as the deceased, angels, or other non-physical entities).
Someone who practices mediumship is called a medium. A medium’s primary goal is to help the souls who have died by relaying messages, memories, or specific details from the “other side.”
Channeling
A specific form of mediumship in which an individual (the “channel”) enters an altered state of consciousness to allow a non-physical entity—such as an ascended master, an angel, an extraterrestrial, or a collective consciousness—to communicate directly through them.
While it shares similarities with mediumship, channeling typically focuses on delivering spiritual philosophy, wisdom, and cosmic teachings to humanity.
Energetic Mechanics (Energy Tools)
Tools for Your Intuitive Development
Tree Root Grounding
Because your psychic senses leave you open to the emotional undercurrents around you, grounding is your first line of defense. Practice sending a thick, luxurious root from the base of your spine down into the earth to securely anchor your body. This keeps you much safer and prevents you from being swept away or negatively affected by the intense energy you are reading.
Cutting Cords
After an intuitive download or a deep conversation, it is vital to separate your energy field so you don't carry their residue with you. You can do this by calling upon Archangel Michael and asking him to sever and cut the energetic cords between yourself and whoever or whatever you were reading or interacting with.
Managing Overwhelm by Managing Chakras
Your chakras are the energy centers that process your reality . The larger your chakras are open, the more energy you are interacting with—and whether you are conscious of it or not, you are constantly interpreting all of that excess energy through your psychic senses. When you feel overwhelmed, practice consciously shrinking your chakras down, specifically focusing on bringing your Third Eye and Crown chakras to shoulder width. By making them smaller, you intentionally pick up and process less energy, effectively turning down the volume of the world.
Empath Insights
Empath Psychic Skill Set
There is so much more to being an empath than trauma pathology. Yes, being sensitive
creates more opportunities to be hurt AND it is an invitation to live life in a deeply
satisfying and fulfilling way.
The skills that empaths have often feel scary, overwhelming, or just plain confusing until
we learn to use them and control them. You may have more skills than this but these are
what all empaths have naturally.
Clear Feeling or Clairsentience
The psychic gift of sensing feelings both emotional and physical. In an empath, it means
psychically sensing the mood, emotions or physical pains of a person, place or animal.
It is from this sense that empaths merge energy. The ability to merge freely and easily has
two components, one is clairsentience and the other is poor energetic boundaries.
How we express this trait: Not understanding why we feel a certain way, aversion to
being around certain populations (sick or depressed people), mystery illnesses or
symptoms that come on suddenly and disappear later
Clear Knowing or Claircognizance
The psychic gift of just knowing things. In an empath, claircognizance means psychically
interpreting their environment through energy.
They feel the energy in their field and then use body language, word choice, and tone of
voice to decipher the information.
This sense is how empaths read the message in the emotion or physical sensation. For
instance, if I feel the emotion of sadness through the merging of energy, it is from
claircognizance that I will understand the person is lonely. If someone is experiencing a
sharp pain in their shoulder, claircognizance is how I understand that there is a pinched
nerve.
How we express this trait: knowing when we are being lied to, unconsciously expressing
what someone else is feeling while in conversation with them, knowing why people feel
like they do
Energy Healing
Empaths naturally run the energy they are in and everyone in their presence will benefit.
Running energy means they are moving, clearing and flushing the energy within their
environment to clear out heavy, dense or negative energy. Often empaths find that people
feel comfortable around them and open up to them, even complete strangers.
Energy healing puts others at ease and offers temporary relief from their own chaotic
energy. This is particularly true for high strung, anxious, or troubled people.
Empaths are natural healers. They have a genuine desire to help others, sometimes at
their own expense. And they usually have energy healing skills, even without any training.
How this shows up in our lives: strangers gravitating to us in public places and often
sharing their personal stories with us, pets and children like to be in your presence and
gravitate to you
Empath Evolution
The younger generations of empaths seem both better adjusted and more aware of their
skills on the whole.
This is partly evolution and partly because there is more acceptance and awareness of the
world of energy.
Adult empaths over the age of 30 though, tend to have had a harder struggle with their
empath-ness as most of us didn’t know we were empaths for a long time.
If we had strange experiences as kids and talked to adults about it, we were probably told
“it was all in our heads” or “we don’t ever talk about that, it isn’t appropriate.”
Empaths who don’t have the understanding, support, or skills to manage the energy they
are absorbing can develop numbing behaviors and addictions to cope. In more severe environments you have drug and alcohol addictions, but there is also food (sugar, in
particular, is great at numbing), sex, television, humor, and/or intellectualizing.
Embrace your natural skills and learn about them. There are ways to manage the intensity
of our experience with these skills and turn them down so they aren't overwhelming. Be
curious and explore them.
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Recommended Reading for the Journey
The Library
The resources below are profound guides packed with clear wisdom to help you map your intuitive downloads and confidently navigate your psychic senses.
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Ask Your Guides by Sonia Choquette
Ask Your Guides
by Sonia Choquette
"This newly revised edition from world renowned teacher Sonia Choquette features brand-new stories, channeled meditations, and other tools and techniques. We're all spiritual beings, with a spiritual support system on the Other Side that oversees and helps guide our lives from the moment we're born to the moment we leave our physical bodies. Some people call them guardian angels, others call them spirit guides, or divine helpers. These spirits are everywhere, ready to assist us in our life's journey-whether we realize it or not. Best-selling author Sonia Choquette comes from a line of intuitives, and has communicated with spirit guides from a very young age. In fact, many children are able to see guides and angels, although they're usually referred to as "imaginary friends." When we learn how to reconnect with our guides-with a little bit of effort and cooperation-our lives naturally fall into a pattern of ease and flow during which we grow our souls, fulfill our life's purpose, and make our time on Earth endlessly entertaining" -- Publisher's Description
Diary of a Medical Intuitive by Christel Nani
Diary of a Medical Intuitive: One Woman's Eye-opening Journey from No-nonsense E.R. Nurse to Open-hearted Healer and Visionary
by Christel Nani
A native New Yorker and die-hard skeptic offers a personal look at the development of her medical intuition while serving as a trauma nurse in this riveting memoir. Twenty-five case studies with patients suffering from heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis, adult onset diabetes, and other illnesses document the emotional and physiological causes behind patients' symptoms. The interaction of a person's energy system with health and illness is discussed in detail, as are the revelations that medical intuition offers about life, death, healing, and the existence of God. Instructive strategies for increased health and well-being offer ways to increase resistance to disease and reverse the progress of illness.
Diary of a Psychic by Sonia Choquette
Diary of a Psychic:
Shattering the Myths
by Sonia Choquette
Sonia Choquette discovered her psychic abilities as a young child. Gifted from birth, she was able to see beyond the veil of the inner workings of her family members’, friends’, and neighbors’ lives. While still a teenager, she began to give readings, amazing her clients with her psychic insights. Seeking to deepen her skills, she studied with two master psychic/spiritual teachers and began to see beyond predictions of the future . . . into the causes of the future.
By pulling back the curtain and sharing her personal story, this revolutionary new teacher and world-renowned psychic shatters the myth that psychic implies psycho, and reveals the beauty and power the sixth sense holds for us all!
E Squared by Pam Grout
E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
by Pam Grout
A self-help book by Pam Grout that functions as a "lab manual" for proving that consciousness shapes reality through simple, 48-hour experiments. Published in 2013, it's a New York Times bestseller that encourages readers to test spiritual principles like the law of attraction and the power of thought through practical, no-cost exercises, demonstrating that reality is malleable and influenced by the mind.
The Light Seer's Tarot by Chris~Anne
The Light Seer's Tarot
By Chris-Anne
A Best Selling 78-Card Tarot Deck And Guidebook For Beginners And Experienced Tarot Readers Alike
This beautiful healing tarot deck will help you explore both the light and shadow sides of your nature with reimagined traditional tarot archetypes and symbols in a relatable, modern style.
The expressive characters who live within the landscapes of the cards tell stories, ask questions, and provide guidance. This unique tarot deck is an ideal companion as you seek to uncover the places in your life - and in yourself - that are most in need of illumination.
The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Oracle by Kim Krans
The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck and Guidebook
by Kim Krans
The artist behind the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck and Guidebook helps seekers of all levels expand their practice of self-discovery with this breathtaking keepsake boxed set featuring an oracle deck and guidebook, inspired by real and mythical animals.
Hand drawn in Krans’s detailed and emotionally evocative style, The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit Deck and Guidebook is a work of art that explores the mysteries of the natural world and the animal kingdom. Krans’s powerful animal archetypes offer insight into relationships, personalities, behaviors and tendencies and can be used alone or alongside The Wild Unknown Tarot to add an additional layer of depth to readings.
Wisdom of the Oracle by Colette Baron Reid
Wisdom of the Oracle Divination Deck & Guidebook
by Colette Baron-Reid
Colette Baron-Reid has expertly blended elements of the I-Ching, Norse runes, traditional tarot, and other ancient divination tools into a sacred communication system: Wisdom of the Oracle. This 52-card deck and companion guidebook will allow you to interpret messages about all aspects of your journey, with over 250 independent meanings that can speak to an unlimited number of circumstances. Imagery of animals, the elements of nature, and other potent symbols will touch you deeply so that a soulful dialogue about your life can take place.
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