Yesterday I had the pleasure of teaching a Reiki Master course for an advanced group of lightworkers and it occurred to me how diverse and beautiful each one’s gifts are and how truly adept they are at utilizing intuition in their healing practice. You could argue that this intuition was something special that these particular individuals were given at birth, but I would say from personal experience that intuition is something that can be practiced and learned. It is an art that has been lost as technology takes over a large portion of our lives and our days become increasingly filled with tasks. Intuition is developed in the space between tasks, in the quiet. Intuition requires listening to the universe and to your higher self. It also involves trust. Trust in your intuitive skills is built over a long period of time as you practice and improve your accuracy and learn more about how to receive and interpret your messages.
A Reiki attunement often expands one’s psychic ability and intuition as well. It is not uncommon for my students to report miraculous events after being attuned, kundalini awakenings, and the emergence of psychic gifts that had been dormant inside of them that now, after the attunement, make themselves known.
It is also very common when performing Reiki that the practitioner will receive messages while sending Reiki. When a student is new to Reiki, they are often amazed at their new found ability to connect to the source and find themselves experiencing visions, hearing messages, and feeling sensations they haven’t felt before. As a Reiki Master Teacher, it is one of my greatest joys to watch, guide and encourage others as they navigate and develop these gifts.
Most people tend to strongly favor one type of “Clair”, they are usually visual, auditory, etc. However, as you grow in your spiritual practice, you can work to heighten all of your psychic senses. With each Reiki level attunement, the crown is opened and connected to source and you are “tuned” in to the Universal Life Force energy, which connects every living thing.
Below are the different types of “Clairs.” Which type do you find yourself accessing in your lightwork? Would you like to heighten a particular Clair? Here I have provided you with some exercises you can use to practice heightening your abilities in each area. Heightening any of these often takes practice so be gentle with yourself and keep practicing. “Practice” is a lifelong journey and a beautiful one where we create our own unique relationship with the Devine.
Clairvoyance means clear seeing: Individuals with a heightened sense of clairvoyance are able visually see messages from the past, present and future. Spirit often communicates with these individuals by “showing” them, in their mind’s eye a symbol or representation of the message.
You can develop your Clairvoyance skills by setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairvoyance skills.
1. Practice guided meditations and try to envision the picture in your mind.
2. Close your eyes and envision an object or person you are very familiar with, each time you practice, try to see more and more detail.
3. Try to envision an event in your past in as much detail as possible.
Clairaudience means clear hearing: Individuals with a heightened sense of clairaudience are often receive messages from Spirit by hearing a voice with a message. They also might hear a ringing in their ear that alerts them to pay attention to something specific in their environment or to bring something to their awareness.
You can start to develop your clairaudience skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairaudience skills.
1. Close your eyes and focus only on what you hear. See how many different sounds you notice.
2. In meditation you can flex your clairaudience skills by trying to remember specific sounds from your past. Examples can be a train you used to hear in the night, your grandmother’s voice singing to you, etc.
3. Listen to music and focus on only one instrument in the band or orchestra.
Clairsentience means clear feeling. Individuals with a heightened sense of clairsentience often feel messages from Spirit in their body, for example, “gut feelings” or feeling the pain of others in their own body. Another example is getting the chills when something seems off, or when something feels really right. This is often associated with those that are empathic.
You can develop your clairsentience skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairsentience skills.
1. Have a friend bring you a photo of someone they know well but whom you do not know. Look at their eyes and try to feel how they were feeling when the photo was taken. Check with your friend to see how close you are.
2. Practice psychometry: Objects often hold the energy of the person who owns it or it’s place of origin. Ask a friend bring you an object or family heirloom. Hold the object and sense the energy. Try to determine who owned this object, what were they like? Where did the object come from? Check with your friend to see how accurate you were.
Clairsalience means clear smelling: If an individual has a heightened sense of clairsalience often receive messages from Spirit in the form of a smell that is not physically present. This could be the smell of cigarette smoke or specific perfume someone would wear, apple pie baking, etc.
You can develop your clairalience skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairalience skills.
1. Close your eyes and focus only on what you smell. What smells are in your surroundings?
2. Meditate and focus on a particular smell from your past, something your grandmother used to bake, or the smell of the campfire from your family camping trip as a child.
3. Gather scented objects, i.e. candles. This works best if they are the same size and color and have a cover. Remove the labels and mix them up. Make sure you cannot physically smell the candle. Then, try and smell a specific candle from across the room. Check and see if you are correct.
Clairgustance means clear tasting: If an individual has a heightened sense of clairgustance, it means they receive messages from Spirit in the form of a taste that is not physically present. An example of this could be tasting cigarettes as a message from someone on the other side or tasting a specific meal you used to eat when you were on vacation each year.
You can develop our clairgustance skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairgustance skills.
1. Taste a lot of different things and focus your attention to the variations in taste and texture.
2. Meditate and focus on a particular taste, something from your past or your favorite food, actually feel the food in your mouth and see if you can taste it from your tastebuds. This takes a lot of practice and will probably be subtle at first.
3. Gather some various candies in similar size, shape and color. Focus on each one inside the wrapper and try to feel it in your mouth how it tastes. Then, taste the candy and see how close you were.
Claircognizance means clear knowing: If an individual has a heightened sense of claircognizance it means they receive messages from Spirit in the form of knowledge of people or events that they would not normally have access to. An example of this, is having a strong feeling that something will happen in the future, for example, predicting a stock market crash on a particular day or knowing what your friend is thinking in their exact words. It comes quickly without vision, sound, or any of the other senses. It is, in essence, downloaded directly into the crown chakra.
You can improve your claircognizance by first setting the intention and asking for guidance from any guides you work with.
1. Focus on your crown chakra. Meditate on the violet light and envision your crown chakra opening and receiving information from Spirit.
2. Practice automatic writing: Close your eyes and ask for a message from the Devine, then, grab a pen and paper and just write any thoughts that come to your mind. These thoughts may not make sense at first, but just write down everything, you will often make connections later.
3. Ask a friend to sit with you. Ask for a message for your friend from Spirit and write what comes to you. Share the information with your friend and see if it resonates!
I am excited to hear about your experiences and any questions you may have. You can post these in the comments or access me directly at: www.facebook.com/todayreikimariah
Namaste!
A Reiki attunement often expands one’s psychic ability and intuition as well. It is not uncommon for my students to report miraculous events after being attuned, kundalini awakenings, and the emergence of psychic gifts that had been dormant inside of them that now, after the attunement, make themselves known.
It is also very common when performing Reiki that the practitioner will receive messages while sending Reiki. When a student is new to Reiki, they are often amazed at their new found ability to connect to the source and find themselves experiencing visions, hearing messages, and feeling sensations they haven’t felt before. As a Reiki Master Teacher, it is one of my greatest joys to watch, guide and encourage others as they navigate and develop these gifts.
Most people tend to strongly favor one type of “Clair”, they are usually visual, auditory, etc. However, as you grow in your spiritual practice, you can work to heighten all of your psychic senses. With each Reiki level attunement, the crown is opened and connected to source and you are “tuned” in to the Universal Life Force energy, which connects every living thing.
Below are the different types of “Clairs.” Which type do you find yourself accessing in your lightwork? Would you like to heighten a particular Clair? Here I have provided you with some exercises you can use to practice heightening your abilities in each area. Heightening any of these often takes practice so be gentle with yourself and keep practicing. “Practice” is a lifelong journey and a beautiful one where we create our own unique relationship with the Devine.
Clairvoyance means clear seeing: Individuals with a heightened sense of clairvoyance are able visually see messages from the past, present and future. Spirit often communicates with these individuals by “showing” them, in their mind’s eye a symbol or representation of the message.
You can develop your Clairvoyance skills by setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairvoyance skills.
1. Practice guided meditations and try to envision the picture in your mind.
2. Close your eyes and envision an object or person you are very familiar with, each time you practice, try to see more and more detail.
3. Try to envision an event in your past in as much detail as possible.
Clairaudience means clear hearing: Individuals with a heightened sense of clairaudience are often receive messages from Spirit by hearing a voice with a message. They also might hear a ringing in their ear that alerts them to pay attention to something specific in their environment or to bring something to their awareness.
You can start to develop your clairaudience skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairaudience skills.
1. Close your eyes and focus only on what you hear. See how many different sounds you notice.
2. In meditation you can flex your clairaudience skills by trying to remember specific sounds from your past. Examples can be a train you used to hear in the night, your grandmother’s voice singing to you, etc.
3. Listen to music and focus on only one instrument in the band or orchestra.
Clairsentience means clear feeling. Individuals with a heightened sense of clairsentience often feel messages from Spirit in their body, for example, “gut feelings” or feeling the pain of others in their own body. Another example is getting the chills when something seems off, or when something feels really right. This is often associated with those that are empathic.
You can develop your clairsentience skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairsentience skills.
1. Have a friend bring you a photo of someone they know well but whom you do not know. Look at their eyes and try to feel how they were feeling when the photo was taken. Check with your friend to see how close you are.
2. Practice psychometry: Objects often hold the energy of the person who owns it or it’s place of origin. Ask a friend bring you an object or family heirloom. Hold the object and sense the energy. Try to determine who owned this object, what were they like? Where did the object come from? Check with your friend to see how accurate you were.
Clairsalience means clear smelling: If an individual has a heightened sense of clairsalience often receive messages from Spirit in the form of a smell that is not physically present. This could be the smell of cigarette smoke or specific perfume someone would wear, apple pie baking, etc.
You can develop your clairalience skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairalience skills.
1. Close your eyes and focus only on what you smell. What smells are in your surroundings?
2. Meditate and focus on a particular smell from your past, something your grandmother used to bake, or the smell of the campfire from your family camping trip as a child.
3. Gather scented objects, i.e. candles. This works best if they are the same size and color and have a cover. Remove the labels and mix them up. Make sure you cannot physically smell the candle. Then, try and smell a specific candle from across the room. Check and see if you are correct.
Clairgustance means clear tasting: If an individual has a heightened sense of clairgustance, it means they receive messages from Spirit in the form of a taste that is not physically present. An example of this could be tasting cigarettes as a message from someone on the other side or tasting a specific meal you used to eat when you were on vacation each year.
You can develop our clairgustance skills by first setting the intention you would like to heighten your clairgustance skills.
1. Taste a lot of different things and focus your attention to the variations in taste and texture.
2. Meditate and focus on a particular taste, something from your past or your favorite food, actually feel the food in your mouth and see if you can taste it from your tastebuds. This takes a lot of practice and will probably be subtle at first.
3. Gather some various candies in similar size, shape and color. Focus on each one inside the wrapper and try to feel it in your mouth how it tastes. Then, taste the candy and see how close you were.
Claircognizance means clear knowing: If an individual has a heightened sense of claircognizance it means they receive messages from Spirit in the form of knowledge of people or events that they would not normally have access to. An example of this, is having a strong feeling that something will happen in the future, for example, predicting a stock market crash on a particular day or knowing what your friend is thinking in their exact words. It comes quickly without vision, sound, or any of the other senses. It is, in essence, downloaded directly into the crown chakra.
You can improve your claircognizance by first setting the intention and asking for guidance from any guides you work with.
1. Focus on your crown chakra. Meditate on the violet light and envision your crown chakra opening and receiving information from Spirit.
2. Practice automatic writing: Close your eyes and ask for a message from the Devine, then, grab a pen and paper and just write any thoughts that come to your mind. These thoughts may not make sense at first, but just write down everything, you will often make connections later.
3. Ask a friend to sit with you. Ask for a message for your friend from Spirit and write what comes to you. Share the information with your friend and see if it resonates!
I am excited to hear about your experiences and any questions you may have. You can post these in the comments or access me directly at: www.facebook.com/todayreikimariah
Namaste!
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