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I have come across a message board and chat room that not only has nice member but also a chat room. Held in the chat room are open and closed development circles.

The open development circle is on Saturday Evenings from 19:00 - 21:00 hrs UK time.

Readings are also given however you must be a member of the forum and be active with at least 20 posts under your belt.

In my opinion if you are looking for a place that is welcoming, kind and where you can pratice your abilities then this may be the place you are looking for.

http://beyondpsychicchat.forumotion.com/forum.htm

Every time I read an article or a post on clairsentience I get a little ticked off. There is such bad info out there it’s ridiculous. And at one time I was the receiver of some of that bad info which is why it took so long to figure out the truth of clairsentience and how to use it.

Many of the bad info I read when it comes to the authors telling how they use their clairaudience they speak of hearing (thoughts) or receiving intuitive messages. I also have read the crap (Sorry for my bad attitude but it burns me because bad info hinders peoples development) about what some authors and clairsentience think the sensations they feel are and I notice they feel that it is everything BUT communication.
Well I will tell you the truth. I spent almost a year researching clairsentience. I felt like I was in college studying for my Masters Degree because of how much time I spent researching clairsentience. But I had no choice because over night my clairsentience came on strong and when I say strong I mean it was like day and night. I felt like I was a different person. I notice that when people spoke to me depending on what they were saying I would get certain sensations in certain parts of my body. After all the research I did I realized that just like other abilities clairsentience was no different. I was receiving symbolic messages but instead of seeing an image, smelling or tasting something I was receiving the symbols associated with different parts of my body. I still did not have a good understanding of what was happening though but the answer came from someone I gave a practice reading to. She was so nice. I explained that I would feel things on different parts of my body and thought it was because the person has something wrong or and injury with that part of their body, but as she later cleared up for me I was way off. It was not injury I was feeling but a symbolic message that I had to translate. After giving her a reading and telling her what I felt in response to questions I asked she easily translated what I had received. She translated the sensations and if it has not been for her I would have never been able to ever use my clairsentience today as I do and carry on a complete conversation almost using only the sensations I feel.

An example of what I am talking about is when I am being told someone is heading in the right direction I feel my lower right leg. If I am being told that someone needs to rethink a situation or something then I feel a sensation on the left part of my head.

So what has me soooo frustrated about others information about clairsentience? That they say if you have clairsentience you get tingles her and there but it’s just your energy centers clearing, Here is an answer to me asking someone who professed to be a fully developed clairsentient back when I desperately needed correct answers:

“Hi Sherry,

As far as communicating, they use telepathy (thoughts). Though sometimes if no one is around, I voice my responses and questions, then listen. Usually the first thought that enters your mind is their answer. But being verbal is really unnecessary. Communicating or talking with them is accomplished simply by talking as you do with people. No special method or ritual. Just communicate/talk as you normally would talk to someone.

The heat your feeling is your physical response to energy, which can often be a signal of a nonphysical energy presence. I get tingling sensations or an electric type sensation. Its quite an experience. When I feel energy in my hands and feet, its an indication that my energy source is flowing unobstructed. For me, the first time this happened is when I knew I could perform healing on myself and others.”

This person who gave me advise is advising others in developing and using abilities. Telepathy is not clairsentience and is more tied to clairaudience. But acutally telepathy is a Psi ability. She says “the first thought that enters your mind…” Hmmm, does that or does that not describe clairaudience? Yup, clairaudience.  Feeling sensations in the hands is about communication although also it sounds like her hand chakras were trying to more fully open and when chakras first open the energy flows strongly. Those chakra centers just opened aren’t use to the amount of energy that is suddenly able to flow through them. Sensations in the feet also can be translated as well although same as all chakra points when first opened you will feel tingling as they are opening and clearing.

Clairsentients often also have other other abilities that work in conjunction with clairsentience such as clairaudience, clairvoyance, claircognizance, clairolfaction and clairgustance…but clairsentience IS NOT all those things wrapped up into one as many state on their websites and blogs. Clairsentience is clear feeling/sensing period. Clairsentience is also NOT psychometry. Anyone can develop psychometry regardless of what abilities they have developed. And psychometry does not work like clairsentience in that when messages are recieved via psychometry you receive the messages via whatever ability you have. So if you are clairvoyant then using psychometry you would receive images of what is received, for example. Ted Andrews wrote an excellent book that is so thorough called “How To Do Psychic Readings Through Touch.”

So, once I found out that the truth was that the sensations were symbologic messages that needed to be translated I did some more research and found the “Book of Storms.” In this great course you learn about the translation faculty. At first I thought it was something I had to ask for and would be downloaded into my chakras or something. I know, funny! A translation faculty simply means you create a dictionary of what the symbolic messages mean to you. That proved to be difficult although not impossble. I spent a lot of time with my guides day after day building a translation faculty. And that ended up being the KEY to using clairsentience.

Okay, thanks for letting me vent a little. I’m done now.

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I am writing this post for Lucille but hopefully this will be helpful to many of you.

Here is a senerio that is what I acutally experienced and lead me to deeply wonder if I was an empath…

Although all the signs were there I did not actually start seriously wondering if I was an empath until I was in my late 30’s after the birth of my son. I swear, I think having a child does something to change you so deeply. Parts of yourself that were always there unrealized start coming to the surface. Suddenly I couldn’t watch a movie or the news without totally losing it and bawling or shaking uncontrollably. I knew something was up but for about a year I just couldn’t figure out if I just never noticed that I was sensitive to certain things or if something was really changing within me…or awakening.

To make a long story short I started searching for information on emapthy but even reading about the traits still didn’t 100% convince me of whether I was an emapth or not but I had to know who I really was. Being adopted I always had a sense of not knowing but knowing there was more to me than what was on the surface. And so I searched like I was obsessed. lol. With every little bit of info I found it lead me to more. Empathy articles lead me to articles about meditation which lead me to info about chakras which lead me to information about psychic abilities and there it was again…empathy was mentioned and I had come full circle. But I was still feeling like “Ah Ha!” but still not knowing what it all meant specifically to ME. So I had learned a lot but still I had to know without a doubt the truth and so it seemed to me I would only find that out by opening and clearing my chakras.

I started by learning to meditate first…just 5 minutes at a time. Once I could meditate 5 minutes without my mind wondering and losing the stillness of my mind I began practicing opening and clearing the chakras in meditation starting with the foot charka and working my way up and then leaving the third eye/brow charka for last.

Approximately 3 weeks later it hit me suddenly. Just one day, just like that, I was fully awakened to who I really was…and empath. I left my house and drove to my parents house and two houses away I felt them. My Fathers cold, his head, my Mother medication issues, her allergies (not nice), etc. I was almost afraid to actually go in their house for fear of what I would feel standing right next to them.

Note that from the first time I opened and balanced my chakras I worked on them every day faithfully for approx 15-30 minutes a day. I say that to let you know…it doesn’t come easy…there is work involved. If you don’t do what is necessary or you don’t want to you will not achieve any results.

Now on to the good stuff.

The three chakras that most affect empathy are:

SACRAL PLEXUS CHAKRA-
Located about two inches below the navel. This chakra is responsible for our sexuality, physical vitality, emotions, pleasure, desire, passion, love, change, new ideas, and health. It corresponds with all things forementioned. Stones that open this chakra are carnelian and coral.
Color: Orange, balanced by brown

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA-
Located just below the chest. This chakra represents ability to pick up vibrations and tune in to energy from other people, places, and things. It corresponds with self-control, control of desire, authority, transformation, happiness, and energy. Stones that open this chakra are amber and citrine.
Color: Yellow, balanced by green

HEART CHAKRA-
Located over the heart. This chakra represents empathy and our ability to ground energy that flows through our bodies. It corresponds with feelings, forgiveness, unconditional love, understanding, compassion, trust, and openness. Stones that open this chakra are jade and aventurine.
Color: Green, balanced by pink

Here is a guided meditation that is 7 minutes that you can follow along with.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqHa4gOP3c

Many empaths feel that empathy is a curse they can’t escape from. Sometimes when I am attracting a lot of peoples negative emotions and pain I start feeling the same way. I am not going to make you think that just because I have pretty good control over my empath that I never suffer. Sure it happens. But usually when I sit down and think about it there is a reason for it.

This past weekend I just couldn’t seem to break the connections to my parents. Of course the first thing I thought is “Why suddenly am I having trouble?” Unfortunately when i am not feeling well because of the emotions and pain I feel from others my head is not clear either. Connections sometimes feel like they cloud my head and it is hard for me to focus. But I get up the energy to do what I have to do for myself and also for others because if I am no good to myself I am no good the others or in helping to spread light. So I ask my spirit guides to help me, cut the cords (to others), drop/drain my energy down into the ground to be transmuted, ground, protect, and then bring in energy from Mother Earth and the source (central sun that I visualize is sitting behind the physical sun).

I feel that what comes next is where sometimes we make a mistake. At this point you think you are done and should be good to go. But what suddenly cause you to pick up those connections and start feeling everybody? There is one things that even I often forget about. Raising my vibrations.

Vibrations are like your frequency. The easiest way for me to explain it is that you want your vibrations/frequency to match up with what you want to come to you. Happiness, calmness, joy, good health, abundance. If you know anything about the Law of Attraction you understand what I am talking about. Raising your vibration means uplifting yourself into a positive place. Changing thoughts, emotions and our physical environment from the negative to the positive.

You want to be a vibration match to what you want to attract. If you picked up a connection to someone who is angry and frustrated and then you reacted with those emotions it brought your vibrations/frequency down. Basically you were brought down to the level where those angry and frustrated people are vibrating at. Of course you don’t want that because being down there you guess it, you will pick up more negative emotions and more connections to people who are at that frequency. For some of you the light bulb should have just come on with a big “Ahhhhhh haaaaaaa!” lol.

So you get it right? You need to bring your vibrations back up so that you won’t keep empathically picking up those connections. There are many ways to do that and things you can easily do to keep those vibrations up.

• Check your associations - If you are people who vibrate at a low frequency it will be harder to kept your energy up and continue vibrating at a higher frequency. In a way, you are who you associate with. If some of them are family or friend who you don’t want to break your association with just consider taking a break from them periodically.
• Purify Yourself - Consider ways to remove or lessen the toxins in your body. A one day (or longer) juice fast, eating more fruits and vegetables, drinking plenty of water (an absolute must), etc.
• Exercise - Even if just a cleansing walk outside to be with yourself and nature. Mother nature is very healing. Or perhaps just a walk barefoot in your own yard or garden taking plenty of time to breath and touch and communicate with all the plants. This is very grounding as well.
• Smile & Laugh - Start smiling. It may not feel natural at first but you will notice it feels real good. Watch a funny movie or some comedy on television.
• Music - Your favorite upbeat music is a great way to raise your vibrations. Get up and dance. On Grey’s Anatomy I love the part where they “Dance it out!” They are raising their vibrations and getting out of the funk of the day. Yes…it really does work! Don’t worry if you look silly…I am sure I do when I do it.
• Hug a child - Ahhhhh the energy of a child is so nice. Now don’t get arrested by freaking out your neighbors by going after their kids and demanding a hug. Nothing will squelch your vibrations more than sitting up in a jail cell trying to explain that you are not the neighborhood pedophile. lol. Better yet if you have kids get down on the floor and play with them. Even though your idea of a good time may not be Leggo’s it will do wonders for your vibrations and getting your mind off of adult things.
• Journal - I write in my journal at least every other day and of course I write here as well. It does wonders for me. I get things off my chest and do some wonderful self exploration. Sometimes you will find that messages just flow out from your higher self.
• Meditate - if you can at least get into the habit of meditating every day if only for 10-15 minutes. Nothing fancy is needed. I just sit on my sofa with my feet on the floor, close my eyes, clear my mind and as thoughts enter I just push them away. Don’t worry if at first you can’t clear your mind. Before you know it you will be able to do this easily and you will start looking forward to that time.
• Prayer - Did you know that prayer raises your vibrations. Well any spiritual activity raises your vibrations. You can say the rosary or just a simple prayer you make up. Not all people are on a spiritual journey so also consider saying mantras. The simple “Om” or “Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha” which translates into “Hail the remover of Obstacles, symbolized by Ganesh.” I will post some mantra’s along with how to pronounce them and their meaning.
• Use Creativity - Do some arts and crafts, practice an instrument, work on your garden, etc. I am sure you can think of some creative things you like to do even if it is just working on a puzzle. I am not really sure if playing online computer games work but I don’t see why not.

By the way, raising your vibration also helps to develop your psychic abilities.

Basically it is simple. If you identify with many of the traits (although maybe not all) then that tells you that you need to keep reading about empathy because most likely YOU ARE AN EMPATH.

Still unsure and want some help getting down to the nitty gritty for once and for all…join a message board and explain the things you experience and get some feedback. That is not only a great way to find out but also you will probably get some really good advice at the same time. Here on my blog I have some links to message boards and forums.

Now on to the good stuff…

Empath is the ability to feel others emotions (actually emotional and physical) as though they were your own. Also empaths can read and understanding others as though they were them. That the simple no-nonsense definition.

TRAITS OF AN EMPATH

• Often quiet but emotionally expressive most of the time. 
• Some empaths have gotten so use to blocking emotions that they may seem the opposite from what an empath should be. Possible at times not wanting to be touched even by those closest to them. Often not feeling like being out in a crowd but rather alone or in a small group.
• Uncontrolled empaths can often spend more time focused on others and ignoring their own needs. Empaths often put others first
• Empaths often avoid tense or harsh situations. They may shrink away from any situation that proves tense.
• Empathsare emotionally sensitive to violence and general chaos. Yelling… oh yelling is not an empaths favorite to be in the midst of. Now let me say that some Spanish people tend to talk loudly any way but this is not a bad thing for empaths if the emotions are positive ones. I wanted to mention that cause I’ve had many of my friends bring that up to me and I wanted to set the record straight…I often spend time at my neighbors house and she is Spanish and husband is Islamic and with all the yelling sometimes I still feel right at home. lol. I just love them!
• Empaths can often feel something as they see it happen…for example, seeing someone cut their finger an empath may sense the pain as it happens.
• Distance does not affect what an empath feels and often you may be able to feel or sense something going on with someone at a far distance.
• Empaths are sensitive to loud noise.
• Empaths are sensitive to various television programs. In particular, television programs that depict emotional drama like the news and police shows as well as movies which depict certain emotional or harsh situations.
• Empaths have a hard time understanding cruelty and criminal acts that involves hurting others.
• Empaths are super sensitive to suffering in the world and are often idealists who theorise about fixing the worlds problems.
• Are often found working as volunteers, with people, animals or the environment.
• Empaths are often drawn to areas of music or the arts.
• Empaths are often very charismatic and have the ability to draw others to them. They often find that a complete stranger will tell them their life story while standing in line at the grocery store.
• Are great listeners as they generally have an interest in other people and to know more of what they already sense of a person.
• Can seem very moody with drastic mood swings. This is mainly due to picking up the emotions of others without realizing it and then with those emotions reacting to others.
• May have experienced other paranormal experiences such as out of body experiences, De Ja Vu, and just knowing as well as other psychic abilities. 
• Empaths often have trouble focusing and space out/day dream often.

I spent months pondering how to develop my clairaudience, meditating on all the minor and major chakra’s associated with clairaudience, chanting mantra and using mudra’s, etc. I tried ear plugs, listening to radio static, and of course asked guides and Angel’s to help adjust my hearing and frequency. Some of you who may be giggling and thinking of all the time I’ve wasting are probably asking “So, how’d that work out for ya?” lol.

Well first of all there have been stages. First I just wanted to be able to hear my guides (clairaudience in my head as thoughts) and that went fairly well. Although hard to discern at first between my own thoughts and theirs I quickly learned through meditation that if I could easily quiet my mind I would be able to hear them clearly. Then I learned that I was hearing a lot but was missing it because I was taking for granted things that I was use to hearing. Thoughts that would pop into my head, humorous thoughts pondered while sitting on the toilet, songs that would suddenly come to mind, etc. All these things (well many) were my guides communicating with me.

The problem was that I was under the impression, probably from watching to many movies, that hearing spirits was going to be something very mysterious accompanied by a misty fog that would fillt he air. lol. Once I told myself to let go of how I thought things would be it got a heck of a lot easier.

Go forward with no preconceived notions and develop the true of things as you go along. What others may experience and how they may experience them may not end up being the way you experience them. If someone says a particular cloud formation looks like a duck but you look up and see a puppy, do you think one of you HAS TO BE wrong? No you would both be right. Your perception is one thing and others perception will be different and that is completely fine because you both end up with a wonderfully beautiful experience that is right for each of you individually.

DEFINITION
Clairsentience means clear feeling. Instead of like with clairvoyance in which you commonly see in your mind or outside of your mind, you are clear feeling. The most common definition that I have found is:

Prophetic Clairsentience -
A person who picks up thought and has the ability to just know things although they do not understand or know why they know. This type of person also experiences procognition that may express in the form of hunches, dreams and knowing revolving around past, present or future and how it will effect another person. For example this person may have dreams that turn out to happen although those dreams may not be literal and may still have to be translated.

Feeler Clairsentience -
This type of person picks up thoughts, feelings and experiences that manifest as a feeling. What they are feeling is energy translated into a feeling. Their sense of touch is well-developed and they have the ability to know people by feeling what they feel. After enlightenment, this is someone would have the ability to practice psychometry. The ability to put something belonging to someone in their hand and read the energy. Depending on their other gifts, they could tell the past, present or future from the energy. They have the ability to feel how others feel and not just on the emotional level. They will be able to not only empathise but experience a persons pain, bruises, loss, grief etc. For instance, if they were to channel energy from a persons past life they would experience the pain and hurt that that soul experienced in that past lifetime.

Some may have abilities of both Prophetic and Feeler Clairsentience.

For those of you attempting to discover if what you are experiencing is clairsentience, hopefully this will help.

When spirits are around you you usually feel them. Maybe you feel them touch you some where specific (your hand, neck, foot) or maybe you feel them in your heart chakra (your chakra begins to spin very fast) or maybe you even get a twitch some where on your body. You are feeling energy. Remember that everything is energy and if you are clairsentient then you have the ability to feel the energy of everything. People, animals, plants, objects and spirits. You may be thinking “Well, I don’t feel the energy of all those things.” That may be but it is really just a matter of developing your skills. I can’t usually feel animals but that does not mean I can’t develop that skill, which I plan to do. What you might feel is an electric type of energy feeling that may be very weak and light or may be quite strong. I have felt light energy because what I am feeling is not that strong and I have felt energy so strong that it is almost painful. This includes the feeling of heat and cold as well. Also what you feel may feel like pressure in your chakras. A pressure in your crown for example or your brow that you can also feel in your pineal glands.

Now of course as you may have already realized this all would mean that it is important for your chakras to be clear and functioning properly. Ground and clearing become, to you, and important daily activity.

Here are some common example of what I experience on a daily basis without any effort on my part:

• During conversations I may feel energy in my right foot that tells me that what I am saying or the other person is saying is correct.
• While in the presence of some one with high vibrations (other psychics) I feel them in my crown chakra as a pressure. While in chat rooms when a person enters the room I will feel a certain chakra active. I have not determined if this is letting me know their aura color or their emotional state.
• When someoen tells me something I hear their words but feel the truth fo what they are saying. So no matter what oyu say I know your true feelings.
• With communicating with my Spirit Guides, Angels, Ascended Masters, and other spirits I first feel their presence by various feelings like a chill, a touch, or an overall feeling as though they are over shadowing me (to me that feels like they are trying to get inside me almost).

Note: I do not have to do anything specific to communicate with spirits. However to comment to someone to do a reading I do. My clairsentience seems to just be always on and available to me although I seem to be able to turn it off just by focusing elsewhere. It is similar with my Empathy. If I do not focus on someone I can stop from picking up their emotions and pain. Basically I can stop from connecting to them.

Other abilities -

One who has clairsentience also commonly experiences at least so clear seeing, hearing, and smell. Many clairsentients develop the skill of psychometry which is reading the energy of objects, places and people.

Next I will post about developing and using clairsentience