The 6 Intuitive Senses (Clair Senses) Explained: Which One Is Yours?

TLDR: The six clair senses — clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance, clairalience, and clairgustance — are the intuitive dimensions of your chakra system. They are not exotic gifts reserved for a special few. They are a natural evolution of the five physical senses we are all familiar with, and every single one of them is available to us.

Table of Contents

• What Are the Intuitive Senses?

• The Chakra System: Your Energetic Technology

• The 7 Chakras and Their Colors

• Each Clair Sense and Its Chakra Connection

• The Aura: What Happens When All the Chakras Work Together

• Claireproprioception: The Sense Nobody Talks About

• Which Intuitive Sense Is Yours?

What Are the Intuitive Senses?

We’re gonna talk about energy energy energy energy energy energy energy…

There's a song I've been listening to lately that just repeats that over and over. I have no idea who plays this or where it came from. It just showed up in my music shuffle one day. But they’re perfect lyrics to begin talking about this material, because that's what we're really dealing with here: Energy. All of it. Every intuitive sense, every chakra, every subtle intuitive impression you've ever received that you couldn't quite explain is energy.

Before we dive in, let me start with this…

You are already a complex, multisensory being. You have five physical senses that you use constantly, automatically, without even thinking about it. You see, hear, feel, taste, and smell your way through every moment of every day. Now, what if those five senses are just the beginning? What if they have a subtle, more sensitive dimension, a version of themselves that extends beyond the purely physical and opens us up to higher dimensions of loving awareness, creative inspiration, and spiritual wisdom?

That is exactly what the intuitive senses are as I have come to experience them. They are not something foreign or strange. They are an evolution and an expansion of what you’re already equipped with. And they are woven directly into the energetic architecture of your body through the chakra system — which Vedic cultures have been working with for literally thousands of years..

The Chakra System: Your Energetic Technology

To me, the chakra system seems to really be the fundamental building block of our energetic body. Think of the chakras as a kind of energetic technology, the doorways through which energy is exchanged between your individual experience and the world all around you.

Think of yourself as a radio tower. You are not just a sender of signals, broadcasting your energy, your intentions, your emotions, your awareness, out into the world. You are also a receiver. You pick up frequencies. You pick up the energetic information from around you at all times. And it is your chakra points that process those signals and help us interpret the frequencies coming in and going out.

Each chakra is positioned along the spine, and each one governs a different dimension of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual experience. Each one is connected to a different aspect of who you are as a human being. And each one, as it turns out, is connected to a specific intuitive sense.

That is what we are going to explore here.

The 7 Chakras and Their Colors

Before we map the intuitive senses onto the chakra system, let's do a quick overview of the seven main chakras and the frequencies of light through which they are expressed.

Root Chakra — located at the base of the spine, expressed in the color red. This is our connection to the physical Earth, our grounding, our sense of physical survival, primal instincts, and basic needs.

Sacral Chakra — located about three inches below the belly button, expressed in the color orange. This is our creative center, our reproductive center, our emotional center, and our capacity to express emotion and to create in both physical and abstract ways.

Solar Plexus Chakra — located about three inches above the belly button, expressed in the color yellow. This is our center of personhood, ego, personal identity, and willpower. It governs how we exercise our free will, both energetically and physically. It is how we actually take action in the world.

Heart Chakra — located at the center of the chest, expressed in the color green. This is our center of giving and receiving love, of compassion, forgiveness, and the higher qualities of loving consciousness. The heart is the bridge between the lower chakras of physical embodiment and the higher chakras of spiritual intelligence and creative potential.

Throat Chakra — expressed in turquoise or blue. This is our communication center. Not just speaking, but listening. Truly listening, receiving, integrating, processing what we hear. This is where we speak our truth and hear the truth, and where we learn to walk in alignment with our spiritual expression.

Third Eye Chakra — located between the eyebrows, expressed in indigo and sometimes violet. This is our center of creative vision, discernment, and inspired thought. It is often called the psychic center, and for good reason, as we will explore below.

Crown Chakra — at the top of the head, expressed in a spectrum that in my experience ranges from purple and violet to white and, in recent years, gold. This is our direct connection to God, to Source energy, to universal loving consciousness. It is our pipeline to higher dimensions of wisdom, creativity and divine guidance.

Each Clair Sense and Its Chakra Connection

Here is where it gets fascinating. Each chakra is not just connected to an aspect of your personality or your physical experience. It is also the energetic home of a specific intuitive sense.

Root Chakra → Clairalience (Clear Smelling)

The root chakra, our most primal energy center connected to survival, physical health, and our relationship to the Earth, is home to clairalience, the intuitive sense of clear smelling. The connection here is direct: our sense of smell is one of the most primal of our physical senses, wired deeply into our survival instincts and our most ancient biological responses. Its intuitive counterpart, the ability to receive intuitive information through smell, works in that same territory of basic needs, health, and our relationship to the physical world as I understand it.

Explore this sense further in What Is Clairalience? The Psychic Sense of Smell Explained.

Sacral Chakra → Clairgustance (Clear Tasting) and Clairsentience (Emotional Feeling)

The sacral chakra is our center of creation, emotional expression, and reproduction, and it is home to two intuitive senses.

Clairgustance, the ability to intuitively taste or discern tastes, is connected here, again through that deep link to the body's relationship with food, nourishment, and physical sustainability.

Clairsentience in its emotional dimension is also rooted here. This is the intuitive sense of clear feeling, specifically the emotional feelings, the way our emotional body signals to us about an experience. When something makes us happy, sad, excited, or uneasy, and we feel that emotionally before we have rationally processed it, that is the sacral chakra speaking.

Explore these further: What Is Clairgustance? and What Is Clairsentience?

Solar Plexus Chakra → Clairsentience (Physical Feeling)

The solar plexus chakra works in tandem with the sacral chakra when it comes to clairsentience, but this center governs the physical dimension of it. The physical sensation of the sun on your skin. The feeling of a breeze across your arm. The tightening in your stomach that tells you something is off before your mind has caught up. These physical, somatic signals are the solar plexus speaking, and they carry profound intuitive information when we learn to listen to them consciously.

Heart Chakra and Crown Chakra → Claircognizance (Clear Knowing)

Claircognizance is my personal favorite to teach, because it is simultaneously the most powerful and the most difficult to explain. Clear knowing is exactly what it sounds like. You simply know something. There is no image, no sound, no physical sensation to point to. There is just an inner knowing that arrives, fully formed, without explanation.

The heart is the bridge between our physical embodiment and higher dimensions of spiritual intelligence, which is exactly why claircognizance works through the heart center. And the crown chakra acts as the direct download, the pipeline from God consciousness, from our higher self, from spirit guidance. When a clear knowing arrives, it often comes in through the crown and lands in the heart. These two centers work together as a single intuitive channel.

Explore this sense further in What Is Claircognizance? How to Recognize the Gift of Clear Knowing.

Throat Chakra → Clairaudience (Clear Hearing)

Our communication center is home to clairaudience, the intuitive sense of clear hearing. This is our ability to receive spiritual information through sound, through an inner voice, through inspired words that arrive during meditation or prayer with a quality that feels less like thinking and more like receiving.

I talk in my books about channeled messages that come through to me almost as if someone were speaking them. That is clairaudience. But this sense is not limited to words. It encompasses sound and frequency more broadly. Musicians are often very strongly connected to this center. A beautiful voice, a healing frequency, a piece of music that moves you to tears without you knowing why, that healing quality of sound is clairaudience in action.

Explore this further in What Is Clairaudience? The Intuitive Gift of Psychic Hearing Explained.

Third Eye Chakra → Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

The third eye is the one most people associate with psychic ability generally, and it is true that when this center is open and connected to higher dimensions of consciousness through the crown, we begin to see things for what they are. We see the creative possibilities and potentials available to us. We see beyond the obvious.

Clairvoyance, the ability to receive spiritual information through inner visual impressions, is rooted here. Symbols, colors, mental images, daydreams with a particular quality of aliveness, Creative Visions that feel inspired rather than constructed — this is all third eye territory.

It is not an accident that so many things once considered science fiction have moved steadily closer to reality. The imagination and our intuition are very close. Seeing possibilities, perceiving the creative potential of what life could be, that is the work of the third eye.

Explore this sense more deeply in What Is Clairvoyance? A Clear Guide to Psychic Vision and Inner Sight.

The Aura: What Happens When All the Chakras Work Together

If you have heard people talk about seeing auras or sensing the energy field around a person, here is the simple explanation: the aura is the collective energy of all seven chakras working together. It is the whole energetic signature of a person, the sum of everything these centers are broadcasting and receiving at any given moment.

When our chakras are balanced and open, that collective energy radiates out from the body in a coherent, healthy field. When certain centers are blocked or out of balance, that disruption shows up in the aura as well. Learning to work with your chakras individually is also, in a very real sense, learning to care for your whole energetic body.

Clairtangency and Claire Proprioception: The Senses Nobody Talks About

I want to mention two more intuitive senses before I sign off here, because I think they deserve their moment.

Clairtangency, or clear touching, is the ability to receive intuitive information through physical touch. It is connected to the heart center and to the small chakras located in the palms of the hands. Some healers and energy workers experience this in Hands-On healing work, receiving impressions or information as they work with a person's energy field. I have experienced this in my own energy healing practice, though I will be honest that at that point, with all the other senses also engaged, it is sometimes genuinely difficult to isolate which sense the information is coming through.

Clairproprioception is a term I coined myself, because I could not find existing language that adequately described an experience I kept having as my intuitive senses deepened.

Proprioception is a word from functional anatomy. It refers to the body's awareness of itself in space, the remarkable, largely unconscious system that tells you where your limbs are, how you are balanced, how much force you are exerting, all without looking. It is the sense that lets you catch a ball, walk without watching your feet, or feel someone approaching from behind.

Having spent years as a personal trainer and an athlete, I have always had particularly strong body awareness. And as my intuitive senses evolved, so too did a strange and fascinating extension of this physical proprioception into the subtle realm. I began to have intuitive experiences that had a distinctly spatial, full-body quality to them. A sense of running. A sense of ducking. A feeling of reaching out into space. Sometimes I have whole-body intuitive impressions that go beyond any single clair sense.

I call this claireproprioception: the awareness of the subtle body in subtle space. If physical proprioception is the awareness of the physical body in physical space, claireproprioception is the intuitive awareness of your energetic body moving through the energetic field of life. It is, in my experience, what happens when all the clair senses are active and working together as a unified, coherent system.

Which Intuitive Sense Is Yours?

Here is what I want you to take from all of this.

You already have these senses. All of them. The question is not whether you have intuitive gifts. The question is which ones are turned up high for you right now, and which ones are simply waiting for a little more attention and practice.

Are you highly visual, a natural daydreamer, drawn to art and film and the way things look? Clairvoyance may be your strongest channel. Do you absorb the emotions of rooms and people, feeling things deeply in your body before you have words for them? Clairsentience might be speaking to you. Do you sometimes just know things, fully and inexplicably, without any supporting evidence? Claircognizance is your gift. Do you hear music differently than other people, or receive words and phrases in meditation that feel like they came from somewhere beyond you? Clairaudience is your channel.

None of these is better or more advanced than the others. They are simply different languages through which loving awareness communicates with us. Your job is to learn your own language.

And if you want personalized guidance on which intuitive senses are most active in you right now, book an intuitive guidance reading and let's find out together.

Thank you so much for being here. Hope to hear from you soon!

-jb