Root Chakra Meditation: How to Feel Safe, Grounded, and Secure

This video is about the root chakra!

This week, meditate on the root chakra and reflect on your relationship to safety, security, health and wellbeing.

Journal your thoughts on what it means to feel safe, secure and stable.

What was your home life like and your connection to your family?

Did you grow up feeling safe?

What is your relationship to money?

How do you care for and show reverence for your body?

Answers to these questions can help uncover energy balance of your root chakra. I appreciate you being here and hope this information serves you on your journey.

See you in the next lesson!

-jb

Introduction to the 7 Chakras: A Beginner's Guide to Your Energy Centers

This video is an introduction to the Chakras and the Chakra system. The word Chakra comes from ancient Sanskrit and translates to "wheel". These "wheels" relate to different aspects of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.

They can be approached in ascending order: the root chakra, the sacral chakra, the solar plexus chakra, the heart chakra, the throat chakra, the third eye chakra and the crown chakra.

Take some time now to reflect on the colors you often worked with in the Conscious Release meditation. Which colors came up the most often? Take note of that and consider those colors as you move on and learn about the chakras.

Also, spend an evening in meditation and then journal about the aspects of yourself and your personality that feel stable, balanced and in alignment.

Then, journal about things you feel are maybe out of balance, as well as any chronic pain that may arise in your experience.

This exercise is to help set you up for more consciously engaging with the following chakra section. As you move from chakra to chakra, be prepared to look at this original list and compare it with the information in each section to see if there are any parallels or connections.

Thanks for joining me here and I look forward to continue exploring with you.

-jb

Soul Force Inventory: How to Audit Your Energy and Align Your Life

This video helps us begin the process of becoming more aware of who we are and who we are in relationship to all things around us including diet and fitness, the content we consume, the people, places and things we give our energy to.

First and foremost, please engage with the reflective questions in the book as this is a pivotal step on your journey. Next, let’s tune more consciously into your consumption habits – specifically diet and media for the next week – and start a journal. Write down what you eat, drink and consume in terms of media content on a daily basis.

Then, using your body tuning techniques, get clear about how your body intuitively feels in relation to what you consume for the week. What feels expansive and contractive? Consider asking yourself “Why?”. Journal and reflect on your discoveries.

In the following week, focus your journaling and reflections on your interactions with people as well as your physical environment. Be detailed, specific and really cue into the energy and vibrations you interact with and how they make you intuitively feel.

Use your body tuning awareness to help guide the process and journal your reflections and findings. Look for connections, patterns and correlations between that which feels expansive and what feels like contraction. Notice anything? Journal about it.

Give this a go. Lean into it as an exercise over and over and over again.

Appreciate you being here. See you in the next one!

-jb

How to Use Body Awareness to Strengthen Your Intuition

This video is a practice I refer to as Body Tuning. This exercise is great for connecting to your body's intuitive awareness to help you become more clear and honest about how you feel about things.

Journal what expansion and contraction felt like for you, as well as your yeses and noes. Calibrate and test your newfound awareness with these starter questions:

Are my eyes brown?

Am I sitting down?

Am I indoors?

Am I cold?

Did I sleep last night?

How’d these responses go? Did you get clear responses? Were they consistent with the truth and reality?

Now, for your own exploration, try these more complex exercises and see what arises. Journal about how your body intuitively responds to each question.

Am I happy at work/home?

Do I feel safe and secure?

Am I creatively fulfilled?

Do I tend to take on the suffering of others?

Does my social life serve my highest good?

Is Jeff totally out-of-his-mind whackadoodle?

Don’t tell me the answer to that last question :) I encourage you to sit and reflect on your answers. Dig deeper and see if you can understand why your body might respond the way it did. Engaging in this reflective process can help bring unconscious things into our conscious mind.

Welcome to the process of awakening! I’ll see ya in the next lesson…

-jb

Conscious Release Meditation: How to Let Go and Free Your Energy

This video is about the Conscious Release meditation. This is a great practice for learning how to become the observer and begin consciously working with thoughts, feelings, energy and experiences that you may wish to clear from your field.

I encourage you to continue working with this practice and keeping a journal of your experiences over time. Take note of what was coming up that wanted to be let go. Notice how it felt to work through and release this. Also, pay attention to the color of the ball of energy you worked with.

As you continue this practice look for any patterns arising. Is there a particular kind of emotional experience that is being triggered?

A type of interaction?

A person or environment that leaves you feeling a certain way?

What color energetically comes up the most?

Becoming aware of these patterns can hold a key to unlocking healing and potential as you move forward.

We’ll continue to build on all these ideas moving forward in an effort to know ourselves more deeply.

See you next time!

-jb

Soul Force Field Meditation: Connect to Your Inner Source of Power

This video introduces you to my favorite meditation practice that I do personally use daily. In fact, the meditation itself is a mash up of several different practices and influences that I combined in a way that made sense for my spiritual and wellness needs.

When you first begin working with this meditation, take a couple of minutes to journal about what your initial experiences with this meditation were like.

When is it easiest for you to practice this meditation?

What does it feel like to connect to Mother Earth?

What does it feel like connecting to divine white light, love, and wisdom?

What does it feel like to release negative and unwanted emotions through the grounding cord?

How does practicing this technique shift your thoughts, feelings, and even bodily sensations?

Give yourself some time and space to answer these questions and bring these sensations into your awareness. I appreciate you being here!

See you in the next lesson :)

-jb

Rhythmic Breathing Meditation: Calm Your Nervous System and Center Your Mind

This video is about a practice I refer to as Rhythmic Breathing or what is known as Pranic Breathing in ancient yogic traditions. This simple meditation has its roots in ancient Hindu philosophy that is thousands of years old!

Reflect on your rhythmic breathing meditation experience.

How does your body feel before and after? What about the quality of your thoughts?

Where does your emotional state begin and where do you end up?

Try this meditation a few more times to become more aware of how you respond to it. Even doing this simple meditation for a few minutes a day every day can have a positive impact on your wellbeing.

A little bonus practice: the next time you feel like you’re emotionally aroused, see if you can recognize this heightened emotional state. Once you’re aware, try some rhythmic breathing to reconnect to your heart and breath.

Journal about that process for yourself and your own awareness. I hope you find this to be a useful tool in your toolkit!

-jb

Conscious Breathing Meditation: A Breathwork Practice for Clarity and Calm

This video introduces you to a meditation practice I simply refer to as Conscious Breathing. This is a great exercise for practicing focus and training your awareness on a simple anchor -- the breath!

As you begin to work with this practice, start a journal and track your conscious breathing experiences. Write down how long you sat for. Not because this is a contest of any kind, but just for your awareness. It’s good to just be aware of where you are at in your practice!

What emotions and thoughts were present before the meditation?

How did your body feel?

What was the quality of your breath when you first began to breathe?

What was the quality of your breath once you spent some time conscious breathing?

And finally, how did your body, thoughts, or emotions shift after spending this time with the breath?

Journal your experiences for yourself and feel free to let the community know in the comments if you have any particular insights you feel called to share...I appreciate you being here!

See you in the next video :)

-jb

Welcome to Awakening Soul Force

This video welcomes you to the Awakening Soul Force Journey where we'll explore meditation, energy healing, creative self-expression, the chakras, dream analysis and all sorts of spiritual goodness!

Follow the prompts from post to post to engage with this process and reflect as you walk your path to awareness...

To begin your journey, please answer these questions for yourself and your own awareness. Maybe you’ve thought about these questions a lot, maybe not at all. Either way, just take a minute to reflect and write what comes from your heart:

Who am I?

What is my loving truth?

More often than not, am I living my life in alignment with my loving truth?

Write your answers out privately or share them in the comments if you feel called.

There’s no right or wrong way to answer here, so don’t worry there isn’t any judgment here either!

Enjoy and see you next time!

-jb

What Is Clairalience? The Psychic Sense of Smell Explained

Are you clairalient?

We'll explore how clairalience works in just a second, but first let's talk some basics!

Clairalience translates as clear smelling. So, this intuitive sense is all about our ability to intuitively smell, which can be helpful for nourishing our bodies, identifying people and environments, or working with food.

Clear smelling is connected to the root chakra. So make sure you check out my other content on that energy center to deepen your understanding.

So, how does it feel to experience the intuitive sense of clairalience?

Take a big deep energy clearing breath in…

Exhale and release…

Then, see if you can imagine the scent of your favorite essential oil or perfume.

Take another energy clearing breath.

Now switch that maybe to the scent of someone you really love.

If you were able to recreate these sensations for yourself, clear smelling may be one of your very strong intuitive senses.

To learn more about clairalience and the intuition, keep exploring this blog and all the content I’ve created on the subject of spiritual awakening and intuition. It is all here to help support you on your spiritual journey!

Thank you so much for being here 😌

-jb

What Is Clairgustance? The Psychic Sense of Taste Explained

Are you clairgustant?

Today, we'll be talking about how clairagustance works, but first let's talk some basics!

Clairagustance translates as clear tasting. Therefore, this intuitive sense is all about our intuitive ability to taste something, which can be really helpful for nourishing our bodies. This has been my long experience and understanding of this center, so I have typically interpreted this clear taste pretty literally and related it to matters of the food and body.

However!

Recently, I was having a dialogue with a friend about this work and she brought up a great point as we discussed clairgustance. She felt that this sense could extended to our taste in aesthetics, art and beauty — which to me felt like a fantastic revelation! And it would completely make sense. as this intuitive sense is connected to our sacral chakra — a field tied to creation, sexuality, sensuality and emotional feels. So, something to consider as you explore this sense on your own.

So, how does it feel to experience the intuitive sense of clairagustance or clear tasting (in the old sense that I teach about)?

Take a big deep breath in….

Exhale, release.

Now, try to imagine what your favorite beverage tastes like.

Okay, now switch that to your favorite food.

Are you hungry yet?

If you are able to recreate these sensations for yourself, clear tasting or clairagustance may be one of your strong intuitive senses.

To learn more about clairagustance and the rest of the intuitive senses, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I have tons of free video resources on there to help guide you on your spiritual journey — although if you have the free version you’ll get lots of ads…womp womp.

Thank you so much for being here!

-jb

What Is Claircognizance? How to Recognize the Gift of Clear Knowing

TLDR: Claircognizance is the intuitive sense of clear knowing — the ability to simply know something without understanding how or why you know it. It is connected to the heart chakra and the crown chakra, and it is, in my experience, both the most elusive and the most powerful of all the intuitive senses.

Table of Contents

• What Is Claircognizance?

• Where Clear Knowing Lives in the Body

• Why Claircognizance Is the Hardest Sense to Trust

• What a Claircognizant Moment Actually Feels Like

• A Claircognizance Exercise to Try Right Now

• How to Calibrate Your Clear Knowing in Daily Life

• Why This Gift Matters

What Is Claircognizance?

Think of the inventor's aha moment. The one that arrives not from a logical sequence of deductions but from somewhere else entirely, fully formed, certain, undeniable. Think of the physician who walks into a room and knows, before running a single test, what’s not right. Or the healer whose hands move to a particular spot on the body without any intellectual understanding of why, only the quiet, unshakeable certainty that this is where they need to be.

That is claircognizance. That is clear knowing.

It is the intuitive sense through which we simply know things. Not because we reasoned our way there. Not because we saw something, or heard something, or felt something in the body that pointed us in a direction. We just know. We know that we know and we don’t really know how we know.

Of all the intuitive senses, claircognizance is perhaps the most difficult to explain, because it does not arrive through any of the usual channels. There is no image to point to, no inner voice to describe, no physical sensation to name. There is only a knowing. A deep, sudden, sometimes startling arrival of understanding or insight or truth, the kind that lands in your consciousness like a light going on in a dark room.

It is elusive. It is quiet. And in my experience, it is one of the most powerful forms of inner guidance available to us.

Where Clear Knowing Lives in the Body

In the chakra system, claircognizance is connected to two energy centers working in partnership: the heart chakra and the crown chakra.

The crown chakra, at the top of the head, is our direct connection to God, to Source energy, to the universal loving consciousness that I believe animates all of life. It is the place where divine intelligence enters our field, where higher knowing comes in. Think of it as the antenna.

The heart chakra is the bridge, the place where that higher intelligence lands in the body and becomes personally meaningful. The heart translates the download into something we can feel and recognize as true for us specifically, in this moment, in this life.

Why Claircognizance Is the Hardest Sense to Trust

Of all the intuitive senses, claircognizance has been the hardest one for me personally to calibrate and to trust.

With clairvoyance, at least there is an image to examine. With clairaudience, there are words, a tone, a quality of voice to pay attention to. With clairsentience, the body speaks in physical sensation and emotion that you can learn to read over time. But with claircognizance, there is nothing to hold onto. No evidence. No process. Just a knowing that arrives and asks you to trust it, fully and without verification.

And our culture, frankly, does not make this easy. We are trained to justify our conclusions, to show our work, to have reasons. When someone asks why you made a particular decision and your most honest answer is "I just knew," it might feel like a bit of a cop out.

And yet, some of my deepest understandings come through this way. Some of the most significant turning points in my life, the moments where I made the move that opened everything up, came not from careful analysis but from a quiet, persistent knowing that I couldn’t deny.

What a Claircognizant Moment Actually Feels Like

Here is the quality I have come to recognize in a genuine claircognizant hit, as distinct from an ordinary thought or a piece of wishful thinking: it is quick. Understanding arrives fast, sometimes instantaneously, before the analytical mind has had time to weigh in. There is an assuredness to it, a quality of settledness that ordinary thought rarely has that just opens things up. Something in your consciousness shifts slightly, like a door unlocking, and through that opening the answer arrives, clear and complete.

The challenge, especially in the beginning, is learning to distinguish these subtle knowings from the mind's own noise, from projection, from wishful thinking, from fear dressed up as intuition. That discernment, again, comes with time, with practice, and with the willingness to track your claircognizant “hits” over the long arc of your experience and see how they play out.

A Claircognizance Exercise to Try Right Now

This exercise is designed to do one specific thing: give you a baseline. A felt sense of what it is like when a clear knowing simply emerges, so that when it happens in the context of the real questions of your life, you have a reference point.

Think of it as handing you some dumbbells and asking you to do a few bicep curls. The work of building the muscle is yours to continue, but this is where we start.

Take three deep, intentional energy-clearing breaths. Inhale fully, exhale completely, and settle into your body.

Now draw your awareness to your heart center. Breathe into it gently. As you inhale, imagine a vibrant, healing green light spinning and swirling at the center of your chest. As you exhale, feel that heart chakra activate, opening like a flower, spinning clockwise. Breathe with it for a few cycles.

Then shift your awareness to the crown of your head. Imagine a bright, beautiful ball of gold and white light beginning to spin and swirl at the very top of your head. As you inhale, draw that white and gold light in. As you exhale, feel it activate and expand. Breathe with this center until it feels alive and open.

Now simply breathe, and feel these two centers sync up. Heart and crown, in alignment, in communication.

From this place, I am going to ask you a series of simple questions. Do not think about them. Do not analyze. Just notice how quickly and simply the answer arises. Pay close attention to the quality of that arising.

What is your name?

Where were you born?

Are you indoors?

Are you alive?

What is your life's purpose?

Take a big deep breath. Write down whatever came through.

When I ran through this exercise in a video version of this lesson, my answers arrived in this order: my name, Santa Monica, no, I am outside, yes, definitely.

And then the last question. What is my life's purpose?

To teach.

It just popped out. Quick. Assured. Something opened in my chest when that answer arrived, a familiar sensation of understanding emerging from the heart.

How to Calibrate Your Clear Knowing in Daily Life

Here is a practical suggestion for developing claircognizance outside of formal meditation.

Do a crossword puzzle this week or maybe watch Wheel of Fortune. As you work through these games, pay very close attention to the moment when you know the answer. Not the sensation of your mind working through a process of elimination or logic. A sensation in your body, the moment when the answer simply arrives, whole and certain, before your mind has finished its work.

This is a way to flex your claircognizance in a safe, low-stakes, easily observable form. It’s a small step on a long journey of attuning yourself to the wisdom of the heart when you eventually ask yourself questions like:

Is this job a good fit? Is this person trustworthy? Is this the moment to make the move?

These are the questions where a finely calibrated claircognizant sense becomes genuinely life-changing. You may not always get a clear answer. But when you do, when that deep knowing arrives with that particular quality of assuredness and opening, you will recognize it. And over time, you will learn to trust it.

That trust is not built in a day. It is built in the patient, consistent accumulation of small moments where you honored what you knew, watched how life plays out, and slowly allowing the evidence of your own inner guidance to speak for itself.

Why This Gift Matters

Claircognizance is not reserved just for mystics and healers and people who have been meditating for decades. This clear knowing is accessible by each and every one of us. It is the inventor who wakes up in the middle of the night with the solution. The parent who knows, without a word being spoken, that something is wrong with their child. The friend who picks up the phone to call you the exact moment you needed someone to call.

It is the part of you that already knows your life's purpose, even if the rest of you is still catching up in real time.

This is one of the channels through which God's loving awareness communicates with us directly, through the crown, into the heart, emerging as a simple, quiet, unshakeable understanding. Not every “hit” will be accurate. Learning discernment is real skill and it matters.

But so does trust. And the willingness to begin listening to the quiet parts of yourself.

Explore how claircognizance connects to your other intuitive gifts in The 6 Intuitive Senses (Clair Senses) Explained, and deepen your connection to the energy centers behind this gift in Heart Chakra Meditation: Open Yourself to Giving and Receiving Love and Crown Chakra Meditation: How to Deepen Your Connection to the Divine.

Ready to explore your own intuitive gifts more personally? 

Book an intuitive guidance reading and let's find out how you can open this dialogue within yourself.

-jb

What Is Clairsentience? Understanding Your Psychic Sense of Feeling

TLDR: Clairsentience is the intuitive sense of clear feeling — the ability to receive spiritual information through both physical sensation and emotional experience. It is connected to the solar plexus and sacral chakras, it is the most universally accessible of all the intuitive senses, and your body has been speaking this language your whole life. The work is simply learning to listen.

Table of Contents

• What Is Clairsentience?

• The Two Chakras Behind Clear Feeling

• Why Clairsentience Is the Most Universal Intuitive Sense

• Feelings as the Language of the Soul

• A Clairsentience Exercise to Try Right Now

• What the Exercise Is Actually Teaching You

• How to Work with Clairsentience in Daily Life

• An Unexpected Teacher: Acting Class

What Is Clairsentience?

I've got a feeling …today we're gonna to talk about clairsentience…

Clairsentience means clear feeling. It is the ability to receive spiritual information through the felt experience of the body, both the physical sensations and the emotional ones. It’s the warmth that spreads through your chest when you are in the presence of someone you love. The subtle tightening in your gut when something is not quite right. The inexplicable wave of joy that arrives in a moment when nothing in particular has happened to cause it. The unease you feel around a person who says all the right things but leaves you feeling somehow off.

Your body is already fluent in this language. It has been speaking it your entire life. What we are doing here is learning to consciously understand what those feelings are saying.

The Two Chakras Behind Clear Feeling

Clairsentience is one of the few intuitive senses that works through two chakra centers simultaneously, and understanding which two helps explain why this sense shows up the way it does.

The first is the solar plexus chakra, located about three inches above the belly button and expressed in the color yellow. This center is responsible for the physical dimension of clairsentience, the direct, somatic sensations of the body. The coolness of air on skin. The feeling of gripping something in your hands. The physical sensation of tension, or openness, or ease. When your body physically responds to something in your environment, that is predominantly the solar plexus speaking.

The second is the sacral chakra, located about three inches below the belly button and expressed in the color orange. This center carries the emotional dimension of clairsentience, the feelings of joy, sadness, excitement, betrayal, love, and fear that arise in response to our experiences and to the people and environments around us.

Together, these two centers create what we experience as our felt sense. Think about it: we talk all the time about gut instincts and gut feelings. We say "I had a hunch" or "something in my gut told me." And when you look at where the solar plexus and the sacral chakra actually live in the body, right in that area, it is not an accident that we have been pointing to our gut as a source of knowing all along. We were always describing something real. We just did not always have the language for what it was.

Why Clairsentience Is the Most Universal Intuitive Sense

In the workshops I have done, I have walked rooms full of people through exercises for each of the intuitive senses and asked them to raise their hand when something is firing. It is not a scientific study, and I want to be clear about that. But what I have observed however. consistently, is that clairsentience is the sense that almost everyone raises their hand when I ask.

I think there is a reason for that.

We live in our bodies. We have been receiving physical and emotional information through our felt senses since the moment we arrived on this Earth. Even before we had language to describe what we were experiencing, we were feeling our way through the world. Clairsentience is, in this way, is possibly the most primal and more accessible of the intuitive senses.

My job here is not to teach you something entirely new. It is to bring what is already happening in you into a more conscious awareness. To help you realize that the feelings moving through your body are not random, they are not just background noise, they are not something to push past or manage or medicate into silence. Feelings are information. They are communication. They are the body's way of knowing what the mind has not yet fully processed.

Feelings as the Language of the Soul

Listen folks, in astrology both my sun and mercury sit in Pisces, a water sign. Emotions have always been a very present dimension of my experience, sometimes overwhelmingly so. For awhile I related to that fact as if it were a liability, something to manage and contain rather than develop and trust.

What I have come to understand is that emotions and physical sensations are, at a deep level, the language through which the soul communicates with the physical body. The felt sense is how that higher intelligence within us, the soul, the spirit, what I call the soul force, speaks to the part of us that moves through the world day to day.

When something resonates deeply and you feel it expand in your chest, that is soul communication. When you are about to make a choice that is out of alignment with your truth and your stomach tightens in a way you cannot explain, that is soul communication. When you walk into a room and feel, before anyone speaks, that something difficult happened here recently, that is soul communication. It is all clairsentience. And it is all meaningful.

The question is not whether your body is speaking to you. It is whether you are listening.

A Clairsentience Exercise to Try Right Now

This exercise is designed to do one specific thing: calibrate your felt sense. To give you a conscious experience of what different emotional and physical states actually feel like in your body, so that when those sensations arise in the context of real life, you have a reference point.

Find a quiet place. Take three deep, intentional energy-clearing breaths. Inhale fully, exhale completely, and settle.

Draw your awareness to your solar plexus, about three inches above the belly button. Breathe into that center. Imagine breathing in a warm yellow light, activating and energizing this center with each inhale. Then drop your awareness to the sacral chakra, three inches below the belly button. Breathe here too, feeling this center open and awaken. Let both centers settle into awareness simultaneously.

Now I am going to walk you through a series of felt experiences. For each one, set the intention on the inhale and on the exhale simply allow the feeling to arise in the body. Notice what comes. Notice where you feel it. Notice the quality of it.

Call in what it feels like to hug someone you deeply love. Physically. Emotionally. Let your body remember it fully.

Take a breath, clear it out.

Call in what it feels like to sit next to someone you genuinely do not get along with. What does that feel like in the body? What sensations arise?

Take a breath, clear it out.

Call in what it feels like to help someone. What does that feel like? Where do you feel it?

Take a breath, clear it out.

Call in what it feels like when you have done harm to someone, intentional or otherwise. What does that feel like in the body?

Take a breath, clear it out.

Call in what it feels like when someone has lied to you or betrayed your trust. Where does that land?

Take a breath, clear it out.

Call in what it feels like when you have done something you are genuinely proud of. Something that brings real joy. Let that arise in the body.

Take a breath, clear it out.

And finally, from this place of openness and bodily awareness, ask your higher self and loving awareness: is there any emotion or feeling I need to be aware of today for my highest spiritual good?

Breathe out and simply notice what the body offers in response.

When you are ready, take three more clearing breaths and gently open your eyes.

What the Exercise Is Actually Teaching You

I chose those particular prompts deliberately, and I want to explain why, because understanding the intention behind it deepens what you take away.

I moved you through polarities, love and conflict, helping and harming, betrayal and pride. Not to be dramatic, but because the spectrum between those extremes is the same spectrum your felt sense navigates every single day. When you have consciously felt both ends, you are better equipped to notice where on that spectrum a given situation or person is landing.

Here is what I mean practically. Say you meet someone who says all the right things, presents beautifully, and checks every logical box. But something in your body feels like that exercise, the one where you were sitting next to someone you do not get along with. That is information to consider. It’s not a final verdict. Not instructions. But information worth noticing.

When I ran through this exercise myself, what arrived at that final question was a feeling of centeredness and balance right in the core. It felt like being pulled out of the ping-pong between my very physical, athletic self and my meditative, spiritually oriented self, and landing right in the middle. Grounded. Balanced. Here. Now.

Your experience will be your own. There is no right answer. There is only what is true for you, in your body, in this moment.

How to Work with Clairsentience in Daily Life

The goal of this work is not to turn your felt sense into an oracle you consult for every decision. It is to stop glazing over it.

We do that more than we realize. We feel something that does not fit the narrative we want to believe, and we push past it, because capitalism said it is okay, or our boss told us to, or we do not want to seem difficult, or the logical case for the thing is so strong. And sometimes later we find ourselves saying I knew something was off. I felt it. I just didn’t listen.

I am not here to tell you what to do with the feelings that arise. That investigation is yours, and it is part of the beautiful, ongoing work of becoming more a conscious person. What I want to offer is this: your body is talking to you all the time. Every sensation, every emotional flicker, every gut response is a piece of information about the energetic reality of what you are moving through and it deserves your attention.

Start simple. When a feeling arises, name it. That feels like joy. That feels like anxiety. That feels like openness. That feels like contraction. Just noticing, just naming, is the beginning of developing a conscious, working relationship with this part of yourself.

An Unexpected Teacher: Acting Class

I want to share something that surprised me about my own development of this sense, because I think it might open a door for you.

I was a child actor. And as an adult, after years of personal training and athletics, I found myself wanting to reconnect with that creative, exploratory part of myself. So I went back to acting class.

And something unexpected happened. In acting class, you work with emotions deliberately and consciously. You call them up, you inhabit them, you practice moving through the full range of human feeling with intention. What is joy? What does it feel like in the body? What does anger actually feel like, as opposed to what we think it looks like? What does betrayal feel like from the inside?

I started bringing that same practice into my meditations. I would sit quietly and call up an emotion, deliberately, to feel it consciously. Joy. Anger. Grief. Skepticism. Wonder. And something opened up. The emotional body became more legible to me. The felt sense became sharper.

So here is the invitation. Whether or not you have any interest in acting, consider spending time this week in meditation deliberately calling up different emotional states and asking your body to show you what each one feels like. Use the intentional time and space as a laboratory for learning your own emotional language.

Your body is not just a vehicle you move around in. It is one of the most sophisticated intuitive instruments you have. The more fluent you become in its language, the more clearly you can hear what it is telling you, and the more consciously you can live in alignment with the truth of who you are.

Explore how clairsentience connects to your other intuitive gifts in The 6 Intuitive Senses (Clair Senses) Explained. Deepen your connection to the energy centers behind this gift in Sacral Chakra Meditation: Unlock Joy, Creativity, and Emotional Flow and Solar Plexus Chakra Meditation: Reclaim Your Personal Power and Confidence.

Ready to explore what your body already knows? Book a personal intuitive guidance reading and let's listen in together.

-jb

What Is Clairaudience? The Intuitive Gift of Psychic Hearing Explained

TLDR: Clairaudience is the intuitive sense of clear hearing — the ability to receive spiritual information through your inner ear. It shows up as an inner voice, inspired words, melodies from seemingly nowhere, and the quiet, gentle tone of loving awareness speaking to you in the stillness. If you are a musician, a poet, a singer, a writer, or someone who can do a decent impersonation, this sense may already be more active in you than you realize.

Table of Contents

• What Is Clairaudience?

• Signs Clairaudience May Be Strong in You

• The Most Important Skill in Clairaudience: Discernment

• How to Recognize the Voice of Loving Awareness

• A Clairaudience Exercise to Try Right Now

• Meditation as the Key to Intuitive Listening

• Practical Ways to Train Your Clairaudience Daily

What Is Clairaudience?

Imagine you’re watching South Park and you hear, “My name is Eric Cartman and I am so excited you are here learning about your intuition.”

Okay. You are probably wondering why I am asking you to imagine hearing this from a South Park character. And the answer is: because today we are talking about clairaudience, the intuitive sense of clear hearing, and I wanted to demonstrate a unique inner voice right out of the gate. To hear a voice like that, and even more so to replicate it, you have to listen deeply in a very particular way. You have to hold the tone, the rhythm, the cadence of that voice in your inner ear to reproduce it with your imagination. That is a form of clairaudience. A playful one, granted, but a real one.

Clairaudience is the intuitive sense connected to the throat chakra, our center of communication, listening, and expression. And it is, in my experience, one of the most intimate and personal of all the clair senses, because it involves learning to hear the difference between the voice of the ego and the voice of loving awareness.

Signs Clairaudience May Be Strong in You

Before we go deeper, here are some signals worth paying attention to.

You are a musician, poet, singer, or writer. If sound, language, rhythm, and melody are the native territory of your creative life, your inner ear is likely already well-developed. Many musicians describe the experience of hearing a tune, a riff, a melody, seemingly arriving from nowhere, and then speaking it into existence. That is clairaudience at work.

You have good rhythm and timing. Not just musically. In conversation, in comedy, in the instinctive sense of when to speak and when to stay quiet. Rhythm is a form of listening.

You can do impersonations. The ability to hear someone's voice with enough precision to reproduce it requires a level of inner ear sensitivity that is very much in the territory of this gift.

You receive creative ideas as words or phrases. Not images, not feelings, but language. A line of a song. An opening sentence. A phrase that arrives while you are in the shower and feels too good to have been entirely yours.

You hear an inner voice during meditation or prayer that feels distinct from your ordinary thoughts. Not louder, not more dramatic, but different in quality. More settled. More clear. More kind.

If any of these resonate, clairaudience may well be one of your primary intuitive channels.

The Most Important Skill in Clairaudience: Discernment

The question I hear more than any other in my workshops is some version of this: how do I know when I am working with my intuition and when I am just making stuff up?

It is a genuinely good question. And when it comes to clairaudience, there is actually something of a shortcut for beginning to answer it.

With clairvoyance, discernment between intuition and imagination is largely a matter of time and accumulated experience. You practice, you observe, you watch how information plays out, and gradually you learn your own language. That process is unavoidable and worth committing to.

But with clairaudience, there is a quality you can begin to listen for right away: the tone.

The voice of your inner critic, your conditioning, your fear-based thinking, the part of you that shuts things down and tells you it is not safe to try, tends to have a particular quality. It is often harsh. Cold. Cutting. It critiques and criticizes. It can be demeaning. It puts you in competition mode with others and even yourself. We all know this voice.

The voice of loving awareness is something else entirely.

How to Recognize the Voice of Loving Awareness

Experiences with clairaudience have been part of my life since I was a teenager. Some of the very first experiences I had when I began meditating, when I first opened to the possibility that we could dialogue with higher dimensions of consciousness, were auditory. I would hear words as if someone were simply talking to me. Clearly. Gently. In a way that felt less like my thinking and more like receiving comforting words from a thoughtful advisor.

And what always stood out was the tone.

The voice of loving awareness is, as the name suggests, loving. It is gentle. It is honest, sometimes profoundly so, but it delivers that honesty without cruelty. It does not shame you. It does not put you in competition with anyone. It is soothing and reassuring in a way that the monkey mind simply is not capable of. When it speaks, there is a quality of settledness to it, a steadiness that the anxious chatter of the ego cannot manufacture.

Here is the baseline I offer people: think of someone who loves you deeply and unconditionally, and imagine them speaking to you with all of that love present in their voice. The warmth in that tone, the gentleness, the sense of being fully seen and fully accepted, that is the closest I can get to describing what the voice of loving awareness feels like when it arrives.

That is not an accident. It’s the same frequency. Different channel, same underlying vibration.

When I do readings and channel guidance for others, this is still how it comes through for me. I write what I am hearing as it comes in, and it always has that quality: soothing, reassuring, honest, and completely without judgment. The air of persisting nonjudgment is how I came to really trust this inner voice so deeply. And this loving quality is how I hope to help you begin to recognize it too.

A Clairaudience Exercise to Try Right Now

This exercise works the inner ear the same way clairvoyant calisthenics work the inner eye: we begin with imagination and memory, warming up the faculty first, and then we open to something that wants to come through on its own.

Find a quiet place. Close your eyes. Take three deep energy-clearing breaths, inhaling fully and exhaling completely, until you feel genuinely settled and present.

Draw your awareness down to your throat chakra, at the base of your neck. Breathe into that center. As you inhale, imagine breathing in a vibrant turquoise-blue light, activating your intuitive hearing, turning it on and tuning it up. Feel your inner ears get clear.

Step one: hear your favorite song. Set the intention on your inhale, and on the exhale, simply listen. Not with your physical ears but with the inner ear. What part of the song comes in most clearly? The beat? The melody? The vocals? A specific instrument? Pay attention to what stands out, because that tells you something about how your inner ear naturally receives information.

Step two: count from one to ten with your inner voice. Not out loud. Just internally. Then count backwards from ten to one. Notice the quality of your inner voice as you do it. This is the beginning of becoming acquainted with how you sound to yourself from the inside.

Step three: hear a cartoon character. Call in the voice of a cartoon character in your inner ear. What do they sound like? Can you make out what they are saying?

Step four: hear a beloved TV or movie character singing you happy birthday. I know. It is a wonderfully silly exercise. But try it. The inner ear loves a creative challenge, and the specificity of the task, a recognizable voice, a specific melody, is exactly what warms this sense up.

Step five: hear the voice of someone who loves you. Call in the voice of someone who genuinely loves you and who you deeply love. Imagine them saying your name. Imagine them saying, "I love you. I support you." Notice the tone of that voice. Notice how it feels in your body to receive those words in that quality of love.

Sit with that for a moment. That tone is your calibration point.

Step six: ask for one word. From this place of openness and stillness, ask your higher self and divine loving awareness: what is the one word I need to hear today for my highest loving good? Breathe out. Release. And simply listen for whatever word wants to emerge.

When I ran through this exercise in the original video with my students, the word that came through for me was peace. I will definitely be focusing on that one. What comes through for you?

Write it down. Sit with it. Consider what it might be telling you about where you are right now.

Meditation as the Key to Intuitive Listening

Here is something I have learned over more than two decades of working with clairaudience: the best way to begin to discern between the voice of your ego and the voice of loving awareness is not to try to analyze them in real time in the middle of a busy, chaotic moment.

When life is loud, when everything is happening at once, when your mind is racing and you are not sure if that was an intuitive hit or just anxiety, the move is to retreat. To seek refuge in your meditation practice. To get quiet.

And then, from that quiet place, to open up and ask.

What I started to trust, over time, was what came through in my meditative space rather than the ramblings of a reactive mind. Meditation created the conditions in which the voice of loving awareness could be heard clearly. And with enough consistent practice, I began to recognize it more easily even outside of formal meditation, in moments of stillness during the day, in that soft space between waking and sleep, in the quality of a thought that arrives with an unusual sense of settledness
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That discernment is not something you can force. It comes with time, with practice, and with the willingness to keep showing up in the quiet, even when nothing dramatic seems to be happening. Especially then.

Practical Ways to Train Your Clairaudience Daily

A couple of practical suggestions for developing this sense in your everyday life.

Watch a film or television show and pay close attention to the sound design. Notice how the composer uses music to accentuate a moment, to create tension, to convey an emotion that the dialogue alone cannot carry. If you want a masterclass in how sound communicates feeling at a visceral level, listen to the soundtrack for Dunkirk. You do not even need to watch the film. Just listen to that score and notice what happens in your body. It will, quite literally, make you anxious. That is intentional, and it is a profound demonstration of sound's power to bypass the rational mind and speak directly to our felt sense.

Listening that consciously to how sound is used in storytelling is one of the most effective ways I know to develop your intuitive ear.

When you listen to music, actually listen. Not as background. Not while you clean the house or check your phone. Sit with it. Be present with it. Listen to the beat, the melody, the vocals, the spaces between the notes. Try to separate the layers of sound and tune into one at a time. This kind of conscious, intentional listening is, in essence, what we are doing when we work with clairaudience. We are learning to hear beneath the surface of the obvious, to attune to the subtle layers of what is present.

Opening up our intuition, at its core, is simply becoming more aware. More aware of the subtle energy and the subtle information that flows through and around us, and from us, all the time. That awareness, developed consistently and intentionally, is how the voice of loving awareness stops being a distant possibility and becomes something you genuinely recognize when it speaks.

Explore how clairaudience connects to your other intuitive gifts in The 6 Intuitive Senses (Clair Senses) Explained, and deepen your understanding of the energy center behind this gift in Throat Chakra Meditation: How to Speak and Listen in Alignment.

Ready to explore your own intuitive gifts more personally? Book an intuitive guidance readingand let's listen together.

-jb

What Is Clairvoyance? A Clear Guide to Psychic Vision and Inner Sight

TLDR: Clairvoyance is the intuitive sense of clear seeing — the ability to receive spiritual information through inner visual impressions. If you're a visual person, a daydreamer, an artist, or someone who instinctively pictures scenes when people tell you stories, there's a good chance clairvoyance is one of your strongest intuitive gifts.

Table of Contents

• What Is Clairvoyance?

• Are You Clairvoyant? Signs to Look For

• What Clairvoyance Actually Looks Like

• The Thin Line Between Intuition and Imagination

• Clairvoyance and the Third Eye Chakra

• A Simple Clairvoyance Exercise to Try Right Now

• What If Nothing Comes Through?

• A Practical Way to Train Your Clairvoyance Daily

What Is Clairvoyance?

I'm really excited to talk about this one.

Clairvoyance. Clear seeing. It is one of the six intuitive senses, and for those of us who are wired visually, it often turns out to be one of the most natural and accessible doorways into our own intuitive awareness.

The word itself has Latin/French roots: clair, meaning clear, and voyance, meaning vision. Clear vision. That's the whole thing. And yet for most people, the word drums up something dramatic, a dimly lit room, a crystal ball, someone in a trance seeing visions of the future. I understand why. That's the made for movies version of clairvoyance we’ve all seen.

But in my own experience, and in the work I've done with others, clairvoyance is something far quieter and more broadly available than any dramatic tv version. It is the visual language of the inner eye. And for many of us, it is already speaking to us — we just haven't learned how to translate yet.

Are You Clairvoyant? Signs to Look For

Here's a quick way to get a sense of whether clairvoyance might be a strong intuitive sense for you.

Are you a visual person? Do you like to draw, paint, make films, do photography, or work in graphic design? Are you naturally drawn to aesthetics, color, and the way things look?

Are you a daydreamer? Do your thoughts naturally drift into imagery, scenes, and visual stories? Do you find yourself lost in creative visions more often than you'd care to admit?

When someone tells you a story, do you see it? Not just hear it, but actually visualize it, where everyone was, what they were wearing, the looks on their faces, the layout of the room? If that's a yes, pay attention. That visual imagination is the same faculty through which clairvoyant information moves.

Do you have vivid, meaningful dreams? Your dreaming mind is often your most active clairvoyant channel, especially in the early stages of developing this gift.

If any of these resonate, there's a really good chance that clairvoyance is a strong intuitive sense for you. And even if none of them feel obviously true right now, that doesn't mean this gift isn't available to you. It just means it may need a little warming up.

What Clairvoyance Actually Looks Like

When we talk about clairvoyance, we are talking about the ability to receive information through our inner eye. In practice, this can show up in a number of ways:

• Seeing symbols, shapes, or colors arise during meditation or quiet moments

• Receiving mental images that emerge with a quality of aliveness that feels different from ordinary thought

• Connecting to visual memories and being able to recall them with unusual clarity and detail

• Having creative visions or daydream-like impressions that carry emotional resonance and meaning

• Seeing colors or light associated with people or places

In my own intuitive readings and meditation practice, clairvoyance shows up in all of these forms. Sometimes I will see something visually that I have never personally experienced, something that turns out to be directly relevant to what the person I'm working with is going through. Sometimes the images are more symbolic and metaphorical. And sometimes I see memories that carry with them feelings and understandings that communicate something beyond the image itself.

All the crayons in the box are on the table when it comes to how clairvoyant information arrives. Learning to work with it is really a process of learning your own visual language.

The Thin Line Between Intuition and Imagination

This is the question I hear most often when it comes to clairvoyance, and it is a genuinely honest one: how do I know the difference between what I'm imagining and what is actually intuitive information?

The truthful answer is that the line between intuition and imagination is very very thin. And learning to discern one from the other really does take time. I wish I could give you a hard and fast rule you could apply in the moment. But what I've found, both in my own practice and in working with others, is that this discernment comes through consistency. Through working with this sense over and over and watching how information plays out.

What I will say is that intuitive impressions in my experience tend to arrive with a particular quality of energy and aliveness to them. They feel less like something you constructed and more like something that simply emerges. They carry an emotional resonance that can often feel disproportionate to their simplicity. And the impressions tend not to respond to your attempts to control or redirect them the way imaginative thought does.

You can steer a daydream and make it go where you want it to, but a genuine intuitive impression feels like it has its own direction.

That said, think of clairvoyance is a muscle to be flexed. The more consistently you work with it, the more clearly you will come to understand your own intuitive language and how it differs from the voice of your imagination. Be patient with yourself in this process. This is not something you master in a week. It is something you grow into over years, and the growing is the whole point.

Clairvoyance and the Third Eye Chakra

In the chakra system, clairvoyance is intimately connected to the sixth energy center, the third eye chakra, known as Ajna in Sanskrit. Located in the center of the forehead, just between the eyebrows, this chakra governs our ability to see clearly, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is directly connected to our capacity for discernment.

That word, discernment, is a big one. Because discernment is really at the heart of what we're talking about when we talk about developing clairvoyance. The ability to distinguish intuition from imagination, insight from projection, what is real from what is simply the mind's activity. That kind of clear seeing is exactly what the third eye governs.

A well-developed third eye doesn't just open us to more visual intuitive information. It sharpens our ability to know what that information means, and what to do with it.

You can explore this connection further in my Third Eye Chakra Meditation: Awaken Your Intuition and Inner Vision post.

A Simple Clairvoyance Exercise to Try Right Now

I call this clairvoyant calisthenics. The idea is simple: we warm up the inner eye the same way a runner warms up their legs before a race. We use imagination and memory to activate the visual faculty first, and then we open to something that wants to come through on its own.

Find a quiet place, close your eyes, and take three deep energy-clearing breaths. Inhale fully, exhale completely, and settle into your body. Do this three times until you feel genuinely neutral and present.

Then draw your awareness to your third eye center, the space between your eyebrows. Breathe into it gently. Some people find it helpful to direct their gaze, with eyes still closed, softly upward toward the center of the forehead. Just connect to this center. No force. No strain.

Round one: see a color. Set the intention on your inhale, and on the exhale, release everything and allow a color to simply emerge from the depths of your inner awareness. For me, in the video where I recorded this exercise for a course, solid blue came in. Just allow whatever comes.

Round two: see a cartoon character. Same process. Inhale, set the intention. Exhale, release and receive. When I did this, Pluto the dog showed up. I love that. It's playful and it's real and it's exactly the kind of thing this process produces.

Round three: see the face of someone you love. Breathe in, hold the intention. Breathe out, let the image arise. Notice the shape of their face, the color of their eyes, their hair, their expression. Connect to the warmth that comes with that image.

Round four: visit a happy childhood memory. Set the intention and then breathe out and allow a scene to appear. Who was there? Where were you? What were you doing? When I ran through this exercise, a water park we used to go to as kids came flooding in. Clear as anything.

Round five: ask to see yourself five years from now. This is where we move from memory and imagination into something potentially more intuitive. Set a sincere intention to see yourself five years from now. What do you look like? Where are you? What are you doing? Who is with you? Breathe out, release, and simply notice what comes.

When you are ready, take a deep breath, close down your third eye gently, and open your physical eyes.

Now write down what came through. All of it, even the things that seem small or silly. This record becomes your map.

What If Nothing Comes Through?

I want to say something to put some of you at ease here, because it comes up every time I run this exercise in a workshop or a course.

If nothing came through clearly, that is okay. It is completely normal. We are not equally strong in all of our intuitive senses. Some of us are intuitively more kinesthetic and feel things in the body. Some of us hear more than we see. Some of us simply know things without any sensory impression at all.

If this felt difficult or inaccessible, it may just mean that clairvoyance is not your dominant intuitive channel, and that is neither good nor bad. I cannot pick up a Mac truck with my bare hands. That's not a character flaw. It just means I don't have that particular strength in me. And honestly, I don't personally know anyone who can do that, except maybe the Incredible Hulk.

The point is, keep working with this sense. These are muscles. The more consistently you flex them, the stronger they get. Some of what feels dormant now can absolutely come online with time, patience and practice.

A Practical Way to Train Your Clairvoyance Daily

Here is one of my favorite practical prompts for developing clairvoyance in everyday life, and it requires nothing more than watching a movie or TV show you already love.

Next time you sit down to watch something, pay conscious attention to the visual language of the piece. Look at the color palette. What colors are being used, and what are they conveying? Notice the cinematography. Where is the camera placed? Is it low, which tends to make a character feel powerful or even intimidating? Is it high, looking down, which can communicate smallness or vulnerability? Is there movement, or is the shot still?

Most filmmakers and visual artists are incredibly intentional about these choices. They are telling a story through the image itself, not just through the dialogue. When you start to consciously engage with that visual language and you ask yourself what a particular shot is trying to communicate, you are essentially learning to speak the same language your clairvoyance speaks.

It's a fun practice. It's practical and it directly translates into developing a more fluid and intuitive visual language in your own inner life.

Give it a try this week. And if you want to talk about what you're watching and what you notice, I'd genuinely love to hear about it.

This is just the beginning of what clairvoyance can open up for you. Explore how it connects to your other intuitive gifts in The 6 Intuitive Senses (Clair Senses) Explained, or take a deeper look at the energy center behind this gift in Third Eye Chakra Meditation: Awaken Your Intuition and Inner Vision.

Ready to explore your own intuitive gifts more personally? Book an intuitive guidance reading and let's discover what your soul wants you to know.

Thank you so much for being here. I'll see you in the next one.

-jb

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

How to Connect to Your Intuition: 3 Practices to Awaken Your Inner Guidance

TLDR: Connecting to your intuition is not about developing a special ability you don't already have. It is about creating the inner conditions that allow what is already present to be heard. These three practices, drawn from over two decades of personal spiritual work, are the foundation of everything I teach. They are simple. They are practical. And they work.

Table of Contents

• What Does It Mean to Connect to Your Intuition?

• Why Most People Struggle to Hear Their Intuition

• Practice One: The Soul Force Field Meditation

• Practice Two: The Body Tuning Exercise

• Practice Three: Automatic Writing

• A Note on Patience and the Long Game

What Does It Mean to Connect to Your Intuition?

There came a point in my own journey where I stopped asking if our intuition was real and started asking something more honest: how can I hear it speak more clearly?

I had been meditating twice a day for years, doing chakra work, keeping a dream journal, spending time in nature. I had developed a disciplined, sincere spiritual practice that I committed myself to every single day. Yet there were moments, especially when I found myself triggered or emotionally aroused, when it felt a bit challenging to see the forest for the trees.

What I eventually came to understand is this: intuition is not something that comes and goes. It is something we must learn to soften and attune to. Our intuition has been working with us and through us long before we noticed or develop language for it. The question has never been whether we have access to it. The question is whether we have created the inner conditions in which our intuition can finally be heard clearly.

That is what these three practices are for.

Why Most People Struggle to Hear Their Intuition

Our culture is extraordinarily good at being noisy. We are trained from a very young age to value productivity over presence, doing over being, external validation over inner knowing. We learn to outsource our authority to experts, institutions, other people's opinions, and today we often subject ourselves to a relentless scroll of information that follows us everywhere we go.

None of that is inherently bad. However, it does make it challenging to hear the subtle signals loving awareness is often sending to us. What we need are some tools for settling in, quieting the noise and finding some stillness. Stillness of both our body and mind, so that we can access something deep within that has something to say about where we are and where we’re going. These tools aren’t complicated. They don’t require any special equipment or background or belief system. They really just require your sincere commitment and your time.

Take what serves you here, and leave what does not.

Practice One: Conscious Breathing Meditation

Everything in my practice begins here.

The conscious breathing meditation is a practice of intentional stillness, a way of consciously dropping out of the noise of the day and into the quiet center of our own loving awareness by tuning into our breath. It is, in my experience, the single most effective thing we can do to begin opening up to our intuition, because it creates the conditions that intuitive guidance requires above all others: intention and space.

Think of it this way. Intuitive information is always present, the way radio signals are always present in the air around you. But if there is too much static, too much mental chatter, too much noise, you cannot receive the signal clearly. Meditation clears the static. It does not create the signal. It simply allows us to hear what was already there.

Here’s how to begin.

Find a quiet place, sit comfortably or lay down, close your eyes, and take three deep, intentional breaths— I call these energy clearing breaths. Inhale fully, drawing the breath all the way to the crown of the head. Exhale completely, releasing not just the air but the energy of the day, the mental to-do lists, the unfinished conversations, the background hum of worry, send it all down through your feet and your body, and into the ground. Do this three times until you feel genuinely present.

Then simply turn your awareness to the breath in your chest. Allow your mind to be focused on the breath as an anchor. Allow it to be still and focused. When thoughts arise, and they will, acknowledge them gently, let them pass and return your focus to your breath. You are not trying to stop thinking. You are practicing the art of not surfing every wave the mind sends you. Return, again and again, to the breath, to the heartbeat in your chest, to the present moment.

As you settle into a focused stillness, try asking one sincere question and then waiting in open, receptive silence. "What do I need to know today for my highest spiritual good?" That question has been the foundation of my practice for over fifteen years. It is the question that began to change everything.

You may not receive a dramatic answer the first time, or the tenth. That is completely fine. What you are building, through consistent practice, is a relationship. The same way any meaningful relationship deepens with time and attention and honest showing up, your relationship with your own intuition deepens through the same process.

Start with five minutes a day. Do it at the same time each day if you can. And do not underestimate what is happening in those quiet minutes, even when nothing seems to be happening at all. The practice and capacity builds brick by brick, breath by breath, one day at a time.

Practice Two: The Body Tuning Exercise

Your body is one of the most reliable intuitive instruments you have. It knows things before your mind catches up. It speaks in the language of sensation, contraction and expansion, tightness and openness, unease and ease. Learning to read that language is one of the most practical intuitive skills I have come to rely on.

I call this practice body tuning, and it is exactly what it sounds like.

Begin by sitting quietly and taking three of those energy clearing breaths. Then ask yourself a question you already know the answer to. Something simple and verifiable. Am I sitting down right now? Is my name Jeff? Did I eat breakfast this morning? As you ask each question, turn your attention to the physical response in your body. Is there a sense of expansion, a quiet opening, a gentle warmth? Or is there a sense of contraction, a subtle closing, a heaviness?

Very often expansion is your body's yes and contraction is your body's no. Play with this in your own way.

Spend some time calibrating. Try several questions you know the answers to and notice how your body responds. This is not about getting dramatic physical sensations. It is about learning to attend to the subtle signals your body is already sending you, the ones you have been receiving your whole life without necessarily knowing how to interpret them.

Once you begin to trust this calibration, you can bring the practice into the real questions of your life. You can sit with a decision and ask your body how it responds. You can check in with a relationship, a direction, a creative choice, and let your body's wisdom inform what your mind has not yet resolved.

To be clear, this is not some fail-proof way to bypass our rational intelligence. It does though add a layer of intelligence that the rational mind alone cannot access. Remember, our body has been in conversation with the energetic reality around us for our entire lives. There’s a lot of information it has processed! The body tuning exercise simply teaches us how to listen to what the body might be trying to say to us.

Practice Three: Automatic Writing

This is the practice that has anchored me the most over the years, both in its simplicity and in the depth of what comes through when I practice.

Automatic writing is the practice of entering a meditative state and then channeling what comes through without editing whatever wants to come in. We’re not writing what we think we should write. Not what makes logical sense. Just what comes in. It’s an opportunity to get our analytical mind out of the way and allow the deeper intelligence within us, what I call the soul force, the voice of loving awareness, to speak through the pen.

Here is how I practice it.

Begin with a soul force field meditation. When you feel settled and open, pick up your pen, and ask one of these questions: What do I need to know today for my highest spiritual good? What action can I take to express my highest spiritual good in the world? What is the spiritual lesson I am working on right now?

Then put your pen to the page and write. Do not think about what you are writing. Do not edit. Do not pause to re-read. Just let the words come, even if they feel strange or simple or incomplete. Write until the flow slows naturally.

When you are done, read back what came through. You may find some of what comes in surprises you. You might discover a clarity you did not know you had. Often times a perspective will come through on your situation that feels less like your habitual thinking and more like something wiser looking in from a distance.

Early on, I wasn’t sure what to make of this practice when I first began. The line between our own thoughts and something that feels genuinely inspired is not always obvious, especially at the start. But over time, I began to notice a quality to the writing that emerged from this practice that was distinct from my ordinary journaling. A settledness. A gentleness. A capacity to see my own situation with more compassion and less judgment than I could manage on my own.

Try this at least once a week for a month and pay attention to what you learn along the way.

A Note on Patience and the Long Game

I’ll leave you with this before wrapping up…

I received my first psychic reading at twelve years old. By my mid-teens I had a personal meditation practice that was exploring different ways into quiet, meditative states. I have been doing this work, in one form or another, for twenty-five years now and I am still learning every single day. I am having new challenges, new awarenesses and building on an intuitive language that I'm still learning to speak. To this day, I can be confused about the difference between what is intuition and what is just my very active imagination having a very busy day.

I tell you this not to discourage you, but to mange your expectations on this journey. This is an ongoing process of self-awareness and dialogue with parts of ourselves and our reality that are hard to pin down. This is not a sprint. It is a relationship, with yourself, with your own inner knowing, with the loving awareness that I believe is woven into the fabric of all of things. And like any relationship worth having, it deepens slowly, through patience and consistency and the willingness to keep showing up even when the returns seem small.

What I can tell you, from everything I have experienced and witnessed in this work, is that the return is never actually small. It only looks that way before you can see it clearly.

So, can you be still? Can you listen? Can you trust what you hear, just a little more than you did yesterday?

That is all this is. And it is everything.

Deepen your understanding of the intuitive senses that work through these practices in The 6 Intuitive Senses (Clair Senses) Explained, or explore the body awareness practice further in How to Use Body Awareness to Strengthen Your Intuition.

If you feel called to explore your own intuitive connection more personally, I would be honored to sit with you. Book an intuitive guidance reading here.

Onward.

-jb