Developing Clairaudience
Clairaudience means ‘clear-hearing’. It is the ability to ‘hear’ Spirit.
Clairaudience is that little voice inside you that issues warnings or gives guidance. It tends to speak to you when you are in danger or when you have an important decision to make that will impact on your life. If clairaudience is your primary clair, your higher self and guides will use mostly clairaudient means to communicate with you, including sounds, words and songs you’re familiar with. These can be internal or they can be outside of you. You may also hear voices in your dreams or upon waking.
Who is Clairaudient?
Clairaudients tend to hear more than most people. People who are bothered by loud noises are naturally predisposed towards clairaudience because of their heightened sensitivity.
Clairaudients often hear ringing in their ears. Some clairaudients interpret this as a sign to pay attention and consciously tune in to their intuition.
Musicians are often clairaudient. There are many accounts of composers who have heard or dreamt of a melody playing internally before they put it down on paper.
The first step to developing your clairaudience is to really fine-tune your sense of hearing. Here’s an exercise to help you do this:
Unpicking the Orchestra
Listen carefully to all the sounds you hear around you while you’re lying in bed at night – the sounds of cars passing, the sounds of birds or animals, of a plane, of people talking, the sound of music. We normally tune out these noises so that we can concentrate or sleep. But when you tune out noise, you dull your perception and you become less sensitive to your inner voice.
When you begin to listen consciously to the noise that you normally tune out, you will hear an ‘orchestra’ of sounds. Your objective with this exercise is to notice each and every one of these sounds that make up this ‘orchestra’. Take it apart. Count how many sounds you can hear and make a note of what they are. Some may be really subtle and barely noticeable. The goal here is really to heighten your auditory perception.
Do this every night for a week before you go to sleep and you will be amazed at how much you were not hearing before. This will begin to activate your clairaudience.
Clairaudient Listening
You can also actively listen for clairaudient guidance.
Visualize turning on a radio and tuning into the ‘channel’ of your intuition or your spirit guides. Imagine them sitting around a table, ready to communicate with you. Then, start asking questions.
See if you can ‘hear’ or perceive any words – it could be a clear voice that is easy to discern or you may have to really focus and go inside yourself to hear it clearly. If you don’t hear anything at all, don’t give up on your first attempt. For most people it takes practice and persistence to get into the habit of listening to your intuition.
Further Tips
Set the intention to utilize your clairaudience. Write it down somewhere as this reinforces it.
Don’t block your clairaudience through fear of hearing something negative/frightening. If you’re afraid of hearing spirit for fear of being spooked, intend only to hear your spirit guides and Higher Self, who have your best intentions at heart and who would never knowingly scare you. Ask your ‘Asher’ guide (the spirit guide who is your energetic ‘bouncer’) to keep out negative energies. Remember that if you keep your vibration high and deal mostly in positive energies, you won’t attract negative energies anyway.
Meditate. Intuitive guidance often comes through the gaps between our thoughts. Meditation quietens the mind and creates more gaps in our thoughts so our intuitive guidance can more easily be heard during meditation.
An affirmation to develop clairaudience: ‘It is safe to hear my inner voice.’
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Thank you very much for explaining clairaudience in a very approachable light, Anna. I especially like how you articulated why meditation is so important, how it creates a quiet space. I’d never thought of it as gaps before, but that’s a useful construct.
Tonight I’ll begin to unpick the orchestra.
Thanks for helping me hear my inner voice.
Hello byteful traveller!
You’re very welcome! Good luck!
Hi Anna,
I’ve had this experience before – About 18 years ago someone broke into my trailer and I woke to someone with his hand over mouth telling me to “be quiet”. As I was trying to process my situation, I heard a voice clear and calm but certain shouted “SCREAM”. It seemed so confident so I screamed and the guy ran off. To make a rather long story short, everything turned out fine – well as good as possible for the situation.
And then last summer, I was in a nearby small town — sitting in my car, radio off, the town quiet, my car window down, and I heard a voice. It sounded like it was right outside the car driver’s side door. It said “I’m addicted to placebos”. I got out of the car and looked around – No body!! That was tooo weird. Thanks Anna
Hi Kay!
Wow. What an amazing experience. Sounds like it could have been your guardian angel. I don’t know if I would have the guts to scream if someone broke into my house…maybe if a confident voice was telling me to!
The advice on letting go of fear so the clear voice can come through is most helpful for me. I *am* very afraid of getting spooked–realizing the complexity of everything going on in the universe makes me feel like a child again, and part of that really frightens me. I know I can get past it, however. I am stronger than I know.
Hi Sara!
I was so afraid as well when I was developing psychically. I saw a ghost as a child and it really frightened me. During childhood I lived in fear of ghosts and entities.
I had to move past those old fears to develop psychic awareness. When I opened up, I waited for the ghosts and voices to show up…and they never did!
My clairaudience is now well developed, and it’s not scary at all! It’s just a voice inside my own head, that sounds like mine, but obviously isn’t! It butts in to guide me now and again.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a clairaudient experience that has scared me.
Anna
Hi Anna
Thanks for the mini-reading you did that showed that my strongest clair was clairaudience. I do tend to receive intuitive information this way, so the reading was a good confirmation of that. It’s something that has always fascinated me though, as I’ve usually considered myself to be a very visual person (at least when it comes to physical senses) – I kind of expected my intuition to follow suit and be primarily visual, but yet even though I can see in my mind’s eye, my inner voice has always been the main vehicle of communication!
Very interesting that clairaudient people are bothered by loud noises… yup, very true for me!
Hi Mags,
You’re welcome! Clairvoyance could be your secondary clair?
My mini reading I got today from Anna shows my strongest intuitive gift as being clairaudience. Now that I ponder the idea and read this article, this is definitely true. Guess I had just not thought of it before!
I am a musician and my best songwriting experiences I would describe as songs “downloading into my head”. The last song I wrote I was walking down the street, furiously scribbling lyrics and reminders for the melody and syncopation so I wouldn’t forget the song before I got home. I “received” the song in about 15 minutes flat while I was out shopping.
I also wake up hearing words sometimes, and have taken to writing them down. No patterns have emerged yet. My “inner voice” is also alive and well, and recently I have taken to telling certain people what it is telling me. I am in the process of considering a career change, and my inner voice has a definite idea of what I should be doing! I just want to research it first
Oddly enough, hearing is not my best physical sense. I was partially deaf for a time as a child, and now my hearing is in the normal range but I don’t feel I hear as well as other people do. I can definitely relate to not liking loud noises. For example, being in bars and restaurants with bad accoustics where it sounds like everyone is talking at once is a very unpleasant experience for me.
I also dislike music being played continuously at home, and wearing any kind of headphones (both odd preferences for a musician). I had always chalked this up to my hearing issues, but it is good to be introduced to the idea that there might be a positive reason for my preferences!
Thank you!
Whew! I’m so glad I came across your website, Anna!
I’ve always kind of thought I was a little crazy…
For years now, I’ve experienced a solid, consistent ringing in one or both my ears that occurs spontaneously for no reason. Sometimes, it’s so loud it actually blocks out other ambient noise. I’ve always attributed it to that old saying that if you’re ears are ringing, it means someone is talking/thinking about you. (I’ve also heard that ringing on just one side, left or right, denotes a positive or negative thought or conversation about you.)
Well, while this intense bell-like ringing does happen during the day, the most interesting experiences usually happen at night. I still feel crazy for writing this, but sometimes before I go to sleep and it’s intensely quiet around me, I CAN HEAR MY FRIENDS TALK ABOUT ME! Even if they’re miles away! It seems that if I’m the subject of discussion, I can actually tune into what people are saying! I can hear their conversations as clear as day…it’s usually with people whom I have any strong connection with…
lovers, friends, enemies.
Now, it’s not perfect. I can’t hear hour-long discussions word-for-word, but I can hear partial and sometimes full sentences.
The ringing or bell-like tone starts quietly and gets louder and sharper,
and if I concentrate, I can hear the conversations gradually get louder…and again, it’s usually people I know or have some sort of intense connection with.
I’ve only told one or two people about this…and I cringe at the thought
of how I must’ve sounded! Hearing bells and voices? “She must be crazy!”
In my defense, I don’t hear just any voices…they are always people I know. Always.
But it’s very real and it’s been going on for a long time.
I’m just glad that there’s a name for this phenomenon and that I’m not crazy. Hmmm…I took a hearing test years ago for the military and the tester was amazed at my hearing ability…I heard the most difficult sounds
he tested me with.
Nice to know my hearing is actually improving with age!
Thanks so much!
Karen – thank you for sharing your experiences with this!
Andi – Wow, that is really cool! Thank you for posting. It’s interesting that your friends would never know whether you knew what they were saying or not – all the more reason to only ever say good things about you, though
Hi Anna. Thank you for this information. Knowing about the experience of hearing psychically made me realize how strong I already am in it.
Whenever I meditate I try to do all sorts of visualization techniques. In the process of opening myself up I hear myself correcting certain visualizations – when I for one don’t know the correct way to visualize stuff. So I assumed it comes from a different source other than myself. In addition, I also hear myself being guided in meditation when in fact I don’t know anything about meditation except for emptying your mind from thoughts.
So here are the simple instances I think I can hear psychically.
Again, thanks for this information regarding clairaudience!
Happy Holidays.
Hi, so nice finding this website and reading your article and everyones comments. I have been having quite a few experiences recently including a friend’s recently departed father who has came to me twice with messages to pass onto his son.
I must admit I think I am primarily clairaudient, have been talking to my spirit guides and angels wuite regularly, but I did get one of my first visions last night from my friend’s father which all truned out to be spot on when I told my firend about it. I am feeling quite lonely at teh minute with all that has been going on and a bit ov erwhelmed with not too many people to talk to about it so thought I would come online and find people with similar experiences.
ps. To anyone out there experimenting do take care and ask that only good guides and angels come through – have had some negative experiences recently that spooked me and made me pull back for quite a bit until I felt safe again.
Felisa
Thank you for the mini-reading! I’m not surprised clairaudience was number one for me– I’m unable to tune out a lot of background noise and instead tune right into it. But how do you balance developing clairaudience by noticing more sounds around you, with keeping your sanity? I have to concentrate on work and be able to get to sleep sometime!
Hi Raffy, thank you for sharing your experiences with us!
Felisa – Interesting! I will write an article at some point about self-protection when exploring the spirit world, so stay tuned for that.
Hi Jesann, when you ‘tune in’ to your clairaudience, make sure you tune out again afterwards. You can tune out your clairaudience just by intending it. You can visualize your clairaudience going off like a light or something if you want but it’s the intention that matters.
Hi I had a mini reading from you and you said my main “clair” is clairsentience. Although I think my clairaudience seems to be my main spiritual activity right now. I have a question though, when I meditate and ask for the white light and my spirit guides to be like spirit bouncers to make sure only the most positive spirits come through. Early this morning when I woke up I got a female saying hello and then when she responded (can’t remember exactly what she said) but she seemed to be kind of a wise acre not bad or mean but just a smart mouth. How does this type come thru when I ask for only the highest and best? Any input would be great. Thanks.
Hi Pam,
She may be one of your guides. Guides can be a bit like that sometimes – verbal and mouthy – they all have their own characters.
But your clairsentience does come in handy to discern guides from other spirits. How did she feel to you? Does she feel positive to you or does she inspire some sort of subtle negative feeling in you or does she feel a bit ‘off’? If she feels positive, then she may be one of your guides or teachers. If she feels a bit off to you, then probably not.
Hello,
Ive been told by some psychics im clairaudient and is developing clairvoyance, but i dont feel it to be honest. I constantly want a connection with my spirit guides, but no psychic has been able to help me recognise who my main guide is, they keep taalking about different ones every time and its really confusing me as i want to build a relationship with my main one that has been with me since birth.
I am said to be naturally clairaudient but im very confused because i honestly dont feel it, half the time, i know myself its my imagination because i can modify it in my head and i know its my head generating the thoughts, i am glad to come across this article but i feel like some validation on my clairaudient gift would help me build confidence.
I feel like im stuck
Hi, Anna my name is Mario Hendley I feel that my stogest gift is clairvoyance but I do have clairaudience experiences but its always real late at night like 2am or 3am after I do yoga and go to bed why is it that spirits wants to communicate w/ me at night than the day?lol weird. I want to further develope my clairaudience any suggestions besides what you have posted above?
3 years ago…..I heard an *extremely* loud yell of my name in my ear. It broke my eardrum. (in early am…before I woke)….I yelled back….”WHAT”???
2 years ago….The same thing….”WHAT”??
This morning….same thing, except coming from next room & not as loud…Once again I yelled “WHAT”?
Is this the devil??
My 10 year old daughter is hearing the voice of a little girl..This all started August 11th..The little girl says Help me to my daughter..My daughter is terrified and she runs to me…this little girls voice has been waking my daughter up at night now as well..then today she told me that now she is hearing alot of whispering all at once…not sure how to help my daughter she is scared…
Gina – I personally don’t believe in the devil. It’s more likely to be your higher self, spirit guides, a deceased relative, an earthbound spirit in your home, etc. But you say it broke your eardrum – that sounds painful and something that your spirit guides wouldn’t do to you!
Sara – have you moved to a new home recently? Your daughter could be picking up on the presence of an earthbound spirit in your home.
Also, have you asked your daughter if she has any ideas about who this spirit might be?
You can tell your daughter to ask the spirit out loud to leave her alone. That can actually work if she really means it and says it without enough conviction/authority.
I had a clairaudient experience last year in that my guide spoke to me just before falling asleep in my left ear. It sounded like she was talking through a tin can. It didn’t last long but I did ask her if this was something that I would develop better and she said yes. I have been patiently trying to develop it since and I have had a couple of instances where just before falling asleep I hear a loud shrill sound that wakes me completely. I am not fearful of it but are wondering what this ear piercing shrill is. Is this the first step? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Blessings
Rene’
Thanks for the article, ever since I was little I would hear a ringing sound in my ears while I would play alone with my Barbie dolls in my bedroom. When I was 10 years old I also saw a ghost in my bedroom. Later in my early twenties I would hear a vibrational sound, as time went by it became clearer and clearer, messages started to come out, I could then form sentences. All of this was very scary at first. But as time went by I could control it better. I found the frequencies to be stronger when I was near water. I could hear what people thought about me! When I stayed home for a long time it would almost go completely away. Or when I’m up very early or late at night. It’s when I go into public and came back, like my aura picked up on things. The funny thing is that I can not interpret other languages only English. I can also sometimes feel negative energy (the evil eye) if someone looks at me or does not like me. But I can also sense good intuitive energies too very easily. I also have extremely good fashion taste!