Developing Claircognizance
In this article I explain a bit about claircognizance and how to develop it. I decided to write a post about claircognizance because I find that so many of my clients are gifted claircognizants but few of them are even aware of their gift.
What is Claircognizance?
Claircognizance means ‘clear-knowing’. Claircognizants ‘know’ certain things without being told. For claircognizants, their higher self or spirit guides put information (in the form of thought) into their mind. This can be a whole load of information that is ‘downloaded’ into the mind. It can be smaller insights about people and situations here and there. It can be an inspired idea. All claircognizance is characterized by this strong sense of knowing that goes beyond logic and by the fact that the intuitive information comes into the mind, not into the heart or the mind’s eye.
Who is Claircognizant?
Claircognizants tend to be very mentally-oriented people. They are often analytical and are good at understanding abstract concepts and solving problems.
As children, they seem to know too much and have an answer for everything. They were probably labeled know-it-alls growing up.
I find that around 35% of the people I read for are primarily claircognizant. Claircognizance is very common but not as well known as clairvoyance or clairaudience. Few people have heard of claircognizance. Most people think of visions and clairvoyance when they hear the word psychic. Many expect their intuition to be a voice from heaven or an amazing premonition. Some Psychics can see dead people and hear voices, but many gifted psychics receive information through less ‘dramatic’ channels like claircognizance. However, if you’re expecting visions and fireworks and voices, you may miss your claircognizance.
Claircognizance is no less powerful for being subtle. Anyone who had channelled information in written form (this is called Automatic writing) is utilizing their claircognizance.
Some Examples of Claircognizance:
You have a sense of inner knowing that it would not be a good idea to accept the job you’ve just been offered, despite the fact that it seems perfect.
You have a certainty that someone is lying about something, despite evidence to the contrary.
You receive information about future outcomes.
You get a truly inspired idea
If Claircognizance comes in the form of thought, how can you tell the difference between claircognizance and your own thoughts?
Here is a key difference between thoughts and claircognizant input: When you’re thinking, your conscious mind is in control. When you receive claircognizant information, your conscious mind is only observing the information that is coming in and sometimes trying to interpret it - it is not generating the information. The claircognizant information just comes from nowhere – it often has nothing to do with what you were thinking about.
Another difference – Thoughts are usually ego-based and want to protect you from failure, embarrassment or disappointment. Claircognizance transcends those fears and comes from a place of wisdom. Claircognizance may only make sense in hindsight. Your thoughts won’t require you to take a leap of faith, whereas claircognizance might.
How to develop your Claircognizance
- Automatic writing is suitable for receiving claircognizant information, as it often comes through in big chunks. Open a word document or get a piece of paper and a pen and ask your Higher Self a question. Write down whatever comes into your mind in response - it doesn’t matter if it sounds like a load of nonsense at first, no-one will read it but you. Make sure the conscious mind is only a spectator in this exercise – don’t allow your mind to think about the information you’re getting. The first time I did this, I got three pages of nonsense from my subconscious mind. When I persisted with it, I began to channel some insights which surprised me in their clarity and wisdom. Now whenever I want to tune in to my guides or Higher Self, I open a word document and start typing and my claircognizance begins to take over.
- Just setting the intention for your claircognizance to develop will start the process! Write your intention down as this will make it more powerful.
- Make time for intuitive guidance. If you don’t already meditate, start a meditation practice, as just five minutes a day will help you to tune in more to your intuition. Meditation helps to quieten your mind and Divine guidance can come through a quiet mind more easily than a distracted one. Claircognizant information often comes through to me when I’m meditating. When I’m meditating, I imagine my crown chakra (the chakra on the top of my head) opening up and I often receive spontaneous intuitive insights upon doing that. Some people like to visualize a funnel being placed upon the crown chakra, to funnel the intuitive guidance from the Divine Intelligence. When you’re in a relaxed state and ready to receive intuitive guidance, if none is forthcoming, start the process by asking a question of your Higher Self and see what comes into your mind.
- Often your claircognizance is already operating and waiting to be recognized as guidance. Become more aware of your thoughts. In particular be very aware of what thoughts you are having when you meet someone new or when you’re being told about a situation that you know little about. See what you glean about that person/situation between the lines and if you can, get it validated.
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Hi Akemi,
Yep – claircognziance is the hardest gift to spot because we often put it down to something else!!
Ahh, I’ve been a claircognizant all my life, and never thought of psychic stuffs because I never saw angels or auras. . . I just thought I must be really fussy and picky because I could tell, like when I meet someone for the first time, I could tell if he or she liked me, etc. (Not if I liked them, but if they liked me regardless of what they were saying) I also had strong preference that I could never explain why one choice is better than the other.
I like this series a lot. I guess I have some clairaudience, too, and working on strengthening it.
Hi Ariff,
I think that lots of writers are claircognizant, just as lots of musicians are clairaudient…I certainly use my claircognizance in my writing. I sometimes insert details or analogies which sound weird or irrelevant at first but then they tend to nicely link into something else further along – it seems like chance or luck, but it’s really not.
Hmm…no wonder whenever I play chess or anything that requires me to choose, if I’m too lazy to think I’ll just choose randomly but then it always seems right in the end. Explains why I’m very good with multiple question exams too, even though I rarely study
Quick question though, does that mean most writers are utilizing their claircognizant abilites too? Because usually when we start out writing something, we have no idea where we’re going or why we inserted that detail, but once we’re done writing, we go, “Aah, so that’s why they were all in that god forsaken tavern in a deserted part of town and wearing classic clothes. They’re all dead!”
Thanks for your mini reading to me.
You know what ? Five years ago my friend and I developed a website just like yours to help people find their right way in this world and to heal people from a distance. But, I just did it as a side job although there always were people asked us to help them. We didn’t really take good attention to it.
But this month, my friend and I felt that we must be serious in managing the website, so now we start a new website seriously.
And then, I found your website. You told me that my strongest intuitive gift is claircognizance. It really convinced me to continue seriously what I have started before.
Thanks again Anna.
Hi,
I’m really happy to read you and finally discovered that it’s OK the things that I can feel. Since the begining I knew things that gonna happen, dangers, sickness of persons around me, but differently of you I do not considere this as a gift, I had wished those thoughts stop for ever ….” I know things that I can’t say and seeing thing that I can’t describe” to others and when events happens around me and I was unable to aware a person about what I knew and this person is important to me….I feel bad like someone that see things happens and I have do nothing to aware this persons…..because nothing can be done, once the draw finished.
those “message” come to me even if I avoid it or do not requested it….
I close my “eyes” to avoid seeing….
Thanks
Ed
I have just recently discovered Claircognizance. I never knew why I had these incredibly strong gut feelings. To be honest I never really gave much thought to this ability. Knowing has always been very helpful to me and sometimes even my loved ones. If I feel strongly about something I let others know. I would like to thank you for posting this article. I will definitely work on developing this gift.
Thank you Anna for sharing all this! It’s very helpful.
And I appreciate the mini reading!!!
Alfi – I’m glad the mini-reading helped in some way!
Eduardo – Sounds like you’ve got a real gift. Maybe you can find someone to teach you to turn it on and off though. I wouldn’t like to have my psychic awareness switched on all the time.
Hannah – thanks for posting, glad the article was of use to you.
Yang – you’re welcome!
Hi,
Sometimes, I say something and suddenly it happens. For example, a while ago, I told my wife out of the blue “I never had a kidney stone” and passed kidney stones within minutes. I could say “Be careful, deers can cross the road” and they do within minutes or they are on my lot when I get home without minutes.
When this happens I say things for no reason, completely out of any context.
What could I do to develop this more and what would you think it is?
Thanks
Hi Phil,
Sounds like claircognizance if things are just randomly popping into your head…it sounds as if it’s a gift you already have well developed.
Hi my names Jimmy I’m 17 years young and have been going threw some weird situations. First of all mostly all the time I’ll be watching tv and for some reason I’ll look at the clock and it will be 9:11 its kinda creepy because this happens a lot to me and others times I’ll ask myself a question then within 2-3 minutes I’ll get the answer or my mom or someone will star having a conversation about it. Or I’ll be sitting in class and the other students will be having a conversation then I’ll just say some random thing in my mind and then they’ll say it I don’t now what I have or if I’m even any type of Claire~
my myspace is http://www.myspace.com/jimmymexican
Thanks-Jimmy
Anna,
Thank you so much for this awesome information. One of my abilities, although mot my strongest, is claircognizance. Often it comes through as I am writing and other times it comes through as things that I say like “be careful your gonna fall” to my son and two second later he falls or I just suddenly know that there is going to be a trooper ahead and I slow down and two seconds later I pass one trying to catch speeders. I use my clairsentience a lot…and I mean a lot lol…I can communicate with my guides almost completely using my clairsentience but combine it with claircognizance and of course the two working together is wonderful. So I am trying to more fully develop my claircognizance. Your article has really helped give me insight on how to do that. Thanks!
Sherry
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I never had i name for what was happening before. I just knew things names, dates, friends past history. My family has alwasys said they didn’t know where i came from because I was very mature and smart very young. Thank you!
Hi Elizabeth,
Yep – sounds like a combination of claircognizance and clairsentience that you’ve got going on!
Hello, I think I have developed Claircognizance and am pretty sure I have had it for years. When I was younger and attended school, I was talking to all my school friends and saying how much I would love some cherries…That afternoon, when I went home from school, sitting on the counter in the kitchen was a large box full of cherries my father got from work for free. This is one of many things that had happened. I always get very strong feelings when it comes to people. I can tell exactly what they are like. I don’t think I can see auras, but this could be part of it, I’m unsure. Can anyone give me some insight on this and what you might think it is? I really want to practice it and developed this ability I think I have.
hi, i’m only twelve but i just am really scared. i have no idea wats happening to me and i’m not even sure which type of clair i might have if i have one at all. one time, not to long ago, i wanted to know wat grade i would have in math, then i just closed my eyes and pictured my progress report in my mind and i saw the number 73 next to math. that day when we got our progress reports, i had a 73 in math. also my friend failed a test and was not gonna pass the sixth grade, so i closed my eyes and thought really hard about it. i pictured her telling me she was happy cause she passed. then a week later she told me that she was going to seventh grade. sometimes, i hear things, like people calling my name when nobody is. i just might hear it randomly like in the middle of test, it just sounds like someone is whispering in my name in my ear. and this one time i was watching this ghost hunter type show and they were on this ship walking down to the boiler room about to talk to a guy ghost. then in my head i just said henry… and the name of the ghost turned out to be henry. and sometimes i have dreams that end up coming true. and i also get dejavu all the time. i’m just relly scared, and i just want to know whats going on with me… maybe if i knew i wouldn’t be so afraid.
also, i can like read ppl soemtimes. like wht they’re like and especially if they are lieing to me. and sometimes ( i know this sounds silly) but i’ll act something out to myself, and i might not happen right away but, it ends up happening. or i’ll lie about something happening to me (yes i know it’s wrong.) and it’ll end up coming true. or i’ll just say something i dont even know like it’s a fact, and with confidence and it ends up happening…. i just want to know wats going on
i only just discovered that i had this, i just thought i knew what people intentions were for no reason, i have always been able to tell what people want and what they are after, and how they feel about me.
im only 19 so i must sound really silly being so young.
im gonna try and channel this and learn how to use it, if you could help me that would be really great.
Hi athenis, sounds like your clairvoyance is developing nicely! If you don’t want it, you can intend for it to go away but it’s quite a cool gift to have in my opinion!
Hi Tara, thanks for your comment, good luck with it!
Hey! I’m still not completely convinced that i have claircognizance, i was read a while back, and found out i am a soul reader, but as i also have frequent ‘knowing’ feelings often described as claircognizance i think it may be this instead. Labels frustrate me lmfao. Your examples of it is by far the most clear ive read so far xP thanks!
Hi Tara, glad this article was helpful for you!
Hi,
this article comes to me as a blessing! I have been claircognizant most of my life and believe me it hasnt been easy for me,to the point of being labeled as whimsical.
I would certainly like to develop these abilites further so that i can with certainity trust what i “feel” or “say”.
thanks to you Anna for the great information…keep up the good work.
Sorry ot bump in again…would you have any ideas to develop this ability in children? I feel my 3 year old is clairgognant..she out of the blue desires something and she invariably gets it by “chance of luck” that day.
thanks once again for any info on this.
regards
Hi, this is absolutely amazing. I have always thought I was nuts or the rest of the world is…lol. I can and have always been able to read people’s intentions and I can absorb feelings from others, I can block it most of the time unless I choose not to or the feeling is very strong…but when I feel it coming on I can turn it off. I also receive tons of information and have no source or reason to know it. The information can be in regards to politics, government, friends, family of friends…just pretty much anywhere, I can easily predict events and occurences from the information I receive. I rarely am surprised since I seem to be notified before things happen, though I was surprised of michael Jackson’s death….and that catches me off guard when I don’t expect something.
Another thing is I converse with “friends” who are no longer living. I can meditate and visit them. I also see shadows, distortions in my sight (like areas being rippled as through water), I have been visited many times by spirits, touched by them and have heard music, speech and other noises as actual noise, not mental hearing. I am very sensitive to energy, good or bad.
Just yesterday, my father passed away. I felt a severe sense of urgency in my out of town siblings coming…I knew they’d be too late and sadly they were. My brother and I were with him, and before he left, the room was full of energies, as soon as he left….he was standing behind my brother, I smiled at him…and the room calmed….as soon as that happened I felt as though all the air in me was sucked out of me. I made a noise that even concerned my bro since he ran over to me…but after that…I was physically ok…I am missing my dad terribly as is to be expected.
I wanted to come on line to make sense of what I saw and felt yesterday…I’m sure my father was welcomed by loved ones who have passed and that was the “commotion” I felt before he left.
Before today I had no idea that there were even names for the things I experience. I always felt I was a bit more sensitive then most people, but I didn’t realize that others are the same…I am very happy and very much intrigued.
Hi Sups, I’m happy that this article was useful for you. As for kids, I’d say it’s best to nurture and support their abilities rather than actively develop them. Just acceptance of their sixth sense is huge, as many kids who are perceptive shut that down when they feel disapproval or fear from their parents. That’s what happened to me when I was little.
Hi Jenn, sounds like you’ve got it ‘going on’ psychically! That’s awesome.
I wish you peace after your father’s passing. I am in the middle of writing a series on life after death than you might find interesting: http://healingandinsight.com/blogs/is-there-life-after-death
Hi,
Not sure what to think. I have dreams at times and a few weeks later it happens. I use to have them with disasters and after 9/11 I did not want to see anything anymore so it kind of stopped. I had a dream of when I will get pregnant which is four and two not sure what it means but I am not pregnant yet. Also for about 20 years I guess I always dream of this mansion that is mine. I dont have money to have something like this but in this dream it is mine but I never know how i got the money. Today I went to pick something up by my apt and I saw this house and the first thing that came to my head was this is my house. It is similar to my dream. I even felt anxious and also I hit the breaks. I always dreamed of a nice house and I look and wish but this was different. I even drove around it and took pictures with my cell. Did not take too many because they had a security system and I did not want to get arrested. I feel confused and not sure what is going on. Like one month ago I had a dream with this actor Mexican one and I found him on myspace and sent him a note. I still did not get a response but I felt I need to write to him and be his friend. I know he will respond eventually but I get weird stuff like this and not sure what it means. When I tell people like friends they say I am crazy. I dont get this a lot but the house dream I had three dreams in two months. I dont even make enought money to pay for that unless when I decide to write a book I get a lot of money or I win the lottery. I just feel confused and I wish I knew what this meant or how to make it easier for me to understand what it means. I am also catholic so it is even weirder. THanks.
This may sound a bit strange but I came across this article while looking for a good link to assist another who was clearly claircognizant. It was a question asked in Yahoo Answers and it was slightly disturbing to see some of the answerers telling the poor girl that what she was experiencing was simply an over active imagination. And when I supplied a brief explanation of what claircognizance actually was, I was actually given two thumbs down by two people! My own experience has been that once I began developing my clairvoyance, my other gifts like claircognizance also became more prominent and a method of communication with Spirit that I could rely on, for the most part.
Your article was exactly what was needed apparently and I was given the Top Answer for my reply, largely because of your article here. This note is to inform you that you have assisted another soul on their journey of discovery. Love it when that happens! Blessings, Nick
wow, I have claircognizance and apparently a lot of other things too that i havent even realized, this is so cool!
Hi Nick, That’s great. I’m glad they liked this article – thanks for sharing it!
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Hey, I came across this article while researching claircognizance, and if you don’t mind, I’d like to ask for your opinion.
Sometimes, I get these really strong feelings. It’s not anything specific at all, it’s just kind of there. But it’s almost always coming from a person, and when I get it, all it ever says is that that person will be important to me somehow. It tells me they’ll be significant, and they always are at some point, even if it takes years for it to happen.
Lately, though, I’ve gotten it from a few objects that have a direct relation with a person. For example, I was to be assigned a partner in a class, and I thought immediately of one person. When the teacher had me draw a name for a partner, my eyes when straight to one slip of paper like a magnet and stayed there until I took it. When I looked at it, it had that same person’s name on it.
I’m not really sure if I have claircognizance or not, but it’s come the closest to really describing what those feelings are. What do you think?
Hi thankyou for this explanation i needed for some of the things happening to me,i found ur site because i was curious as i had dreamt about two people and the next day they died even though i didnt know them well,i was wondering if and why i would be contacted? also have always been very sensitive to good and bad energy and insights into people and situations like an old wise man even though im young lol,i also gain a lot of insight through my dreams and many more weird and wonderful things,do u think i should go to see a spirutualist for help and guidance?
liked the article. didn’t know there was something called claircognizance. things are making a little more sense now. i definitely want to become more in tune with my spiritual guide.
Hi,
Brilliant info thankyou
xx