How to Develop Clairvoyance
In this article I discuss what clairvoyance is exactly and also how to develop clairvoyance.
Clairvoyance means ‘clear-seeing’. Almost everyone knows what clairvoyance is – it’s the ability to see Spirit. Clairvoyants can see auras, spirits, symbols and get visual premonitions.
Some clairvoyants see things in their mind’s eye and some can see with their physical eyes. Both are possible, but it’s more common to see in the mind’s eye. Whereas a clairsentient might look at your photo and pick up on your feelings and emotions, a clairvoyant would probably see your aura, the essence of your spirit and spirit guides or angels around you. When reading a situation, a clairvoyant may see a symbol or a movie-scene which is a metaphor for the situation.
Receiving clairvoyant images is one thing, but not all clairvoyants are gifted at interpreting what they see. To interpret, you need to use your claircognizance or clairaudience as well.
I’ve written articles on the three other major psychic gifts: Clairaudience, Clairsentience, and Claircognizance. The reason why I didn’t write an article about clairvoyance sooner is because clairvoyance is really not a common psychic gift.
On the other hand, I felt really compelled to write about claircognizance and clairsentience because they are so common and the people who have these gifts often do not know that they even constitute gifts which can be developed. By contrast, in my mini-readings, I’ve only read for about ten people who have been natural clairvoyants (that’s about ten people out of 350) and most of those people knew about their clairvoyance. I guess this rare factor could be why clairvoyance is thought of as THE psychic gift to have, because it’s more exclusive somehow.
Is clairvoyance better than the other psychic gifts, like clairaudience or clairsentience? I don’t think so. All the intuitive vehicles are meant to work together. In fact, I’d say that clairvoyance is not always needed, unless you’re a medium or something. I mean, think about it. You need your clairsentience, to pick up vibes from people and to empathize. You can do with clairaudience as well, to get quick warnings from your guides or higher self, like ‘run!’ or ‘don’t take that road’. But I can’t think of any situations where clairvoyance is absolutely necessary in daily life, unless you do psychic readings in your work. I personally do not require the use of clairvoyance in my work much. I do sometimes ’see’ clients’ past lives, but when I need to know details about a situation, my guides will tend to just put the information into my brain, rather than sending me symbols or metaphors or images.
How to develop your clairvoyance
Even if you’re not a natural clairvoyant, you can still develop your clairvoyance. Flexing my clairvoyant muscles was the first thing I did when I started developing psychically. I picked up a great book called ‘Psychic Development for Beginners’ by William Hewitt and began using his exercises to open up my clairvoyance (the exercise is below)
I have to say that the below exercise opened up my clairvoyance quite spectacularly for a few days, then I got scared and shut it down again! I started to see my guides in my mind’s eye, I saw things moving in the corner of my eye, I saw coloured lights around people and I began to have really strange and vivid dreams, in colour. I wasn’t used to seeing so much, and it was overwhelming for me.
The exercise is this: visualize yourself holding seven balloons, of the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and indigo. Let the balloons go one by one, beginning with the red balloon. Watch them float up to the blue sky until they disappear before you release the next one.
If you’re not used to visualizing, then this exercise could be quite difficult for you at first. You may find it hard to concentrate or it may be difficult for you to visualize vividly or in colour. It all depends on how developed your imagination muscles are.
Any activity which uses your visual imagination is good for strengthening clairvoyance, because your imagination is the tool that Spirit uses to send you information, in the form of images. The more well-oiled your imagination cogs are, the easier it is for spirit to send you clear images. How can you tell the difference between what’s from your imagination and what’s from Spirit? When you receive an image from Spirit, you are not in control. You are not creating the image. It just appears in your mind’s eye without any active participation from you.
Another way to open up your clairvoyance: Imagine a third eye, between your eyebrows. Visualize the eyelid on your third eye opening up. All visualization does is set an intention to do something. If you visualize this regularly, you’re putting energy behind your intention to open up your third eye, the centre of your clairvoyance.
Blocks to clairvoyance
A few people who are natural clairvoyants never see any evidence of their clairvoyance. When this happens, it usually means there is a blockage or an energy leak at the third eye chakra. At the bottom of this there tends to be some trauma caused by having ’seen’ something unexpected or unpleasant.
There are two reasons why I personally do not put much effort into developing clairvoyance: one is that I don’t need it too much for my work and the second is that I don’t really want to see, because I had a scary experience in the past. When I was about seven, I was playing in my bed late at night, looked up and saw a woman standing in the corner of my room, by the door, staring at me. Just writing about it gives me the creeps. I have never been more frightened in my life than at that moment. All I can remember is pulling the covers over my head and hoping she’d go away. I remember my heart beating so fast that I thought it would burst! I think I decided at that point that seeing spirits sucked. Which is probably why I don’t like seeing spirits now. I have done some clearing work around that experience, but I remain reluctant to explore my clairvoyance further.
Lots of people have a blockage like this, due to some sort of frightening psychic experience. If this applies to you and you can locate or remember what is blocking your third eye, use my angelic healing exercise (method # 3) in the article Four ways to heal yourself – it really works.
Any general blocks to truth can also affect clairvoyance (and the overall state of your intuitive faculties). For example, if you live your life in a state of denial or falsehood, your clairvoyance will be weakened. If you want to have strong intuition, get into the habit of facing up to the truth in your life, if you’re not already. If you kid yourself about something on a regular basis, it weakens your trust in your own perceptions and intuition and this will affect your clairvoyance.
Further tips:
Place a lapis lazuli or clear quartz crystal over your third eye chakra. Or go into a crystal shop with the intention of finding the right crystal to help you to open up your third eye. You may feel really drawn to one crystal in particular which can help you.
When you’re working with your clairvoyance at first, it helps to close your eyes and use your mind’s eye rather than expecting to see things straight away with your physical eyes.
Use the affirmation ‘I am profoundly clairvoyant. It is safe for me to see’
Release and heal whatever fears/trauma you have around seeing spirits.
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Hi Anna,
Thank you so much for this article!
I found it quite helpful.
I can definitely understand being freaked out by seeing things you don’t want to see. Think Haley Joel Osment in “The Sixth Sense.” If that’s what it’s like, the other clairs sound better to me!
Hi Anna – It gave me the creeps just reading your description of the woman in the corner of the room.
These are good exercises to try. I was using a book on developing my psychic ability a few years ago. But there were many different time consuming exercises and I just got too busy doing other things. Maybe I’ll give it another try.
A few years ago, I visited a psychic with a friend. The psychic told me I should avoid the friend I’d visited with, or she would cause me serious harm. I laughed it off and didn’t really think about it again. But a few years later, that girl and others did me really serious harm. I wasn’t able to work again for years.
I tried to contact the psychic again but she’d stopped doing readings due to ill health. And I’d really like to develop my own abilities. It would be nice to avoid bad situations like the one mentioned in the future.
@ Lily – you’re welcome! I’m glad it was helpful for you.
@ Hunter – Yeah, I kind of agree. Although I have had mediumistic experiences (contact with dead people) and it’s not nearly as scary as it comes across in movies.
@ Cath – Welcome to my blog! The great thing about psychic abilities is that you can often see those things coming up. I’ve similarly been given advice in the past by other psychics, not listened to it and suffered the consequences. But then again, I’ve also been told other things which did not come true. I guess you just have to go with your own gut in the end.
hiya anna
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Hi Angelroses! Welcome to my blog and glad you liked the article.
Really good read, nice to read a good blog at last!
Hi Anna
Thanks for your reading and this article. After reading abt your experience seeing spirits – I think I will be afraid too if I see spirits. Not sure if I should develop my clairvoyance gifts after all.
Hi Lilian – don’t be put off by my experiences! I would never have said this two years ago but spirits really are nothing to be feared. I mean, we are Spirits as much as we are physical beings, and we aren’t scared of ourselves!!
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I just read your article, and well to be honest I am just glad I am not the only person who has this gift. I often feel crazy which might be why I can’t control it or strengthen it. I have dreams, what I refer to as true dreams, and when I deam them I know hey will come true there is no doubt about that in my mind. i also have very serious deja vu’s so serious that i can concentrate on them and predict what will happen at that moment. I do not see spirits, but I do see the future, and I have a very strong intuition. I think I might be Clairvoyant but i do not know for sure. i would love some more tips or reading material to help me tune in on this bizare gift. And really to make sure i am not the only one. I didnt ask for this gift but since i have it I would like to know what it is and how to use it.
Hey.. I was talking to my mother a few years ago and she commented about me talking to my dead grandfather when i was a child. She didnt give me any details but it caught my interest… Since she told me that I’ve just been paying a lot more attention to my surroundings and I notice figures and hear things that my friends and family dont. For instance, i was walking down the road with my friend one day and i heard a really quiet scream. I heard him if he heard anything, he said no. We continued walking and a little while later I heard it again. He again denied hearing it. I told him about what my mother said and we got into this really deep conversation about clairvoyance and all this other stuff. He taught me a lot that day. Near the end of the conversation he said “Those who cant do, teach.”
Thanks very much. I have been searching how to develop my psychic abilities. My freind who is a clairvoyant says i have the ability. but i dont see things.. i would like to develop so that i could help many people..
Mini, Zeke, Amber – Thanks for your comments! Mini and Amber – I’ll be publishing a post soon on useful products/books for developing each clair.
Hi
I found your site very interesting, I also work as a clairvoyant, will try your exercises to help open me up again, as for some reason yet to understand I am panicking on doing readings and it is something i have done for 20 years plus and just I thinking lacking belief in myself. I will let you know how i get on with the exercises.
x
Hi Karen, Hope that exercise helps in some way. Have you read this article of mine: http://healingandinsight.com/blogs/when-you-have-trouble-believing-in-psychic-abilities
It’s about self-doubt and psychic abilities, some of it might be applicable to you. Good luck! x
Really interesting article. Lots to think about here. The exercises are very good and they do a lot to get rid of all that self doubt that we all get at times.
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I have found this website and read about clairvoyance and i read some other articles and i have notice when i did the quiz that for clairvoyance that all of them were yes and almost all of them were yeses on all the other quizzes i was just wondering what does that mean. also i have been practice my development and i have noticed that the exercises make me very relaxed and i don’t know exactly how it makes me feel is that normal i am totally new with that
I tried the 7 colored balloon exercises, and the results were freaky. Here’s what happened to the 7 balloons:
red = remained intact till it reached outer space and got sucked by a black hole
orange = flew too quickly to the stratosphere till it popped and got burnt
yellow = a bird flew through it; its beak pierced the balloon
green = an archer must’ve shot the arrow straight into the balloon and it burst
blue = a cat pounced on it and its claws pierced it
violet = a child got hold of the balloon and kept it in the house
indigo = it flew and traveled to many places till it got caught in the middle of a tropical storm and lightning struck it
All balloons burst while floating in the air. This is so creepy…