Clairvoyance, Intuition, and What to Look for in an Energy Practitioner
What Is Accurate Clairvoyance and Intuition?
Intuition is also known as the sixth sense, inner knowing and infinity within. It’s that “spidey” sense, a creeping feeling, a strong hunch. It can appear as an inexplicable feeling of anxiety, revulsion, or enthusiasm in response to a person, place or situation.
Clairvoyance is French for “clear seeing”, and can be understood as accurate or highly-developed intuition, with an inner visual imagination component.
It is the ability to perceive energy and its manifestations through color, light, symbolic imagery, replay of past events, and more.
Accurate clairvoyance is the ability to not only see, but also interpret or understand what is being seen, without interference from one’s societal or family programming, feelings, or personal judgements. It includes the ability to ‘get out of one’s own way’ when looking at energy.
“Clairvoyant” really means the same thing as “psychic.” I prefer the word “clairvoyance” because its meaning is straightforward and down-to-earth, while “psychic” has a connotation of the supernatural, as if it a were some magical, inaccessible ability.
I think most clairvoyants would agree that anyone with the desire and dedication to do so can develop this capacity.
They tend to:
- Believe that the sixth sense is natural – anyone can work toward a healthy relationship with their own intuition.
- Encourage others to access this inner knowing to help guide them through life.
- Have worked on themselves enough to be able to get out of their own way when looking at someone else’s energy.
Yes, some people are naturally more sensitive than others.
The capacity to feel things deeply is closely linked with both intuition and creativity. Highly creative people use their imaginations a lot, and tend to also be sensitive people.
Intuition is a Combination of Sensitivity and Imagination
Developing clairvoyance takes trust in these two capacities. To develop accurate clairvoyance also takes a healthy balance between sensitivity and imagination.
In other words, a person who is very emotionally vulnerable, or with a lot of their own limiting beliefs, grudges, etc., will have difficulty looking at another person’s energy without projecting their own “stuff” on to it.
Predicting the Future
Humans have free will and impact what occurs. That’s why predictions can never be totally accurate.
“The future is written in pencil,” means there are probabilities but not certainties.
What to look for in a Clairvoyant, Medium, or Healer?
A person with a healthy balance of compassion and neutrality.
An individual may be very gifted at seeing or working with energy, or very open and even vulnerable to it. It takes enough healing, and growing, and clearing of one’s own energy, to be able to see clearly and accurately, rather than viewing others’ energy through the distorting filter of one’s own issues.
Free will, neutrality, compassion, and respect for the free will of others are the results of personal and spiritual growth.
A Psychic, Clairvoyant or Healer is Not Neutral If They:
- say that you “should” * or “should not” * believe or do something
- Offer a lot of unsolicited or very specific advice
- Get overly-involved or over-emotional when working with you (weak or wobbly boundaries)
- Encourage dependence on themselves and their psychic abilities
- Make definite predictions about the future – tell you what you want to hear
(* I was trained to say “you can benefit” when making a recommendation – that leaves decisions up to the client.)
Ideally, your clairvoyant or healer has become an expert through developing their own self-awareness, and going through a lot of their own healing. They have the neutrality to allow you your own experience, rather than getting triggered or lit up when they encounter your issues.
In my opinion, the highest goal for an energy worker is to help empower a person to their own spiritual growth, to access their own intuitive guidance, so they can live their own soul purposes, and deliver their gifts to the world.
Written by Laurie Lamson
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