What is Empathic ClairPensée?
Are you one of those people who sometimes finds yourself slipping into mind-reading mode? Where you’re aware of what someone is thinking before they even speak the words? You might be engaging in what I’ve termed Empathic ClairPensée.
What Is Empathic ClairPensée (and How Is It Different from ClairAudience)?
Empathic ClairPensée is the power or faculty of sensing another’s mental state through an energetic connection – their thoughts or their thought process. It is the third distinct empathic ability, alongside Empathic ClairSentiment (feeling another’s emotions) and Empathic ClairSensation (feeling another’s physical sensations).
Check out my 11 Soul Senses Glossary.
It’s important to distinguish this from ClairAudience. ClairAudience is dialog – you and another are conversing in your thoughts, mind to mind, in an active exchange. Empathic ClairPensée is different: the other person is not directing their thoughts to you. You are entering their thought process, reading their mental activity without them necessarily sending it. That distinction matters.
How You Can Use Empathic ClairPensée
I’ve used Empathic ClairPensée throughout my work – as a teacher tracking whether content is landing for students, as a practitioner doing Reiki when a client was chanting in her head and I heard it before she said a word, and as a parent with my kids when they weren’t telling me something but I could feel it in their mind chatter. You can also use it professionally: tune into your team, a meeting, a project. Who’s not actually on board? If someone is saying yes but thinking no, that misalignment affects everything.
This is a two-way street. You can pick up other people’s thoughts, AND your thoughts go out on the airwaves whether you say them or not. Mind those thoughts. Kindness matters on a mental level as much as it does out loud. And when you’re done using this ability, always come back to yourself – disconnect consciously and clear your mental space.
Want to Go Deeper?
I have a full episode on my YouTube channel all about Empathic ClairPensée that you can find here. Additionally, if you’re looking to really go on a journey with yourself, my book Soul Yoga: Using Your 12 Chakras as a Map to Reaching Your Highest Potential is now available - along with the Soul Yoga: Companion Journal and Soul Yoga Inspiration Cards, available in my shop.
