What is Shared Sensory Experience?
Today I want to talk to you about the sacred power of energetic union. If you’re an empath, you’re going to want to read this one.
What Is Shared Sensory Experience (and How Is It Different from the Other Empathic Abilities)?
Shared Sensory Experience is the power or faculty to share all of the sensory experiences another is having through an empathic and energetic connection. This is not remote viewing, where you observe someone from the outside. This is a unitive link – you join with their soul essence to experience what they’re experiencing as them: what they see, hear, feel, smell, taste, think, and know, in real time.
Check out my 11 Soul Senses Glossary.
In previous blogs and episodes, I broke down the three distinct empathic abilities: Empathic ClairSentiment (feeling their emotions), Empathic ClairSensation (feeling their physical sensations), and Empathic ClairPensée (reading their thoughts). Shared Sensory Experience is the deepest form of empathic connection – all of those happening at once as a unitive link. It is a sacred experience, and it requires respect, compassion, and permission.
How You Can Use Shared Sensory Experience
I’ve used Shared Sensory Experience throughout my life. Once, when one of my kids went missing in town, my father said, “Why don’t you look through his eyes?” With that intention, I slipped right into my son’s soul essence and saw through his eyes, heard through his ears – he was playing a video game on the second floor of the game room across town. I knew immediately. That’s how this works.
As a practitioner, I used it in mediumship – sometimes allowing a loved one who had passed to animate through me briefly so they could show their signature movements or mannerisms as evidence. I’ve also used it in bodywork and with animals when ClairAudience couldn’t get the information and I needed to be in their body to feel it directly. Regardless of how you use it, the rule is always the same: ask permission on a soul level, engage consciously, AND disconnect consciously when you’re done. Clear your field completely. Do not drag their experience around as your own.
Want to Go Deeper?
I have a full episode on my YouTube channel all about Shared Sensory Experience 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.
