Your 11 Soul Senses
We are body and soul. If you only live through your physical senses you are missing half your life.
-Constance Messmer
Most people navigate the world through their five physical senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. But according to Constance Messmer, there are 11 Soul Senses that open the door to deeper awareness, spiritual connection, and higher-conscious living.
These Soul Senses are natural abilities of every human. Developing yours allows you to move beyond limitation, connect with your Higher Self, and live with clarity, joy, and purpose.
Constance Messmer offers free teachings on YouTube designed to help raise consciousness and empower people everywhere to achieve their fullest human potential.
What are the 11 Soul Senses?
ClairSentiment
Emotional soul sensing. The power or faculty of sensing, as an emotional reaction, (joy, sadness, peace) your soul’s perception of a place, experience, situation, information, interaction, or presence.
ClairOlfaction
Soul-level smelling. Experiencing scents (flowers, smoke, perfume) with no physical source, often linked to spirits, places, or memories.
ClairGustance
Soul-level tasting. Tastes appear spontaneously, offering insights about people, places, or events.
ClairAudience
Soul hearing. Words, sounds, or voices heard within or outside the mind, delivering guidance and/or connection to spirit.
ClairVoyance
Soul seeing. Inner visions, dreams, or overlays on physical reality of energy, beings, objects, and / or symbols that carry meaning and insight.
Shared Sensory Experience
Energetically linking (intentionally or spontaneously) with another to directly experience their senses— physical, emotional, mental, energetic, spiritual.
Empathic ClairSensation
Feeling someone else’s physical sensations (pain, warmth, aches) as if they were your own.
Empathic ClairSentiment
Feeling another’s emotions (anger, joy, sadness) so strongly that you may even confuse them as your own.
Empathic ClairPensée
Empathic mind-reading. Sensing another’s thoughts or mental state by making an energetic connection.
ClairSensation
Physical soul sensing. The power or faculty of sensing as a physical reaction (goosebumps, chills, gut flips) your soul’s perception of a place, experience, situation, information, interaction, or presence.
ClairCognizance
Soul knowing. Clear, instant knowing that bypasses logic, inference, sensory input, or reasoning. You just know—without knowing how.
Why the Soul Senses matter
Living only through the physical senses limits your experience of reality. The Soul Senses help you:
Connect with your higher consciousness.
Strengthen relationships through empathic awareness.
Receive guidance from spirit and your higher self.
Experience healing and alignment.
Navigate life with greater clarity, trust, and joy.
This is the foundation of higher-conscious living—stepping into your full spiritual and human potential.
Explore the teachings
Constance Messmer shares free resources to help you awaken and practice your Soul Senses:
> Visit the Constance Messmer YouTube channel for free lessons on all 11 Soul Senses in the Podcast Playlist
> Begin integrating the Soul Senses into your daily life and see how they expand your awareness.
> Test your terminology with the Glossary of Contemporary Language
