Opening the Door to Clairsentience

How Empaths Can Tune Into Their Emotions and Build Self-Trust

If you’ve ever walked into a room and instantly felt the tension before a word was spoken, or found yourself crying during a stranger’s story as if it were your own, you might be an empath.

An empath is someone who deeply feels the emotions, energy, and even physical sensations of others, often as if they were their own. While this sensitivity can be a gift for compassion and connection, it can also be overwhelming without the right tools. Empaths often struggle to know where their own feelings end and someone else’s begin. This is where clairsentience comes in.

But being an empath isn’t just poetic sensitivity, it has a shadow side. Many empaths experience what’s called empath fatigue: exhaustion, anxiety, or even physical symptoms after absorbing too much emotional energy. Some lie awake at night processing other people’s grief, or find themselves drained after a simple family dinner. Without boundaries, empathy can become a burden instead of a strength.

What is Clairsentience?

Clairsentience literally means “clear feeling.” It’s one of the intuitive senses, an inner radar that picks up on the emotional or energetic states of people, places, and situations. For empaths, clairsentience is often their strongest intuitive ability.

But clairsentience isn’t just about sensing what others feel. It’s also about learning to interpret, regulate, and trust your own emotions. Think of it as the bridge between emotional intelligence and intuition. When cultivated, clairsentience allows you to:

• Distinguish between your emotions and someone else’s.

• Listen to the wisdom behind your feelings.

• Build self-trust by letting your intuition guide decisions.

From a scientific perspective, clairsentience can be connected to how mirror neurons in the brain allow us to feel what others are feeling. From a spiritual perspective, it’s tuning into the energetic language of your body. Both lenses affirm the empath experience as real and valid.

Different Kinds of Empaths

Not all empaths experience their sensitivity in the same way. Recognizing yourself in one of these categories can be validating:

• Emotional Empaths might absorb others’ feelings as if they were their own.

• Physical Empaths sometimes feel others’ aches, pains, or fatigue in their own bodies.

• Animal or Nature Empaths are attuned to the needs of animals or the rhythms of the natural world.

• Intuitive Empaths may sense future events, energetic shifts, or subtle guidance.

You might resonate with more than one. The key is learning how your empathy shows up,  so you can work with it instead of against it.

Emotional Differentiation: Is This Mine or Someone Else’s?

One of the simplest yet most powerful tools for empaths comes from Heidi Jaffe’s teaching: pausing to ask yourself, “Is this feeling mine, or someone else’s?”

That question creates a moment of awareness. It interrupts the automatic process of absorbing emotions and gives you space to reflect. If you sense the emotion doesn’t belong to you, the next step is to consciously push it outward, visualize it leaving your body, like a bubble drifting away. This exercise reestablishes boundaries and helps you return to your own emotional baseline.

Other practices to strengthen this differentiation include:

• Journaling your moods: Note sudden shifts and whether they coincided with being around others.

• Body scanning: Notice where you’re holding tension. Perhaps hunched shoulders or a tight stomach often signal emotions that aren’t yours.

• Grounding rituals: Place your bare feet on the earth, breathe deeply, and imagine roots extending downward.

  Exercises to Tune In at Home

Developing clairsentience isn’t about dramatic revelations; it’s about small, consistent practices that sharpen awareness and deepen self-trust. Here are a few to try:

Breath & Feel Inquiry
Sit quietly and take three slow breaths.
Ask: What am I feeling right now? Where do I feel it in my body?
Then ask: Does this belong to me?
If yes, allow the feeling to be present. If no, imagine releasing it outward.

Emotion-to-Message Practice
When an emotion arises, write it down. Then ask: What is this feeling trying to tell me? For example, anxiety might signal a boundary being crossed. Sadness may point to something that needs releasing.

Sensory Reset
Light a candle, hold a crystal, sip tea,  anything that engages your senses. Focus entirely on that sensation. This simple act reminds you that you are in your body, not lost in someone else’s field.

Visualization Shield
Close your eyes and imagine a sphere of light around you. With each exhale, see it strengthening, keeping what is yours inside and what isn’t outside.

Boundaries aren’t just energetic. For empaths, they must also be practical: limiting time with draining people, stepping away from doomscrolling, or simply saying no without guilt.

Practices on Retreat

At a retreat like Awaken Your Wisdom Within in Punta Monterrey (Nov 2–7), these exercises expand into a more immersive experience:

• Guided meditations to separate personal emotions from collective ones.
  Breathwork sessions that move stagnant feelings out of the body.

• Chakra-focused workshops exploring where intuition and clairsentience live in the energy system.

• Group exercises where participants reflect back what they sense, validating your intuitive hits.

• Nature immersions like waterfall cleanses or sweat lodge ceremonies that reconnect you to the raw, grounded self beneath emotional noise.

These experiences aren’t about escaping sensitivity but learning to regulate it, so your empathy becomes a strength, not a drain.

Cultivating Self-Trust and Intuition

The ultimate goal of working with clairsentience is self-trust. When you know what’s yours, you can honor it. When you release what isn’t, you protect your energy. Over time, this builds confidence in your intuitive guidance system.

Self-trust doesn’t mean never doubting yourself,  it means knowing that even in doubt, you can pause, feel, and listen. The more you practice, the more your body becomes a reliable compass. And as an empath, that compass doesn’t just guide you; it often lights the way for others.

Final Reflection

Clairsentience is about cultivating resilience, awareness, and wisdom. As an empath, your ability to feel deeply is your gift. By tuning into it consciously, you transform overwhelm into clarity, sensitivity into strength, and intuition into self-trust.

Ready to Go Deeper?

Join psychic medium Heidi Jaffe in Mexico this November for six immersive days at Punta Monterrey. Surrounded by ocean, jungle, and a supportive community, you’ll learn how to regulate emotions, expand your intuition, and embrace your clairsentience in a grounded, empowering way.

Learn more by visiting https://www.nissaretreats.com/mexico