There are a variety of ways in which a Guide or a departed spirit can communicate with a medium or psychic. Often these communications are through what is called the “clair senses.”

Clair senses is a collective word, meaning that the Guides’ communication can utilize any of the following types of psychic sensitivity which co-mingles the physical body’s normal five senses.

The five sense and the clair sense involved are:

Clairaudience

Clairaudience are perceive sounds (or words) that a person can actually hear when, in fact, no one is speaking and nothing physical is causing the sounds. The sounds are thought to be impressions that register themselves on the spirillae of the ear’s pineal gland. It is believed that clairaudience sounds go through the same process that normal hearing does, passing through the Third Eye chakra of the head.

Clairsavorance

Clairsavorance is translated as clear tasting. The person experiences tastes in the mouth without putting anything physical actually in the mouth.

Clairscient

Clairscient means to smell a fragrance or odor of a substance which is not physical in nature. For example, you might smell cigarette smoke when you are in a place where it is certain no one is smoking or has smoked.

Clairsentience

Clairsentience allows a psychic to perceive information as a feeling within the whole body without any other stimuli related to this feeling or information, which comes from within the body, down the kundalini to the stomach area or solar plexus. The stomach area is one of the strongest communication centers that Guides frequently use to communicate.

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance means to see into an ethereal dimension without using physical eyes. Some describe it as reaching into another vibration frequency and visually perceive “within the head” something like moving pictures. The third eye area of the forehead is one of the other strongest communication centers that Guides frequently use to communicate.

Since this article is focused on the “belly energies” and psychic abilities, we will narrow our focus to the area of the clairsentience.

In his historic writings of “Psychic Science,” Sir Oliver Lodge spoke about what he called “clairvoyance or lucidity” and raised the older concepts that were coined as “reading with the pit of the stomach.” According to Lodge, using the stomach or belly area as the channel for psychic communications was an established practice.

That is an interesting observation when you look more globally at the ancient’s beliefs about the belly. The Chinese called this belly chakra the “chi point,” while the Japanese termed it the “hara” or “ki point.” As the body’s balancing chakra, this area is located one and a half inches below the navel and one and a half inches inward toward the spine. It is the “energy” that the body generates, some call it a power-center.

In writing this article, I spoke with world renown psychic and author Jane Doherty because as a psychic she experiences a physical phenomena that relates to Sir Oliver Lodge’s concept of “reading with the pit of the stomach.”

Whenever there are ghosts around Jane Doherty, she has an amazing physical reaction to them. The reaction Jane has is that her stomach area actually enlarges by as much as six inches around within seconds. And, Jane tells us that it is extremely painful to her when this happens. If you watch Jane while her stomach expansion is happening, you are going to hear her moaning and see her wincing … and trust me, it is not dramatics … Jane is in definite pain.

With regards to her expanding tummy, Jane says, “It feels like a contraction when a woman is in labor, but it doesn’t ever release me until the spirit leaves. Instead, the stomach expands as if I was nine months pregnant.” Jane actually describes it as very intense muscle cramps, where her stomach is physically gripped by the ghost, and if you watch, the belly will actually lift up. Jane continues, “Often I can tell by the grip whether it is a female, male or child spirit. It first happened to me in 1990, when I investigated my first haunted house with a researcher.”

Psychic Jane Doherty has this psychic belly experience as she applies her clairsentience skills, but interestingly enough the phenomena only happens when a ghost is present and not when a Guide is present. You can learn more about Jane Doherty’s psychic abilities in her book “Awakening the Mystic Gift: The Surprising Truth About What It Means to Be Psychic,” which chronicles Jane’s own psychic awakening and what it truly means to be psychic. You can also view her expanding stomach area on TLC’s Dead Tenants show in which Jane co-stars. Jane’s book and book club are located at http://psychicreadingssite.com/www.Herbal-College.com.

Doreen Virtue, author of “Clairaudience: Hearing Your Angels’ Messages,” says that clairsentients get divine guidance through bodily sensations, such as a tightening of the jaw, fists, stomach or sex organs, and that they intuitively know the specific meaning of these tightening reactions. She further adds that clairsentients receive angelic guidance through an etheric sense of smell, taste, and touch.

Renowned medium John Holland says pointedly that the hot spot for clairsentients is the stomach.

Clearly the “belly energies” and “psychic abilities” are intrinsically related as a compliment that helps allow mediums to communicate with Guides, ghosts and other-worldly beings. The stomach area is indeed one of the strongest communication centers frequently use to communicate with that which has no physical form.

About the Author: Bobbie Grennier is a freelance writer and teaches herbalism at http://herbal-college.com. She also is the webmaster for http://hauntedcams.com and http://www.seo-writing.com/free-reprint-articles/ for FREE reprint articles.

Her work has been praised by prominent news media that includes the “Today” show and “The New York Times,” and has landed her a nationwide television show this fall. The Learning Channel, carried in 90 million homes, will air 10 episodes of “Dead Tenants.” The hour-long shows will explore 10 haunted homes and the families that desperately seek help and a solution to mysterious disturbances.

Doherty cautions that developing one’s psychic abilities requires patience, trust, dedication and practice but says we can jump-start the process by feeling confidence and self-love. “Developing psychic ability is not just about following a series of exercises,” says Doherty. “It is a process of emotional, spiritual and mental change that you must address to achieve your goal.”

“Awakening The Mystic Gift” offers a list of skills necessary for one to master in order to develop psychic abilities, including deep breathing, meditation, hypnosis, walking, visualization, having a hobby and taking a soothing bath.

In her book, Doherty tells us how to:

• Understand the difference between a fraudulent carnival palm reader and a genuine psychic who can provide guidance in our future

• Listen for guidance through reflection, observation, relaxation and quiet

• Use our psychic abilities for a good purpose-and to stop thinking we can use them to win the lottery or make wild predictions.

“I went from being an English teacher to a housewife to a psychic,” says Doherty. “I never thought this was my calling, but perhaps there are millions of others out there who await their calling.”

Doherty also explains to us that there really are ghosts out there, but not like Hollywood depicts them. To learn more, visit http://www.JaneDoherty.com.

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Psychic Jane has followed her gut instincts for hundreds of séances, psychic readings and ghost investigations over the past two decades. She currently works with the cable channel TLC for their Dead Tenants TV show.

In each episode, Jane and a small team of paranormal investigators, called PRS, are introduced to a different family that has experienced some sort of ghostly, paranormal odd happenings in their home.

Psychic Jane moves through the family’s home in the wee hours of the morning in search of ghosts. And when she finds them, Jane works to help the ghosts “depending on the ghost situation of the house.”

“In almost every episode there’s a skeptic in the family. And one of our goals is to see a change in the skeptic,” Jane said. The cameras roll the entire time Jane conducts her three day ghost investigation with the PRS team.

“One of the recent ghost investigations we did, it’s one of the funnier moments, because when you get to the séance and the spirit comes through another person … the one man was so taken back and became a believer,” she said with a chuckle. “He said he started going to church.”

Psychic Jane also saw her first book, “Awakening the Mystic Gift: The Surprising Truth About What it Means to Be Psychic,” publish last February. The book is Jane’s memoir and it explains that psychic ability is really just a sort of sensory input most people ignore.

“Everyone has a psychic antenna,” Doherty claims, “even if they don’t pay attention to what they’re picking up. In other words, everyone is psychic to some degree. Everybody truly has this, and I believe God gave us this tool to have a better life … so we make decisions based on guidance, and not just emotions.”

Psychic Jane Doherty, 58, was born and raised in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Jane grew up Catholic, but she doesn’t think her beliefs about psychic ability and faith in God are mutually exclusive. She doesn’t read cards or use other kinds of “magic” tricks. Instead, she feels her way through a situation by waiting for images to come and following her instincts.

And then there’s her stomach, the barometer she uses to indicate the presence of spirits. When ghosts are around Jane’s stomach will expand instantly up to as much as six inches.

“What does happen to me is an unusual phenomenon. When I’m near spirit phenomena, my stomach expands like I’m nine months pregnant,” she said. “It expands right away and it is very painful when it happens.”

Skeptics often are handed a measuring tape and invited to check her waistline for themselves. Doherty laughs as she explains the reason she probably was chosen for the TLC series.

“They loved it because we were characters,” she said. “Can’t help but call me a character, with this expanding ghostly barometer stomach of mine.”

For more information about psychic Jane Doherty or to schedule a psychic reading, visit http://www.JaneDoherty.com.

About the Author: Bobbie Grennier is a freelance writer (http://www.seo-writing.com) and teaches herbalism at http://www.herbal-college.com. She also is the webmaster for http://www.hauntedcams.com, blogs a few ghost stories at http://www.boocasting.com and offers http://www.article-repository.com for FREE reprint articles.