Different Modes of Sensing - Part 7: Clairolfactance
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Clairolfactance - Clairsalience
“The ability to access psychic knowledge through the sense of smell”
In my Clairguistiance blog, I wrote about getting psychic smells, and I recalled a time when I was assigned a Remote Viewing target by David Morehouse, PhD, during one of his Extended Remote Viewing classes. I explained how, during my session, I could suddenly smell a pine forest that was not in the room with me.
Psychic smelling is an extra-sensory gift that is the powerful ability to sense beyond our normal physical modes of sensing. It involves smelling a fragrance or odour of a substance, person, place, or animal not in one's surroundings. These odours are perceived without the use of the physical nose and beyond the limitations of ordinary time and space.
People who have this intuitive sense use it to gain insight into events of the past, present and future. Others smell warnings relating to health, people, or natural occurrences.
You can smell energy. Smell is a vibration. Ever heard the phrases, “Something smells off here” or “I smell a rat”? This is a type of synesthesia, where smells translate directly to something else. As an experienced health practitioner, you may have unknowingly honed this sensory ability. An allergist, for instance, might begin to notice the smell of sour milk on a person who has a dairy allergy. Over time, this experienced practitioner has learned to smell energy imbalances in their patients before they even test them.
Traditional Chinese Medicine supports the idea of smells in its 5 Elements Theory, which Donna Eden, pioneer of Energy Medicine, calls part of the 5 Rhythms. Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal – we can imagine what all of these elements of nature can smell like. Being a certified clinician practitioner of the Eden Method, I’ve begun to pick up on psychic smells when working with certain clients. Recently, in a session, I smelled a scorched pot, directing me to see if my client had any Fire Metal energy imbalances.
Rhythms are a complex energy system that involves personality traits, emotional tendencies, and cycles that flow, control, and interact with one another in a delicate balance. Emotionally, a Fire Metal imbalance could mean the client may have been experiencing too much Fire (anxiety) lately in their life, and now the client is feeling more of the out-of-balance emotions of Metal (grief and sadness). Physically, a Fire Metal imbalance could express itself as inflamed eczema. Metal governs skin, and Fire governs inflammation. Anxiety may cause a skin flare-up. It’s an energy system that practitioners use to bring emotional understanding to physical ailments.
Smell is very much connected with our memory and carries with it a powerful emotional component…
Smell is very much connected with our memory and carries with it a powerful emotional component, linking it to our past and our loved ones. Like any other intuitive sense, you can get specific information about a loved one through clairalience. You may smell their perfume and immediately sense a connection to them. Or another smell associated with them — cigarette smoke, engine grease, or cinnamon rolls - might hold special memories for you about them. I like to think of psychic smelling as a scented energy signature.
When a loved one has passed on, we may become hyper alert to a particular smell that we’ve now associated with them, a unique smell frequency that has been created between you and your loved one. Occasionally, to this day, my Mom lets me know she’s around when I get the sudden smell of her apartment that had been sprayed with too much “Febreze” from her trying to cover up her secret smoking habit. The unique combination of stale smoke and “air linen” is very exclusive to her.
At my 100+ year old family cabin, I’ve had numerous occasions where I’ve suddenly got a strong smell of “Old Spice” that is poorly covering up a fisherman’s body odour. I never met my great great Grandfather, the original owner of this place, but I do know that bathing or washing one’s clothes was not a simple thing back in his day at the cottage. The cold ocean was how you got clean and Old Spice was the fragrance of choice used typically by men to cover up the smells on their clothes from doing all the manual labour when he was building this place.
Are you someone who smells things that aren’t physically there?
Our senses of smell and taste are primal senses that strongly relate to our survival. Just as with any other of the intuitive versions of our physical senses, information comes through to us based on our past experiences. So, the more experiences you have in your smell database, the more information your energy networks have to use to communicate with you.
Yes, smell the roses. Smell the fruits and vegetables at the supermarket (it’s also a good way to tell if they’re ripe and ready to eat). Smell your pets and your kids. Allow yourself to become aware of the smells around you. All these smells will contribute to the development of your clairolfactance ability.
Love Becca
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