How To Develop Clairaudience
Updated 2025.03.28
Clairaudience is one of the most common psychic gifts, and it can either create a sense of distress or peace.
The goal of this article is to help you manage the telepathic, intruding thoughts you hear, to streamline them and help you make peace with them.
Many of us are born with some intuitive gift.
Usually, your most innate ability has been ingrained so deeply into your life and way of being. Uncovering your abilities can then be much like discovering a hidden treasure, that's been underneath a bunch of boxes in the closet.
Most people don't value their gifts or even notice them because these abilities have been there so long that they feel natural.
Identifying what that gift is, even if it’s been undervalued in the past, can be key to developing your abilities to where they can serve you and others in the greatest way possible.
Chances are if you are reading this article, we have already narrowed it down to you having at least one gift. You are clairaudient.
Clairaudience is the psychic ability of clear-hearing. It usually means you can hear guidance from your Higher Self, Spirit Guides, Angels, or even loved ones on the Other Side.
Clairaudient ability also means you can typically sense the thoughts of other people and animals around you.
It is also the ability to hear the messages of The Spirit World.
While you may not be actively hearing anything right now, this ability can be developed to a point where it is recognizable and useful to you.
After working with many people one-on-one to develop these gifts, I've come up with a few of the commonly given tips, gathered from many Spirit Guides and Angels of my clients, for developing this ability.
If you'd like to strengthen and clarify your clairaudient ability, read on -
4 Tips To Improve Your Clairaudient Abilities
1. Practice your listening in the present
The voice of Spirit, of your Guides and Angels, speaks very softly. Many explain it as trying to hear someone talk while they are underwater or sounding similar to the thinking in your head, except generally, it is crisper.
The ability to hear Spirit is an act of focused, gentle, and non-interruption listening. In fact, in sessions, when Spirit speaks, I have to focus intently, careful to not interrupt, to hear the transmission precisely.
If you listen, gently, and with focus, you can hear the message that is behind the words she is truly saying – what she is speaking in her own Spirit. Listening carefully, we can hear the message behind the message, and this is typically what wavelength Spirit is speaking on.
When practicing Spirit-listening, also called soul-listening, hold your questions until everything is out or until the flow is complete.
The more you listen to others in your everyday life, the easier it will be for you to listen to the messages from Spirit, because the voice of Spirit and the voice of our friends are one in the same.
Spirit Guides and Angels recommend that to develop your Spirit-listening, you practice listening to those in Spirit all around you (your friends, your family) in the physical, first. As you do this, it will become easier for you to hear when Spirit speaks as the soft-still voice within.
When you start listening more in general, those in Spirit will begin to see that you are ready to hear, to pay attention, to receive messages directly from them.
To help myself remember to listen, when talking to another person, I say internally to them, “Hello, Spirit.” This acknowledgement of the Divine within the other person can help you focus on their message.
2. Determine where your clear-hearing comes from
Internally/Externally/Right Side/Left Side
You may hear someone say your name, say hello to you, or a noise in your kitchen. Though, it’s much more common to hear the voice of your Angels and Spirit Guides come from within.
The reason is because non-physical Spirit is free from a physical body, and this means they also are free from a voice box. Thus, creating an external sound can be very, very difficult.
So Spirit can speak to clairaudients telepathically, where you hear a voice in your head. The voice of Spirit is typically helpful, refreshing, calm and relaxed.
Next time you ask a question to the Divine in your meditation practice, pay attention to where you sense the response coming from in your body. I hear their voice through the right side of my head, internally.
Your inner voice, the voice of your Higher Self, and your Angels and Guides often always come through the same way - so you can identify it when it occurs.
Next time you connect, wait to see if you hear a reply and see if you can sense where on your body the reply comes in.
3. Identify when you’re most receptive to picking up messages from the non-physical
When do you get your clairaudient messages most easily? For some people, it’s during The Golden Hour, the magical time before sundown. For others, it’s in earlier hours of the day.
Consider for a moment how and when you are getting this information.
Often, you hear the response internally, as it flows into your mind from your Guardian Angels, Spirit Guides, or theirs.
To get an idea of when you may be more receptive…
What time of day are you at your sharpest when others ask for your advice?
Another way that clairaudience unknowingly presents itself is as an innocent conversation with yourself in the shower, car, or while cooking dinner.
A common sign you are clairaudient is that you talk to yourself often.
Next time you are running over a problem and get an answer, ask if your Spirit Team is with you.
4. Know your clairaudience may be coming in as claircognizance
Clairaudience (clear hearing) and Claircognizance (clear knowing) are pretty similar – they are both ways of receiving messages from the Divine.
With clairaudience, the message comes in often as distinct words.
In claircognizance, it is more like a thought download, less like hearing a word or phrase.
You suddenly know the answer, you know what to do, or you know what to say. Rather than hearing it, you just knew it.
When people struggle to develop clairaudience, we often learn they're more of a strong claircognizant.
One way to develop claircognizance is through meditation and clearing out the mind, and by imagining thoughts entering and leaving your energy field. This clears your own internal thoughts and allows you to receive from Universal Consciousness.
When you clear your mind to receive from Universal Consciousness, you connect to a greater truth and usually connect to answers and solutions that will heal many on a mass level.
To recap, four ways to develop your clairaudience:
Practice listening to those in the physical, humans and animals, being truly present for hearing what is said
Start identifying where the ethereal voices come in from, so you can identify them in the future
Notice when you’re receptive to messages and ask who is speaking to start identifying your Spirit Team
Regularly clear your mind and practice receiving and letting go of thought, to develop claircognize, clairaudience’s sister skill
Use these tips to begin enhancing and improving your clairaudience today ~
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