If you’ve spent any time in intuitive development spaces, you’ve probably heard this message:

"First, you need to figure out your clairs.
Are you clairvoyant? Clairsentient? Claircognizant?
Learn your strongest clair and you’ll trust your intuition."

It sounds logical. It sounds exciting. It feels like a map.

But there’s a hidden problem with starting here.

Because clairs aren’t actually intuition. And when we collapse them together, we end up confusing the very foundation we’re trying to build.

Intuition is internal.

It’s your personal, embodied navigation system–felt through your body, your emotions, your energy, your lived experience.

It doesn’t require external validation. It doesn’t require getting it “right.” It’s yours from the start.

It’s not about reaching outside of yourself. It’s about listening to what's already within you.

Clairs (clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudience, etc.) are tools for perceiving information. They’re the ways we might receive messages from guides, ancestors, Spirit or the collective field.

They’re real. They’re beautiful.
But they’re external pathways–not the source of your own internal compass.

And I’ll be 100% honest with you:

I used to teach intuition starting with the clairs too.

It’s what I was taught.
And at the time, it made sense–it felt like giving people something concrete to work with.

But over time, I started noticing a pattern:
The more people focused on trying to "get their clairs right," the more disconnected they became from their own internal knowing.

They second-guessed themselves.
They worried they were "doing it wrong."
They started chasing validation instead of building trust.

And it gave me pause.

I realized:

If the method is pulling people further away from themselves, then it's time to stop, rethink, and rebuild.

That's why I'm so passionate about shifting the foundation now–so you can start with trust, not performance.
With embodiment, not external chasing.

When we teach people to trust their intuition by first focusing on their clairs, we unintentionally set up a fragile system.

Because clairs:

• Feel external.
• Feel performative.
• Feel like something you have to “get right” or interpret correctly.

And when you don’t feel totally confident? You start asking:

"Am I making this up?"
"Did I get the right message?"
"Can I trust what I heard/saw/felt?"

You start spiraling into self-doubt–because you were taught to look outside yourself for your own knowing.

When in reality:​
The first relationship you need to build is with your own body. Your own emotions. Your own inner cues.

That’s where trust starts.
That’s where real intuitive capacity grows.

Embodied intuition isn’t about magical downloads. It’s about subtle listening.

It shows up in things like:

• A tug in your gut before your mind even catches up.
• A tightening across your chest when something feels off.
• A physical sense of relief when a choice feels aligned, even if it’s scary.

It shows up when emotions rise like messengers–not to derail you, but to deliver information.

It shows up when energy gathers or drains in response to a person, a place, a possibility.

This isn’t about “getting it right.” This is about learning to trust yourself while you are still in process.

Embodied intuition is what lets you move through uncertainty with more steadiness because you’re not waiting for a perfect sign. You’re listening for your own yes, your own no, your own next small step.

You don’t have to "get better" at receiving external messages to trust yourself. You have to get better at being with yourself.

With your body. With your senses. With the slow unfolding of your own knowing.

That’s where intuition really starts.