Clairvoyance is an inner seeing.  It's the most well known, but least understood intuitive gifts.  It's often described as watching a little movie inside one's head.  Some clairvoyants don't necessarily see the future or have a dramatic psychic vision like you see in the movies.  Clairvoyance can be very subtle.  For example, you may just see a colour, a number, or even a symbol and some images aren't meant to be taken literally but rather symbolically. Or you may get a full blown premonition. Seers may see auras, spirits, colors, pictures, shapes, organs and glands in the body. Clairvoyants can tend to be very frank, as their gifts deal with seeing truths that are often hidden.

 

Clairaudience: When hearing is involved, the phenomena may be referred to as clairaudience, meaning “clear hearing." A clairaudient, for example, hears answers to his or her queries or hears answers about things that are happening. This also aids the Clairvoyant in 'hearing' voices from spirit during mediumship.

 

Clairsentience is the ability to receive intuitive messages via gut feelings or physical sensations. Empathy (feeling the feelings of others) is also a form of clairsentience.  Clairsentience is often called being empathic or "clear feeling". Sensing others feelings and/or situation which goes beyond just sympathy for that person, as the Clairvoyant can feel the other persons full emotional state. 

Claircognizance is the ability to just know something – it’s an inner knowing. Like if you just know that you shouldn’t trust your new neighbor but you don’t know why - this is claircognizance. These feelings can be very strong. They can also come in the form of intuitive thoughts that can pop into your head at random.  Claircognizance means "clear knowing".

Remote Viewing: Some seers are remote viewers. They can see things that are happening very far away. These aren’t typically visions of the future, but visions of the present. They might know something is wrong the moment that it happens because they have received a vision about it. These clairvoyants are often skilled at finding missing people or objects because they can see the proper location at the moment that the question is being asked.

Auras: Some clairvoyants receive more auric information. They may see auras or energy fields. They may be able to look at someone and physically see the status of their chakra, noting any blockages or physical problems.  This can aid in medical intuition.

Psychic Tools: Some clairvoyants work without tools to assist them in “tuning in” to the information that they need. Others may use tarot cards, crystal balls, runes, objects, oracle cards, tea leaves or other focus items to help them open their mind and their senses to get to the information they need.

These tools are very helpful as they put the clairvoyant into an open state of mind - the third eye is open. No psychic is "always on." If they were, they’d be bombarded with remote viewing images all the time, leaving them unable to navigate their daily lives. Clairvoyants also get hungry, tired, distracted and emotional like anyone else. Using tools can help them focus past all of these things in order to give you the best possible readings, and also assist the clairvoyant in "shutting down" or "closing the third eye.

Mediumship or channeling is the practice of people known as Mediums who have the ability to mediate communication between spirits of the dead and human beings. The Medium uses their psychic senses to pass messages from those in Spirit to those here on the  human physical plane. To Establish all of these, the Medium will use one or a combination of the above explained psychic abilities.