Smell, Taste, Touch and Empathy, Exploring Psychic Skills

This is the last of them, four clairs that get less airtime and do just as much work. Smell, which is the one that drops you back into being twelve years old, or tells you somebody is here. Taste, which does the same job through a different door. Touch, the tap on the shoulder when there is nobody in the room, which can be a message or can be the thing that stops you stepping off a kerb. And empathy, which I only found out was its own clair while I was making this. There is a difference between feeling somebody's sadness in your chest and taking their emotion on as your own mood, and that difference matters if you have ever had a day where you felt awful with nothing to pin it to. The practice is to give yourself new input. Different smells, different tastes, food at a different temperature. We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect anything new to arrive. These episodes come from my archive. Years of lives, courses and conversations that were sitting on a channel doing nothing, so I am bringing them back one at a time. Some of it I would say differently now, and that is fine, it is all part of how I got here. First published 6 October 2023. __ I’ve burned through enough identities to stop believing in a final version of myself. For a long time, I stood in the middle of reality demanding answers. Reality laughed, lit a cigarette, and left me holding the blueprint. Now I trace the patterns in identity, belief and human behaviour, and talk about what I find. My Ego Says Hi holds all my old podcasts, alongside whatever comes next. Different versions of me speaking from different points in the same life. My books, Money Surge, Body Surge and Love Surge, explore the patterns, beliefs and behaviours that shape our relationships with money, our bodies and love. Together they form the Surge Trilogy, three 21-day protocols available as full audiobooks on Spotify. Money Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/0MnVWHQ... Body Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/1wyLX50... Love Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/14jYtxS... I write about identity, belief and human behaviour on Substack. My website brings together my writing, art, portfolio and systems. Writing & Essays https://annachitticksego.substack.com Portfolio & Systems https://annachittick.com