I've found it fascinating to work with apprentices who are extreme 'empaths,' helping them fine-tune their gifts, while at the same time exploring new ways to help them separate their own feelings from those of others. I'm also enthralled by some observations I'm making in sessions with a apprentice who is extremely clairaudient. She receives intuitive information, exclusively, auditorily.
Through the years she's found it extremely frustrating to attend workshops when asked to visualize, particularly in exercises involving guided imagery. Just hearing the word 'visualize' causes her to shut down her intuitive abilities. However, it seems that when I ask her instead, to imagine a certain scene, it makes all the difference in the world! For example, we were exploring a future moment together in the exercise, "Future Fridays." When I asked her to imagine — rather than visualize — a certain scene, she was right there with me — Bingo! — she was on it! Simply hearing the word 'visualize' conflicts with her innate auditory mode of intuiting. However, when asked to 'imagine,' she suddenly feels free to access her highly acute, auditory talents! Interesting, given that the abilities to both visualize and imagine take place in the pineal gland of the brain. Apparently this has more to do with one's conditioning.
Have you found yourself to be predominantly clairvoyant (clear seeing), clairaudient (clear hearing), clairsentient (clear feeling, touching), or claircognizant (clear knowing)?