The Aura

Your aura is all over the place. Words that not many people are told; but should be. However, most people don’t even know what an aura is! 

The aura is the electromagnetic energy field that surrounds the body. This corresponds with chakras and the sense of your emotional/spiritual state. The aura has layers to it just like a person.  

     The aura picks up the atmosphere around a person, place, or thing. It cannot be hidden or gotten rid of. There are seven layers of the aura:

1. Physical: this is connected to your physical comforts, health, and five senses. 

2. Astral: this is the emotional level of your aura. This helps provide self-love. 

3. Lower Mental: this is used to work, study, focus, and execute on your beliefs/values. This layer is used frequently. 

4. Higher Mental: this acts as a bridge between the other layers. It connects your care for self and your care for others. 

5. Spiritual: this is how you connect with others over spiritual matters. Many are able to grow and shine when teaching, sharing, and engaging with others on spiritual levels. 

6. Intuitional: this layer acts just like the third eye. It helps you see your dreams and become aware of your own intuition/instincts. 

7. Absolute: acts as a ‘net’ keeping each layer of your aura confined and balanced with harmony. 

      Like anything your aura can tell a lot about you. It’s said that you can take a picture of your aura, or even see it yourself out of your peripheral vision. Though don’t focus too hard on it or you won’t see anything. If you feel you’d like to cleanse your energy here are some things you could do:

• Positive Affirmations 

• Meditation

• Visualization: imagine cleansing your aura. Picture yourself breathing in positive energy and out negative. 

• Smudging: by burning sage you can clear energy from yourself, and the environment around you. This is a common practice that has been used for years, even centuries. 

      Practice on seeing auras is actually quite simple but like all spiritual gifts it takes time to develop. Some naturally see auras while others need to unlock these gifts because perhaps they may have a blocked third eye. One skill to practice seeing auras is by having someone stand in front of a white or black background and gazing at the outline of their body. If you can’t grab someone or maybe you want to secretly discover your aura seeing gift, you can put your hand in front of a black or white background. By doing so you are able to do the same thing by looking at the edges of your hands. What colors arise is probably the outer layer of the aura but remember to have a handy cheat sheet to interpret what you see. Would be nice to have something like a blog post to look back on ;) Remember! Have a notebook, a pen, and an open mind by your side while tapping into your spiritual gifts!