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A little info
on the aura
The aura
In metaphysics, Aura
refers to the energy field emanating from the surface of a person or
object. This emanation is visualized as an outline of cascading color and
may be held to represent soul vibrations, chakra emergence, or a
reflection of surrounding energy fields.
Auras may be viewed by the
naked eye, though some psychics, like Edgar Cayce, believe this ability
weakens with age. Focused training may improve one's ability to see auras.
Layers of aura are separate and distinct yet connected to all the
remaining layers. In the books of Carlos Castaneda auras are referred to
as luminous cocoons.
Modern New Age metaphysics
identify the aura as electromagnetic fields. The existence of
electromagnetic fields around every object in the known world is a
scientifically proven fact. What is debatable is whether or not humans can
see these electromagnetic fields as colors with the naked eye. This claim
is considered paranormal because devices that sense electromagnetic fields
at magnitudes many times smaller than that which allegedly exists in auras
have recorded nothing.
A small guide.
Learning to see the aura
Light
First,
you need plenty of good, soft light to train in, not dim, but good soft
light. It is very important not to have any strong light shining or
reflecting into your eyes. It is best to have light coming from behind and
above you. If you have, say a window, flooding light into the room, in
your field of view, while trying to see an aura, it will distract you and
make an aura much more difficult to see. A hundred watt bulb, coming from
above and behind you, is fine.
Step 1:
Get a book
and cover it in bright, primary blue or red paper. Stand it upright, on a
table, six or seven feet from you (about 2 meters) . Experiment
with the distance until you find what is just right for you, but the
minimum distance should be no less than 4 feet (1.2 meters) .
Make sure you have a plain, fairly neutral background. Do not view it
against a brightly colored wall, or garish wallpaper. If the wall colour
is wrong, hang a sheet of neutral colored paper or cloth on the wall, as a
backdrop. A bed sheet, or some sheets of butchers paper, taped to the
wall, will do fine.
Step 2:
 | Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and
relax. When you are calm, look at the book. Focus your eyes on nothing,
a little to the side and just past it. This is as if you were gazing at,
but not focusing on, the wall behind it. |
| The whole idea is to totally relax the focus of
your eyes and view the subject with your peripheral, or side vision. By
side vision, I mean just to the side of your normal focused area of
sight (a couple of inches only) not out of the corner of your
eye. |
| Gently hold that gaze and relax your eyes. Get used to that relaxed
focus and try not to strain or tense your eyes or forehead while doing
it. Concentrate! You need an intense, but very relaxed and steady gaze,
similar to day- dreaming. |
Blinking
When you need to blink, do so, or it will cause your
eyes to tense, burn and water. Blink normally and without changing focus,
and DO NOT become preoccupied with it. Blinking will cause the aura you
are viewing to disappear - for a second or two only - but it will reappear
quickly - if you stay calm and hold a relaxed focus. Learning to hold your
focus, while blinking normally, is an important part of learning to use
auric sight.
Brow Centre Opening
Technique
It is necessary to use some type of brow centre
opening exercise, in order to stimulate your brow centre into a receptive
mode. This allows you to receive the energy surrounding your subject - as
auric sight. It is possible to see the aura of colour without doing this,
but it is very difficult to see a living aura, without first stimulating
and opening your brow centre.
Please pay very close
attention to what follows!
| Remember what it is like to be very, very tired -
totally exhausted? Remember what it feels like when you haven't slept
for days, and can hardly keep your eyes open? |
| Remember what it feels like when your eyes keep
trying to close on you? Remember what it is like to have to wrestle with
your eyes to keep them open? |
| This causes a sensation, if you observe yourself
closely, much like you are trying to lift a heavy, shadowy veil, from
behind your eyes. When this happens, the muscles of your eyes are not
responding very well, so the action becomes almost entirely mental. |
| Stop for a moment and remember what this feels
like. |
| Wrestling to open tired eyes causes a strong mental opening action,
at the site of the brow centre - thereby stimulating it. |
How this works:
| This mental opening action, focuses your bodily
awareness at the site of your brow centre. |
| When your bodily awareness is focussed at one
area of your body, and you manipulate that area with your mind, you
stimulate your energy body in that area - in a dynamic way. |
| If this mental opening action is continued for
long enough, and put enough mental effort into it, your brow centre
(your third eye) will begin to open. |
| If you carry out this mental opening action, when
you are relaxed, and have a subject in your field of view - and you are
not looking directly at your subject - spontaneous auric sight will
occur. |
| The mental opening action given here is similar, only much stronger
and more effective than the normal, visualisation based, chakra opening
techniques; taught by most other teachers of psychic development and
energy work. Visualisation based energy work, on it's own, is weak and
obtuse and very difficult to learn and use. |
Back to the coloured book
While you are gazing steadily, with a relaxed focus,
at your blue or red covered book - recreate the same mental action, as
described above. Shift your bodily awareness to the area between your
eyes. Feel this area with your mind - concentrate all of your sense of
feel, your bodily awareness, on this area.
Tip
| Lightly scratch the skin directly between your
eyes, and just above it, in the centre of your brow, with a fingernail.
This will help you to zero in on that spot with your bodily awareness.
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| Shift your bodily awareness to the area between
your eyes - concentrate on being aware of that area!
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| Mentally lift this whole area - as if you were
trying to force your eyelids to open - but do not allow the muscles in
this area to tense up or respond in any way (this is all mental).
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| Isolate the mental command that lifts your
eyelids. Observe yourself closely. Imagine your eyes are very heavy, and
let them close on you, and open them a few times. Observe which muscles
you use to do this. Use this same muscle command - with your mind based
bodily awareness, in that area - but without letting your eyelid muscles
obey.
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| Do this over and over again - lifting, lifting,
lifting - as if you were lifting a heavy shadow from behind your eyes . |
| Repeat this action, over and over, but do not
allow yourself - or any muscles - to tense up or respond. This is a bit
tricky to, start with, but easily mastered with a little practise. |
| This mental opening action is very important. It
is the first step in learning how to control your brow centre and,
later, the rest of your energy body - if you decide to progress to
developing full clairvoyance and other psychic abilities. |
| In the early stages, it does not matter if you
feel you are lifting too large an area over your brow. Even if you are
lifting right across the whole front of your forehead - it will still
have an opening effect on your brow centre. With practise, you will be
able to narrow the focus of this mental opening action - to the brow
centre area alone. |
| If you keep up this mental opening action, you will stimulate your
brow centre - forcing it to become active. Your steady, relaxed focus,
on your subject, will tune your brow centre into the energy given off by
it. This energy will be passed along to the sight centre of your brain.
There, it will be interpreted as a sight picture - a bright band of
coloured light. |
| When you have isolated this opening action, and
can do it mentally, you will find one side of the veil behind your eyes
easier to lift than the other - usually the right is easier. Basically,
his feeling is caused by the two different hemispheres of your brain -
one is much easier to use than the other. If this is a problem, use a
clockwise swirling mental action, over the site of the brow centre, to
stimulate it. By clockwise, I mean clockwise from the inside. Use the
same mental muscle command we talked about above, as with opening tired
eyes, but swirl it, as if you were mentally stirring that area with a
pencil. |
| It is best to alternate between the main opening action, and this
swirling action, when trying to activate your brow centre. The main
opening action is still needed to tune your brow centre into an aura. |
Note: Remember,
all these energy stimulation exercises depend upon localised bodily
awareness, specifically - localised surface awareness on the skin. You
have to FEEL these mental actions happening, in order to make them
effective.
A little more
Your First Aura
| While you are doing all the above, patiently keep
up your relaxed gaze, just to the side and past your subject. After a
while (anything from a few seconds to several minutes - in the early
stages) you will see a faint shimmering in the air, around the book.
Then, you will see a pale, narrow band of light build up, close to the
edge of the book. This is the books etheric aura.
 | Stay relaxed! |
| Don't change your focus - in any way! |
| Don't look directly at it! |
| Blink if you have to - it will come back quickly! |
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| Soon, a bright-yellow aura (blue book) or
bright-green aura (red book) will start building up, from the
pale, etheric band around the book. If you change your focus, tense up, or
look directly at it - the aura will vanish instantly. |
| The aura has to be observed with your peripheral,
or side vision. |
| If something happens, and the aura disappears,
don't worry. Continue observing it, calmly, and patiently and it will
reappear. |
| In the early stages, the aura will tend to disappear quite a bit. This
is quite normal. Keep at it and this will happen less and less, as you
master the viewing technique. |
Step 3:
| Once you have completed the first steps, gather
several books and wrap them, each in a different primary colour. |
| The brighter the colour - the brighter the aura -
and the easier it is to see. |
| Study these coloured books, one at a time, and
write down the colours you see. |
| Observe the books, two at a time, and watch how
their auric colours affect each other. |
| Move them around, mix them, sit them on top of each other, observe
them all in a row. |
Step 4:
| Get a pot plant, or some fresh flowers, and study
their aura. The aura you will see around them is a living aura. Keep in
mind the effects of the auric colours from the petals and leaves. The
orange hue you will see, around the green parts of the plants stems and
leaves, comes from the auric colour of green - the same as with observing
a green book. Some of the other colours, with flowers, will come from the
colours of the petals. |
| You will see a more distinct etheric and a stronger
shimmering, optical effect around the plant. |
| Living auras are more subtle and, thus, a little harder to see, than a
simple colour's aura. With practise, though, the auras of plants will
become much easier to see. |
Step 5:
| Observe the aura of a tree. Pick a good sized tree
that you can view, highlighted against the sky. It is best to observe it
with the sun behind you, early in the morning or late in the day. If the
sun, or any strong reflection, is in your eyes, it will make this very
difficult to do. |
| The shimmering around the tree will be much more
imposing and intense, than with a small plant. The colour of a tree's aura
will also be influenced, not only by the colours of the leaves and bark,
but also by the colour of the sky itself. On a sunny day, a tree's aura
will appear to be a shade of blue. On a cloudy day, it will appear to be
creamy-grey. |
| Viewing distance: Experiment with this, as it
depends upon the size of the tree. Make sure you can see the entire top of
the tree in your field of view. You need to be, approximately, three times
the height of the tree away from it, or more. |
| A tree's aura can be huge, depending upon the size of the tree and how
strong it is. At the top of the tree's aura you can sometimes see a
fountaining effect, as if it's aura were slowly spraying up out of it. I
am not sure what causes this, and I have not seen this with every tree I
have observed. Some people say it is the tree's spirit, or a nature spirit
living inside the tree, that causes it. Some trees do seem to have a kind
of consciousness within them, so this may be true. |
Step 6:
| For the next step, use an animal, any animal: a
dog, cat, kangaroo, camel, lion, tiger, elephant, etc, if you have access
to one. Try and observe them when they are resting. Animal auras are not
as colourful as human auras, but they are still very good practise. Keep
in mind, that the colour of the animals coat will affect the colour of
it's aura. |
| Disease can be detected in the aura of an animal, the same as with a
human subject. This makes observing them very good practise, for
diagnosing the early signs of disease in an aura. |
Step 7:
| Observe your own aura: This can be done outside, with the Sun behind
you, or inside, against a neutral background. Hold your arm out and study
your hand and forearm. You can also lay down and observe the aura of your
feet and legs. |
| Hopefully you have now seen a basic aura so play
around with it and have some fun :) |
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