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Reading auras is a skill which is invaluable
to a spiritual healer. It is as central to the work Richard and
I do as it is for those we train through The Accelerated Healer
Development Program. At some level all people perceive auras, but
you may not recognize it as such. Reading this article, you may
begin to recognize how you, perhaps unconsciously, read auras as
an integral part of your daily life. Once you realize how natural
this skill is, you can begin to pay attention to it and develop
the skill deliberately.
An aura is the vibrational energy field out of which the physical
world is born. It surrounds and interpenetrates the physical. All
life is composed of vibrational fields of energy resonating at different
frequencies or speeds. The range of vibrations that most people
recognize is what we call the world of form and physical sensation.
The ranges of vibrations that are not as obvious to some people's
senses include energies of emotion, thought and spirit.
As a spiritual healer, I have become very conscious of the world
of the aura and have learned to interpret the subtle vibrations
of body, emotion, mind and spirit quite accurately. These skills
allow me to understand, often better than my client does, the issues
which are blocking their well being. The skill of perceiving and
interpreting the aura is not mental, but is an extension of the
body, the senses and the emotions and the understanding comes as
a feeling sense or inner knowing.
What can be perceived in the aura is unlimited, because the vibrations
of life exist everywhere and are everything that exists. As one
becomes more attuned to the subtle vibrations you can access information
about everything that has existed or happened and everything that
will. The difficulty is in interpreting correctly what is perceived.
Practice does eventually make a person good at it. I often use the
analogy of a person who loses their sight and suddenly has to learn
everything by touch, like reading Braille. At first it seems impossible,
but with time and practice, it becomes easy. Reading auras, I think,
is a similar skill.
A good example of how the ability to read auras is an innate part
of a person would be the way that you may be sensitive to the "atmosphere"
in a room of people. Upon entering a room, you may be aware of an
atmosphere of emotion, even if everything looks normal, you may
have a feeling about what has been going on there. You may say that
this awareness is based on body language, which is partly true.
But there is more going on, and if you are sensitive and pay attention,
you'd be surprised how much you already know about the situation
without even talking to someone about what happened. If you have
developed a sensitivity to atmosphere in this way and learned to
interpret body language and other subtle cues, it is a simple step
to begin to read auras, it is exactly the same skill taken to a
higher level. If you are very sensitive you might have already sensed
what was going on in that room before you arrived. There might have
been some discomfort or anxiety that you felt as you pulled into
the driveway or entered the building, before you even saw anyone
at all. Reading auras is merely an extension and more refined development
of these very same gifts. People who are not sensitive in this way
will have to work much harder to be able to read auras, but it can
be done. This type of sensitivity is passed on genetically, like
a musical ear. If you don't have the genetic musical ear you can
still learn to play music, but the skill will be harder to learn.
It is the same with vibrational sensitivity.
A simple exercise to develop your higher senses is to first get
relaxed and focused by breathing peacefully and being fully present
in the current moment. Then project yourself in your imagination
into an activity or event in the very near future and notice any
feeling perceptions that come to you about it. Ask yourself, what
will it be like? How will I feel about that situation when I am
in it? What will happen while I am there? Is this a place where
I belong, or am I better off not going? Relaxing through any anxiety,
fears and preconceived notions about the situation ask these questions
one at a time. After each one be quietly aware of your body and
emotions, notice what feeling impressions come to you. Later, when
you go there, see if your perceptions about it were correct. It
will take practice to learn to interpret the feelings correctly,
so give it a try and interpret what you feel to your best ability.
Once you are there, you will get more information from the experience
about what your intuitive feelings were telling you. Paying attention
to what you feel will develop a greater ability to interpret those
same feelings next time they come up.
A simple next step in developing this skill would be to make decisions
about what to do or not based on the feelings you get when doing
the exercise. When you act on your intuition, your intuition grows.
When you ignore it, it recedes from consciousness and becomes harder
to access. Acting on your intuition is a simple way to develop trust
in your higher senses and practice will hone this skill to a fine
art. The information you receive when doing the exercise is the
aura or energetic vibrations around that event. With practice you
could develop that same sensitivity for the purpose of interpreting
the energetic aura around another person as in a healing treatment.
If you are like many people, you probably receive intuitive flashes
of information periodically and ignore them. Like the time one of
my clients was driving at night down a snow covered road and felt
strongly that she should turn around and take a different route.
She was very sad she hadn't listened to that message when a truck
front ended her. Definitely a live and learn kind of opportunity!
Or the time I had a sudden longing for a dog. After resisting the
idea for a week I meditated on it and realized that my guides had
picked out a dog for me! Through following a series of hunches I
was led to this dog and he is just as wonderful as you could imagine.
When I called the breeder, he was surprised to hear from me because
he had just decided to sell a dog, perfectly matching the description
I gave him, the day before! Intuitive flashes like these are an
unconscious use of the same skills that allow you to read auras.
It is all vibrational sensitivity. Follow your hunches even if they
don't make sense and you will be developing this skill. Your life
will also work much better. So have fun.
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