The Human Energy Field: What Your Aura Looks Like

by Jennifer Baltz

Your Personal Universe

Imagine a space filled with radiant light. Energy flows and swirls through it in bright colors. This life energy moves around you, as you sit nestled safely in the center. This place is your aura: your own personal universe. It is your protection, and your playground. It constantly moves and changes, as you move and change.

Auras come in every color of the rainbow. A human aura has seven layers, or levels. The colors and energies in your aura can change in a short period of time, although you may have a basic pattern of colors is constant.

The basic colors in your aura can evolve over time, just as you do. Gina Allan, a Naturopathic healer, former Buddhist nun, and best-selling author of Gifts of Spirit says that her aura colors have changed over time with her own personal growth: "Over the last fifteen years, I have been observing changes taking place in the spiritual colours of my own aura. I have had these colours confirmed by a friend who sees auras ... Fifty years ago my colours showed a very pale aqua green, indicating healing abilities. Today that colour is a deep sea green when I'm healing or speaking on the subject of healing." For Allan, the deeper green color reflects her increased certainty and evolution as a healer and teacher.

Auras are flexible--in other words, they change all of the time. Size, colors, texture, and density can all change depending on your state of mind and what you are experiencing in life. Usually, though, there is a basic pattern that we use as a "default." For example, UCLA researcher Dr. Valerie Hunt noticed that women tend to carry more energy around their upper bodies, and men often have bigger auras around the lower half of their bodies.

Quantum Reality

Over the past 100 years, scientists have been discovering what mystics and healers have known from the beginning of time: living creatures are made of energy and radiate that energy. Every living thing on our planet gives off life energy. This energy can be measured with instruments, and now it can even be represented on film.

Dr. Valerie Hunt, a professor and researcher at UCLA has studied the aura for more than 30 years. In her book, Infinite Mind: The Science of Human Vibrations, Dr. Hunt concludes that: "As a result of my work, I can no longer consider the body as organic systems or tissues. The healthy body is a flowing, interactive electrodynamic energy field."

In other words, we are made of energy and space.

Scientists used to think that we were made of matter, and that matter was solidly composed of particles. Now, they are discovering through quantum physics that we are really made of energy fields instead. Gary Zukov's The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a highly readable and understandable exploration of quantum mechanics if you would like to learn more about this subject. The works of Dr. Deepak Chopra also discuss the human energy system.

The energy making up the human body is dense enough to see and touch. It feels solid. The aura is a little lighter, less dense, and not easy to see with the physical eyes. Almost anyone can feel the energy of the aura with their hands, however. It just takes a little practice.

Aura Healing?

My first "aura encounter" happened at Santa Clara University, a conservative Jesuit college in Northern California. My bright, vivacious English teacher burst into the grants office where I worked part-time and offered to give me an "aura healing." She was taking a healing class, and she needed to "clean out" a few auras as homework.

Now I am an engineer's daughter. I was raised on science and skepticism in the heart of Silicon Valley. The scientific part of me was positive she had gone off the deep end. But something inside me was enchanted with her enthusiasm, so I agreed. She waved her hands around my head and body, healing "holes" in my aura. The funny part about it was that I could actually feel her hands moving around me even when I had my eyes closed. Much to my surprise, I felt more centered and energized after she finished.

Years later, I found myself in what had to be the same spiritual healing class that my English teacher had taken. I learned to feel the energy of an aura with my hands. I also learned how to reset and restore my energy after a tough day, and how to meditate to help build my energy level. They are great visualization tools that I still use to this day.

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