Thank you, my dear. Those are wonderful ideas. Iāll let them rattle around my head and see what I come up with!
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My brain is a little bit everywhere recently & I couldnāt figure out why people were thanking me for a suggestion. I honestly had no idea what they kept thanking for 
Then I saw the original post that I suggested something to do with auras. Go me! Thank you @BryWisteria for coming up with the challenge & youāre welcome to everyone who has thanked me for the suggestion. I donāt know how I missed the tag when I first read through the challenge.
I think I am going to figure out what types of Empathic abilities I have & then how to use that to read auras. I will definitely work on it today, itās another overcast, high humidity day here with matching temperatures.
At some point, at least a few weeks ago, I had looked into what Empathic tendencies were, do you think I can remember off the top of my head? No. So I have to pinpoint that before I dive into reading auras. I want to see if something I already do can help me in any way.
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I would love to actually see the colors but I do believe I feel them. I can feel the mood of the person, or the room. I can read them enough to know if they āmix wellā with me (I believe). So I can feel the Aura and the colors connect, so itās more like a mesh of colors that blend to make one certain feeling I get from that person. If that makes sense. There are sometimes that everybodyās colors become muddy and thatās when I believe itās becoming to much!
Iāve always felt like I could āread the roomā or feel the tension in the air ā and that most time itās either bright or dull & dark. As part of my routine, one of my favorite aura cleansing meditations is to clear your mind while in a comfortable position.
Then picture a pyramid of light and peace (build in slowly from your feet (bottom) to your head (the tip too) as you are breathing in peace and breathing out the negative try to then wrap a circle around the pyramid enclosing the light of peace inside your circle and pyramid of the mind. As you keep building up the circle that encompasses you. When you are readyā set that free like a supernova of the mind and let it explode with the white light flowing into the universe. This has always helped me settle if I was feeling anxious.
- Another thing- Iām very sensitive to other peopleās emotions and sometimes just saying to my self āthese feeling donāt belong to meā these are not my mineā because you can start to feel susceptible to other peoples emotions
(but think they are you own). - Another thing I do that helps me is rhythmic clapping ; to just get rid of those negative feelings right away!
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But Iām definitely a clapper (when I start to sense negativity) and I sing and dance all the time cuz I canāt help it, itās apart of who I am and it helps me cope with all the emotions and empathy I feel. Iām able to feel the anxiety of people and I hope Iām able to make them feel more apart of the colors we all can make when we are open and kind to one another
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Thanks for all of the aura resources, @Missa! Looking forward to hearing your book review as well- it sounds like you are enjoying it 
Those are some helpful tips about aura reading, @Christina4- thanks for sharing! 
No worries at all @Susurrus, I know you have your hands full at the moment with important things. Thanks again for your great challenge idea, and I wish you all the best as you further explore your Empathic abilities! 
It sounds like you have quite the talent for sensing auras, @Steph! And I love that you use music and dance to cleanse your emotions. There is something very freeing and purifying about expression through music and movement! 
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Iām glad to help! Now, I have to figure out what Iām doing for the challenge 
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I have a very nice therapist who semi-accidentally got me interested in Tantra too through some very similar body awareness exercises! 
On our latest session we touched on something to do with auras too, not using the word but stillā¦ āItās just something that extends beyond our physical bodies, I canāt find the words right nowā she saysā¦ āLike an energy field?ā I ask and she says āexactly!ā 
The exercise we did was visualizing our personal boundaries, the space around us we feel like we want to claim for ourselves, and it feels uncomfortable to let someone closer than that uninvited. My intuition is that the feeling comes from auras intersecting, or energy bodies rubbing together. I asked if we could try that next time, consciously feeling how our internal states change when those boundaries intersect, she was okay with it, weāre so excited! We get to rub energy bodies together!!
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Thatās awesome! Thatās exactly what auras are!!! I need that type of therapist for real
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Sheās a delight to work with, I hope you can find a similar one too @christina4! Thank you for the confirmation, sounds like Iām on the right track! 
I think Iāve always been more kinesthetic than visual, so I havenāt seen auras in colors, but picking up the raw emotions of the people around me has been almost too easy! Only very recently, practicing letting go, Iāve been able to not āgo withā those feelings and take them as my own. Iām also pretty good at telling peopleās intentions when Iām with them, and whether I should trust them or not. Itās been somewhat muddled by another voice, anxiety, but Iāve been getting better and better telling them apart. So my third eye chakra has been doing well, and my root and throat chakras are catching upā¦ apropos, I missed the tea meditation but I could still do it! 
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So I spent yesterday afternoon & this morning looking into empath abilities. Then I ventured into learning how to see auras. I searched through sites & Pinterest & found information about how to do it & then when you do see an aura, what the color means.
I started with my dogsā¦ Iām home with my daughter but she is sleeping. I didnāt want her to wake up & it is weird with me gazing at herā¦ it just seemed like an awkward situation to wake up to. Sparing her that, I went back to my room. I have 1 dogā¦ the mommaās boy laying next to my side of the bed. The other one, heās the mommaās boy that wonāt admit it, is next to me on the bed.
At first, I tried to soften my gaze on Moomers (a nickname for Moonshine, I have always had a nickname for him unless he is being āfantasticā) I then took some deep breaths & focused my softened gaze on his upper shoulders, neck, head area. Lucky for me he was laying on a black background. Once I got relaxed, I removed my glassesā¦ another lucky thingā¦ I am not wearing contacts today. I softened the gaze & then (this is hard to explain, but this is what has really always worked for me) I was focused on Moo but kind of, acknowledging my peripheral vision area & the things that are there without focusing on them. Mooās shape was there & then around the top of his head, neck, shoulders was a white band. Of course, as soon as my brain realized that I was seeing a color field, it got excited & Mooman came right back into focus.
So, I kept my glasses off & turned to Alphie. He has taken it upon himself to make sure that every morning he jumps up on my bed when my husband leaves. He snuggles right up to me & just kind of hangs out with me until Iām done with my morning whatevers on the bed. TV, computer, BOS, BOM, he stays there as long as my primary area is in the room.
I kept my glasses off & turned my gaze to him. I faced towards his head but I was mainly focused on just him laying next to me. Then I softened the gaze & started paying a little bit more attention to my peripheral vision again keeping him in the center. As I relaxed & kind ofā¦ gently gazed at himā¦ there it wasā¦ a yellow band.
I have done this before. I canāt be completely focused on the person or animal. Itās kind of a thing I do but I never knew when it would happen or anything. I kind of thought because of my eye issues that it was something to do with them. I can remember seeing things like this throughout my life unintentionally & not all the time. It would just kind of happen. I see them almost through my peripheral vision. So hard to explain because it just kind of happens.
I went to Pinterest & did a search for Aura Colors. I found this image & a few others that I saved to my Witchy Stuffs board.
Moonshineās white band would be purity, newness, spiritual, truth. If you met him, you would totally understand. He is just so happy & loves his people & making friends. He also likes to antagonize & instigate Alphie. Everyone needs a past time I guess. 
Alphieās yellow band would be positivity, joy, learning new things, harmonious. I feel like that completely explains him too! In his own special way, he brings those things to the house & the people he lets get close to him. He is very loyal & can be protective or a healer. I say that because the last few weeks, I havenāt been able to shake these 2. If I lay down they all but fight over who gets to lay behind my legs. Itās really funny to watch them. They are like kids stealing each otherās spots.
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@Susurrus congrats on seeing your dogs auras. It is an amazing experience and you should be very proud of yourself.
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Thank you for the information and thank you for all the interesting stories. 
I may have to give this one a try. Iāll have to watch some of those videos for sure.
Blessed Be.
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Thank you, I was talking to my friend & itās definitely a lot easier to do when I donāt realize thatās what Iām doing. Wanting to do it was more difficult. I had to try to remember what is happening when I donāt realize thatās what Iām doing. Luckily my dogs are pretty good at laying in one spot in the mornings with me.
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I donāt usually see colors so much as just a thin haze around people. I have noticed one thing in consciously doing this is that when I think about doing it, it doesnāt seem to come as easy, as if maybe Iām overthinking it. I tried seeing my own in the mirror and I just couldnāt but I will be practicing. Mostly I feel peopleās energy and it affects me, especially negative energy, wears me out quickly. Incidentally when I was a kid amd I mentioned it to my parents, I got taken to the eye doctor 
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Here is the link for My weekly challenge entry in this weekās challenge hopefully itās relevant enough considering I have accepted the fact that reading auras is not one of my gifts 
Iām okay with that though.
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I thought, I am going to be the one who canāt see it. I can never see those Magic Eye poster doo-hickeys. So I tried, let my eyes slip out of focus andā¦
OMIGOSH I LOOK LIKE A GLOW STICK. I just never looked before! Holy moly! I hope I did it right. I was looking in the mirror with the lights out. I left the room and went back to see if it was still there. Yup! Now I want someone to see my aura who is experienced because I saw a white glow and I understand white is pretty rare. So maybe I didnāt do it right. My eyes are old, I wear contacs. Who knows? But man! My heart is beating so fast. That was soooooo cool. It was literally like a glow extending about 2 or 3 inches from my head and shoulders. I also saw my forearms āglowā but with less extension.
I thought maybe itās my old eyes so I held up a shampoo bottle and a box and they did not have auras ā at least none, that I could see! I am going to keep experimenting with this with different backgrounds. When I used to sell fine jewelry, we used velvety black or white backgrounds. Especially white with the pearls. I want to be sure I am looking at auras and not shadows.
I also tried rubbing my hands together and bringing them slowly to see if I could āseeā the color of this energy. I see something filmy and grayish white, like steam or a cloud. I will keep practicing.
I would love to hear your thoughts about the following ā do you think there are layers? Have you seen any?
I read about auras in āPractical Magicā by Nikki Van De Car. According to this author, auras have layers that blend into each other, and it may be hard to distinguish the layers. She says they reflect your inner state so they can change (I guess like a mood ring?) I believe she is drawing from Theosophic teachings/traditions. I do not know if they are ālegitā or not. But I do like this author. Each is associated with a Chakra. The layers are, according to her:
- Etheric - closest to the body, about 1 to 2 inches from your skin. Can look clear or muddy depending on your state of mind.
- Emotional - 3 inches from body. Can be blotchy.
- Mental - 8 inches from the body.
- Astral - about a foot from the body. More like your higher self. She says when you are in love, it glows pink. I wonder?
- Etheric Template - About 2 feet from the body. Dark blue.
- Celestial - About 2 and half feet from the body. Shimmery. Pastels. Commuication with the Divine, spiritual realm.
- Ketheric Template - (Crown Chakra) - Gold, web-like. Where the intuition resides. Emotional connection to Spirit. Strongest aura.
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I might have seen this one while I practiced with the mirror using the technique @Susurrus describedā¦ clear but clearly there at that distance, kinda flowy, in the way heat can look on the surface of a road on a hot day or a fire pit for example! 
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Thatās what I saw 
& couldnāt really describe around my pups 
Like a flowy band.
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I wasnāt able to see actually the aura colors of the customers at work or while I was out shopping. But like always, I was able to sense what they were feeling and I assigned a color or colors to their auras. I donāt think that oneās aura is strictly a single color since our personalities are layered and our emotions can vary day by day.
At work and out shopping, a lot of the colors I āfeltā were various shadings of gray 
mixed in with other colors. These people seemed anxious, possibly from preparing their kids to go back to school and from other things going on in their lives that Iām unaware of.
Curiously, one guyās aura made think of the colors yellow and dark gray. 
The yellow seemed to be trying to push out the dark gray. So, maybe this guy was going through a rough time (dark gray) and better times were coming (yellow).
I āfeltā that the happier people had auras of pink 
(no pink circle so hereās a pink flower), blue, 
green 
, and violet 
.
There was a young girl at work who got mad at me because I wouldnāt sell her a pack of cigarettes without an ID. She looked underage and even though she āpromisedā that she was old enough, I knew I would get in trouble for not checking the ID of someone who would very much looked underage (I guess that she was 14 or 15).
Her aura was red 
and dark gray , but mostly red. I think this means that she was trying to hide some pain or anxiety through her anger.
I tried reading my own aura at one point, and at the time I could āfeelā the colors green , blue , and with a little bit of white , which I interpreted as feeling grounded (like the green plants in the Earth) and peaceful.
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Iām glad you found such a great therapist, @CelestiaMoon- and thatās a really interesting point about how energy bodies interact. I definitely agree that being close to someone with positive energy is a wonderful feeling, while proximity to someone with a more, well, icky energy is awful Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom!
Congrats to you on your aura readings, @Susurrus! And a round of applause to Moomers and Alphie for helping you with your aura work 
You have some wonderful helpers- Iām glad they were able to help you dig deeper into your aura readings!
Absolutely, @Colin! If you decide to give aura work a try, feel free to share how it went- wishing you good luck!
Oopsies, @Peaches- I donāt think the eye doctor could do much about magickal sight, as itās not something that needs fixing! It sounds like youāve always had a natural talent for sensing things, and how amazing that you can see a haze! Thanks for sharing your story, as for the energy of others wearing you down, have you considered Empath Shielding? 
Thanks again for sharing your entry, @phoenix_dawn- and great job giving aura reading a try! I mentioned it in the other thread, but I really donāt think you need to see something in order to be adept at aura reading. I think youāve already got a great talent for sensing!
Thatās amazing @mary25- congrats to you! It looks like you unlocked your ability to see aura colors, and youāve got quite the talent for it too! 
Iāve seen a few sources that explore layers of colors, but I believe thatās a much more advanced realm of aura reading. It sounds like youāve already surpassed the basics, though, so I wish you all the best as you explore your aura reading abilities!
I love how you explained sensing the colors (rather than seeing them), @Kasandra- I think you described it much better than I did! 
You have a very strong intuition to allow you to feel the colors so clearly- even in those who have multiple layers. Thanks so much for sharing your experience- I hope you enjoyed delving into aura readings!
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