The Human Aura – the Energy Bodies

The world of subtle energy opens your mind to what you know at heart about yourself and life. 

The aura is an energetic bubble that surrounds the physical body of any living thing – plant, animal or human.  Much like the atmosphere that surrounds the earth holds the gases and energy that makes it possible for us to live, the aura acts to enclose an energy field around us and protect the life force within us.  The aura is the self, as energy.  It is imprinted with your spirit and the thoughts and feelings that you have.  The more positive your thoughts, the stronger your energy field.  Negative thoughts and feelings will shrink this energy field.

The aura is often referred to as “subtle energy” or “subtle body”.  It is not as noticeable as your physical body, but it is there.   There are actually seven layers to the human aura that represent our physical well being, emotional stability and mental clarity, as well as our connection to Spirit.  They are a direct reflection of our spiritual state and a mirror of how we feel about ourselves and life in general. 

Although you may not be able to see the aura, you can experience it.  Have you ever been around someone where you felt a light, open quality to them?  And conversely, have you even been around someone where you felt a closed, dark quality.  What you are experiencing is the quality of their energy field.  You perceive it through their body language, the brightness or dullness in their eyes, the clarity or confusion of their minds and by the things they say or do.  Think about how you feel when someone gives you a warm smile – there is a warm glowing feeling that comes over you.  And most likely you are inclined to reciprocate with a warm smile yourself. This is a positive exchange of energy.

This energy exchange is part of every interaction you have with people, plants and animal. It is the life force exchanged between us.

Check the following link for some interesting aura experitments. Aura Experiments

A person trained in energy work can distinguish the various levels of the aura more easily than most of us.   Diagnosis of disease or negative mental attitudes can be done by looking at the aura and chakra system.

When the aura is weakened by disease or distress, it is unable to hold its full capacity of energy.    Energy attracts like energy.  Negative thoughts result in negative energy, thus attracting more negative situations which can perpetuate the negative thoughts.  Positive thoughts build positive energy, attracting more positive situations which then perpetuate the positive thoughts.   If you find yourself in that cycle of negativity, examine why that is and work to find ways to turn it around.   The layers of energy that comprise your aura will expand and contract as a response to your thought forms.  If you spend time tuning into how you feel physically, emotionally and mentally you will find that you can feel the changes in the energy layers in relation to your thoughts and feelings.  Be receptive to this and you may gain direct clues about yourself.  

These energy fields around you can be transformed as your consciousness is developed.  The more you can connect to the universal source of life, nature, Divine Spirit, Mother/Father God , Allah (whatever you call it), the stronger the subtle energy becomes.  You can transform your life force energy through awareness and by understanding how this energy responds to positive thoughts and intentions.   You can strengthen your aura with positive thinking, meditation and prayer.

Living a healthy lifestyle (which in itself is a positive situation) also helps to build a strong auric field.   

The human aura consists of seven layers or energy bodies, each acting as a filter for life energy.  Each layer corresponds to one of the seven planes of our being – physical, etheric, emotional, mental, spiritual, monadic and divine. 

Each layer of the aura expands outward from the body becoming finer and lighter in vibration.  The higher the vibrational frequency, the more difficult it is to see or sense.  But they are there none the less.  Think of a fan, with rotating blades.  At slower speeds, the blades are somewhat visible, but as the fan speeds up, the blades become just a blur.  But they are there, even if they are difficult to see.

Physical  Body – The physical body contains all of your organic systems and is composed of gases, liquids and dense matter.  It is on this physical plane that the spirit can express itself, learn lessons and gain wisdom.  The physical layer of your aura is the layer that is closest to your physical body and contains the blueprint of your physical life.  This layer relates to your physical body and how you react to practical earthly matters.  In people who love physical exercise or people who are very practical, this layer of the aura will be very strong. 

1. Etheric Body – This is the thickest and densest of the subtle energy bodies and has to do with the functioning of the physical body.  It vitalizes and energizes your physical body and connects you with the cycles and rhythms of earth energy.  The chakras exist in this layer of energy, next to the physical body.  It appears as bluish-white to violet-gray.    Visual confirmation of the etheric body was developed in the 1940’s through a technique called Kirlian photography.  This technique provided a method to demonstrate the correlation between fluctuations on the etheric body and an individual’s physiological and psychological state.  In addition to your physical vitality, the etheric body also affects your ability to enjoy physical sensations and the pleasures of the physical world around you.

2. Emotional Body – This layer is affected by how you feel about yourself emotionally, not how you feel in relation to others.  It is about self-love - your ability to accept and emotionally nurture yourself.  This layer shows whether you bottle up your emotions or release them freely.  The emotional layer opens up as you become more sensitive and trust your feelings to act as an inner guidance.  It corresponds to your awareness of Self as valuable and good, worthy of love, kindness and respect.  It is in this plane that disease originates that can deeply affect your physical health.  It is through the Emotional body that we experience the range of opposites such as pleasure and pain, fear and courage, attachment and disengagement.  This is where energy gets blocked when our all-consuming desires run our lives.

3. Mental Body – This layer represents your state of mind and your attitudes about life.  Philosophers and writers often have strong mental layers.  Your sense of mental clarity is associated with this energy body as well as your ability to use your mental aspect in a way that is in balance with your intuitive and emotional aspects.  Without this balance your analytical processes can dominate your consciousness and judgemental or critical thoughts arise.  Negative thoughts about yourself or others will show up as energy blocks in the mental layer. 

4. Spiritual Body – This layer acts as a bridge to your higher Self which can be achieved through meditation, prayer and inner reflection.   It is on this level that you begin to experience the expression of your higher nature through the qualities of intuitive wisdom and love.  This layer is about love – how to love yourself and others around you.  It is about relationships of all kinds and how you deal with them – family, friends, colleagues, even strangers, plants and animals.  Your ability to both give and receive love is revealed in this layer.  Love is a complex energy and this layer is where the vibrational frequency starts to become finer.

5. The Divine Will – This plane relates to the conscious alignment of your own personal will with the higher will and perfect nature of the Divine.  It can thus affect the patterns that you create in your own life.  Your sense of order, your level of integrity and authenticity and your ability to live in harmony with the divine truth of your own being are associated with this energy body.

6. Monadic Body or Soul Body – This is the layer through which the Soul expresses itself.  It is through the lower planes (physical, emotional and mental) that the soul uses to develop experience and maturity for its growth and healing.  It is through this layer that you can experience the universe in a much wider context and through this awareness allow you to broaden your horizons with respect to where you fit within the universe.  The term Monad means the spark of God that is within each person.  This energy plane relates to your connection with your own soul and your individualized spiritual essence or God Self.  If you are disconnected from your spiritual nature, it will affect your ability to experience the expansion that this energy plane represents.

7. Divine Body or Universal Mind – The highest plane is the Divine plane, where the Godhead is experienced.   It is the finest, highest and brightest of all the layers.  It is called the blueprint for bliss and a fusion with the Divine Mind.  At this level of consciousness, you know and experience yourself as one with the Creator and through this experience you gain a sense of fulfillment and peace.   It is truly not something that can be comprehended so much as something that can be experienced.  Just as the Divine Intelligence enfolds all things, this seventh energy body enfolds all the other fields, forming a protective layer of golden light that holds them all together.

All the energy bodies that comprise the human aura interact within themselves.  They are highly differential fields of energy where your spirit, your feelings and your body act as one.  Body – Mind – Spirit as one, without separation. 

When all the energy bodies are aligned and functioning according to their highest expression: