Frequently Asked Questions: Auras

One of the most popular posts in this blog is my article about prana and auras, Cleansing Your Aura, October 2007, and I've seen a lot of readers still visit that article and find it with search engines. I've written a lot of articles about spiritual healing lately, and I am also writing a companion ebook for the Alignment of the Divine meditation music album. You can download a sample ebook on this page and on the main pages of my Official Website; download the free book now to make sure the software is compatible with your computer. Later in 2009 you can purchase the complete edition of this ebook, and the complete meditation album.

Some of the keywords and phrases my website visitors use to find that article are questions or concepts that I didn't write about, such as:

• How can you keep your aura clear after aligning your chakras?
• Can a psychic cleanse your aura?
• Paranormal space cleansing and dowsing
• What do the colours of auras mean?
• Learn to see and interpret auras
• Electromagnetic energy field surrounding bodies of living things.
• Street Lamp Interference, SLI, and your aura

After you heal and align your chakras using one or more of the methods I mentioned in my previous blog article, or you meditate with one of the "Alignment of the Divine" meditation songs I produced that can automatically stimulate, balance and align your chakras as you listen, you can keep your aura clear and healthy by:

• regularly meditating with sound and music energy vibrations
• using power stones to keep your aura strong, clear, and bright
• using colour and aromatherapy to maintain your body-mind-spirit health

You can also keep your aura clear and bright by engaging in activities associated with your astrological element. Your dominant element might correspond with your sun sign, such as Pisces, Cancer, and Scorpio that are all water signs.

Water elemental people will benefit from swimming, relaxing bath and sauna time, keeping an aquarium and pet fish in the home, fishing outdoors, meditating near ponds, lakes, sea or ocean water, travel by sea, walking in the rain, and drinking plenty of pure, clean water. If you're a Water sign, you would do best as a psychologist, counselor, lightworker or healer, spiritual leader, writer, advisor, artist, musician, marine biologist, sailing or boating industry, fishing, teaching, or healing professions that require emotional care and support.

Air elementals benefit from fresh air, walking in clear and pleasant weather or at night time, hiking and outdoor recreation, travel by plane, crowds and public events, outdoor festivals and entertainment, barbecues and outdoor parties and they are highly sociable people. If you're an Air sign, your best career choices would be politics and public speaking, teaching, coaching, motivation and inspiration, spiritual guidance, scientific exploration and research, air travel industry or being a pilot, air quality control and environmental activism, working with birds and their habitats, weather study and prediction in meteorology, astronomy, launch and flight technology, mechanics and physics, chemistry, pharmaceutical, astrology, intelligence and investigation, and historical preservation and education.

Fire elementals have intense passionate emotions, ideas, beliefs, and reactions. They can be quick to react, have a sensitive temper, be verbal and loud, are often blunt and harsh in their speech, can sometimes be disrespectful, and they often talk down to, manipulate and intimidate others. Fire elements thrive when they speak, lecture, or teach in public and they usually love being outdoors as well. You'll find them huddled around the campfire when you go camping, grilling on the barbecue, cooking and eating hot meals, tending to all indoor temperature and heat control (and is often known for being controlling when it comes to the thermostat or other heating in the home), taking hot showers and saunas or soaking in a hot tub, drawn to natural hot springs, enjoys hot stone massages, and is usually the quickest to anger and lash out verbally. If you're a Fire sign, you might enjoy a career in politics or public service, or intellectual services like medicine, research, astrology, remote viewing, psychic investigation and interpretation, scrying, reading Tarot cards, journalism and research writing, teaching or training, public speaking, coaching and counseling that involves active treatment programs, engineering, combustion technology and heating control, sculpting glass, welding, cooking and food industry services, food and entertainment critic, and non-fiction writer or blogger.

Earth elementals, on the other hand, are peacemakers and care providers. They thrive when they cook and clean at home, do gardening and yard work, go hiking, see beautiful sights and travel by any means (walking, cars and buses, planes, trains, boats, etc). They love expressively and demonstrate affection by nurturing others. Earth elementals usually have a deep appreciation and concern for the environment and feel deep joy and relief when they recycle, reduce their ecological footprint, and spread information about environmental protection and preservation. If you're an Earth sign, you would probably enjoy donating to an environmental charity, volunteering, and working outdoors or in the travel, real estate, food and lodging shelter industries. You might struggle with your weight because you are a very sensual person who is able to enjoy the comforts and luxuries of cooking, baking, and serving food of many different varieties. Earth elementals enjoy rich and varied diets and are often concerned with physical appearance and the loyalty and reliability of their close personal relationships. If you're an Earth sign, your best careers are childcare, nursing, compassionate medicine and surgery, gardening, cooking and baking, food industry service, veterinarian and working with animals, outdoor parks and recreation management, counselling, teaching, instruction, casual writing, pottery and hand sculpting stone and wood, making candles, sewing and fashion, photography, and the travel and tourism industry.

Yes, a psychic, spiritualist or mystic can cleanse your aura for you, either in person or over a distance by manipulating your chakras and prana. The healer or lightworker you've chosen can balance, align and heal your chakras for you or a loved one, to promote deep spiritual healing and recovery.

If you want to cleanse a space, room, home, or outdoor location and release any negative or harmful energies there, you can accomplish spiritual cleansing much in the same way that you cleanse your own aura. You can use a crystal pendulum or dowsing rod to locate energy disturbances and anomalies in your outdoor surroundings and inside the home as well. You can also use your Bible when you bless and cleanse physical spaces, if you're comfortable with it. Use prayer, blessed holy water, scented and blessed oil, salt and powdered herbs and spices to keep negative energy vibrations out of your home. You will need to pay special attention to all doors and windows of the home if you want to protect your entire personal living space.

If you do not experience any paranormal phenomena such as poltergeists, ghosts, free roaming spirits, nature spirits and doppelganger activity, then you probably don't need to cleanse and ritualistically protect your home environment from spiritual invasions. However, if you are creating a sacred space for meditation and prayer within your home, you should use all of your blessing tools and proven protection invocations to purify the chosen space.

The colour of someones aura indicates the dominant spiritual energy affecting them at the time the aura is perceived. Your aura changes colour as you experience different things, and sometimes several colours will be seen in your aura at one time. Different energies are represented by every colour in the spectrum, and a swelling or glowing portion of the aura can indicate physical and spiritual health disturbances in that part of the body.

White energy in your aura is pure and perfectly balanced. When you align your chakras or connect with the divine through prayer and meditation, your aura can turn bright white like God's love. If you see grey or even black portions in someones aura, that means there's a lack of spiritual energy, or a void, in that part of the body. Depending on the overall appearance, brightness, and colours of the aura, perceiving dark or shadowy spots within the aura will indicate the type of experience or struggle the person is going through at that time.

You can train yourself to see auras around all living things. Begin by studying the chakras in depth until you have an instinctive ability to interpret the intensity and meaning of colour messages. You can enhance your skills through meditation, remote viewing and scrying. Auras will be perceived around a person when you look at them and relax your eyes as you stimulate alpha brainwave activity.

The aura is a fluctuating electromagnetic field surrounding any living thing. The energies of the spirit can be perceived and interpreted to develop a deep understanding and insight to the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well being of the individual. SLIders are people who are able to cause Street Lamp Interference either accidentally or at will. The stronger a person's aura is, the brighter it shines and this also significantly elevates the individuals ability to cause electromagnetic disturbances. If you are a SLIder and want to stop from "SLIding," you can wear a solid hematite band on your finger, or carry a tumbled piece of hematite within your aura (in a pocket, for example) at all times. Hematite will attract negative energy like a magnet and absorb it, cleansing your aura of the harmful energy.

Understanding Your Chakras and Spiritual Energy

Spiritual energy is distinct from physical energy that you use to move your body around, lift things, and so on. Spiritual energy is often called "prana" or "chi" (among other names). I personally feel most comfortable with the label "prana," which is a Sanskrit word meaning "breath." Spiritual energy is the breath or life force of your spirit the same way that blood is the life force of your physical body. Blood carries oxygen and vital nutrients to all parts of your physical body, just as the chakras transmit and receive prana throughout the body. Chakra is another Sanskrit word that means "wheel," and they are energy centers located in your torso and head. The chakras can be thought of and understood as "energy converters" too, as the chakras connect your spiritual body to your physical body and help to convert and transfer physical energy and prana between the different parts of your physical and spiritual body.

When you use your psychic abilities or engage in other spiritual functions, you need to use the prana stored in your body. Some psychics report feeling "drained" after using their spiritual gifts, and others have reported a very sharp increase in their physical appetite after performing these spiritual functions. The reason for that is you are using your available prana for these psychic and spiritual tasks, and your spiritual energy can become depleted. The increased appetite many spiritualists experience is a sign that the prana has been significantly depleted and the body requires more energy--that energy can be obtained by taking in physical energy (in the form of calories that fuel your body for all its physical functions), and this physical energy can then be converted into prana through your chakras in order to replenish the supply.

When there is a disturbance or blockage in your spiritual energy, your chakras can become unbalanced, weak and damaged and that can lead to disturbances in your physical body in time. The most common example of this is the effects of toxic emotions. When toxic emotions are not healed appropriately, they are often "stuffed down" and ignored. Where do those toxic emotions get "stuffed" or "bottled up"? They go straight to your Sacral Chakra, which is located in the center of the abdomen, just beneath the navel. Over time, these emotions can damage the Sacral Chakra, and harmful energy is then able to attack your physical body and result in physical injuries, illnesses and diseases.

When my brother died, I could not cope with the loss in a healthy manner and I stuffed all the pain down into my Sacral Chakra--where I'd been storing up toxic emotions from my early childhood even. My Sacral Chakra became overloaded and experienced what could be described as catastrophic failure. Very soon after the death of my brother in my late teen years, I became afflicted with the disease endometriosis. I discovered through conversing with many other women who suffer from endometriosis that all the women I have talked to did experience some type of severe emotional and spiritual trauma prior to the onset of the disease. I experience chronic abdominal pain and light internal bleeding (although it often doesn't feel light, it is not life threatening) as a direct result of my damaged chakra! When my Sacral Chakra became overloaded by the toxic emotions, it was no longer able to protect my physical body from the harmful effects of the prana of those emotions. Thankfully I have been aware of the damage and have been working on healing my Sacral Chakra for years. The physical disease, endometriosis, still requires physical intervention and treatment from skilled medical professionals, but I must also heal the damage to my chakra in order to prevent the illness from reoccurring.

Here is an illustration of the chakras that connect the spirit body to the physical body. You will notice colours and symbols representing each chakra as well. Each colour from the spectrum is represented because there is a special task for each of our seven major chakras, and each one converts and transfers a specific type of spiritual energy. Just as the Sacral Chakra deals with the toxic emotions or traumas, as well as relationships of all kinds, joy and creativity, the other chakras each have specific purposes and tasks. The colours perceived in your aura reveal what type of spiritual energy or experience is dominant for you right now, and your aura changes colour as you experience different things. You can access and strengthen each kind of spiritual energy by visualizing the colour associated with the chakra you wish to use or strengthen. Meditate on the area of your body where the chakra is located and visualize a spinning vortex of coloured light corresponding with that specific chakra and emanating from the chakra and spreading throughout your body.

There is a great deal to know about each chakra and I cannot give you a complete education about each of them in one short article, but I would like to introduce you to the basics of each chakra, and encourage you to continue your own personal research and study about the chakras and how prana is used by the physical and spiritual bodies.

The Root Chakra is located near the base of the spine, near the perineum. The colour of the Root Chakra energy is vibrant or deep red, and it deals with the energy of earthly and material things. A strong Root Chakra indicates a person who is well grounded or in touch with the physical world. An imbalance in this chakra can lead someone to be obsessed with the acquisition of material wealth, power and control, and they may also act out sexually because the Root Chakra connects to physical creation and sexuality too.

The Sacral Chakra is located in the center of the abdomen, just beneath the navel. The colour of the Sacral Chakra is deep, rich orange, and this chakra deals with emotional creativity, joy, sensuality and spirituality. A strong Sacral Chakra indicates a person who has a healthy balance between dependence and independence, and experiences deep joy, emotional harmony and spiritual devotion, and possesses great creative energy for things like art, music, and writing. An imbalance in this chakra can represent as depression, insecurities about the body and sexuality, poor self esteem and self image, and social anxiety and withdrawal or isolationism.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is located in the mid-torso, near the diaphragm. The colour of the Solar Plexus Chakra is bright yellow, and this chakra deals with awareness, intellect, and will power. A strong Solar Plexus Chakra indicates a person who is confident, intellectual, observant and courageous. An imbalance in this chakra can manifest as perfectionism and a high level of self-controlling behaviour (that is usually not helpful to the individual at all), mental confusion, and excessive fears and cowardice or avoidance behaviours.

The Heart Chakra is located in the center of the chest, near the heart. The colour of the Heart Chakra is vivid green, and this chakra relates to love, nature, healing, compassion and also the connection between your will and God's will. A strong Heart Chakra will manifest as a very loving and generous nature, harmony, calmness, a deep concern for the environment, and can often lead an individual to experience prosperity because of being powerfully connected with the highest good. An imbalance in the Heart Chakra can cause you to feel jealousy, experience discord in your personal relationships, and impair your ability to make decisions from the heart.

The Throat Chakra is located in the center of your throat, between your collar and your jaw. The colour of the Throat chakra is deep blue, and this chakra relates to communication, honesty, and diplomacy. A strong Throat Chakra enables a person to express themselves freely and be honest, respectful and inspirational in their speech. An imbalance of this chakra can cause a person to be dishonest and disrespectful in their speech, to keep feelings and ideas hidden, and can result in a feeling of disconnection from Spirit as well as other people.

The Third Eye Chakra is located in the center of your head, near the center of your forehead. The colour of the Third Eye Chakra is indigo, and this chakra deals with all the psychic functions, as well as actions resulting from decisions--you will rarely hear about the Third Eye in any sense other than the psychic, mind you. A strong Third-Eye chakra enables you to perceive the bigger picture and make clear decisions based on intuitive wisdom, and will definitely cause one to develop some or all psychic functions that are your birthright. An imbalance in this chakra will lead to the blockage or impairment of all psychic functions, and can lead to confusion, faulty reasoning, and sometimes even an inability to see reason or make sense of the world around you.

The Crown Chakra is located at the top of your head and is the location through which your spirit entered your physical body when you were conceived, and this chakra deals with higher thinking and spirituality. The colour of the Crown Chakra is bright purple, although many people perceive the Crown Chakra as white. The reason is that pure spiritual energy is white (containing all colours from the spectrum), and we will take another look at white energy in a moment. A strong Crown Chakra indicates a person who is completely connected with Spirit and possesses spiritual wisdom. A strong Crown Chakra will enable you to connect with your Higher Self and experience higher consciousness all the time. An imbalance or blockage in the Crown Chakra can result in an inability to connect with the divine, and over-emphasising the material and physical world.

Because the spirit enters the body through the Crown Chakra, this is also a passage between the physical and the spiritual. When a person has a strong Crown Chakra, they can receive pure white prana from God flowing down through the body from the top of the head. Balancing all of your chakras will enable your spiritual energy to become purified and white energy will flow through your entire physical and spiritual body. For this reason, meditating on white or white light can assist you in balancing the energy of all your chakras.

I will write more about chakras, colours and meditation, but for now I encourage you to think about the colours you're most drawn to right now. What colour do you prefer to wear or decorate your environment with? How do different colours affect your moods? What insights can you glean from these colour attractions and association that you have, now that you know more about the colours of energy? A strong attraction to a particular colour could mean you have particularly strong energy of that type, or it could mean you need to increase that energy in order to achieve beneficial balance of your prana. Does your favourite colour indicate a strength or a weakness for you? I invite you to share your experiences in the comments for this post.

~*~Monica Who~*~

Healing Our Wounded Souls

Lately I've been struggling to cope with a family crisis that is not unlike the death of a loved one, except that my loved one is very much alive and is lost nonetheless. It feels impossible to grieve for someone who's been lost yet is still living. How can we bring the powers of emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual healing to our families, our friends, and even our whole world? How can we heal our wounded souls?

Prayer and meditation is the key to healing a broken soul, heart, mind or spirit, but sometimes an individual may not be able to use these powerful tools themself. When a person is cut off from their own spiritual wisdom and their Higher Self, or Spirit, it can be impossible to formulate the necessary words for a prayer. If you have a fractured mind or spirit, you may not even be aware of your dire need of healing! This vital task of healing your injured spirit, mind, or heart must sometimes be passed onto an experienced lightworker or spiritual healer, who is able to work with your spiritual energy and lead you toward your highest good once again.

Finding the best lightworker for you can be a challenge as well. How can you know that a particular practitioner can facilitate spiritual healing for you or your loved one? You will need to begin by having an open, honest conversation with the lightworker you're considering. Ask her or him to explain how they can work with your loved one's spiritual energy in order to facilitate spiritual healing. Ask how she will lead you or your loved one toward the healing love and light of the Creator. Ask what results you or your loved one might experience within the first days or weeks of the lightworker's service. Ask how long it might take for you or your loved one to achieve complete healing, and ask what else you can do to help your loved one through this challenging time or situation.

If you or your loved one requires medical treatment as well, it is absolutely imperative that you seek medical intervention as soon as possible. Your loved one might not be able to recognize the need for spiritual healing, however, and if this is the case for you then you must ask your lightworker to assist your loved one in recognizing the need for healing so that he or she can also accept the help that will be provided. This will be the first step with the lightworker you have chosen, if you are looking for a mystic, healer or lightworker who can help your loved one.

When you seek a lightworker for one of your loved ones, you can also dedicate the love and light of your own spirit toward his or her deep spiritual healing. Begin by holding your loved one up in prayer to God and ask for His healing miracle to touch your loved one. Ask God to work through you and your love for the person who requires healing, and invite Him to reveal Himself to your loved one. Pray for God's love, protection and guidance for both you and your loved one, and spend time meditating on your loved one. Visualize him or her and visualize the spiritual, mental or emotional trauma or injury that needs to be healed now. See your loved one surrounded in warm white light, which flows outward from your heart and wraps around the aura of your loved one. See God's love and miraculous energy pouring down into your loved one through his or her Crown Chakra at the top of the head, and see your light combining with the energy from God and your loved one's aura. Visualize these three energies working together now to heal your loved one completely, instantly, and miraculously. See your loved one healed now and thank God for His blessings and His mercy.

~*~Monica Who~*~

Are You a Lightworker too?

Over the years that you've been hearing and reading about things like the Law of Attraction and the Secret, and I'm quite sure you have heard the term "lightworker" several times by now. But you might be wondering what exactly a lightworker is. What special qualities does a lightworker possess? What skills or talents set a person apart as a lightworker? How can you recognize another lightworker, and are you prepared to be a lightworker yourself? There is no better time than the present to explore these questions and find the answers you seek.

Before you came here, to live this life, you were with God and the angels in the kingdom of Heaven--at least, this is how the story of the lightworker generally goes. When you were living with the divine, you made a choice. You saw something happening in the world and felt a special calling, or you perceived a certain experience or wisdom that you yourself had never gone through or never learned on your own. You asked your Heavenly Father to let you come here and live this life. You chose the people around you in this life and the picked out the family that you would call your own. You asked God to teach you specific things; you invited God to send you a precise and specific set of circumstances and challenges to achieve the lessons, wisdom and experience you requested.

Think of it like this: you watched Earth from the Heavens and you asked God, your Heavenly Father, to instruct you. It's like signing up for elective courses at college. Once you sign up, He sends you to a mortal existence, where you then forget that you even signed up for a course and that you're here on Earth to learn something specific, or to accomplish a very special mission. Your divine life mission is to do and see and learn what you requested from the Creator before your birth.

A lightworker not only has a very special divine life mission in this world, but he or she also has amazing powers of thinking, healing, public speaking, teaching, leading and inspiring others. They are philosophers, healers, teachers, and guides. Lightworkers are often drawn to careers in the medical field (including nurses and vetrinarians), teaching, working with children or handicapped patients, counselling, spiritual teaching, spiritual leadership, journalism, politics, life coaching, and creative careers like music, acting, art, and dance. More lightworkers are female than male, but there are a great deal of male lightworkers as well. I can also tell you that most genuinely gifted clairvoyants, empaths, mediums, telepathy, mystics and psychics are also lightworkers.

You can find lightworkers in your local Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, in rape survivor support groups, and in autism awareness organizations in your community. Lightworkers could be hanging out at your local art galleries and teaching self help seminars. They'll be joined with one another at psychic fairs and spiritual retreats, and when you volunteer at the soup kitchen or the local homeless shelter, you're sure to run into more lightworkers. They are all across the country, right now, lending a hand where ever they can. They are inviting and inspiring you to join in!

If you are a lightworker like myself and many of my esteemed colleagues, it's time for you to start meditating and praying. Ask God to show you the path He has prepared for you, and ask Him to use you as His faithful servant. Offer the love and compassion of your soul to heal and raise up the needy and the sick and the lame. Reach out to the lonely and the lost and the heartbroken, and do what you can to fight addiction, slavery, poverty and hunger today! Your personal skills, natural talents and spiritual calling are a part of your divine life mission. Now is the time for you to find your path and proudly declare victory in His name as you go forward to make your divine life a reality.

~*~Monica Who~*~

Healing Sound & Energy Meditation

Meditation can promote healing and well being of your body, mind and spirit. There are so many different ways to meditate and if you are struggling with illness, stress or emotional issues you could find meditation with sound and energy vibrations to be highly effective for you! Using sound and energy to heal and align your chakras is easy to do in the comfort of your own home with the help of meditation tools like baoding balls, chimes and bells, or even chimes and nature sounds blended together on a meditation music CD.

I recently bought a set of taiji baoding balls for myself and find meditating with them is extremely helpful for my health and overall sense of well being. Start by rolling a single ball in either your left or right hand, whichever is most comfortable for you. Slowly roll the ball around in your hand, feeling the soothing vibrations as the inner ball rings inside the larger ball. You'll make unique melodies as you roll the ball gently in your hand and the sound and energy vibrations will help align your chakras and release any blockages in your energy.

You'll know you have a blockage in your spiritual energy when the ball suddenly stops rolling smoothly or stops ringing in a pleasing way while you're rolling the baoding ball in either your left or right hand. Points in the palms of your hands connect to all of your chakras, and the left hand is connected to the energies of your past while your right hand connects to the energies of your future. You should meditate with the baoding ball in your left and right hand equally, but pay attention to any of the blockages you find in each hand separately.

A blockage of your energy in the left hand would mean that you need to meditate on releasing pain and trauma from your past in order to heal your body, mind and spirit. Roll the ball gently in your left hand and meditate on the traumatic experiences and losses from your past, and release your old thoughts and painful memories as you listen to the beautiful music coming from the baoding ball in your hand. Soon the blockage will be healed and you'll be able to make a beautiful, healing melody with the ball in that hand as the damage to your chakras is repaired.

If you find blockages in your right hand, it means you must open yourself up to new opportunities and new ideas in order to achieve well being in your future. As you roll the ball in your right hand, you want to meditate on happiness, love, faith and hope for your future. Slowly roll the ball until the blockage is relieved and you can make smooth, beautiful melodies with the ball in your right hand. Healing these blockages will open your heart, mind and your spirit to allow energy to flow freely and balance all of your chakras. This alignment enables you to be more successful, recover from illness and heal your body, relieve stress and anxiety symptoms, and help you experience improved well being going forward in life.

Meditate with a baoding ball in each hand for about five to ten minutes every day to reap the most benefits of healing with sound and energy! I'm using my baoding balls to help me heal painful issues from my past that are blocking my energy and preventing my body from healing itself effectively. I find that the short sound meditation sessions help me achieve inner harmony and the chronic pain I experience is relieved slightly after just a couple days of using the baoding balls in my daily meditation practices. I will update you on the healing process and other meditation techniques that can help you in healing your body, mind and spirit.

Please share any of your thoughts, questions or experiences with healing sound and music in the comments on this blog. The websites I linked to in this article are for your information only. Any products or services sold by these websites are not endorsed by me, but I thought you could find these web site resources informative and useful. If you choose to order some baoding balls or any other products that I linked to in this blog, I hope you'll find the tools useful in your spiritual journey.

~*~Monica Who~*~