What is an Aura?

 The aura has long been described as an electromagnetic energy field that surrounds people—like an egg-shaped ball of energy that encompasses the body. The aura consists of seven levels/layers/auric bodies, also known as the physical, astral, lower, higher, spiritual, intuitional, and absolute planes.

Each one of these subtle bodies that exists around the physical body has its own unique frequency. They are interrelated, and each body affects the others. They also affect a person’s feelings, emotions, thought patterns, behavior, and overall health. Just like with chakras, a state of imbalance in one of the bodies leads to a state of imbalance in the others.

To start us off, here is a breakdown of each layer and what our body seeks and gains from that layer.

The physical aura plane:

This layer is closest to us and is diminished through our waking hours and increased while we sleep or rest. For this layer to be in balance, we need physical comfort, pleasure, and health. If our auras are in generally poor health, we will have smudges in this layer. Also, people who are harboring negative emotions or who are dwelling in a negative space will have a darker physical aura plane.

The astral aura plane:

This plane is also called the “emotional layer,” as it stores our emotional history and experiences with friends and family. It is easy to tell when your astral aura is out of whack because you feel sensitive, unstable, and often irrational—like your aura has PMS! Your astral aura will respond best when you amplify what it needs with your surroundings. For example, to heal negative emotions, try visualizing green. Lie on grass or spend some time under a tree. This will help to add the color to your auric space.

The lower mental aura plane:

This plane relates to reason, thought patterns, and how we construct our own individual reality. Most people spend their waking hours in this plane. This plane expands when our minds are at work, when we are studying, or when we’re focused on something particularly hard. This is also where a person’s belief systems are stored, as well as their values and ideas. When someone’s lower mental aura plane is twisted and out of alignment, they will feel judgmental, down, and agitated.

The higher mental aura plane:

This plane connects with our lower mental aura plane but adds in a deeper spiritual element as well. This is where we store our higher-mind beliefs such as self-love, gratitude, selflessness, and unconditional love. Yep, your self-talk can be affecting your whole vibe—not only your confidence but also the energy you project into the world.

So, regardless of what that little voice in your head is telling you, make sure your higher plane is all about how beautiful, kind, and loving you are, because even though you might think it's just an internal conversation with yourself, everyone around you can sense the conversation you’re having inside. I invite you to take this as official permission to have a big-ass aura ego—it will only help nourish and feed the energy and environment within and around you.

The spiritual aura plane:

This plane has solely to do with our spirituality and connects us to both our immediate surroundings and to the wider universe. When we are aware of this layer and connected to other people’s spiritual planes, we can better sense like-minded souls. When you have a clear spiritual aura you will find yourself connecting with other people on the same path as you, discovering the same things—basically, others you can teach, share with, and learn from.

People who have yet to tap into their spiritual auric plane tend to be overly cynical, negative, judgmental, and even threatened by your spiritual growth. Don’t worry, they're just jealous of your radiant aural glow. In fact, when people react like this to you, you know your spiritual aura plane is rocking! They’ll catch up to your bliss in their own time. If they don’t, it’s their loss, not yours.

The intuitional aura plane:

This plane, also known as the celestial plane, is where we store our dreams, intuition, and overall spiritual awareness. This is where we store forgiveness and acceptance as well. When you think of an enlightened person, what characteristics do you think of? I tend to go to peacefulness, calm, kindness, and patience.

You can sense a healthy intuitional aura plane in complete nirvana when you are near people like this—you also start to feel more cantered in their presence. Enlightened souls sometimes also called indigo personalities, live in their intuitional aura plane—sensitive, often eccentric, profound souls who are creative, intuitive, and gifted.

When you have one of those ah-ha moments or a massive brainwave after you’ve felt blocked for ages, your intuitional aura plane is clearing the runway for major spiritual growth.

The absolute aura plane:

The absolute plane works to balance and harmonize the other layers. It houses all the experiences of a soul’s journey and is the blueprint of a person’s spiritual destiny. Think of it as the auric big red bow—the finishing touch on top of your energy field.

Try this:

View your aura colors by holding your index fingers tip to tip. Standing in front of a plainly colored or white wall, hold your arms out at arms' length in front of you, index fingers still touching. Slowly pull them apart, relaxing your vision to almost “zone out,” and you will likely see an outline surrounding your fingers of a light blue/gray light. This is your first glimpse of auric energy. The more you practice, the more you will see and the more vivid the colors will become.

Aura: You are Not Just Your Physical Body

The aura is the light around the body. Every person has an aura. The auras of saints can be seen because their auras are very strong. For ordinary people, it is difficult to see their auras because they are not as strong. Inside the aura are grayish clouds of negative thoughts and emotions that you have generated for many years. You think and feel everyday, 365 days a year, so you can imagine how many thoughts and emotions have accumulated inside your aura. These thoughts and emotions are clairvoyantly seen as grayish clouds floating in the auras of ordinary people.

What is Inner Noise?

When you sit down to meditate, have you not noticed that many thoughts pop in and out of your mind? This is called “inner noise.” Actually, the mind has always been jumping from one thing to another. You were simply not aware of it. The grayish clouds of thoughts and emotions within the aura are a major source of inner noise. Inner noise interferes with the communication between the higher soul and the incarnated soul. It prevents the higher soul from contacting the incarnated soul.

Ramana Maharishi , a great yogi and saint, used a certain technique to get rid of the inner noise. He sat down, and simply looked at the clouds of thoughts and emotions, then starved them to death. Thoughts and emotions are living beings so when you look at them and you do not react, you do not feed them. In this way they gradually lose their energy and just disintegrate. This process takes a long time.

There are times when the higher soul wants to communicate with the incarnated soul. The higher soul keeps on “shouting” at the incarnated soul, but it does not hear. It does not respond. This is not because the incarnated soul is deaf. The inner noise, generated by turbulent energies in the aura and also in the energy centers, makes it difficult for the higher soul to communicate with the incarnated soul.

Cleansing the Aura and Achieving Inner Calmness

To enable the higher soul to communicate with the incarnated soul, it is important to achieve stillness. You cannot achieve soul realization by simply trying to still the mind. It is important to purify and disintegrate the grayish clouds of noisy thoughts and emotions inside your aura. This can be done by using the spiritual flushing-out technique. When a person does Meditation on Twin Hearts, the heart chakra or anahata chakra and the crown chakra or the sahasrara chakra are used to bless the entire earth, every person and every being with loving-kindness. The meditator becomes a channel for this spiritual energy.

As the spiritual energy comes down through the spiritual cord into the crown center and into the heart center, it radiates out into the aura, causing the turbulent, noisy thoughts and emotions to be flushed out. Some of them are disintegrated. Through the regular practice of Meditation on Twin Hearts, the aura becomes relatively clean within a short period. You will experience inner calmness. Once inner calmness has been achieved, the meditator is ready to practice inner stillness.

Meditation on the Gap to Achieve Inner Stillness

In India, there is a saying that if the water is rough, you cannot see through it. On the other hand, if the water is calm, you will be able to see through it. In the same way, when your mind and emotions are still, you can see your true nature. You can achieve oneness with your higher soul. In Buddhism this is called “Realizing one’s (higher) Buddha nature.”

How do you achieve stillness?

You do not achieve stillness by stopping the thinking process, but by being aware of the inner stillness. Where is this inner stillness located? It is in the “gap.” The mantra OM helps, but it is not enough. What is more important is being aware of the interval between two OMs. Between two OMs is a gap or stillness. This is called Meditation on the Gap.


Awareness Meditation

When you do Awareness Meditation on the Breath, you must not only be aware of the inhalation and exhalation. What is more important is that one should be aware of the gap between inhalations and exhalations, and between exhalations and inhalations. Within this gap there is stillness. One must be aware repeatedly of this stillness.


Practicing Awareness Meditation on the Thoughts is advisable. Not only should you be aware of the thoughts going in and out of the mind, but also be aware of the interval or gap between the two thoughts, because in this gap there is stillness. By repeatedly being aware of this inner stillness, one will be able to achieve expansion of consciousness. The practice of repeating mantras is also good, but like other meditational practices it is more important to be aware of the gap between the two mantras because the stillness is in the gap. Psalm 46: 10 states, “Be still and know that I am God.” By practicing stillness, one becomes aware of the Divine Presence not only within one’s self; one also becomes aware of the pervasive presence of the Divine.
 Courtesy ;Sahasra Sai

Definition of aura

1 : a distinctive atmosphere surrounding a given source
• The place had an aura of mystery.
b : a subtle sensory stimulus (such as an aroma)
2medical : a subjective sensation (as of voices, colored lights, or crawling and numbness) experienced at the onset of a neurological condition and  specially   migraine or epileptic seizure
3: an energy field that is held to emanate from a living being
4: a luminous radiation: nimbus

Possible Meanings of Colors Seen in the Aura

© 2005 Donna Eden & David Feinstein, Ph.D.

Note 1: These colors may appear in any layer of the aura, but these meanings do not apply to the life color, whose colors have very different meanings (refer to Donna Eden’s “Life Color” CD available at www.innersource.net).

Note 2: These are generalizations based on observation. The specific meanings may vary according to the situation. For instance, the person’s life color may influence the meaning of a color that shows in the aura (e.g., blue in the aura of a person with a blue life color may not reflect the sense of calm described below, but may instead reflect an excess of blue that is actually agitating and uncomfortable). So while the meanings described here do reflect general principles, they are in no way absolutes.

Colors of Aura:

Blue: Reflects calmness. Reflects nurturing, affectionate, and loving energy. It is often in the aura of a healer while doing healing, or a meditator, mom, or nurse in action. Artists also often have blue in their auras when they are creating.

Very Dark Blue: Indicates that will power is being exerted.

Sapphire & Azure Blue: Often seen when healing is occurring.

Light Blue: Reflects religious or spiritual qualities.

Cobalt Blue: Cobalt blue in the aura transfixes others. When an area is anesthetized from strain, stress, or pain, it may also show up in this color.

Blue-Gray: Reflects strain or feelings of heaviness.

Murky Gray: Depending on the shade, may signify depression, confusion, or illness.

Red: May reflect passion and vitality, athleticism, or sexuality. May also reflect anger or seething irritation.

Orange: Thoughtfulness. Optimism. Pride and self-esteem. Uplifting. Can “give” insights to others telepathically.

Yellow: Of the mind. Communicative. Readily absorbs and conveys information.

Yellow with Golden Tones: Indicates well-being, often with a quality of “cheery with wisdom.”

Golden: Radiates peace and positive energy.

Green: Balances the energies around the person. Often means “coming home to self.”

White: While white is thought of as a symbol of virtue in Western cultures, and it can indeed signify purity, it has two sides. It can also reflect qualities such as being sterile or aloof. Similarly, white in your aura may insulate you against intrusion, or it may expose you. Aura energy often turns white when the person is near death.

Purple: Signifies a spiritual or intuitive nature. When someone is earnestly praying, you often see purple or lavender in their field. It may also signify that the person is a seeker or healer.