Why do we to protect our Aura?
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Our aura, is the energy that surrounds us - it is our personal body space. Within modern psychology the space that is 1.5m from you on all sides (above, below, right, left, front and back) is referred to as "personal body space". Energeticaly - when people come within that space then our comfort levels can be adversely affected or positively affected. Either way - there can be a transference of energy. Throughout the day - depending on the events that have transpired, our body space (or aura) will shrink and retract or alternatively "puff outwards". Or it may just become uneven in its distribution. A healthy auric body, is smooth and even much like an egg..(oval as in the shape of an egg, with the base of our chakra being wider, and the shape of egg at its smallest point the top of our aura).
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Our feelings are affected by what is going in aurically (and vice versa). If you have the capacity to meditate and reflect on what is happening with your aura, you will see and notice things like when you are overwhelmed, your boundaries might be in too close to you.. so you would creatively visualise you exhaling and "blowing your aura" into a more expanded shape. Alternatively if you are feeling isolated -you might have made your aura so big that no one at all can get close to you - so you would creatively visualise yourself bringing your aura back to a less "external position". ,bring them in a little closer to yourself and allow people to get to know you and allow yourself to create social opportunities.
The other thing is that under extreme stress - the aura can become a little damaged, it might develop holes or look a bit "scratchy", so the key here would be to visualise your aura being smoothed and patched up and left in "pristine condition". There are any number of strategies we can employ to maintain a healthy aura. However, the biggest issues to having a healthy aura, as far as I can see to date is the issue of Centring and Grounding, AND boundaries,. When working on our boundaries, not only do we need to be taking action in a physical sense (and you can google much information on boundaries - there is a wide and diverse variety on the internet!). To ensure that we maintain healthy auric bodies, we also need to ensure that we are continually monitoring our "spiritual boundaries", through AURIC Protection. Below are some techniques that you might want to employ:
The other thing is that under extreme stress - the aura can become a little damaged, it might develop holes or look a bit "scratchy", so the key here would be to visualise your aura being smoothed and patched up and left in "pristine condition". There are any number of strategies we can employ to maintain a healthy aura. However, the biggest issues to having a healthy aura, as far as I can see to date is the issue of Centring and Grounding, AND boundaries,. When working on our boundaries, not only do we need to be taking action in a physical sense (and you can google much information on boundaries - there is a wide and diverse variety on the internet!). To ensure that we maintain healthy auric bodies, we also need to ensure that we are continually monitoring our "spiritual boundaries", through AURIC Protection. Below are some techniques that you might want to employ:
Protecting the Aura
Doming
In this technique - you visualise yourself in the centre of a great golden egg, (1.5m from all points as discussed above). The gold is the colour of the sun and radiant, it clears and cleanses, purifies and positively energises your aura, and raises your "spirits", sit with this for a little while and then see that the outer "layer" of the egg, is now outlined with the beautiful colour of Electric Sapphire blue of protection. Note that these are personal methods and can be adapted - you might want to visualise yourself in a white egg. Either way call upon and invoke the highest powers of light and love to protect your aura.. the visualisation adds to the focus of intent and helps to feel safer later. You can also do this exercise whenever you feel threatened.
Chanting
The OM/AUM/OHM is multi faceted and is also an energiser. When we chant the sound, then we can also invoke protection of the highest order for our auric and being.
Other chants you might wish to trial are:
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
OM Mani Padme Hum
Other chants you might wish to trial are:
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
OM Mani Padme Hum
Border Guards
This technique is one to draw upon when you are feeling particularly vulnerable and unable to do the other techniques reguarly for whatever reasons. it was given to me by Cathy Gordichuk, who was in turn given it by a shaman. You can create guards in wahtever way you like, be it animals, plants crystals, humans, angels, fairies, or warriors. Whatever it is that you choose.. Visualise it- and draw it so that you can remember it.
Mirrored Octagon
This technique is good for a short term protection technique. You also would not want to be using it on the people that live in the house with you - what it does is reflect anything less than love back to the sender. Sounds great - but don't forget the law of karma: what goes out comes back to us. So even if you are under attack and you send the attack back - the dispute may be ongoing like a tennis ball of viciousness bouncing back and forth. It is more appropriate to use if someone in your work place for example is being a bully.. just keep on at your work and let your mirrors have the malice bounce off you and "back to where it needs to go for the highest good or best possible outcome". I woudl give some serious thought on how to use mirrors before i used them again. Anway you visuailse yourself standing in the middle of hte mirrors - you are totally contained within it on all sides, an the mirrors allow love to come through, but they reflect back less than loving thoughts and actions.
AURA Maintenance
This are quite a simple exercise that a person can do daily. it is in reference to the energy transference when we pick up someone else's "stuff'. The best way of noticing this is when we are for example somewhere and we are feeling great and in high spirits, we bump into someone and this person then speaks and tells you all their "stuff" and walks off. You notice that all of a sudden your spirits are deflated you may even be feeling depressed for no explicable reason. (even if the person has not said they are depressed or mentioned their problems), later you release you have emotions left that you can't explain how or why you are feeling them. This is because ITS NOT YOURS! Its the "trash" left behind by the person you bumped into.. they left a bit of auric debris behind, and your boundaries must have been a little low and you picked up the energy. Its not personal and not malicious - it just tends to happen when we aren't maintaining our auras or our boundaries. Just "bless the source of the energy" and wish them well and set about addressing the problem, as a lesson learned to maintain your boundaries. However, in the instance where you have picked up the trash - try either of the methods below for clearing your aura:
Taking out the Trash
This technique is better if you can do it outside, while leaning up against a tree, with your bare feet on the ground, however its not always possible to do this. If you can't .. just sit on the floor,(or a chair) with your back straight and your feet, flat on the floor. Visualise yourself as a tree, with a strong and straight trunk. You are nurtured and nourished by the four elements (water, fire, earth and wind). The Sun warms you, the Air refreshes you, and the Water replenishes you emotionally through the root system, and the earth brings the water to you. Breathe IN through your branches, and breathe out strongly into your roots. These roots tap into the underground water supply. Bring the restorative, refreshing and cleansing water from the earth and up through your torso and breathe out through your branches and hands into the Air and the Sun. Repeat the sequence a few more times, for approximately five to ten minutes and then let the visual fade away. Now place your feet firmly on the ground, and feel yourself connected to earth and heaven and standing in your power.
Clearing with Primsatic Light
Picture a column of light along the lines that you would see reflecting from cut glass when you hold it up to the light. Let yourself be surrounded in this beautiful rainbow of light, and see the colours radiating in this prism like a rainbow of light. Breathe in the rainbow - drawing the breathe deep into your body. The energy will energise and motivate you. Breathe in the rainbow prism of light and allow it fil you with inspiration and hope. Allow your entire being to be filled with this universal energy.
Energy Field Alignment Exercise
This exercise will attune and balance your energy field and enable you to see yourself as more than a physical body - more than your emotions and more than your intellect. DO NOT FORCE -allow for a gentle "happening to occur" (forcing and straining is counterproductive and may end up creating a self induced psychosis!), If you suffer from a mental health condition this meditation MAY not be suitable for you - check with your GP or mental health practitioner).
Set the scene as with any meditation. Make yourself comfortable with your back straight.
Breathe deeply for a about five breathes - big breathes in and big breaths out. Allow your breathing to settle to a more comfortable and more natural rhythm.
Slowly place your attention away from your environment and onto the IN and OUT of your breathing. Let go of all thoughts, and any preconceived ideas. All your thoughts to come - and go, floating in and out like clouds in the sky.
Place your attention onto your physical body, and notice where you may be holding onto some tension. Breathe deeply and evenly into the parts of your body that feel tense, and in your minds eye see the tension stretching out and relaxing. See the area become smooth and soft, and affirm to yourself " I have a physical body - and I am more than my physical body".
Now place your attention on your emotional body. Be aware in this moment of your feelings. Do an inventory or scan of your feelings, your emotions. Breathe into these feelings and see yourself letting them go.. see them fade away as you breathe into them. Affirm to yourself " I have an emotional body - and i am more than my emotional body".
Now shift your awareness to your Mental body. Note your thoughts, and notice the activity in your mind. Notice any Mind chatter. Breathe deeply and slowly into your mind asking it for quiet. Release all thoughts until you arrive at your place of stillness. Take a moment to feel the stillness with and affirm" I have a mental body and I am more than my mental body".
Focus your attention now onto your Crown- the uppermost point of your head and affirm to yourself " I AM center of pure awareness and higher spirit". Allow yourself to FEEL the experience that this statement brings to you. FEEL the power and the grace as new energy flows through you.
See yourself as an energetic and living field that has consciousness and love. This love flows to you from an INfinite source. You can send this love to others in many ways. Affirm to yourself, "I AM in the flow of my power. I AM a Channel of power and that power is LOVE".
Set the scene as with any meditation. Make yourself comfortable with your back straight.
Breathe deeply for a about five breathes - big breathes in and big breaths out. Allow your breathing to settle to a more comfortable and more natural rhythm.
Slowly place your attention away from your environment and onto the IN and OUT of your breathing. Let go of all thoughts, and any preconceived ideas. All your thoughts to come - and go, floating in and out like clouds in the sky.
Place your attention onto your physical body, and notice where you may be holding onto some tension. Breathe deeply and evenly into the parts of your body that feel tense, and in your minds eye see the tension stretching out and relaxing. See the area become smooth and soft, and affirm to yourself " I have a physical body - and I am more than my physical body".
Now place your attention on your emotional body. Be aware in this moment of your feelings. Do an inventory or scan of your feelings, your emotions. Breathe into these feelings and see yourself letting them go.. see them fade away as you breathe into them. Affirm to yourself " I have an emotional body - and i am more than my emotional body".
Now shift your awareness to your Mental body. Note your thoughts, and notice the activity in your mind. Notice any Mind chatter. Breathe deeply and slowly into your mind asking it for quiet. Release all thoughts until you arrive at your place of stillness. Take a moment to feel the stillness with and affirm" I have a mental body and I am more than my mental body".
Focus your attention now onto your Crown- the uppermost point of your head and affirm to yourself " I AM center of pure awareness and higher spirit". Allow yourself to FEEL the experience that this statement brings to you. FEEL the power and the grace as new energy flows through you.
See yourself as an energetic and living field that has consciousness and love. This love flows to you from an INfinite source. You can send this love to others in many ways. Affirm to yourself, "I AM in the flow of my power. I AM a Channel of power and that power is LOVE".