The Power of Auras: Tap Into Your Energy Field For Clarity, Peace of Mind, and Well-Being
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Overview
Thousands of people have found The Power of Auras invaluable—especially those in the holistic health field who use its methods in their daily practice. This new edition will bring the message of self-sufficiency to even more people who desperately need greater strength during this time of change. With this book, you will learn how to:
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781601635020 |
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| Publisher: | Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Publication date: | 11/25/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 288 |
| File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
Dr. Susan Shumsky has dedicated her life to helping people take command of their lives in highly effective, powerful, positive ways. She is the best-selling author of 14 books, published by Red Wheel/New Page, Simon&Schuster, Random House Penguin, and Skyhorse. A pioneer in the human potential field, she has spent 50 years teaching thousands of people meditation, prayer, affirmation, and intuition. Her book titles include Exploring Meditation, Ascension, Instant Healing, The Power of Auras, The Power of Chakras, Awaken Your Third Eye, Awaken Your Divine Intuition, Color Your Chakras, Miracle Prayer, Divine Revelation, and Maharishi&Me.
Dr. Shumsky is a highly respected spiritual teacher, award-winning author, and founder of Divine Revelation®—a unique field-proven technology for contacting the divine presence, hearing and testing the inner voice, and receiving clear divine guidance. For 22 years, her mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was guru of the Beatles and guru of Deepak Chopra. Dr. Shumsky served on Maharishi's personal staff for 6 years. Her Website is www.drsusan.org.
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CHAPTER 1
What's an Aura, Anyway?
Introducing Energy Fields
"He who stays with the sun will know no darkness."
— Nisargadatta
During my travels I met Jodie, a massage therapist from Dallas, who had studied and practiced spiritual healing for decades. During a private session with Jodie, I perceived with my inner eye a bizarre anomaly in her energy field: It looked like a large, thick, rectangular sheet of armor in front of her face and upper torso. I called this a "psychic plate," and it had been installed in her aura by a so-called spiritual teacher named Kriya, whom Jodie considered to be a highly evolved spiritual master. After I used a healing affirmation to dissolve the plate, Jodie asked me whether it was wise for her to continue studying with Kriya. My reply was, "If you enjoy having a psychic plate in front of your face so you cannot see the truth, so you cannot hear the divine voice, and so you cannot feel love, then, by all means, continue to follow Kriya."
This story illustrates a simple point. We all have misconceptions about the human energy field, no matter how long we have studied or practiced spiritual healing. And we can all be duped by teachers whom we consider to be more highly evolved than we are.
Therefore, let us begin with some basics and answer a few of your questions.
FAQs About Experiences of Subtle Energy
Q: "I am not clairvoyant. How can I learn to read auras?"
A: This book offers many simple tools and techniques to help you read auras without any special abilities. Here you will also learn to develop subtle sensory perception so you can begin to feel, sense, or see auras.
Q: "Do I have healing abilities, and can I start a healing practice?" A: Everyone has healing abilities that can be developed. In this book you will learn many methods for healing your own energy field and that of others. Most of these techniques require no previous abilities or training.
Q: "What can I do about being controlled by other people and getting drained, as though vampires are sapping my energy?"
A: This book provides ways to overcome what I call psychic sponge syndrome — oversensitivity to environmental influences.
Q: "I experience a lot of fear. How can I overcome this?"
A: This book helps you develop spiritual self-defense and experience the safety, security, and protection of your higher self.
Q: "What can I do when I feel off-balance, scattered, confused, and ineffective?"
A: Using simple methods that anyone can do, you will learn, through this book, how to be more powerful, centered, balanced, focused, and clear in your energy field.
Q: "I feel overwhelmed by negative thoughts and emotions. Can I move past this?"
A: Here you will learn and practice specific healing affirmations and prayers that help you transform and transmute your mental/emotional body.
Q: "How can I handle the creepy vibes in my office?"
A: This book will help you heal and release the dense vibrations in your environmental atmosphere.
Q: "How can I have better relationships at home and at work?"
A: Here you will use techniques and tools for working with subtle energy fields to create healthier relationships.
Q: "Can I overcome the havoc that codependency and addiction have wreaked?"
A: In this book you will learn to release undue attachments and addictions that have become crystallized in your energy field.
Q: "Is this easy to practice? Or do I have to struggle with difficult, strict, hard-to-follow disciplines?"
A: This book is easy to understand, logical, and practical, with simple-to-learn methods requiring no previous experience, background, training, or knowledge.
Take the Aura IQ Test
Okay, calling all experts to test your "Aura IQ." Maybe you have studied spiritual healing for decades, and you believe that you are an authority on the subject. Perhaps you think this book is too elementary for you. Even if you think you are an expert, the following test just might stump you.
1. What does the word aura mean?
A. A sphere of energy.
B. A bubble of protection.
C. A breeze.
D. A circle around the body.
E. A chocolate cookie sandwich with cream filling.
2. What is the human energy field?
A. A place from which we receive energy.
B. A higher plane of existence.
C. Higher consciousness.
D. The subtle bodies.
E. Where to get drinks that give you a buzz for five hours.
3. What does the word prana mean?
A. Moving or breathing forth.
B. Subtle energy.
C. The breath of life.
D. A breathing exercise.
E. A man-eating fish.
4. What is a thought-form?
A. A negative idea, habit, or condition.
B. A strong belief or idea that has crystallized.
C. The mental body.
D. The subconscious mind.
E. A fantasy about Kate Beckinsale.
5. What is a power spot?
A. A place where energy leys intersect.
B. A place where powerful entities reside.
C. An earth energy grid.
D. A crop circle.
E. A dog in a detergent commercial.
6. What is a psychic tie?
A. A spiritual connection.
B. A love connection.
C. A binding attachment.
D. A rope, string, or cord.
E. Houdini's straitjacket.
7. What is a façade body?
A. A mask that hides your true self.
B. A subtle body that embodies your higher self.
C. A thought-form in your intellect.
D. A subtle body that embodies your mind.
E. Marilyn Manson dressed up as Alice Cooper.
8. What is the food sheath?
A. The physical body.
B. The astral body.
C. The mental body.
D. The subtle body.
E. A muzzle you wear to prevent overeating.
9. What is the mental body?
A. A subtle body made of crystallized thoughts.
B. A subtle body made of the higher mind.
C. The ego and intellect.
D. The atman.
E. A suit that Ironman wears.
10. What is the blissful sheath?
A. A subtle body made of the higher self.
B. The causal body.
C. The higher mental body.
D. The veil that covers your true mental body.
E. Something you find in your brother's wallet.
11. What does the word chakra mean?
A. A wheel.
B. The center of the body.
C. When it opens, you become enlightened.
D. A nerve ending.
E. That awful screeching blackboard sound.
12. What does the word kundalini mean?
A. A goddess from India.
B. Curled-up energy.
C. A sign that you are experiencing higher consciousness.
D. A snake or serpent.
E. A pasta.
13. What is an astral entity?
A. A person who died.
B. An evil spirit.
C. An earthbound spirit.
D. A higher being who gives information through channeling.
E. A baseball player for the Houston team.
14. What is muscle-testing?
A. A way to heal astral entities.
B. A way to heal your body.
C. A way to enhance your energy field.
D. A way to measure the weakness or strength of your muscles.
E. Something they do on a beach in Venice, California.
15. What is a psychic sponge?
A. An overly sensitive person.
B. Someone with psychic abilities.
C. A psychic vampire.
D. A negative person.
E. Something used to mop up your psyche.
16. What is clairsentience?
A. Clear seeing.
B. Clear sound.
C. Clear sensing.
D. Clear scent.
E. Clair de Lune's twin sister.
17. What can mirror gazing do?
A. Help you develop clairvoyance.
B. Help you hear the inner voice.
C. Help you get the answer to a question.
D. Help you read minds.
E. Tell you who's the fairest of them all.
18. What is an L-rod?
A. A tool used by psychics to tell the future.
B. A tool that drills for water.
C. A tool that surpasses your intuition.
D. An angle rod or swing rod.
E. The founder of the Church of Scientology.
19. What is a pendulum?
A. Something that counts time.
B. A weight attached to an armature.
C. A crystal hanging from a chain.
D. A tool that predicts the future.
E. A scary book by Edgar Allen Poe.
20. What is kinesiology?
A. The study of movement.
B. Muscle-testing.
C. Telepathy.
D. Dowsing.
E. A wrestling match with your chiropractor.
Scoring Your Test
Here you can place a check mark to the left of those answers that you answered correctly. The answers to this test are as follows.
1. C. The word aura derives from ancient Greek for "breath of air" or "breeze": avra.
2. D. The human energy field consists of subtle bodies that permeate and surround the physical body.
3. A. The Sanskrit word prana means "moving or breathing forth."
4. B. A thought-form is an idea or concept with so much intensity of energy that it crystallizes and takes a subtle structure.
5. A. A power spot is a place with powerful, aura-strengthening earth energies where energy leys intersect.
6. C. A psychic tie is an undue attachment or repulsion to any person, place, thing, organization, situation, circumstance, memory, experience, or addiction.
7. A. A façade body is a mask or veil that you wear, a false persona that you project, which hides who you really are.
8. A. The food sheath is the physical body, which is created and sustained by food, and which becomes food for something else after death.
9. A. The mental body consists of thought-forms — crystallized thoughts and emotions.
10. B. The blissful sheath consists of the causal body — progenitor of individual ego.
11. A. The Sanskrit word chakra means "wheel," because its hub links many conduits of subtle energy, and its spokes radiate subtle energy.
12. B. The Sanskrit root kundal means "curled up." Kundalini is a special spiritual energy coiled at the base of the spine.
13. C. An astral entity is often a soul, who, for various reasons, did not go into the divine light after death and is therefore "earthbound."
14. Muscle-testing shows whether your muscles are weakened or strengthened. This can test how your energy field is affected by various influences.
15. A. A psychic sponge is a person who absorbs vibrations from the environment as a sponge absorbs water.
16. C. Clairsentience is a French term meaning "clear feeling."
17. A. Mirror gazing is a practice that helps develop clairvoyant sight ("clear seeing" in English).
18. D. An L-rod, also called angle rod or swing rod, can be used to find lost objects, measure invisible energies, and enhance your intuition.
19. B. A pendulum is a device with a weight attached to an armature (usually a string or chain). It can be used to measure subtle energy.
20. A. Kinesis means "movement," and -ology means "science or branch of knowledge." So kinesiology means "the study of movement."
Evaluating Your Test
If you got 20 right, congratulations! Your Aura IQ is 200. With a perfect score, you are titled Doctor of Aura Power.
If you got 15–19 right, you are a Master of Aura Power. You have delved deeply into spiritual studies, and your Aura IQ is 175.
If you got 10–14 right, you are a Bachelor of Aura Power. You know a lot, but you have a few things to learn. Your Aura IQ is 150.
If you got 5–9 right, this book will be an eye-opener. You will learn much here. Your Aura IQ is 125.
If you got 1–4 right, the odds are with you. You have successfully proven that random selection works. Your Aura IQ is 100.
If you got them all wrong, I would not be surprised. Your Aura IQ is 75.
If you chose any E's, congratulations. At least you have a sense of humor.
Are you surprised at some of the answers on the test? If so, it's because many myths surround the terms mentioned there. Having some familiarity with these esoteric terms is not the same as understanding them deeply. In this book you will gain profound understanding of all these terms, and you will learn how to use them in everyday, practical life to enhance your energy field. Let us begin now with an in-depth answer to Question 1 on the Aura IQ Test.
What Does the Word "Aura" Mean?
Have you ever wondered, What is keeping my body alive? What energy gives life to my body with my first breath, and what energy will leave my body when I die?
Let us consider some fundamental questions. Obviously you have a physical body, which seems to run by itself: Lungs breathe, food digests, and blood rushes through your veins. Yet what makes it breathe? What makes your heart beat continually? What keeps it running like a clock, and what makes it stop? The answers to these questions seem elusive.
No medical doctor can tell you why, with a baby's first cry, the miracle of life begins, or why, with the last rasp of death, this same miracle comes to an end. Although a doctor can describe all the systems of your body and how they function, no one has unveiled the true secret of life.
However, as we look to the Far East, we can begin to unlock this mystery. The ancients of India and China discovered a precious, invisible, imperceptible substance that animates your body and, indeed, bestows life on the cosmos. This precious life essence, called prana, is that fundamental energy. In this book you will discover this pranic energy, or life-force, and you will learn how to strengthen that power in your life.
Your physical body is not the only body you inhabit. You also have a subtle body, consisting of several layers, or sheaths. Your subtle body, which pervades and surrounds your physical body, is called your energy field, or aura. For most people, the subtle body is invisible, both to the eye and to nearly all scientific measuring instruments.
In the ancient Sanskrit language the root ar means "spoke of a wheel," indicating that the aura radiates from the body as the spokes of a wheel radiate from the hub. The ancient Greek word avra means "breath of air" or "breeze"— the vital energy that breathes life into your being. So the subtle energy field, which permeates and envelops your body, is your auric field — a multifaceted, multidimensional sphere of immense light, power, and vitality.
The breath of air that gives you life also breathes life into the cosmos. Thus everything in the universe is filled and surrounded by auric fields that you can experience, measure, evaluate, cleanse, heal, restore, and strengthen.
This book will help you increase your own pranic energy and augment the energy in your surroundings through simple yet powerful methods that produce profound results instantaneously. Here you will not only discover auric fields; you will also cleanse and strengthen your own aura and the auras of others. Indeed, you will master the art of healing the energy field of your environment, home, workplace, city, nation — even your planet.
Are you ready to begin your adventure to unlock the power of auras? Are you willing to become an inner-space explorer and discover who you really are? Are you ready to unearth mysterious realms of invisible, secret, unexplored places? Now is time to dive into the unknown depths of your heart and find the treasures buried within.
Let us get started now!
CHAPTER 2How Bright Is Your Aura?
Discovering Pranic Energies
"A candle never loses anything when it lights another candle."
— Anonymous
Have you ever met a person who had a powerful, wonderful vibration? Someone you wanted to get closer to? Have you met another person whose vibration gave you the creeps? Can you tell immediately whether you will like someone — or not? Have you ever felt someone was standing too close, and you had to step back?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have experienced a subtle energy that pervades every individual and affects people in profound ways. In this chapter we will explore the mysteries of this subtle energy — prana.
Life-Force Energy
The Sanskrit word prana, not readily translatable into English, derives from roots pra ("first," "primary," "before," or "forth") and an ("breathe," "move," "live"). So prana means "moving or breathing forth." However, prana is much more than breath. It is cosmic energy, sometimes called absolute energy, which gives life to all matter in the universe.
Prana is the power within all things and all beings, from elementary quantum particles to complex life forms. As the finest vital force in everything, prana manifests on the physical plane as motion and on the mental plane as thought.
Prana is in the air, yet it is not oxygen or any other physical constituent of air. All living things absorb prana with every breath. Yet, if prana were absent from air, no organism could survive by breathing air. Prana is in every particle of creation, but is not a particle.
The élan vital, or vital life energy, of prana is called ITLχITL or qi in China, and ki in Japan. The Chinese practice of Qigong uses qi for healing. In ancient Egypt ka was the force linking the body to the spiritual world. In fact, 97 world cultures have names for pranic energy, according to John White in his book Future Science.
In the Bible's book of Genesis, the Hebrew term neshemet ruach chayim is translated as "breath of life." The word neshemet means "ordinary breath found in the air." Chayim means "life." But the word ruach means the "spirit of life," which refers to pranic energy.
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Dannion Brinkley,
Introduction,
Part I: Discovering Your Energy Field,
Chapter 1: What's an Aura, Anyway? Introducing Energy Fields,
Chapter 2: How Bright Is Your Aura? Discovering Pranic Energies,
Chapter 3: Your Multifaceted Aura Exploring Subtle Body Anatomy,
Chapter 4: How Science Sees Auras Researching the Human Energy Field,
Part II: Experiencing Your Energy Field,
Chapter 5: You Can See and Feel Energy Experiencing Subtle Vibrations,
Chapter 6: How Big Is Your Aura? Mapping and Measuring Energy Fields,
Chapter 7: What Does Your Aura Look Like? Seeing Auras and Thought-Forms,
Chapter 8: What Color Is Your Aura? Discovering Light and Color,
Part III: Cleansing Your Energy Field,
Chapter 9: Healing Environ-Mental Static Healing Your Auric Atmosphere,
Chapter 10: Are You a Psychic Sponge? Developing Auric Protection and Self-Authority,
Chapter 11: Your Mind: Your Worst Enemy? Transforming Your Mental Body,
Chapter 12: The Healing Power of Prayer Purifying Your Auric Field,
Part IV: Strengthening Your Energy Field,
Chapter 13: Using Color and Sound Lifting Vibrational Energy,
Chapter 14: Using Breath With Intention Augmenting Pranic Energy,
Chapter 15: Using Energetic Movement Vitalizing Your Energy Body,
Chapter 16: Using Intuitive Kinesiology Tools to Strengthen Your Aura,
Chapter 17: Using Deep Meditation Transforming Your Energy Field,
Epilogue,
Notes,
Bibliography,
Index,
About the Author,