You may have already heard that we need to clear our aura (our energy field). But why do we need to do that? And what does clearing actually mean?
Let’s start by defining what aura is. In very simple terms, our aura is a layer of energy around our physical bodies. It extends out into the space around us, carries information, is visible to the inhabitants of subtle realms (spirit beings), and to people who can see or feel auras.
Our aura is like an extension of our physical body into the subtle realms. Just like a physical body, we can damage it — or build it up.
For sensitive and advanced souls, whose energy field is very open, aura clearing is an important part of spiritual practice that ensures we thrive rather than just drag through live barely surviving.
In my own experience, quite soon after my spiritual awakening, I started noticing that I would become tired, drained, overwhelmed and anxious after spending time around large groups of people. I was even picking up anxiety from places and buildings, which often left me completely passed out with exhaustion at the end of the day — or so anxious I would wonder whether I needed to ask for some anti-anxiety medication.
Life was becoming more and more draining.
I am sure this sounds familiar to many.
The Energy Field of Advanced and Sensitive Souls
Sensitive souls, and intuitives especially, are often drawn to difficult places. It can be buildings storing a lot of negativity, cities with a tragic history or desecrated ancestral sites.
This is our call, to walk between the worlds, to be masters and mistresses of liminal states, presiding over portalways of grief and loss. But when we are disempowered and worn down, we can’t fulfill this calling.
Some very advanced souls have chosen to incarnate in war zones, dysfunctional families, or go through considerable difficulties in life with the hope of transforming some of this negativity, of bringing in more light and releasing souls in bondage.
And, as we become more and more attuned to our soul, we also expand our energy fields and become more open and susceptible to outside energies.
Many sensitive souls are already born with a naturally very open energy field. But as the outside energies affect the multiple layers of our aura — and over multiple lifetimes! — they tend to weigh us down and block our intuitive vision. They become an energetic baggage that we carry in our energy field. A kind of Catch-22, the very thing that we incarnated to transform prevents us from seeing who we are.
Unfortunately, energetic baggage is like any other baggage — it slows us down considerably. Instead of being able to enjoy the scenery, we get bogged down, exhausted, and rely on other people to guide us and get us places.
With time, it becomes more and more difficult to see with our spiritual eyes, to see that we are eternal souls, to see our purpose and mission.
The energetic baggage that we carry also prevents us from receiving more fully — we become blocked from connecting to life force energy (Prana, Qi, or Reiki). This makes us even more depleted and disconnected. We begin to seek energy, peace and connection from other people, alcohol, drugs, “living dangerously”, every once in a while wondering if we can ever become “normal” again.
Daily Aura Clearing
It is a common mistake to think that if you are “spiritual” enough, “enlightened” enough, nothing negative will cling to you. This is simply not true. Apart from the practicalities of earthly life, often in this world challenges and darkness are a means of purification. They are serving to purify even what seems to be the clearest light. It was precisely the most enlightened people I knew who taught me the greatest tools for spiritual protection.
Daily clearing does not need to involve excessively long complicated rituals. I use two main methods — visualization, and prayer. They often overlap and draw from each other. In visualizations, I look at a building or a person I work with with my mind’s eye, and visualize the light entering the energy field and clearing out all that is not of the highest vibration. In prayer, I simply ask for specific things to be cleared, for cords to be cut, and for protection to be set.
Practical Visualization Technique
Daily clearing of your energy field can literally make you blossom. Removing the energetic residue from other people and places, often throughout lifetimes, will help with concentration, relieve stress, anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and help you open up more to the spiritual world.
Here is one simple visualization technique that I use for daily clearing:
Start by closing your eyes and checking in with yourself. What is the underlying emotion that you are feeling? Put a word on it. Is it anxiety, anger, joy, numbness? Don’t judge, just make note of it.
This helps you get into your body. Take a few slow, deep breaths. Then, focus your attention on the center of your chest, your heart center, and visualize a bright light glow within it. Concentrate on this light for a few breaths as you see it grow bigger and brighter with each inhale, extending upwards.
Visualize a cord, the thickness of your thumb, going up from the light ball in the center of your chest. See this cord go up to your throat and out through the crown of your head, out through the building you are in, out into the sky, through the atmosphere, and leaving the Earth, going all the way into the space. Visualize it going all the way up to the Source, beyond time and space, into the bright light of the Sun. See the cord extend all the way to the Source, and begin drawing energy from the Source. See how the cord begins to fill up with sparkling clear electric blue. Start drawing this pure light down, through the cord, into your own being.
If this is difficult for you, ask to remove the obstructions that prevent you from connecting to Source.
Visualize yourself being filled up with this electric blue light, as it travels down through the cord into your crown, through the throat, and into your heart. Now, see a cord extending downwards from the heart center and to your root chakra, extending through the floor of the building you are in, through the soil, the layers of the rock, down to the very center of the Earth, into the bright fire of the core. Observe yourself for a few moments, as you visualize being connected both to the Above and the Below, to the cosmic realms and the core of the Earth.
Now, see the electric blue light you are drawing from the Source begin to expand out from your heart chakra and into your physical body. Visualize it filling you from the crown of your head down to the bottoms of your feet, a transparent electric blue light filling all your cells and organs. As you do so, ask that the light of the Source may remove any dark energies that are stored in your body, and see it doing so, clearing out the dark and lightening up your body.
Finally, see the light pushing out through your skin, into the space around you, about an arm’s length all around you, and see yourself being surrounded with this clear electric blue light. I you see any pockets of darkness or holes in the field around you, ask for them to be filled by the light and see it with your mind’s eye. Ask for the light to form a protective dome around you, and see the edges become firm and clear. You can verbalize an intention to close off your energy field for any and all lower-vibrational energies. This is your temple, where you reside, connected both to your Soul and the Universe, and to the Earth.
After this visualization, make sure to check in with yourself again. How are you feeling now? Is the underlying emotion different, or the same?
