Life is a vibration and every mineral, plant, animal or human has its own form of vibration. Matter is not static and immovable, but a mass of moving particles of atoms and molecules emitting their own radiations of light, heat and colours. All our vibrations are constantly interacting with one another, connecting all life. Once we become aware of this subtle energy we can learn to protect ourselves from bad vibrations and learn to attract good vibrations to us.
Radiant energy comes to earth in the form pure white sunlight, which contains electro-magnetic energy travelling to earth in different wavelengths. This energy includes wavelengths of visible and invisible colour. We can only see 40% of the electro-magnetic spectrum, although we have learned to use many of the invisible wavelengths, ultra-violet, infra-red, radio waves, X-rays, micro-waves and gamma rays.
It is only when life-giving white light flows through us, connecting us to the universal life force that we are alive and in perfect health. This vital energy is well recognized by many healing systems. The Chinese call it 'chi' while the Indian Ayurvedic system calls it 'Prana'. When this light energy becomes blocked, disharmony is caused between the body, mind and soul and a state of disharmony or disease follows our modern stressful lifestyle of energy are caused mainly by bad diet, and lack of natural light, negative thoughts and various types of pollution.
Man is not just a lump of matter, held together by electrical impulses from the brain. He is an embodied spirit, and has a soul. His soul connects him to the spiritual dimension, for he is an energetic being who has the potential to merge his physical and spiritual aspects to become a whole and spiritual being.
Man has seven bodies, each emitting radiant energy of beautiful colour vibrations. Unfortunately, due to the restriction of our five senses, most people are only aware of their physical form. In order for us to be in perfect health, a balance between all bodies needs to be created and maintained. We also need to become aware of our subtle bodies that are linked by the ever-changing movement of electro-magnetic forces.
Throughout history there have been people who have had clairvoyant vision, and can see the radiations around us. Others are clairaudient, and can hear the sounds, which the colour vibrations emit. All of us can learn to develop our sensitivity to subtle energy.
The Subtle Bodies of Man
All matter is constantly exchanging different vibrations and wavelengths, it all interacts. Just as the earth is surrounded by its own force field, our own electro-magnetic atmosphere, known as the Aura, too surrounds us.
The Aura comes from a Greek word meaning breeze. The Aura is a two-way transmitter and receiver connecting us to the vibrations around us. It is the means through which we can connect to the energy from the mineral, plant and animal kingdom as well as the cosmic forces.
Just as the ozone layer protects the earth, the aura forms an oval envelope around the physical body, and is our greatest protection. If disharmony of either a physical or spiritual nature occurs, the aura becomes de-energized. It becomes weak and holes appear, allowing harmful energy through. These harmful emanations may cause mental or emotional imbalances or eventually become physical illness.
The Aura is made up of three major layers extending outwards from the physical body. Although we describe these bodies as being separate from one another, there is really no clear definition for they blend one into another, exchanging energy and colours. The physical body is made up of two layers, the most dense layer of the physical body which is visible to us, and the etheric body which is the exact duplicate of the physical body, only it vibrates at a higher rate. The etheric body forms a cocoon of energy radiating approximately four inches away from us. To those who are sensitive to the auric radiations, the etheric appears as a fine greyish mist. The etheric cannot distinguish between good or bad vibrations and acts as a collector and transmitter of the sum total of energy from the other subtle bodies.
It is important that healers work at this level, cleansing and balancing the energy in the etheric before it is transmitted to the copy-cat physical body.
The next layer of the aura is made up of the astral body. This extends outwards from the etheric body for several feet & is made up of the energy produced by the emotions. The word 'emotion' is derived from the word emote, meaning to move out. True expression of emotion is to move out energy. This energy comes from our soul and takes the form of divine love, joy, and compassion. It is only when our emotions are blocked or repressed that negative feelings emerge. Feelings such as fear, greed, envy, jealousy, resentment, guilt and many more are negative expressions of emotion. Healers can work with the astral body, to draw out this repressed energy, opening up the channels to receive and give true pure emotions.
The mental body extends out from the astral body. This is made up of the higher and the lower mental. The lower mental is the energy that relates to our learned behaviour. Patterns of behaviour instilled in us during childhood as well as imprinted belief systems and ideas related to our culture. We use the lower mind for our day-to-day ability to function in this world. The higher mind relates to our mental abilities of logic & reason. If our heart centre is open the higher mind links us to others, and we are able to empathise, and give sympathy and understanding to others.
The physical, etheric, astral and mental body's together form into what we call our personality. These are aspects of our lower self, & the ones that most people use & acknowledge in their everyday life.
Now we progress on to the three subtle bodies with the highest vibrations. These form aspects of our higher self. The first is the soul body, which is the layer that begins to connect with our soul. It is also known as the causal body & is connected with our karmas. The next layer is the spiritual body, which is connected to the third eye. It is the aspect of us that allows us a sense of service & working selflessly for the good of others. It represents the area of high idealism & creative inspiration, for in order to acquire these qualities we have to connect to our intuition & inner knowledge of our higher self. Lastly we have a subtle layer which is made up of several layers which connects us to the divine
Between each layer of the aura, there are further vibrational levels. They supply life-giving energy to each layer and sustain them just like membranes in cell walls. It is one of the main functions of the aura to collect the light energy, chi or prana & break it down into its elements sending it to the body's energy centres known as the chakras.
Life is a vibration and every mineral, plant, animal or human has its own form of vibration. Matter is not static and immovable, but a mass of moving particles of atoms and molecules emitting their own radiations of light, heat and colours. All our vibrations are constantly interacting with one another, connecting all life. Once we become aware of this subtle energy we can learn to protect ourselves from bad vibrations and learn to attract good vibrations to us.