The driver who took me back and forth between the hotel and school in Ipoh Malaysia where I taught shared a surprising observation. “Good meditation practice,” he said.
“How do you know I meditate,” I asked.
“I see the colors in your aura,” he replied. Until then, we discussed the number of classes I was teaching and the age of his two children. We had not discussed meditation.
During my travels to countries like Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Korea, strangers commonly came up to me to comment about the color and radiance of my aura. “Your spirit pure,” said a Korean man on an escalator. These comments should come as no surprise; I’ve maintained a meditation practice since I was 16 and daily lower my eyelids to focus on breath and subtle phenomena.
My travels are a reminder how we all wear cultural blinders. We adopt popular beliefs, often unknowingly, woven into the fabric of a culture. “How can you not see it,” asked one of my Korean friends who went on to characterize Americans who do not see auras, let alone believe in them, as crazy. “That’s crazy talk,” says an American friend upon my mention of the topic, readily dismissing auras as New Age woo-woo, code for superstition and nonsense.
For Health
As an energy healer, I see, feel, and hear the contents of this field that surrounds every person, animal, plant, and object. Most of us are familiar with the vibe that a stranger gives off. That’s the field. It goes by other names such as electromagnetic energy, chi, prana, or biofield, the National Institute of Health’s preferred term.
Sadly, most Americans are not trained to detect it.
The quality of the field is an indicator of a person’s health. Consider it an early warning system. What shows up in the field reflects what’s going on with the body. Disturbances in the field portends illness unless addressed by a healer or a meditative practice. Like an idea taking physical form, it may materialize as a cold or flu or cancer. Inversely a stressed or unwell body emits a disturbance into the field.
We ignore the field at the expense of our health.
A personal biofield typically extends anywhere from a few to several inches beyond the skin. Our personal field also interacts with every other field, contributing to a huge web perceived with inner senses or scientific tools. Quantum biophysicists recognize all life as invisibly interconnected on subtle and chemical levels.
How readily we are influenced by the common field is dependent upon the strength, pliancy, and health of the personal field. It also means we can influence the whole by concentrating on our personal field.
The vibe of our country is, to put it mildly, contentious. More and more of us are building vitriolic fortresses around our beliefs. Unexamined, those beliefs tied to a closed mind and heart create a stagnant toxic cloud that pollutes the personal and common field. In contrast, anyone who has looked lovingly into the eyes of a beloved knows the power of mature and sustainable love which supports well-being. It’s good to know the source and ramifications of your beliefs.
In support of personal and collective well-being, I offer the following field practice:
- Find a comfortable place to sit.
- Lower your eyelids or close your eyes.
- Place your awareness on your breath and how your lungs, ribs, and belly expand and contract. Follow your breath for at least 10 rounds.
- Choose an appealing color and imagine it filling the entire space of your body from the crown of your head to your toes.
- Expand your awareness and invite the color to extend into your personal field.
- Notice what you notice such as impressions, sensations, images. The hue of your chosen color, for instance, may change.
- Return your awareness to breath.
- Notice how you feet rest on the floor and what part of you makes contact with the chair.
- Open your eyes.
- Optional: journal about your experience.
This practice can take place any time, any place, and be repeated as often as wanted. Repetition strengthens and clears the personal field which results in ease and increased health. Your practice contributes to personal well-being and to those further afield.
Consider it an investment in yourself and your community.
