Following our blog, “13 Tips for Balancing Your Chakras,” and because we offer an entire array of chakra oil blends for maintaining chakra balance, we feel to share an additional aspect of the chakra system—the seven layers of the aura. Our energetic chakra centers do not begin and end in themselves but are actually each connected to one of the seven layers of our auric field.
To define the aura or auric field:
In the early nineteenth century, British theosophist C. W. Leadbeater, too, conceptualized that the human aura was comprised of layers of energy with each one connected to a particular energy center of the chakra system.
More modern researchers in the field of energy healing also believe the aura has several layers each of a different color, geometric pattern, frequency and bioelectrical constitution. These frequencies, colors, geometries and bioelectric radiations are produced by our thoughts, feelings, physical health, mental awareness as well as past events and traumas. All these continuously program the sheaths of the aura with information rendering the aura and its layers in a state of constant symbiotic flux.
Each person’s aura is as unique as a fingerprint, if not, more so. Not only is everyone’s auric field unique in size, shape and frequency, it contains very distinctive energetic imprints of one’s physical, emotional and spiritual state at any given moment.
With essential oils of atlas cedar, helichrysum, clary sage, frankincense, white thyme; in a carrier oil base of fractionated coconut oil
Place a small amount on your fingertip and lightly massage into the center point of the third eye chakra one inch above and between the brows.
0.5 oz.
Due to the presence of potent natural essential oils, all products have the following warning: “Not suitable for pregnant and breastfeeding women."
With essential oils of rose, neroli, melissa, lavender, blue tansy; in a carrier oil base of fractionated coconut oil
Place a small amount on your fingertip and lightly massage into the center point of the heart chakra in the center of the chest.
0.5 oz.
Due to the presence of potent natural essential oils, all products have the following warning: “Not suitable for pregnant and breastfeeding women."
The energy of the aura extends outward from the inner cellular level of the body to energy fields outside of the body. The layers or sheaths of the aura are also known as subtle bodies. Each subtle body of our being is very much alive and these seven bodies or layers are nested within each other like the Russian Matryoshka doll.
The colors in the aura change and are subjective to interpretation. For the twentieth century psychic Edgar Cayce, the aura provides a colorful panorama and barometer of one’s health, thoughts, talents, life potentials, even karmic lessons and past lives. Colors manifest in the layers of the aura but they are not limited to the colors of the chakras associated with them. The significance of one color manifesting in one’s aura can have one meaning for one person and a completely different meaning for another.
Ultimately, in an infinite multiverse, do we limit our expanded beings, our aura, chakras and sacred geometries to only seven? That is the question to be contemplated and felt.
For now, however, these are what modern mystics and energy healers believe to be the seven layers of the aura:
Physical etheric layer: Closest to the physical body approximately two to four inches away from the body, some therapists can see this layer during energy healing treatments; it is connected to the root chakra and is bluish white in color for a person who is healthy and happy.
Emotional layer: Extending about four inches outward from the first layers, it connects inwardly to the sacral chakra. Its color and state is affected by one’s emotional state.
The mental layer: Ranging outward about four to eight inches away from the emotional layer, the mental layer connects to the solar plexus chakra. Here is where our thoughts and ideas actually originate, filtered from our higher mind through the mental layer and into the third solar chakra to be processed. This is the belly area of the body and is our “second brain.”
The astral layer: This fourth layer of the aura is connected to the heart chakra. When a person is in a state of love, the energy coming from this layer is similar to watching an elaborate fireworks display.
The etheric template layer: This layer averaging two feet in size contains a full imprint of the physical body. It holds the code for how every aspect of our true physical form and appearance was intended to be formed this lifetime. It can indicate physical disease and illness. All illness begins here in the aura as densities and slowly moves inward into the physical body unless it is cleared through energy work, trauma integration or an overriding persistent state of happiness and joy. This layer is connected to the throat chakra.
The celestial layer: Expanding three to four feet from the first five layers, it is focused on the spiritual realm, the third eye chakra and our ability to communicate with existence beyond the veil. All one’s functions are recorded here: thoughts, emotions, disturbances and energy manifesting.
The ketheric* layer: Expanding outward another three to four feet around the physical body, the ketheric connects to the crown chakra and when fully open emanates a gold/solar/male and silver/lunar/female light. This layer is the source of the golden halo that commonly adorns the heads of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the saints depicted in artworks beginning in the fourth century and for some one thousand years throughout the Middle Ages.
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From ‘kether,’ named for the topmost sephirot or Infinite emanation of the Kabbalah Tree of Life; it is translated as ‘royal crown.’
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