Your aura is more than just your personal energy bubble or a spiritual concept. It is a vital part of your energy system. In this article, we will clarify common misconceptions about the aura and explain how your energy field plays a key role in your overall health and well-being.
What Is an Aura?
If you have heard the term aura or auric layer before, you may have been told to picture it as a glowing circle of light energy surrounding your body. This is a popular description but conveys nothing about its usefulness.
Your aura is an individual energy field that surrounds your body and extends about three feet in every direction. Its primary function is to conduct energy in and out of your body. Because everything is energy and energy must flow, this is an important aspect of maintaining health in our physical bodies. There is a constant need for energy to flow freely in and out of our bodies and the auric layer facilitates this movement.
It also acts as a type of energetic filter, helping to intercept and block out environmental toxins and harmful energy. While it is not a perfect shield, it works in tandem with our body’s other filtration systems to protect and maintain a healthy internal environment.
The Aura as an Information Conduit
Beyond managing your flow of energy, your aura also conducts information toward and away from your body. This includes data being received by all of your senses, including your sixth or clair senses. There are billions of data points that we are inundated with from our environments, and our aura is a conduit helping with the smooth transmission from the environment, to our body’s receptors.

What Happens When it Is Blocked?
Like water moving in the open ocean, energy is supposed to flow freely and always be moving through the aura. There are times when energy or toxins can become trapped in the aura, however, and this creates a lack of flow and a less than optimal environment where the blockage will build and get worse over time. And the longer it exists, the more repercussions you are likely to experience.
When this manifests as trapped toxins, your aura will appear green and it will lose its filtering efficiency. This will lead to more toxins entering your body and building up in it over time, threatening you with the risk of dozens of toxin related diseases. An energy master can clear your aura and ensure that your filtering system gets back to its optimal capacity.
Trapped energy will be in the form of heavy, unpleasant emotions that you once experienced. When they become trapped, the unpleasant feeling and heaviness may linger long after the thoughts that created the emotion are gone. And once they become trapped, they will not go away on their own. It will hold your personal emotional frequency down, as well as manifesting as that emotion plaguing you often, even though you are no longer creating the emotion with your thoughts. Diffusing trapped emotions is something we do monthly in the Rising Tide Community on our group energy calls.
Common Myths About the Aura
Here are a few of the most common misunderstandings, explained:
- Myth #1: Some people are born with stronger auras.
Everyone’s aura starts around the same size and strength. Differences result from blockages, as described above. - Myth #2: A bigger aura is better.
Your aura typically extends about three feet out from your body, in every direction. It will not expand past this and if it becomes smaller, it is a sign of deteriorating health or illness. - Myth #3: Some aura colors are better than others.
Your aura color is the same throughout your life and reflects how you will best interact with the world; but one color is not better than another. It is just like the differences in hair color. It is part of who you are. You can learn more about aura colors and what each color means in this video.
Your aura is a fundamental part of your energetic anatomy. By understanding what it is and how it works, you are empowered to maintain its health and integrity.