The Aura and How I Found It

Everybody talks about the aura but few see it.    With a little practice on your part, you too can join the few that are able to locate it. 

As  a child I used to "zone out" in class when I was bored or listening to a dull instructor.  This particular time I was in church listening to what I call "Hell, Fire, and Damnation".   I never liked those types of subjects so I chose to take a moment to zone.  There were no windows and the idea came to me to try to look for the aura around the  Preacher. 

"Zoning Out" is like staring at something and not paying attention.   Later, I realized  this is often what is done in forms of meditation.   Another way, of thinking about this is looking at something and not thinking about anything. 

That particular morning with the sermon  I couldn't go to sleep,  Mother would have "knocked" me into reality, so the game was on.  I could stare and nobody was aware that I wasn't listening to a word that was being said.   I was in the "zone". 

The aura looks like heat energy.   At least that is the way it appeared to me.   We can see this energy when driving a car down a long road that is hot and desolate.   Living in the south part of Texas this phenomenon occurs often.   However, around the human, this energy continues to move about, but always stays located around the person.   This energy, I call the God energy.  It is your lifeline,  your transmitter,  it retains your thoughts as well as transmits thoughts to others, and of course it attracts for you, whether you know it or not, other people into your life that are lessons for you to learn.  Upon death, naturally the aura is gone.   It usually  leaves shortly before you cross over. 

Edgar Cayce , a famous psychic, once hesitated and decided not to join those on the elevator.   Something was wrong about that moment that caused him to chose another route down  the building.   Later, he realized that none on the elevator had an aura.   The elevator snapped and these souls fell to their death.  Tragic story but true. 

Color will emerge with practice.  Take time and be patient.   I sometimes see the color and sometimes not.  It comes and goes for me.   I do see words coming from the month at times.  I have been told that when the words are red, the person talking is not telling the truth.   What a natural lie detector for us all.   I usually feel the lie instead.  It just makes me angry, and later, upon reflection,  I realize that I was fed an erroneous message.  

Take the opportunity to give this information a try!   Your story might work differently from mine, but isn't that okay as well?

What Is Our Part In Group Karma

Not much is mentioned about group Karma.   But rest assured, when you  join the group, you take on that vibration.  Groups even of themselves tend to repeat situations over and over again, and never resolve issues.  For my example just look at the Old Testament.  War has been on going for thousands of years and getting no where.  When are we going to stop?  Perhaps when we understand that war is not a good solution.

Countries can create group Karma, as well as organizations.  It is important to understand that when all of us are a part of the group we need  to pay attention to the actions of the group.  Failure to do so could possibly produce problems or learning lessons in lifetimes to come for the individuals who are attached to that group karma.  Learn that it is important to either vote or peacefully protest. 

I would not join a senior organization when I first qualified because I was unsure of what they represented.  I discovered that they were huge in the lobbying industry.  Who gave them the right to decide what I might or might not want?  In this case it was health care, and I refused to once again join the group.  This may or may not impact our world, but in my opinion it does play a part within the karmic scheme of things.  I'm not God here and can't answer that question for you either. It is important to become aware of your environment.

 Another example of group karma is observed   when large countries continue to wage war or participate in warfare either by selling ammunition or sending troops.  People who attach to this energy take on the karmic responsibility.  This could either be both good or bad.  It is not for me to decide or either to judge it.  I am not God here and cannot see the entire picture.  But I do not think it healthy to profit on behalf of someone's fight.

All races are each a group.  It is my belief that each of the races has gone through karmic payment and repayment over and over again.  It is important that all of us learn to get along and accept each other or each group as they are.  Certainly, war does not help here, but continues to drag the problem on and on through multiple centuries.   One of the major reasons that the earth is getting to go through such cataclysmic changes is that our choices either by individuals or groups have not created healthy energy for all of us who share earth together.  Think about it.  Well you certainly can't change others, but you can change yourself.  Why not ?    

Change or Repeat the Mess Which One?

Whether it is about relationships, business situations, or even family of origin, we will continue to repeat the past regardless of how we think.  All of us tend to deny that which is in front of our nose, and we plod along in life thinking that we are all terminally unique.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  All of us are connected to the same creative force like it or not.  For me, I feel rather secure in this fact or truth because I have been in a state of messes all of my life, and until I looked at my part in the mess, I remained in this "mud hole".   Not everything is all bad, but wouldn't you rather have a better relationship, or a better marriage,  or better sex, or perhaps  a better set of friends?  Then get to traveling down the information highway of life and join me in the fun of discovering your life and knowing that it can be better.

Assuming that I might have an ounce of truth here, let's suppose that we all cycle back with the same set of characters until we learn and we are able to escalate up the higher ladder of evolvement.   One of the clues that has been given to me  is the quote from the Christian Bible which states something like this,  "the sins of the Father are visited upon the son".  Early in childhood I  believed that statement was referring to disease.   I am now correcting that error to mean that what we learn and do within  the family of origin is passed on to the children, and they in turn repeat the same offense to the next generation and on and on.   How many of us swore we would not grow up to be our parents, and then caught ourselves repeating the same type of offenses?   According to modern psychology we will either repeat the same mistake or even worse swing to the opposite extreme.  This is a family dysfunction that can easily be eradicated with a little effort.  Having the "cajones" to research family history with show that we repeat dysfunctional mess over and over again. 

Many people think that we have inherited alcoholism or addiction.  I used to be one of them myself until I found another book that supported my theory on addiction as well as recovery.   I will share this quote from the book of Adult Children of Alcoholics that might be of service to you the reader.  It is about family dysfunction that we all experience ;

"In the interest of fairness, we must realize that our parents passed on what was done to them.  They are adult children as well.  We are not blaming them for being powerless over the effects of family dysfunction.  In most cases, the treatment that they handed out is the treatment they received growing up.  Our parents internalized their parents.  This has to be true if we are to believe that family dysfunction is passed down from one generation to the next." (1)

You can consider the next quotes that also came from the New Testament,  both Mathew 7:17 and John 15:2  give a similar message which paraphrased by me is something like "to know about someone consider the fruits of his tree".

When I encourage you to change.  I am referring to bad habits such as abuse, self-loathing, insecurities both emotional and financial,  worries about  that which you have absolute no control,  controlling others.  I speak about these defects of characters look them up on the subject of attraction.  You might find there is more information for you than you thought about.  But the outcome is pure joy of life.   Change your thinking, change your life.

Cleaning the Wreckage of My Past

Therapy is relatively new to all of us, and certainly it true for me.  My family would never admit to having any kind of problems let alone tell  problems to some "therapist".   We simple did not admit any faults or certainly never admitted to anyone that we had some difficulties to overcome.   Lesson number one for me here was a lesson in how to stuff emotions on a grand scale.   Unfortunately for me or fortunate for you it is why I write today which is a therapy of clearing the energy of the past that is harmful to me and toxic perhaps to others.  Reflecting back by the time I was 5 I was totally enmeshed into family dysfunction.  Understand this,  there is room for improvement for all that walk upon earth.  This is school. 

Never, did it ever dawn on me that finding what we call the "inner child" would totally change my life and thrust me into a new world of the unknown.  Who was I, would I love myself, and of course would others like or love me?   For me, I have learned that when it is time to learn about oneself, the Universe always steps in to give us a nudge.  This nudge always felt uncomfortable because I was being jolted into a life of unknowns, and like it or not, I was into this journey of discovery before I recognized this fact.  

All of us have something to work on while on earth.  If we were perfect, we would not be here, but on another plane or planet of existence.   I am not talking about learning about vocations.  What I am referring to is understanding that there is always room for improvement, and in order to grow spiritually, it is important to address all of these "defects of character" that made each of us feel in adequate.  Defects that we use to manipulate others, get our way, and  control as many as we can, or become the victim.   I was all of that I have described.  One of my biggest fears was money.......   

I was about 5 years old  more or less.  I had not yet started formal education and I always loved to buy stuff.   As children we were allowed to walk to town to what was then called the 5 and dime store which was nothing more than  nickel and dime stuff for children.  Always we had a big budget.  Each of us was given 15 cents and that was like sending me to the moon emotionally.  Oh, what  I could do with what was to me a huge amount of cash.  For mother it was a godsend as she had about an hour and a half without squirmy  kids...These were corporate decisions here.   Cameron, Texas was a very small town who knew everyone, and it was a simple place for children to feel like for once in their life, they were big enough to go places.  Maybe the distance in total was one half of a mile, I never measured the distance.  The town square had two movie theatres big stuff for city folk from Fort Worth.  Cameron was still behind the times.   All phones were through the central office handled by an operator.  Does this sound ancient?  To many of you it does, but truthfully it was not long ago.  

Downtown consisted of two movie theatres, two banks,  two dime stores,  two grocery stores( very small by today's standard) an ice house for produce delivery and always a couple of bars for the men.  There were other stores that wrapped around the central  plaza, called the square.  You can get the picture, which was not a lot of activity.  We would make our purchases and walk back to grandmother's house. 

One day in Fort Worth, I ask my father to take me to the store.  I had accumulated a little cash, and the need was about to burn a hole in my pocket.   Dad reluctantly drove me to the "dime store", and I strolled in for the big purchase.   I bought only what I could afford, a bag of marbles.   Upon getting back into the car, my father inquired about the purchase.  "Why did you select this?", he asked.  "Well, that was all I could afford."  was my reply.  "Do you play marbles?" he asked.  " No, but they're pretty." 

Now for the lesson of a lifetime.  My father made me return the marbles and get my money.  Devastating for a little shopper, and then for the rest of my childhood and adult life made fun of the attempt to buy something I did not need.   This became the practical joke of the family, and all enjoyed the story except me.   I truly accepted the fact that I was not able to handle money and took this erroneous belief into adulthood.

  The Aztecs I believe calling this fact of  accepting a false belief about yourself and putting it into your mitote ( body of energy within the soul that holds truths either real or imaginary).   All of us, by the time we are 5 or 6 have been programed to believe many things about ourselves that are false. and we stuff these truths into our mitote.     Examples that were mine as well were, you are stupid, you can't manage money,  you never finish projects, the only A you make is in "hall", you need a man when you are an adult, and on and on.   Sometimes these truths are so hidden that it will take therapy of some kind.  My therapy came in the form of 12 step work, as well as other groups.   For those of you who are reaching a stumbling block look for the group that possibly might  fit your needs.  But remember this, it is up to you to make your own decision.  This is not up to "the priest",  the "counselor", the parent, the sister or brother but you.  You must stand by what you think is important to uncover about yourself so that you can change these erroneous beliefs and behaviors and join the world of the "living".    

 

Create a Healthy Energy In And Around Your Home Or Work Place

   Home environment is important.  It creates an energy all of its own, and living in a "negative" nest creates a unhappy environment from which to function.   Study friends of yours that tend to hoard and create a messy environment.  Usually these people are in a state of fear, and actually it is nothing about the house.   The extreme example is not what I care to address, but it may show up in a later post.  However, it is the subtle environment.  The one that you do not care to enter because it is a sad place to be.   The Chinese call this Feng Shui.   I just accept energy.
  Often violence from the past could be a factor with energy.   Years ago, my son and I went to a hamburger house in Atlanta for a sandwich.  While there, for no reason, I was getting angry.  The sandwich was good, but I left angry without knowing why.  Remember, I am sensitive to feelings, and often are not aware myself.   We arrived at our destination that night and I mentioned to my teacher how angry I had become over nothing.   Two days later, she called and informed me that a murder had taken place in that restaurant.   And from that point on the businesses that came into the space could not be successful.   Her reason, the energy from the death scene was violent and the energy needed to be cleared.   I did not need to be convinced.  Families that tend to argue all of the time create a negative energy.  More subtle, but it remains.  Rather be safe than sorry.  When moving into a new space always clear the energy. 
   To establish a healthy energy for a  new residence or business,  you  can  use prayer, candles, create your own holy water, or  salt, and herbs.   There may be more information on this subject, but my suggestion is to find your own path for cleansing.  For me, I always bless every room.  Ask God to bless the house with love and joy, and sprinkle a little holy water in each corner of the room as negative energy always attracts to the corners.  Whatever the "ritual" is that you develop in the cleansing of a property, continue to use the exact ritual with other properties. 
     A point of observations here.  Cultures are different.  The Asian population regards red as good luck.  We often use red in conjunction with anger.   Asian uses crosses to mean death and destruction.  Our Christian populations uses the cross as a Christian symbol yes it is death, but over change and redemption, not that of war.   I've witnessed with amusement western man re-create feng shui as if he were a direct descendant to the Emperor of China himself.   Groups incorporate their beliefs or superstitions to the point of creating a false "truth".   If you believe that walking under a ladder, for example, is bad luck then guess what?  You have created a superstition with a truth behind it.  It is not so, but the group believes it and therefore it becomes bad luck.   Many of the superstitions were created by different cultural groups.  Be careful.  My point,  create a happy environment with prayer, plants, good room arrangement, candles, and cleanliness, and you will change the energy all by your lonesome self. 

The Necessity to Have Boundaries

I had never heard about "boundaries" until I walked into the rooms of recovery.   It never occurred to me that I had permission to say, "no"  without having some false excuse following behind my answer that really never made sense.  "No", is a complete sentence in itself.
 The ability to say  "no" is certainly very difficult for many Americans.  As far as the rest of you that read this blog I cannot say, but my guess is that it is true for you as well.   It was important for me to learn to understand that it was not my obligation to ,"volunteer for the world" if it truly was something that I did not want to do.   I even had to buy a book on this subject to totally get it through my mind that it was not my job to serve the world.   Certainly at the cost of my health.  And to add insult to injury we were constantly reminded me to do service work in order to recovery from addiction.  Was I doomed here?   I thought I was surly locked into some "tower of existence" only to clean ashtrays for the rest of my life.   No, no, no..... Doing a good deed with a bad attitude is a negative.   Remember this little rule.  Any kind of help must come from the heart not from some one's order.  It is up to you to decide what is right for you, and how you intend to give to others.
  Another  boundary description  might come with refusing to go somewhere that could be of harm to you.  Going along with the crowd just to please someone could possibly be your life.  For example, it would be unwise to ride in a car when the driver is intoxicated.  How many of us had made this mistake?  One of the most important lessons that I had to learn was put to me with this thought, "what others think of me is none of my business".    That little reminder stays with me continually as I journey though life.  It is my responsibility to give or not give when I choose.  And it is up to me to decide what is important only for me.
   Giving advice was the hardest part for me to understand.  It is important to remain silent until ask for advice;  then and only then do you have permission to tell someone else what you might do from whatever experience you have had in the past.  In relationships it is not the duty of the woman or man to tell the other how to dress, what to say, how to drive, what to eat while in public and on and on.   These little control issues are what I define as "no boundaries at all".  Best advice is to remain silent.   We all have the God energy working for us, and that is advice itself.  Also, if a person steps into a trap, it possibly is his/her lesson to learn.  Your advice only adds you into the equation and creates more mess.  Keep you boundary secure! 

 

Remaining Silent Can Become a Deadly Killer

Somewhere in my path of life I was taught that "silence was golden".   It is true if you are speaking of gossip.  There is nothing good that can come from idle gossip of an individual.  Particularly when you are enjoying their misery.   Folks, you are sending out negative energy that can and is returned to you.  Not fun to know that, but this is a Universal Truth.  

Today, however, I am talking about the silence of fears that we withhold.  These fears fester within our own bodies until they manifest into dis ease or disease.   This is the worst to me, because all of us do not ever envision that we create our own sickness.   I  hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a truth, and one that took a long time for me to understand.   Our body is a miniature universe that sends messages to an from the brain with instructions.  Some of these instructions, we are aware of, but other instructions only began with a negative thought or fear about ourselves.  We were clueless that our body was responding to these thoughts and sending messages of an internal response.  And the by-product here is to become sick, either mentally or physically.

Anger turned inward contributes, and creates internal mayhem within the body .   People who display controlling type of personalities,  using temper to get their way, will create multiple types of disorders that manifest into disease.   An interesting reading  is, "Who's The Matter With Me?"  Sorry, I cannot remember the author, but who could forget the title?  Another reference on this subject of course, is Emmet Fox.  Reference to this subject can be found in, "The Sermon On The Mount".   Think about the stroke.  It is as if we are, "blowing our mind" with rage or anger.    And cancer reminds me of eating myself up with fear as well. 

Remember, we all have choice.  We can carry this anger, rage, fear, negative vibration or what you wish to call negative energy around, or we can all work together to clear the mind of wrongful thinking.  This according to Mr. Fox is the first step in healing oneself.   This is the major reason for forgiveness.  Forgiveness eradicates and heals the victim.

Two ways to change the process.  One, clear your thinking by changing your thoughts.  When a negative thought "flies by"  tell yourself to stop thinking this way, ask your Higher Power to help you change your thoughts, and then go on with living.   Two,  learn a meditation that can aid you to process  stress rather than turning to alcohol or chemical abuse.  Support groups can aid in this process as well.    Remember today.  Change your thinking, change your life and health.