Woo Woo

By Pauline Evanosky

I recently wrote a story at Medium.com about seeing auras. I can remember it was a big thing when I was first learning how to be psychic. In those days, I was trying to do all things psychic and there are quite a few things people of a psychic nature can do. Of course, there is no regulatory agency, but one might think of tarot cards, the runes, the Akashic Records and channeling like I do. There are also auras to read, to see and to feel.

As it turned out, I have never been really very good at seeing auras preferring to limit most of my psychic contact to channeling. However, I have seen them a few times, so I can say that they are real. At least what I’ve experienced about them.

You can also feel your aura. What comes first? Feeling or seeing? It’s going to depend on the person, I suppose. I’ve done both. For me, the feeling was the first thing I experienced.

Keep in mind that a blind person who has necessarily lost one of their senses will use their other senses to come to the rescue. Those remaining senses get beefed up. The goal is to take your place in the world and be a part of it no matter what senses you have.

As a blind person, it’s just not going to be the same as a sighted person. One of the things that a blind person is conscious of, more so than a sighted person might be, is air pressure or their sense of feeling. If you watch a blind person walking alongside a building at the corner of the building, they will move more slowly and be ready for the next thing. How do they know that’s a good place to be wary? It’s where the air cushion between themselves and the building changes. Something sighted people don’t notice much at all. At the corner of the building, they are suddenly no longer next to it. So, they pause, tap their cane, or communicate with a guide dog, or whatever a blind person does when they are preparing for the next thing. It could be a busy road. It might be an intersection. It could be a driveway. It’s where they need to decide where to go next and how to proceed.

As a sighted person, the way to build up this sensory awareness is to start where you are. Even if you are standing in line at the grocery store you could do this.

Close your eyes and rub your hands together. In my energy Reiki healing course, I was told to do that, too. Rub my hands together. It’s like we’ve all seen pictures of somebody getting ready to do something really good, like diving into an all you can eat buffet. You warm up your hands to wake them up, to get a bunch of tingly spider senses activated. Now, as your hands lay flat against each other, palm to palm, slowly pull them apart a few inches. Not a yard apart. Just a few inches. From that separated position, slowly, very slowly bring your hands together. All this while your eyes are closed.

Did you feel anything? No? That’s not surprising. It takes time. Keep your eyes closed. Rub your hands again if you want to. Or not. But, slowly, ever so slowly, draw your hands apart again. Same distance. Because you’ve got your eyes closed, you could peek if you wanted to. Is it about five inches? That’s good. Is it three inches? That’s fine, too. Just a bit apart.

Now, bring them together again. Slowly. What you are waiting for is a small pressure like tug, like you’ve squashed a marshmallow between your palms. It’s not an earthshaking kind of thing. There are no ringing bells or trumpets going off. Just something a little different.

Perhaps, you think you might have only imagined it.

Strike the word “only” from your vocabulary. This is where you want to encourage your imagination. This is where the 56-year-old self you are pulls on childhood memories and gets to pretend again. This is where pretend is critical to the process.

Hold your hands close together. Not touching. They are just about an inch or so apart. And, yes, you can peek. From that small distance of an inch, slowly take ten seconds or so to bring the surface of your hands together again. Slowly pull them apart.

Wait! Did you feel something? Yeah, like gummy bears now. Play with this exercise. It took me three days to begin feeling the first push and pull of the aura between my hands. I didn’t walk around all day doing the exercise. It was just sporadically during the course of the day that I did it. The thing is, is that as I began to feel something happening I began to switch to a different gear as I did the exercise. I can’t describe how that gear feels. It’s the difference between consciously making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to unconsciously making one. Just a different gear. Maybe you could describe it as being tense and then not being tense.

As the days passed and I got better at feeling my aura, I began to draw my hands farther and farther apart until I could feel a resistance. I could feel the heat of one hand against the other without actually touching them. I could take my hands to a distance of 18 inches to two feet apart. Then, to play with this, I put each of my hands down, palm up on my legs as I sat in my chair. I angled them up so that they were pointed toward the cheeks of my face. I felt that, too. A real pressure against my face.

What I never did was look in a mirror and see if I could actually see an indentation on my cheek. Now, that would have been awesome.

So, that’s the feeling part of your aura.

These days, it takes me a bit of practice to feel my aura again. I suppose it’s like riding a bicycle. I know that it happened before. I can wait patiently, do the exercises again, and eventually, probably within a couple of days, begin to easily feel my aura again.

Being able to feel an aura doesn’t have much practical application unless you get into energy healing, such as Reiki, or exercises like Tai Chi or Qigong. But it sure is weird. And fun. Once you’ve got it down, you can teach others. Be the most popular person at your next party.

The seeing of auras is slightly different. If you were to go around practicing this for a long time, I’m sure you would begin to see colors in people’s auras. I’ve never gotten that far. What I saw was a grey foggy cloud that would settle upon the outside form of a person as I looked at them. The funny thing was I was able to see it in photographs, too. I never thought that would happen.

One of the things I did was to get some Magic Eye books and practice seeing the hidden pictures in them. At first glance, these pictures are much like a movie theater carpet. Lots of tiny, busy patterns. Personally, I can’t walk on carpets like this because they make me dizzy, and I sometimes want to throw up. But I can look at the Magic Eye pictures.

If you Google Magic Eye pictures and look at the images section of the search results, you can pull one up on your computer to examine. It looks like a mess. Busy, zig-zaggy patterns that mean nothing. They might even make you slightly sick like they do for me sometimes. But you keep gazing at them, and suddenly, whoosh, you can see the hidden dinosaur. For me, there is that shift when I go from not seeing to seeing the hidden picture. You almost wonder what happened. Once seen, you cannot unsee it. In fact, as I was writing this, I went back to Google to look again at my dinosaur picture only to discover there were three dinosaurs. Once again, there is that hesitancy where I cannot see the hidden picture, but the images appear a lot more quickly for me after the first longer wait.

There is a shift in how you see very much like the psychic shifts I make when I channel sometimes or if I just want to see something of a psychic nature. Where I “go deep” as I think of it.

Is being able to see people’s auras something that could enrich your life? Maybe. Maybe not. Have you ever seen heat waves? It’s sort of like that. Is seeing a heat wave useful? Sure. If there’s a hot stove in front of you, you can be warned not to approach it too quickly or without a hot pad in hand. It’s just something different. Or, if you are out in the desert, you will know that you are looking at a mirage in the distance and not a body of water.

You know, if you thought of being able to sense auras to be on a similar level as being able to whistle, that might make it an easier skill to discover. Or perhaps it might be described as the balance and timing a person needs to play jump rope or learning how to wink or make clicking noises with your tongue.

How is this useful to anybody? I’m not sure. I know, for myself, it was just something I learned to do. If I were doing psychic readings, it might very well be helpful for something like that. I could say, “You seem a little tense.” Or, maybe, “Have you been worried about money?” I would not want that to be my only source of information, for at heart, I am a channel.

Come back next month, and I’ll have another article for you. The articles I publish on Medium are now accessible to non-members. There is a link at the top of my articles that directs the reader to my entire article, which is available with a non-member link. Just google me. Most of what I write for them turns up there.

Thanks for reading.
Pauline Evanosky