energy- part 1. Lend a hand

Place your hands with fingertips curving but not touching.

All matter is frozen light.
-David Bohm

We are both spirit and matter. The bright white light. Life-force energy.

Every person has a rainbow-like energy field around them called an aura. The aura is linked to the body by personal energy centers called chakras. The word chakra originated in Sanskrit  and means "wheel of light". The chakra spins like a wheel or vortex and focuses the the light of the aura towards and around the body. Auras and chakras are our "energy body".

Below is a great aura exercise. Loosened me up and is an awesome glimpse into the life-force light energy that not only surrounds us but is part of us. I use the word energy a lot as a way to describe the abstract but very real forces, hunches, gut feelings, vibrations, physical unseen forces I feel around. I can feel things I cannot see and cannot touch.

Aura Exercise

What is needed
-A darkened room
-A darkened background
-Hands :)

What to do
-Sit in a slightly darkened room.
-Rub your hands together vigorously.
-Against a darkened background, stretch your arms out in front of you with your fingertips curving toward each other but not touching.
-Look towards a point  beyond your fingertips but don't stare. Keep your gaze soft and relax.
-What do you see?

Hints-

If the exercise causes eyestrain, rub your hands together again and put the palms gently over your eyes for a few minutes. This directs healing life-force energy from your hands to your eyes. 

Take a minute to mediate and/or ground yourself. 

The book I got the exercise from said most people will see very fine lines of light or colorless luminous streams moving from or between the fingers.

I have seen hazy, whitish, murky light. This light is neither white nor as dark as a grey. I have also seen flashes of yellow and orange which then settles to purple. Flash isn't really an accurate description but it was quick, successive colors. Not bright and bold but soft and muted. Hazy, foggy, murky.

This is what I saw- then there is what I felt. Intense awareness of my hands. Felt the energy on and in my palms. My hands where charged, rotating energy fields. Warm and tingly. Felt very centered, grounded. I felt touched by the bright, white light.

Did some more reading on hand auras and found that they are linked to the heart chakra. Ironically I had already decided to work to open my heart chakra. I felt much more open after the first time I did the  aura exercise for the night and into the next day.

What is life-force energy? It is universal and belongs to us all. It is personal and belongs only to me. It can't be seen always but is real. The more directly aware I become of this aspect of myself the more sensitive I become to the energy. The open I am to seeing with not only my eyes but my feelings, heart and the energy that surrounds us all, the more I will be able to see.

I think when people purse knowledge related to esoteric, spiritual, even religious matters they are seeking to understand energy. What is it? How does it relate to me? How does it connect me to the world around me and beyond me.

Energy can neither be created or destroyed. Real seeing doesn't take place in the eye alone.

Here is to inner energy coming out....