There are a few different methods for picking up several kinds of states of imbalance in the aura. First one needs to know what the main states of imbalance include:

  • Blocked Chakras - places where energy flow through a chakra becomes blocked or restricted and which can affect the energy flow in the entire body. They usually coincide with psychological issues...certain self-defense mechanism, beliefs or biases a person has adopted in their relationship to reality
  • Leaks In The Auric Field - most commonly occur within the first layer of the aura and are regions where energy is leaking from the field instead of being retained. This results in a lack of protection of the field and loss of energy within it. They are usually the result of wear, tear and physical trauma of the body and can be commonly found over joints.
  • Tears In The Auric Field - are more severe than leaks and are more like complete openings /holes in the auric field. Like leaks, they result in loss of energy, though less gradual and leave the person open to influence by outside energies. They can extend beyond the first layer of the aura and are usually the result emotional, mental or spiritual stressed or traumatic experiences.
  • Auric Energy Impurities - are zones of stagnant or undesirable energy in the auric field. They inhibit free flow, and the healthy functioning of the energy field. They can manifest as unhealthy thoughts or emotions that are being held by a person.
  • Energy Depletion - can be "global" or "local" and exists as a weakness of the energetic operation of the auric field giving it a lack of vibrancy which can affect the auras ability to adequately support life processes. Such weakness in the energy field commonly accompanies serious physical, emotional or mental illnesses.
  • Disturbances In The Energy Flow - irregularity in the flow of energy in the auric field, usually in the lower layers of the auru. Energy can be eratic or uneven. Usually occurs as a local condition rather than a global one and if untreated can affect the affected organs and tissues of the body.
  • Excessive or Deficient Chakra Imbalances - overactivity or underactivity of chakras caused by either increasing energy to attack a problem or decreasing it to get away from or avoid it which over time becomes reflected in the energetic state of the associated chakra. These states need to be brought back into balance so the energy runs smoothly through the chakra system.

The three techniques that can be used to read the aura intuitively. These are:

  • Physical sensing using the hands (called "passing-of-hands"): This is where you run your hands over a persons body (not on it but slightly above it) and physically sense the energy with your hands, feeling where the energy dips or peaks or differs in texture or vibration or temperature. Sometimes the hands will start to itch, heat up, cool down or experience pains over certain positions or chakras, sometimes things are picked up empathically through the entire body while the hands are over a certain part of the body.
  • Sensing the condition of the aura and chakras through the reception of psychic information and guidance: This is done by rather than looking at the body, one forms an outline of the body in one's minds eye and then let go of the thinking mind and allow intuitive information and images to come to surface upon that outline without blocking it with the thinking mind.
  • Viewing the aura: seeing the aura for yourself which most people can do if they teach themselves to and consciously acknowledge its presence.

Another technique however that can be used is muscle testing. It is often effective if you need quick answers and you can detect things you might miss using intution if running through the list of imbalancess and states and testing for each one. It is also effective for detecting what is called "psychological reversal" (unconscious behavior patterns/beliefs which cause self-sabotage), which might block a person from overcoming a particular problem.

Sensing through Reception of Pyshcic Information and Guidance

In case anyone is interested in learning how to do it for themselves, the first step is to have another person with you and to stand with your eyes closed, quiet the mind (count back from ten to one and intend you are going into a basic psychic level) and concentrate while imagining in your minds eye the shape of the other persons body or its outline (like a pencil sketch).

Then, focus attention on the blank outline of the body alone allowing any other emotions or thoughts to not matter while letting ones mind drift. Release all effort and sense of needing to control and just open yourself up to receive whatever comes up without judgment. Things might start to appear on this outline in your minds eye such as "fuzzy areas, color, shapes, muddiness" etc. Its not really defined how energetic states should look as it is suggested this is a personal thing and to keep ones mind and intuition open for what is the nature of what one is seeing. It is offered that if the thinking mind starts to try to interject, let it go and if ways to heal the defects surface intuitively, to go with it.

As an example, a friend that I worked on and she gave me permission to write an account of what transpired.

First thing flashed to me when viewing an outline of her body was a zigzaged line running from her throat and down a bit. Association that came to me was "tear". I told bluey what I saw and asked her if anything traumatic ever happened to her having to do with expression (throat) or if she had had any kind of accident. She responded that she had had an operation on her throat when she was a kid and still has a scar one can see if she raises her head.

Looking at her overall chakras, I think I more used empathy than visualization, though I was looking at the outline of her body and trying to focus in on each chakra. All her chakras "felt" good except her third eye, I just "felt" like it was blocked. I told her her third eye was blocked and she responded that this was "good" as she had fears of if her third eye was open, she might start seeing ghosts or spirits.

Then I just wanted to let the colors of her aura show to me and got a lot of yellow in the upper part of the aura, green around the heart. She asked me if there was red and then I saw over the outline red where her 2nd chakra was so asked her if she had any anger or fear in her relationships. She said she had fear in her family relationships cause they had lost everything. I immediately saw over the knees on the outline that they bent and were dark in color so came to me to ask her if it left her feeling "weak in the knees". She said yes. Then I saw in my mind her showing me her hands and feeling her saying "I have so much to give" and she said yes, she tries to help her family when she can cause they had lost everything. Then heard word "hope" seeing the yellow around her and the sense that she had never given up hope, which she admitted she never has but has come close. Don't know if this is aura viewing at this point lol. Saw dark around her upper arms and sense that they were heavy, like from overextending.

As for energy depletion (her energy "felt" strong and soft) and disturbance in energy flow I did not sense these.

I offered to use Reiki, Chios and EFT (Energy Psychology / Emotion Freedom Technique) to clear her energy system and chakras and repair the tear. We left the third eye chakra alone though for her to come to me later if she wants it unblocked. There is fear that if I unblock it, she might start to "see" things she is not feeling ready for, so I am later going to try EFT on her fear and then if they lift try clearing that chakra.

Started with the tear, I just did two rounds of EFT on the tear and muscle tested and it tested strong for being healed. She didn't feel anything till I started clearing and working on her chakras. The crown wasn't clearing so tested reversals and she had one (that she didn't feel it was "safe" to clear that chakra). So cleared it and then used EFT to balance her crown and infuse it with light and love. She said she felt a little lightheaded.

Then I cleared her throat chakra and infused it with light and love as well and she reported a tingling sensation like electricity from her head and down. Clearing her heart, she felt the tingling going down her right arm. I saw bluebird appear in her aura which is animal totem for bringing the medicine of "joy, happiness and contentment."

Doing her solar plexus she reported she had hurt that area of her body during a workshop and there was some pain, so I worked both to clear the chakra and the pain, infusing that part of the body, using EFT, with light and love. I'm having her get back to me if the pain comes back at all.

Did the last two chakras and asked her how she felt, and she said "light".