Understanding Aura: Your Energy Field and How to Care for It

August 21, 2025

Our auras are the subtle energy field that surrounds our physical body. It can reflect our physical health, emotional state, and spiritual well-being. Energy healers and intuitives often describe it as a soft glow or a shimmering field of color around your body. When your aura is balanced and bright, it can help you feel vibrant, grounded, and connected. When it is cloudy or dim, it may be from stagnant energy, leaving you feeling drained, foggy, and restless. 

How to Cleanse Your Aura

After stressful or challenging events or when you're working through intense emotions, your aura can benefit from an energetic cleansing. Here are some of our favorite ways to cleanse our auras.

• Smudging: Use herbs, woods, or plants such as White Sage, Sweetgrass, Cedar, Rosemary, or Palo Santo. Sweep the smoke around your body from head to toe.
• Salt Baths: Salt is a powerful way of cleansing and protecting your aura. Soak in a bath with Himalayan salt or dead sea salts at the end of a challenging day.
• Crystals: Carrying or wearing crystals can naturally keep your aura healthy and your energetic boundaries strong. Our favorites are Blue Kyanite, Selenite, and Citrine. Wearing these crystals or sweeping them down your body from head to toe will help to cleanse and refresh your aura.
• Sound Healing: Sound vibrational instruments such as singing bowls, chimes, and drums are powerful ways to shift energy.
• Grounding: Being outside in nature is not only incredibly grounding but also releases any stagnant energy you may be holding onto.
• Visualization: If you're without any of the above tools, you can simply call in your spiritual guides and angels and ask for an intention of clearing your aura field. Visualize a bright, white light on the top of your Crown Chakra and ask it to flow down your body purifying and cleansing your aura until it grounds into the Earth. Sit in the flow of this light for as long as you need it. 

Maintaining the Integrity of Your Aura

Here are some tools to keep the aura healthy and in spiritual alignment. 

• Positive affirmations, meditation, and gratitude practices keep your thoughts and emotions at a high vibration.
• Support your physical body with well-balanced nutrition and hydration. 
• Whenever you are around energetic draining people or situations, visualize the white light in your Crown Chakra over your body to set an energetic boundary.
• Prioritize restful sleep and listen to your body for cues when you're feeling run down. 
• Daily grounding techniques to balance your energy.

Your aura is your energetic "signature" and the more you tend to it, the more you will feel balanced, vibrant, and aligned with your Higher Self. Keep it clean, filled with high vibrational light, and protect it from what doesn't serve you!

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