Our new summer session of classes on the aura and spiritual development has begun. If you missed signing up this time but would like to take a class, the next session of classes starts on October 14. We look forward to seeing you then!
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The institute has some exciting events coming up. We will be at the Soul of Yoga in Encinitas for an exiting workshop Connecting with the Spiritual Worlds on June 6, followed by The Healing Power of Your Aura at the Bodhi Tree in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30pm. We are also offering this workshop in our next teleclass, Monday, June 29th at 6:30 pm PST. Both events are free and we encourage you to invite your friends. Our foundation course, Change Your Aura, Change Your Life begins July 8! This foundation program teaches you how to work with spiritual energy and is the key to all the training offered through the institute.
We are delighted to announce we will be returning to Columbus, Ohio for an exciting workshop Reincarnation & Karma on September 26. Join us to discover how you can effectively resolve karmic issues and accelerate your spiritual development.
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Warmest Wishes,
Dimitri Moraitis
Executive Director
It’s a delight to see that knowledge of the aura and its relationship to health is blossoming with the advent of what is called energy healing or vibrational medicine. Spiritual practices from yoga and acupuncture to Reiki and Qigong all use the body’s spiritual power to generate health and well-being.
The aura is essential to healing because it is the first place you generate health. As with all things in life, making any type of change requires energy. You must first change the energy within your aura to create the health you desire.
The organs of the body each have their own aura. When healthy, the lungs and heart have blue auras, the liver usually has a red-orange aura, the stomach a pink aura, and the brain has a green aura. The body itself radiates an orange-red aura along its contours for about an inch and a half when healthy. Even the cells of our body have an aura, a tiny, bright silver aura, revealing their inherent intelligence!
When we become ill, the aura becomes discolored. The primary color of illness is gray. Other unhealthy energies come into play, such as black, mustard yellow, avocado green, and vitiated red, but the predominant color is gray. Gray indicates a devitalization of spiritual power in the affected area in the body. Except in cases of accidents and physical injury, these unhealthy energies actually show themselves in the aura before the actual physical illness appears. If I see these dark energies brewing in an organ or part of the body, I know the person is in need of healing. By healing the aura before the illness manifests, we can alleviate many maladies.
Creating a proper mental attitude of health is essential in working with the aura. If you’re asking God’s light to heal you yet are harboring old destructive patterns of thinking, you impede your spiritual energy flow. Perfect health starts in your mind. Once your mind is thinking in terms of God and health, it is the Divine Light being expressed through the aura that provides the power necessary to actually make the change.
In today’s world, there are many modalities of healing from the medical to the holistic and spiritual. It can become confusing which way to turn when we need help in manifesting health. Working with the aura works very well in conjunction with medical and holistic practices. It’s most important to see that ultimately all healing comes from God. This tells us that God works through all channels of health including doctors and holistic health practitioners as well as spiritual healers.
You will find that by working with your aura and spiritual energy, you have discovered the single greatest key to building and sustaining health. Perhaps the greatest blessing of all is that by applying the spiritual laws of health to physical conditions, you are discovering the secret to healthy living in all departments of your life and are drawing yourself closer to your divine source.
In Divine Light and love,
Fear can certainly have a paralyzing effect upon our lives. It can stop us from going out and doing all that we’re capable of achieving. The thing with fear is it won’t go away by itself. You have to stand up to your fears; you have to face them sooner or later. The mistake too often made is to avoid facing our fears for as long as possible. This only serves to build up the fear bigger than it really is. It’s always better to face your fear as soon as possible. The sooner you face your fears head on, the sooner you put them behind you. You cannot climb high the on spiritual ladder if you are dwelling in the shadows of fear.
Fear shows up as a gray energy in the aura. The divine power that will help you in building courage is the golden ray of wisdom. This is the dynamic energy of confidence. It gives you the strength of God to face and resolve any fears. If God is truly in our corner, what have we really to fear? Use this energy as often as you need to and trust in God that you can surmount any fearful condition that has come into your life.
We all know the power of emotions in our lives. When we have our emotions in harmony and balance they can make life beautiful, and when we let our emotions get the better of us, they make our life a living hell. Our emotions play an important part of our aura. Everything we feel radiates a spiritual energy corresponding to the quality of our emotion. It is a sad fact that often the weakest part of a person’s aura is the emotional body.
The key thing to understand with emotions is that they do not think. The job of the emotional part of us is to feel, to give life to our thoughts. Our mental body is the director of our consciousness and emotions are meant to be the spiritual motor that puts ideas into action. Once an idea is wed with an emotion, it had tremendous power and will express itself in some way.
The emerald green ray is a wonderful energy to work with in the emotional body. It helps to keep balance and harmony between thoughts and feelings. We want to have a rich and expressive emotional life, so it’s important to nourish the emotions with spiritual energy and keep our emotions on a high a level as possible.
In case you missed the Unlocking the Power of Your Subconscious Mind workshop at the Bodhi Tree in January, we will be having the workshop there again on April 13th. Learning to work with the subconscious is such an important part of our spiritual development, this workshop is definitely a must-see! We look forward to seeing you there!
We all know how important a good upbringing is. In childhood, we form patterns of behavior that we carry for the rest of our lives. If we were fortunate to have been brought up in a loving and supportive environment, that will carry us a long way in life even if later on we meet with adversity. In the same way, if we were brought up in a difficult and unsupportive environment, we can carry the mark of those experiences into adulthood as well.
Metaphysics teaches us that regardless of the kind of childhood we had, we have the ability to surmount any challenge or obstacle of our young years. No matter what kind of life we were born into, it’s up to us as to what we make of ourselves.
From the point of view of the aura, the first seven years of life are especially crucial because it takes seven years for the basic auric power to become fully engaged. This means that before that time, the consciousness of the child is particularly adaptable. Patterns of behavior are not yet fixed. This is true for the subconscious mind as well. Although the subconscious mind of the child is being filled with the experiences around it, those experiences have not yet been firmly established as a basic pattern of behavior.
At around age seven, the child receives what is known as the mental etheric body. This is a protective body that surrounds the auric field. It performs key functions including helping to channel spiritual energy into the aura. The interesting thing is once we receive this supportive body, it solidifies the energies of the aura itself. This is necessary to stabilize the auric power and give the child a steady spiritual footing. It also solidifies patterns established in the subconscious mind. This can work in our favor with the many positive and essential things that have been established there. Yet it can also set the stage for some of our tests and challenges later in life as it also solidifies undesirable behavior patterns.
Of course, we develop patterns of behavior all through our life, good and bad. I’m talking about deep seated patterns that are established early. The philosopher tells us, “Give me the first seven years of a person’s life and you can have the rest.” And this is a direct reference to the tremendous impact this formative time in our life has on us.
After the age of seven, we can certainly change any bad habits we’ve acquired, but now more effort is required. We all know it’s not always easy to change a bad habit at any time, but the patterns from childhood can be among the most difficult to turn around.
Here again the Divine Light can be of tremendous assistance in rooting out any difficult or painful experiences from childhood that are adversely affecting us now. The great purifying energy of the orange-red flame and the healing power of the blue-white fire can do wonders to release any adverse patterns in the subconscious mind formed in those first seven years. It takes patience and determination to turn things around, but you will be amazed at how effective an ally the Divine Light is in this part of your life.
In Divine Light and love,
Talent shows itself beautifully in the aura. It comes through as an electric blue light. When the talent is pronounced, this energy will be radiating brilliantly. There is a whole division of the aura connected to talents and abilities because creativity plays such an important part in our spiritual development. We are all meant to be creative in some way. Talent, by the way, is not limited to artistic talent. Skills and abilities are part of talent as well. If a person has electric blue strongly present in his or her aura, it indicates this person has reached a high level of accomplishment in their skill or talent. Either this soul has brought in this talent from a past life or has developed it in this life. Either way, the key is to keep building your talent as this is part of your spiritual development and divine destiny.
It is estimated that today one in three people are looking to better themselves through personal and spiritual growth. It is a wonderful time where, despite the increasing challenges of life, we are seeking to find real answers to life’s biggest questions. In the pursuit of spiritual development, there is an essential part of us that we employ which gives us the power to grow spiritually. This essential part is your auric field.The aura is not just about pretty colors around someone. The aura is an essential part of your life, because the aura is the blueprint of the soul. It is the aura that gives you the power to develop your soul. As you expand and elevate the power of your aura, you enlightened your soul. This miraculous pilgrimage of the soul shows itself very clearly in the aura. There are three basic shapes to the aura depending on the spiritual development of the individual. These are: the square, rounded and pointed-oval shape auras.The square-shaped aura is the primitive aura. We had this shaped aura when our soul was very young, and we were just beginning to learn how to harness spiritual energy. The square-shaped aura can also be the devolved aura. The devolved aura is different from the primitive aura in that the colors are much more menacing and violent. The worst aura you can have is a devolved aura.From the square-shaped aura, we grow into the rounded aura. The rounded aura is the aura in evolution. It is also called the mixed aura because it has both enlightened and unenlightened colors moving through it. From the rounded aura, we mature into the pointed-oval aura. The pointed-oval aura is the enlightened aura. It shows someone who, if not at the spiritual pinnacle, is very near the spiritual summit. In the enlightened aura, there are no dark colors. The colors are very bright and organized and such a soul has also developed the celestial pearl-luster colors.As a person develops their soul, the colors of the aura become more vibrant and defined. The divisions and compartments of the aura brighten and become more organized. You will see beautiful shades of blues, greens, yellows and pinks. The energies coming from the chakras or energy centers also become more brilliant and the chakras themselves become more developed. And naturally, souls advancing on the path begin to drop more of the darker, unenlightened colors. There is no part of the aura that is not affected and enhanced as the soul evolves. You have a glorious potential that is your destiny to reach. Use the divine energies that God gave you to nourish your soul. And always remember that your aura – that miraculous part of you – is always there to help you in your climb upward back to God.
In Divine Light and love,
Barbara Y. Martin
This is a wonderful question to ask yourself. Spiritual development is a process. It helps to stop every once in a while and take inventory of yourself. There’s no judgement or self-criticism. Ask your Higher Self to reveal to you how you are doing spiritually. Is there anything you can do better? You want to make sure you’re on track. As with anything in life, there are pitfalls on the spiritual path. These are activities or ideas that appear to be spiritual but in truth are distractions or diversions that can hold you back from attaining your true spiritual goals.Your Higher Self is marvelous. It knows your purpose in life and what you are meant to accomplish. Day by day, it is guiding you along your true path. Sometimes we heed the guidance given to us and sometimes we resist. This is all part of the journey to enlightenment.
In Divine Light and love,
Barbara Y. Martin
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