Healing With Color and the Human Aura

By Rev. Simeon Stefanidakis

It has been known for eons of time that color plays a major role in
setting up a particular mood or state of mind. Yet, only recently have
design artists put into practice that which the ancients knew all along:
color does affect one's feelings, moods, and emotions. Whereas, in the
past, so many of our hospitals and schools were painted that ubiquitous
institutional green, we now have these places of learning and healing
painted in vibrant shades of hues which help stimulate the mind and
the emotions to a condition of healing and well-being.
We all respond, in some way, to our color environment. Most people
know that bedrooms should not be painted in bright, flashy reds or
yellows, because these colors tend to stimulate the body and inhibit
relaxation and sleep. Blue is often associated with cold and astringency,
while red tends to conjure up thoughts of soothing warmth. Even our
vocabulary suggests conditions of "icy blue" and "warm red."
Before examining color and its healing implications, we must address a
very important concept: that of cause and effect. True healing comes
about when the cause of the condition or illness is addressed and
transformed. If healing goes no further than a mere relief or masking of
the symptoms, then, eventually, that which brought about the need for
healing, in the first place, will resurface and manifest itself within the
body in one form or another.
The aura is an effect -- an outward expression -- of that which is taking
place within the mind, the soul, and the spirit of the individual. Thus,
any healing technique which deals only with the aura or the energy
field of the individual tends to accomplish one thing: it jump starts the
individual, so to speak, and gives him or her an added boost of energy.
That energy boost then allows that person's own internal healing
mechanism to become mobilized into greater activity.

For conditions which are purely physical in nature, such an energy

jump-start may be all that is necessary. But, if the root cause of the
illness is internal in nature -- as it so often is -- then this type of healing
must be complemented with true Spiritual Healing, where the power of
God's Healing and Holy Spirit can, then, intervene -- if necessary -- and
effect a cure. But even here, the individual must change that which
needs to be changed, or the condition which brought about the disease
will eventually manifest again. God can effect miracles and miraculous
healings, through the channels of prayer and Spiritual Healing, but not
even God can force the individual to change internally. That would be
God's interfering with His most profound gift to us: the freedom of
choice.
Keeping this in mind, let us look at how color can impact the aura and
help jump-start the tired or diseased body. Color healing, known
asChromotherapy, can be implemented in a number of ways. The
ancients built great halls of color healing, where individuals entered
and were bathed in light that was filtered through various colored glass
panels or windows.
Spirit Syrsha, trance guide of Rev. Fulton, tells us that, in ancient
Egypt, people were often dipped in vats of colored pigment, in order to
help effect a cure. Other methods of color healing involved the grinding
up of crystals and gemstones that would be ingested.
Solarized water is another way in which the energy of color can be
taken into the body. This is an easy and inexpensive way in which to
become personally involved in color healing. Simply place purified
water within a colored bottle and allow it to be bathed in sunlight for a
period of time. The rays of the sun, filtered through the colored bottle,
energize the water along a specific line of color vibration. What you end
up with is a healing tonic.
Spiritual healers often supplement their healing work with color
healing. As they lay their hands on the patient, they mentally direct

specific color rays into the patient's aura and body. Oftentimes, the
color used is inspired by Spirit.
These methods of using color in healing point to our basic contention:
color does impact the human aura and, consequently, the human body.
Please understand that a knowledge of color, its subtleties, and its uses
in the healing arts is a life-long pursuit. However, we can give you a
very general guideline and synopsis of the various colors within the
spectrum and how they can be used by the aura and body, specifically
for healing.
Here are the basic colors and their significance to the aura and healing.

Red is called "The Great Energizer" and "The Father of

Vitality." Red is warm, vital, heating. It loosens, opens up
clogs, releases stiffness and constrictions. It is excellent for
areas that have become stiffened or constricted.
RED

Red links with and stimulates the root chakra, at the base of
the spine, causing the adrenal glands to release adrenalin.
This results in greater strength. Red causes hemoglobin to
multiply, thus increasing energy and raising body
temperature. It is excellent for anemia and blood-related
conditions.

ORANGE Orange in the true color of the sun. Orange has a freeing
action upon the body and mind, relieving repressions.
Because orange is a blend of red and yellow, it combines
physical energy with mental wisdom, inducing a

transformation between lower physical reaction and higher

mental response. Thus, it is often referred to as "The
Wisdom Ray."
Orange is warm, cheering, non-constricting. Through
orange, we are able to heal the physical body (red) and, at
the same time, induce within the mind (yellow) greater
understanding on how the body may be kept in good repair.
Orange helps assimilate new ideas and stimulate mental
enlightenment. It is also helpful in dealing with excess
sexual expression.
Finally, orange links very strongly with the sacral chakra.
Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It helps
awaken mental inspiration and stimulates higher mentality.
Thus, it is an excellent color for nervous or nerve-related
conditions or ailments.
Yellow links with and stimulates the solar plexus, or psychic
center. It can be used for psychic burnout or other psychicYELLOW related conditions or ailments.
Yellow can be used for conditions of the stomach, liver, and
intestines. It helps the pores of the skin and aids scarred
tissue in healing itself. It also has a very enriching effect
upon the intellect and the brain.
Like the color of gold, yellow represents the highest of the
physical colors. "Worth its weight in gold" applies to yellow.
GREEN

Most people associate blue with healing. However, green is

the universal healing color. The ancient Egyptians and

Chinese used green as the primary color of healing. Why is
that? Because green is midway in the color spectrum;
therefore, it contains both a physical nature and a spiritual
nature, in equal balance and in equal harmony. Thus, green
can be used for just about any condition in need of healing.
When in doubt, green will always work.
Green is the color of Nature and the earth. It is balance and
harmony in essence and possesses a soothing influence
upon both mind and body. It is neither relaxing nor
astringent in its impact.
In rededicating our Church's Healing Vigil, Spirit suggested
that we use green as the Vigil's representative color, and for
a very good reason.
Green links with and stimulates the heart chakra.
Therefore, it is, truly, representative of Spiritual Healing,
because love is the motivating power behind all healing.
In a more practical sense, green affects blood pressure and
all conditions of the heart. It has both an energizing effect
and a moderating or soothing effect.
BLUE

Dr. Edwin Babbitt, in his classic, "The Principles of Light

and Color," states that "The Blue Ray is one of the greatest
antiseptics in the world."
Blue is cooling, electric, astringent. It helps bleeding,
decreases fevers, and cures soar throats. Blue can have a
sedative effect, as expressed in the remark of "feeling blue."
It is a very positive color, indicating loyalty and reliability,

as expressed in the sentiment of being "true blue."

Blue links with and stimulates the throat chakra. The throat
chakra is often referenced as the "power center" and "the
greatest center in the body" because it is the primary center
of expression and communication, through speech. Thus,
the effect of blue upon this center and the aura, in general,
is quite profound.
Blue can be used for any type of ailments associated with
speech, communication, or the throat. Solarized blue water
is an excellent tonic for laryngitis or inflammation of the
larynx.
Indigo is a great purifier of the bloodstream and also
benefits mental problems. It is a freeing and purifying
agent.
Indigo combines the deep blue of devotion with a trace of
stabilizing and objective red. Indigo is cool, electric, and
astringent. It is, also, the color ray used by Spirit to help
entrance a medium.
INDIGO

Indigo links with and stimulates the brow chakra (third eye)
and controls the pineal gland. It governs both physical and
spiritual (not psychic) perception; that is, clairvoyance,
clairaudience, and clairsentience. Thus, it can be of great
assistance in dealing with ailments of the eyes and ears, as
well as assisting in problems or conditions related to
mediumship.
Finally, indigo is considered the ray of the Holy Spirit.

VIOLET

Violet is truly the color of the divine Spirit. Violet works

only on the levels of the Spirit. It is generally not used for
physical conditions; however, some color experts believe
that it does provide nourishment to the cells in the upper
brain and does have a link with the crown chakra.
Furthermore, it helps expand the horizons of our Divine
understanding.
Violet should be used only for spiritually-related problems.
Leonardo da Vinci proclaimed that you can increase the
power of meditation ten-fold by meditating under the
gentle rays of Violet, as found in Church windows.

WHITE

White is the perfect color; for it is all color, in perfect

balance and harmony. It is the color of the awakened Spirit;
the light of perfection; the light of the Christ and Buddhic
consciousness. It is also the Divine Light.
Just about everyone has heard of surrounding people with
the "White Light of Healing and Protection." Directing
white into the aura helps stimulate the person's own divine
nature into healing the self.

Thus, we have a brief synopsis of the basic colors and their uses in color
healing with the aura. Again, this is but a guideline. The student of
color healing can spend years researching the subtle nuances of how
color and its multitude of vibrations can be used within the aura, in
order to help effect a healing.
The point to remember concerning color and the aura -- when it comes
to healing -- is that complete healing generally comes about through

some type of internal transformation. Heal the self and the body will,
surely, follow suit.
Finally -- and we cannot stress this enough -- healing ultimately comes
from and is graced by God and God's Holy and Healing Spirit. Color is
but one tool that we can use in order to complement the healing which
God offers us, through prayer and intercession. It must never replace
prayer and meditation; nor must it ever replace genuine spiritual
healing; healing which passes through the Spirit of the healing channel,
linked with God's Spirit.
If you need healing, or know of someone who does, first go to God, the
Source of all healing; then, be mindful of what tools God offers to help
effect the healing.
LEARNING TO VIEW THE AURA
During energy healing treatments, you will often first sense the condition of
the patient's aura and chakras through reception of psychic information and
guidance. After doing so, however, it is good to also practice seeing the aura
for yourself. To view the human aura is difficult at first, for the eye not
accustomed to seeing it, but do not worry if you have not seen an aura before.
Virtually everyone who persists in practicing viewing the aura can succeed at
it, although it may take a little time. Actually, the aura is visible to all,
although we do not teach ourselves to recognize it, cultivate our ability to see
it, or consciously acknowledge its presence. It is very possible that you have
had experiences in which some portion of the aura has been visible to you, on
some level of your awareness, but your conscious mind did not recognize
them as such. There have often been times when you have been aware of the
emotional or mental state of other persons, for example, and have "known" so
on a deep level from your unconscious awareness of their aura.

Attempting to view the aura is best done in an environment conducive to

viewing it, an environment in which there is not bright or harsh lighting, nor
lighting that is too dim. Soft light, in a room that is neither very bright nor too
dark is ideal. The background color, against which you will practice viewing
the aura, should be neither very dark, nor very light, nor a strong color. A light
to medium neutral color will work the best, gray being ideal. You may wish to
cover your treatment table with a suitable color, if it is not already, if you
decide to practice during treatments. It is best to use a human subject for your
practice, and it is not necessary to use external devices, such as special
glasses, to learn.
It is important to approach the viewing of the aura with the proper attitude.
Attempting to view the human aura is not something to "work at" or
concentrate on, in fact, the gaze itself must be soft, you must soften and
slightly de-focus your gaze, as though you were looking at something "offcenter" or with the eyes slightly out of focus. This is looking at an area using
the eyes in accordance with the receptive principlethe eyes relax and allow
whatever information wants to come in to just come, instead of reaching out to
notice details. Learning to see the aura is not something you "work at" but
something you relax to. It is an openness. You should strive, before practice, to
achieve a quiet within your mind, and be devoid of expectation.
Release all preconceptions of what it will look like or feel like to see an
aura, and be aware that it will be a subtle experience, with fine perceptions.
Have faith, also, and believe that you will see what exists, and do not doubt.
Do not allow yourself to fall into the common trap of doubting, and then
discrediting what you see. You have learned to trust your first intuitive
impression when practicing the intuition technique in reading the field
intuitively, trust your impressions now in your efforts to learn to see the aura.

There is a technique that will assist you in learning to see the aura. In
learning to see it you will use the same basic concepts you employed in the
intuitive technique that assisted you in beginning to receive psychic
information and guidance. You will, in learning to view the aura, use a similar
alternation between active and receptive principles. You will concentrate (with
the active principle) upon the shape of the area over which you wish to see the
aura (either a part of the body or the entire body), as you see it with your eyes.
You will then release (into the receptive principle) to allow impressions of the
aura to form in your mind's eye, at first, and then will attempt to confirm this
intuitive impression with your physical eyes. It is easier to learn to see the
aura in this way, because the aura is seen first with the mind's eye, and then
with the physical eyes. To learn to see the aura in this way makes perception
easier and serves to perfect the ability. In actuality, as you become more and
more able to see the aura you will see it with the mind's eye in conjunction
with the physical eyes.
The first portion of the aura you will probably be able to see is the first layer
of aura, or etheric body. It will appear to you as a light gray, light blue, or
colorless "haze" around the surface of the body, from one-half inch to an inch
or so above the skin surface. This haze is a superphysical light, a very fine
perception, and may not appear the same as a physical light would. If you
approach viewing the aura with the proper attitude, you should find that it is
not very difficult to begin to see this first layer.
It is sometimes easiest to learn to see this first layer of aura by attempting to
view it around specific parts of the body. The exercise below is a good start at
perceiving the etheric layer, and may assist you in viewing this first layer of
aura around your hands.
Hold your hands out in front of you with fingers gently spread, and relaxed,
palms toward you. Concentrate, now, for a moment, on the area in space

around one of your hands. Gaze, with your active mind, at the shape of the
hand and the area around it. Release; relax now into receptive phase as you
have learned to do, while glancing away from your hand. Allow an impression
to form in your mind's eyelet your mind's eye perceive in the same way you
did when learning to receive psychic information with your eyes closed.
Notice that an impression can form in your mind's eye independently from
whatever your physical eyes are looking at. What impression do you get in
your mind's eye? Do you "see" anything around your handslike a fuzziness,
a haze or a layer of light surrounding your hands? Now, with your gaze
softened, de-focused and relaxed, look back at your hand with your physical
eyes and try to see the aura around your hands with your physical eyes, too.
Try (effortlessly) to confirm with your physical eyes what you have seen in
your mind. Repeat this cycle several times, to begin to allow a stronger
impression to form in your mind, and perhaps make the aura around your hand
easier to see.
After attempting to view the aura around your hands in this way, call in the
energy. Use the symbols, as described for beginning treatments, to bring in the
energy to your hands, feeling it build. Repeat the glancing technique again,
now, using the same technique to attempt to see the aura around one of your
hands. Perform several "cycles," allowing impressions to form. What do you
see? Is there any difference between the apparent size, or intensity, of the aura
around your hands? Did bringing in the energy into your hands make the aura
easier to see? By bringing in the energy, you intensified the auric field around
your hands. This may make the aura around your hands bright and easily
visible. Look at the aura around both of your handscan you see the light
around them?
It is also possible to practice seeing the aura around specific parts of the
body of others, especially the head, whose etheric layer is sometimes easily

visible. Practice of this basic glancing technique, at various times throughout

the day, will often serve to assist in gaining the ability to see the first layer of
aura. After gaining some success in this effort, it is time to attempt to view the
entire first layer of aura prior to treatment:
Begin to view the aura of the entire body, with your patient lying down in
front of you on the treatment table, by gazing with your "active mind" at the
area around the shape of the bodythe open space surrounding the area near
the body surface (where the aura should be)for a brief moment. Then avert
your eyes, release into the receptive phase, and allow yourself to become
aware of what your mind's eye perceives. What do you see in your mind's
eye? You might still see the shape of your patient's body in your mind's eye,
but is there perhaps something around or near ita shell, a haze or a layer of
dim light near the surface of the body? Repeat this several times, each time
giving yourself a brief moment for an impression to form. This is a bit like
looking into a room, quickly, and then looking awayafter some number of
rapid glances, you will begin to get an impression of the room that lingers in
your mind, after such glances. You should, similarly, get some impression, in
your mind's eye, of the aura of your patient.
After getting some impression in your mind's eye, look back at your patient
with your physical eyeswith your gaze softened and in the receptive phase.
Do not strive to see anythingjust relax, de-focus your eyes, and allow
whatever visual impression is forming just come. Do any of the impressions
that formed in your mind's eye appear to your physical eyes as well? Repeat
the glancing technique again, checking first for an impression in the mind's
eye, and then with the physical eyes, to see if you can view with your eyes
what you are seeing in your mind. It is possible that you may even begin to
gain some sense of the energetic phenomena of the aura of your patient, as you
practice.

It is with this repeated glancing, with the use of the active and receptive
principles, that an impression will form in your mind's eye, and it will require
practice for more than a general impression to form, and especially for the
aura to then begin to appear to your physical eyes.
After you have succeeded in seeing the etheric body of your patient, it is
possible that, with time, you may begin to see the colors of the emotional
body, the second layer of aura. During your attempts to view the aura, you
may, as you release into a state of effortless reception during your practice of
the glancing technique, have the impression of a certain color over some part
of the body. You may not think that your eyes see anything, but in your mind's
eye you may think, "yellow!" Do not discount this impression, for it is the
beginning stage of becoming aware of colors in the aura, and if you
effortlessly maintain your openness to this perception, you may at some point
begin to see the color with your eyes. It will be a very fine perception, but it
will be real. Trust your impressions of color, and you will find that you saw
more than you consciously realized. It may take some time and much practice
before you are able to glance back and gain some vision of the colors of the
aura around your patient.
As you practice, just let the colors come. Continue your practice, and you
may eventually see various colors around the body surface, and specific
details as well. First, in your mind's eye, and then, with much practice,
perhaps with your physical eyes also. Do specific darkened or colored regions
appear? Patterns? You may be beginning to see the colors of the second layer
of aura, the emotional body. You may even see movement in the patterns or
colors.
Remember that the aura is not something that is seen with the eyes alone.
You may look at a hand, for example, and see patterns that have a shape, form
and movement, but you may not see them in the same way that you would see

a table or chair, because the colors and patterns are not seen only with the
eyes. If the awareness required to see them was a product of the physical eyes
alone, everyone would always see auras. You must begin to see the aura and
its phenomena with your mind's eye, before seeing it with your eyes, too. As
you begin to see the aura intuitively, you will detect everything you imagine
you should see with your eyes, and there is ultimately no difference in these
two kinds of seeing.
As you learn to view the aura, you will integrate what you see with the other
information and guidance you receive. You should see the intuitive reading,
the aura viewing, and the other ways you will be receiving information, not as
separate techniques, but as part of a continuous process of perceiving the
health of your patient. You may wish to begin with just the intuitive reading,
using just the body outline, as you begin learning. This may make it easier for
you to gain the information you need, in the beginning. You might then
proceed to also attempting to view the aura, using the glancing technique
given above. It is also possible to combine the two techniques, perhaps after
you have had some success in viewing the aura, so that you concentrate on the
patient's body with your eyes open, and then release, allowing intuitive
information to come into your mind's eye, as you have done, and attempt to
confirm and corroborate the information you receive with your own viewing.
You can use the psychic information appearing in your mind's eye to plan
treatment and incorporate your own visual viewing as it happens. These are all
stepsstages in a single process of learning to see and assess the health of
your patient's aura. You may use whatever form of reading is best for you,
given your own abilities at the particular time.
If you are attempting to corroborate your intuitive (mind's eye) information
with your aura viewing, it is important to understand that, at first, the two
information sources may not convey identical information. This is because

you may be receiving intuitive information on auric phenomena that have not
yet become visible to your physical eyes. The intuitive methods are a starting
point, and entry, into viewing the aura directlyit is good to eventually gain
the ability to see the field directly with the eyes.
It is ideal to use your intuitive and aura viewing abilities all throughout the
treatment, employing them later, as well, after taking your initial readings and
beginning to treat. You may see that these two techniques are really the same,
and that there is really no difference between seeing with the mind's eye and
with the physical eyesthey are one. It is not necessary to incorporate direct
viewing of the aura in your treatments at all, at least at first, but it is an
advanced technique you may wish to try. All that is important is that you do
what makes it easiest for you to sense and learn.