***Counter-Culture Or Simply True?

Since 1986, I've been teaching how to do aura readings, using the system I eventually trademarked as Aura Reading Through All Your Senses(R). www.selfgrowth.com Well, within one week, I had two of my most shocking experiences ever when teaching this system.

In one mentoring sessionwww.selfgrowth.com,"Babette" began by telling me how much she enjoyed my approach to reading energy fields.

In advance of our appointment, she was so into doing spiritual reading that she had read half of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses. www.selfgrowth.com

Then Babette proceeded to tell me her story. "Every day, I do the exercise about looking at the aura around my hand. Some days I see green. Some days I see red. Some days I see green shifting into red. But then one day I saw purple. Tell me what that means."

WHAT IS IT ABOUT THOSE COLORS?

If you've looked at the book at all, you know it contains over 100 techniques, all listed in the front in a "Table of Techniques." But looking at your hand for "the colors" is not one of those techniques. Instead I teach how to use one's full set of gifts.

Whatever God gave you to help you do intuitive readings, including aura readings, only two things are guaranteed. You don't have only one gift. And the one gift you are sure to have is synesthesia, not a specialized type of clairvoyance. You know, the one that, according to myth, is the only true and meaningful gift.

Another thing about reading auras that will be obvious, if you give my system a chance, rather than the cliches, is this: You learn how to use your Inner Dictionary to interpret your perceptions about auras, whether colors or smells or textures, etc. A big part of that book is the Inner Dictionary technique.

It's so central to personal empowerment, doing any type of spiritual reading, that I also explain how to do that technique in Empowered by Empathy a href="http://www.roserosetree.com/empathybook.htm">www.selfgrowth.com, Cut Cords of Attachment www.selfgrowth.com, and my upcoming book, "The Baby," Read People Deeper.

Never would I advocate giving your power away, or diminishing your own wisdom, by asking an expert to tell you the meaning of your innermost perceptions when doing aura readings. Please, never do this to yourself.

If you get "purple" or "sticky" or "freezing cold," this is just the first half of your reading. The second half is to find out from within yourself the meaning of your perception.
BTW, I did manage to help Babette to get unstuck in her rut about aura readings.

HELLO!

Shocker Experience #2 happened while I was leaving a classroom where I had spent nearly three hours on basics. The students were taught some techniques, but mostly I emphasized, clearly as I could, how auras are three-dimensional energy bodies around the physical body, full of information.

Naturally, I emphasized that the important thing about doing aura readings is all the information. The goal shouldn't be to say, "I saw the colors."

It was a delightful group, and they enjoyed learning about their many gifts. Everyone received loads of personal attention to help them understand and value their personal gift set.

Yet, as I walked out, "Heidi" had one last question for me:
"If someone is colorblind, could she still read auras?"

You Blog-Buddies who have been doing auraa readings of your own, do you have any idea why some people keep thinking "It's all about the colors"?

Honestly, has that been your experience?

When you do techniques to read auras, do you find it useful for relationships, self-knowledge, healing, consumer smarts? What has your own intuitive reading taught you?

And if, like me, you do some aura readings every day, do you find that the best you can say about the amazing energy fields of the people you read is, "I saw green?"

I also invite you to share stories about people you know, without naming names. Do you have any friends who are stuck there? If so, any idea what got them stuck? What is it with the big fat Myth about Auras?

COUNTER-CULTURE

Maybe people find it hard to know just how counter-culture they are. Maybe I am one of those people. I don't think of myself as intensely rebellious, yet I don't own a microwave. I don't give out my cell number, and have made maybe 20 calls on that contraption, total, ever.

Okay, I get this is different from the majority of Americans. But surely these are minor rebellions.

"Come on, Rose. You're into spiritual reading? And you think you're normal?

Yes, actually, I do think I'm normal. I'm a Soccer Mom. My son goes to a regular public school, has since kindergarten. I never miss an election. My shopping habits aren't too weird (except for my stealth aura readings of produce at the supermarket, before I buy). Our family of three lives in a modest house in the suburbs, and our yard isn't the messiest one on the block.

As for the work part of my life, what's so rebellious there? I just don't believe the ridiculous, limiting ideas out there about reading energy fields. Clearly the premise is drastically counter-culture, yet it seems quite normal to me.

Years ago, I bumped into "Glenda," a successful and super-smart healer who would appear to be far more counter-culture than I. Her lifestyle! Her clothes! Her conversation!

Around 1987, she took a two hour class I gave on how to do aura readings. At the time, she did her first beginner's exercises just fine. Being off to such a promising start, she could have been a world-class aura reader by now.

But when I bumped into her some 15 years later, she said, "Remember back when I took your class? I didn't see the colors then. I still don't. Isn't it a shame?"

Friends, what causes this? You're invited to comment at my blog, Deeper Perception Made Practical. www.selfgrowth.com

Is it the power of the culture? Is there some great big enchantment over the land? Otherwise what would explain why Glenda, like Heidi and Babette, could wake up for a moment, then fall right back into deep sleep?