***Need You Ask Permission Before Aura Readings?

"Before you do aura readings, www.selfgrowth.com, do you ask permission?"

It's a controversial topic. You can guess where I stand from the title of this article, but really I'm inviting discussion. What assumptions do YOU make, and why? Many folks have never questioned those assumptions.

However, many in the mind-body-spirit community have somehow acquired the notion that, of course, yes, you must ask permission before doing any kind of spiritual reading.

Either you ask it verbally or, doing Reiki II-style dialogue with the subconscious, you must ask permission inwardly.
Context matters. If you do aura readings as a preparation for healing, www.selfgrowth.com,of course you would need to ask permission.

But the sort of aura readings most of us do aren't for healing but, rather, for information. We're learning about people as preparation to serve them in countless ways, or to date them, or to find out if they might be stoned, or to learn if they're telling the truth.

Notice, these are topics of curiosity that are explored in other ways, too, and done without asking permission. It's called self-preservation, not snooping.

Funny thing, though. What if you love reading body language? What if you believe you can just look in somebody's eyes to learn "everything important"? What if you vibe out people with improvised intuitive readings? Do you stop then to ask permission? Probably not, no more than if you talked to a mutual friend to dish about what that friend knew.

Yet none of these common strategies for learning the truth about people is as effective as doing your own aura readings. So why think you need explicit permission, just because you're doing the usual human curiosity thing, only this time you're doing it better?

THE GRAIN OF TRUTH

Some situations really do demand permission. It's the grain of truth in the large potato salad container of strange suppositions about matters woo-woo.

HEALING demands permission. So does TELLING people directly what you read in their auras. Say that you're on a first date. You've just previewed that guy as a lover and learned that he isn't really sure, deep down, whether he even likes girls. Shame is there, and denial, with more than a tad of self-loathing.

I read this on someone just last week. Only, of course, I wasn't dating. It was part of a session for a client, "Beulah"; I was reading her boyfriend, "Victor."

You may know that I need photos to read auras only for the brief aura reports that I offer as an introduction to my work. (www.selfgrowth.com)

But if you're in session with me, for Aura Transformation (www.selfgrowth.com) or Cutting Cords of Attachment (www.selfgrowth.com), I can read the aura of anyone you have known, at any time.

That would include your boyfriend the first day you met or him, again, only that far less glamorous moment last February when he refused to kiss you. All the databanks, every memory -- all the data is there, stored by your smart subconscious mind. Why not read it?

Did I have permission to tell him, call him up like a phone call from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" only instead of asking for info., I'd tell "Victor" something he never wanted to hear?

Of course not. But I did I have the right to tell Beulah, his girlfriend, as part of HER confidential session? Sure. It explained a lot. It helped Beulah to understand a rejection for which she had blamed herself.

PUBLIC FIGURES

So, yes, I'm saying that you have the right to read anybody's aura. You just don't always have permission to tell.

If you're riding a bus and happen to read the newspaper over somebody else's shoulder, do you have to ask permission? Are you allowed to be perceptive about people, or practice reading faces without asking permission? How surfacey must relationships be before you dare to read people deeper?

Go ahead and read, I say. Just spare that person details unless he or she has given permission or... unless that person is a celebrity. Andy Warhol famously predicted that everyone in our post-modern age would have at least 15 minutes of fame. Make that everyone who posts a photo on My Space or stars in a video over U-Tube.

You can't make yourself public and retract it afterwards. Once you put your photo out there, it can be read. Sure, I'd hesitate to read tabloid pictures, taken without permission.

But basically anyone who posts a photo or runs for public office or agrees to be on a so-called "reality" show has given permission.

Read away, and sure, you can let those aura readings be public. (Though, of course, I wouldn't recommend posting anything defamatory. Just because you read deeper doesn't mean that you abandon common sense or good manners.)

HOLY COW

But what about the sacredness of auras? I think the keep-off quality people fear is a recognition of That. Secrets of the human energy field aren't just any kind of knowing.

Aura readings are deeper perception. Your insights do have a holy quality, www.selfgrowth.com, just like the insights from reading faces or doing empathic merges, the skills I teach in any of my how-to books. (www.selfgrowth.com)

Still, if you read any of them, you'll appreciate that there's a preparation process for aura readings, turning your empathy OFF or turning any empathic gift ON. When you Get Big and set an intention, it doesn't only protect you. (Which matters.) You're also shifting into the realm of the sacred.

And, friends, that is the biggest reason why you always have permission to do aura readings. Do you want to make contact with God only in church on a Sunday? That Divine Presence is with you right now. It is tucked into everyone you meet, as if each of us were merely a collection of pockets. And within every one of those pockets, if you reach deep enough, you make contact with Divinity.

Sure, God is available at every level of life. Live on the surface and you can find God right there. But the deeper you go into people, the sweeter. The same holds true for the sacred presence that you can find through aura readings.

So I say, dare to be great. And tiny. Dare to be the tiniest of all, and slip in and out of that hugest-smallest presence. Get good at it.

And, before concluding this post, let me put in a gentle reminder that I'll be offering my last Aura Reading Intensive of the year this April 11-13. Click here (www.selfgrowth.com)
for information.

Reading auras whenever and wherever you can, as part of a balanced life -- won't that be good for everyone who has the privilege of knowing you?