My Experience with Auras and Healing Energies

There are some moments that I really struggle with describing. Getting my aura today was such a moment.

I was exploring MG Road in Bangalore, checking out the shops with Devaney and Bao. We stumbled upon this really cool jewelry shop that sold all sorts of beautiful gems, scarves, even silver and gold knives. While admiring the craftsmanship of the knives, Shawl, the store owner came up to me and started telling me all about how the designs and gold decorations are infused in the blades. Shortly after he switched the subject.

“Are you from the US?”

“Yes”

“California?”

“Yes…”

I asked him if he had guessed or if he actually could tell that. And that’s when he told me that he read auras and that he was a healer. I’ve always heard about auras and energy, but I never really paid attention to it. But here was this man who holds an annual international healers conference in Germany. I had to know more.

He took me to the back of the shop where he showed me pictures of the conference and went over the basics of being in tune with your energy and the energy around you. By telling me how auras worked, he used mine as an example, and inevitably began reading it in depth. What started as a curious Q&A soon turned into a full session that eventually left me teared up from all the things that this complete stranger could tell about me.

He started with general questions just about me and my family. What are you studying? Are you close to your parents? Are you religious? Then the questions got more personal, and at times I couldn’t think of how they applied to me. He kept asking what happened to your friend? What happened in your childhood? I couldn’t think of anything. He insisted that he got strong suicide vibes from my aura. And that’s when it dawned on me that someone I am very close to had attempted in the past. He asked about alcoholism in my family. Again, he hit on a topic that was prevalent in my childhood though I didn’t recognize it at the time.

I couldn’t believe how well he read into my life and my family dynamics without me having to say anything. He described to a tee my close loving relationship with my older sister and my distanced relationship to my father. He reassured me that as much as I care and give of myself, I can’t change things. I can’t change the factors that stress my sister out and I can’t change my father as a person. I have to accept that it is not my responsibility to do so and that I need to focus on caring for myself first.

I have a pure soul he said. I give more than I take, and that takes a toll on my happiness. I attract people when I’m happy, but they are not around when I’m sad. It’s hard for me to trust people, and thus I have many friends, but very few that understand me well. I am a deep person and I need to open myself up so people can truly know the vastness of my ocean. But the few that do know me well are blessed with what I have to offer.

All of these affirmations were true, but other things he said really troubled me. I shouldn’t pursue political science because I do not have the decisiveness to be a leader in law, for example. Instead I would be better in the medical field because I have the ability to connect people and help them. I should pursue a career as a doctor or nurse. He also said I was in India because I was running from something. What that is, I still don’t know. I was under the impression that I would find myself in India.

The best though was when he incorporated the use of oil and crystals to realign my chakras, the 7 energies found within the body. As my eyes were closed, he put the aroma-therapeutic oil on my forehead and ever so lightly touched my head and tilted it to different angles. He handed me these crystal wands to slowly extend my arms forward and back with. Whatever he did, I definitely felt more relaxed, and at the end of the session, I felt revitalized and energized.

I can’t explain what happened in that shop. I’m still confused as to what to make of it. He told me that whatever my beliefs are, we had met in a previous lifetime, and that this meeting was meant to happen. This meeting was going to change things for me. Believing or disregarding this session was up to me he said, but it was clear to both of us that he awakened in me a curiosity.