5 Ways to Energetically Protect, Optimize & Cleanse Your Aura

Expand Your Auric Field │ Visualization & Intention │ Call On Spirit Guides, Angels or Spirit Animals │Using Gemstones & Crystal Grids │ Cleansing Your Aura

Have you ever had those interactions with someone who makes you feel drained afterward? How about walking into a room and you can feel the intense vibe? These last few years have seen some dramatic energy shifts from technology in our environment, political tensions rising, fear porn streamed through the media and a sense that there is a shift happening in the world. Have you felt any of these? Ever been out and about and feel that person staring at you?

These are all results of your spiritual energy field, your aura working for you. Humans pick up cues in our environment consciously & subconsciously to inform and protect us. To stay safe, humans have learned to read body language, facial expressions, hand gestures, vocal cues and other people's actions. Less attention and validity has been given to humanity's ability to perceive energy and intuition about our environment and the people we interact with.

Everyone has an aura, an energy field that surrounds the body. To help you visualize, imagine that you are walking around in a protective egg or bubble. Auras are as unique in size, shape and colors as each person is unique. Auras are sending information out about you and picking up information from your environment and the people in it. Literally, your energy field arrives before you do and can pick up subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, vibes in your environment.

Most people are never taught that the energy field is your first layer or barrier of protection for the body. We aren’t taught how to utilize our spiritual energetic field to protect ourselves. Below are five tools & protocols I have learned over the past 25 years to keep the energy field cleansed, strong and vibrant. As you read through these tools and protocols, take what resonates and leave the rest.

Tip #1 - Expand Your Auric Field

This sounds entirely too simple but trust me, it’s effective. What is the optimal size of your auric field?  Close your eyes and imagine or get up and stand tall, with your arms outstretched. This is the minimal width your auric field should be away from the body. Imagine an egg being drawn around the body, above the head and below the feet, the same distance as your outstretched arms. 

When people feel stressed, have anxiety, worry, panic, feeling small, unseen, vulnerable, their auric field is pulled closely into the body. In reality, you are smaller and more vulnerable because other people can now get physically closer to you and are able to exert their energy field easily onto you. I say hell nah!

Take your power back and reclaim your space!  Sit up straight, close your eyes and imagine this protective egg around you. Once you can visualize and or feel your spiritual energy field around you, slowly begin to enlarge the egg in all directions, above you, below you and out to your sides. This is where you get to decide how big you want to make your reclaimed energetic space. Do you need an egg, a bubble that is 8, 10 or 15 feet around you? Be mindful, the larger you make your spiritual energy field/aura, the further away people will stay away from you and this may be a bit impractical in some work settings.

As an example of this technique working, I’ll share an experience I had in my younger years at a dance club. People were all up in my space, as they tend to be on a dance floor. However, some guys thought it was ok to come up behind me and get entirely too handsy. I had learned this technique and thought, why not? Let’s give it a try. I stopped dancing, stood still, closed my eyes and pushed my auric field out, 10 feet around me. Once I felt my bubble strong and fortified, I opened my eyes. To my amazement, there was a 10 foot empty circle around me on this very crowded dance floor. Holy shit! That actually worked!! See, simple but effective.

Tip #2 - Visualization & Intention

Visualization and Intention are crucial in creating your sacred spiritual energetic space. The better you can visualize and intend the stronger your protection will be. This next technique, Circle of Protection, has been a long time favorite of mine. It has proven easy for my students to learn, visualize and customize. I will share with you the Circle of Protection format I was taught and then explain ways to customize it.

Again, sit straight, eyes closed and get back to visualizing that egg/bubble around you. Visualize this egg to the point where you feel it surrounding and protecting you. Once this step feels solid, slowly, methodically and with intention start adding to your circle as follows…

I draw a Circle of Divine Love and Protection around me and my bodies.

(This is where you visualize your egg. You have a physical body and several layers of your energetic field, hence the plural of bodies.)

In this Circle I place the white light of peace.

(Visualize this beautiful soft, soothing white light entering above your head, coming down and swirling inside your bubble. Feel confident in your visualization of this step before you proceed to the next.) 

The Blue light of healing.

(Visualize your favorite blue entering and swirling inside your bubble. Mixing beautifully with the white. Again, feel confident in your visualization of this step before you proceed to the next)

The Red light of energy.

(Visualize a vibrant red entering and swirling inside your bubble. Mixing effortlessly with the white and blue to create a beautiful mosaic. Again, feel confident in your, blah, blah, you know the drill)

The Green/Pink light of love. 

(This step is a bit more involved. Green is for the heart center. Visualize Green pouring out of the front and back of your heart and filling your egg. Pink is the combination of your crown and base chakras. The crown is white, the base is red, combined, they become pink. Here you can visualize a figure eight infinity sign going through the body. White coming out of the crown, down past your eyes and going into the front of the heart. Visualize the white exiting the back of the heart, down the back, between the legs to the front of the body, where it picks up the red from the base chakra. Mixing the two colors to become pink, head up the torso, to the front of the heart, out the back of the heart, up to the back of the head and start the process all over. Lock this step in before moving on.)

I direct that nothing and no one may enter this circle that is not for my highest vibration. 

So be it, so it is or Amen.

(Whatever works for you.)

To customize, you can choose colors that feel the best for you. No limit to what you can come up with. Also, a cool thing about Circles of Protection is that you can put them around people you love, your kids, spouse, parents, your bestie, your home and car. Circle up and reclaim your sacred spiritual space.

Another visualization tool is using your imagination to create sacred geometrical shapes around yourself, home or car. When clearing houses of unwanted spirits, I will always use the pentacle (pulling in with each line of the pentacle, earth, air, fire, water, spirit, within the circle of creation) to seal off windows, doors, chimneys, vents, mirrors, drains and closets. The infinity sign has come in handy to protect and balance the body. Choose a sacred geometric symbol that resonates with you to fortify and protect your sacred energetic space.

Tip #3 - Call on Spirit Guides, Angels or Spirit Animals

Some of you awakened wonders may already be in communication with your Spirit Guides. Some of you may feel drawn to specific Angels and others may feel a connection to your Spirit Animals. All of these beings are around and waiting for you to call upon them. If you haven’t met any of them, a good place to start is meditation. In medication, ask your Spirit Guides, Angels or Spirit Animals to make contact with you. I’ll give you a few examples of how I have called upon all of the above in numerous scenarios.

As a psychic medium, I always call on my guides before entering the spirit realm. I will call them each in by name and ask for their assistance or request they fulfill specific roles. As a Reiki Master Teacher, my healing guide would enter the session and work on clients through my body. It was wild because I wasn’t always aware of the transition but my Reiki partner would know he was about to make an appearance because my stance and breathing would change, I would pull my hair back in a low ponytail and whoosh, here he’d come. Jung Rei, my healing guide, showed me so many effective healing techniques I’d never seen before. I’m always down to learn new ways to help heal and protect.

In a session with a client who was literally possessed, I asked for assistance because this was way above my pay grade. To my absolute astonishment, Archangel Michael showed up. Holding even a miniscule amount of that energy was one of the most intense experiences of my life. Michael showed up in all his glory and used his sword to reclaim this suffering woman who was possessed. Talk about energetically protecting someone! You may have a connection with a specific angel that you think could best protect you. 

I have a Spirit Guide who shape shifts into a black panther. Once I went to a psychic development class where my panther showed up. I got to this class 5 minutes late. Everyone was already seated and the facilitator was a few minutes into his opening. I slipped in quietly, got seated when the facilitator stopped the class, looked around and said, “Who’s panther is that roaming around the circle?” I knew my guide was sussing out the other attendees, making the rounds to ensure I was safe. Shyly, I raised my hand and claimed my guide. The facilitator asked that my female shape shifting panther guide go sit with me because the facilitator was completely distracted by my panther. That was a first. Another way your Spirit Animal can show up to protect you. 

Tip #4 - Using Gemstones & Crystal Grids

This technique is for all of you crystal and gemstone nuts out there like me. Implementing this technique can be as simple or intricate as your knowledge base and comfort level. Protect your space, your home, your child, partner, relationship, etc., by setting up a crystal grid in your home, symbolizing whatever space you want to protect. This is where your knowledge of sacred geometry and crystals can give you endless variations of grids to set up. Here is a simple grid using both gemstones and crystals.

The stone in the center represents what it is you are protecting. The crystals laying flat, pointed out and away from the center, represent pushing away/keeping out all unwanted energy and influence. As you see in this photo, a blue gemstone (looks like lapis or sodalite) is used to augment the grid. Most likely chosen for its specific properties. Another format could be to point all the pointed ends of the crystals in toward the center stone to draw something into the stone in the middle.

An example of a more complex

Crystal & Gemstone Grid

Tip #5 - Cleansing Your Aura

As we move through our daily lives, our sacred spiritual energy field or auric field is picking up information from our environment and other people. As mentioned earlier, the energy field is the first barrier of protection for the body. Similarly, a welcome mat at your front door is the home’s first barrier to what people drag, on the bottoms of their shoes, into your home. Over time, that welcome mat gets dirty from repeated use and needs to be periodically cleaned. Same goes for your auric field.

It is not common knowledge that uncomfortable feelings and perceptions, dis-ease about a situation lands in the auric field first. Again, the body’s first barrier. Upon repeated experience and exposure to these uncomfortable feelings, the negative energy associated with the uncomfortable feeling begins to work its way through the auric field and into the body, eventually creating disease within the body. This is why it is imperative to cleanse your sacred spiritual energy field whenever you are feeling weighed down, sad, overwhelmed or anxious.

Smudging is my favorite, quick way to cleanse the energy field. To smudge, light either a sage bundle or your favorite incense. Wave the smudge bundle or your incense in sweeping motions up and down the entire body, front and back, over head and bottoms of feet. Be sure to move out through all 7 layers of your auric field.

Dead Sea Salt or Epsom Salt baths are two more very effective ways to cleanse the auric field. Salt are tiny crystals that will absorb the negative energy. Be sure to take a quick shower after you soak in the salts because the salt residue will stick to your skin. No reason to continue to carry around the negative energy the salt crystals just absorbed.

Now You're an Aura Pro

Hopefully you have a better understanding of your sacred spiritual energy field that is your aura, its purpose, how to optimize the auras benefits and how to keep your auric field clean and clear. Comment below if this was helpful to you and share your favorite ways to protect, optimize and cleanse your aura.

In a radiance of love,

Angel Marie