Here’s how to know if your aura could use a reset, plus seven simple ways to do it, according to experts. As spiritual adviser and intuitive mentor Diana Zalucky tells mbg, “Every living being on earth has an aura. An aura is an energy field that you can experience through a range of colors correlating to the chakra system, to also literally just feeling it.” She explains that we have the power to expand and retract our auras, as well as create and fill holes in them, too—even accidentally or unconsciously. “Just as we have our physical bodies, we have emotional, spiritual, and mental bodies that layer around our physical form like a layered bubble. The bubble can change at any given moment based on how you are feeling and the environments you are in,” Zalucky says. So the question really isn’t who needs to cleanse their aura but rather when should any of us cleanse our aura? To that end, naturopathic doctor and nurse practitioner Erica Matluck, N.D., N.P., tells mbg that you can get a sense of whether your aura is clouded if you aren’t quite feeling like yourself or something around you and your space feels off. For example, she says, maybe you were in a great mood and spent time in a room with a bunch of angry people and wind up leaving feeling like you soaked up some of that negativity. That would be a prime time to cleanse your aura. “So I also think it can help with clear communication or clear exchange of information between your fields and the other unseen fields, which you’re in contact with—and that then influences your impact on the world around you and others’ impact on you,” she explains. For example, if you’re feeling unsafe or unstable, that’s work for the root chakra, in which case you’d go for a stone like hematite. Here’s our full guide for using healing crystals for more info on getting started. And as Matluck adds, it doesn’t have to be anything extravagant. “Even just taking a few minutes to be alone in your space” is great for an aura in need of cleansing. Here’s our full guide to body scan meditations, if this option piqued your interest.
