Our auras can absorb negative energies depending on the personal circumstances that we find ourselves in. We can pick up negative energies from situations and also from the people around us. Our aura is rather like a sponge and a magnet, absorbing and attracting the energies from others as well as reflecting what is going on in our personal lives.

Sometimes when we feel down in the dumps, have a run of bad luck, or just feel a little bit out of sorts, it could mean our aura needs a good cleansing.

How to Clean Your Aura

There are many different methods for cleansing your aura. Here are just a few methods that you could try.

1. Hot Bath
Have a hot bath with 3 tablespoons of sea salt or 1/2 cup of baking soda. As you relax in the bath, imagine the water is penetrating all the layers of your aura, drawing out all the negativity and leaving it bright and cleansed.

2. Hot Shower
As the water washes down over your body, imagine the negative energy in your aura being washed and drained away. You should slowly start to feel the brightness as the aura begins its cleansing.

3. Walking in the Rain
As in the shower, walking in the rain and imagining the negative energy in your aura being washed away brings wonderful results.

4. Smudging the Aura
Use a smudge stick to smudge around your aura. If you can ask someone to do this for you it is more beneficial as they can walk completely around you. Smudging is an ancient Native American tradition which involves the burning of a sage or sweetgrass wand. Many cultures now use this method. The idea is that the smoke draws out the negative energy, and as the smoke clears it takes away the negativity and neutralises and purifies the aura.

5. Brushing the Aura
White feathers can also be used to brush the aura in a similar way to the smudge stick. This can easily be done by flicking the feather all around your body in outward motions to brush away the negativity. The fingers can also be used in the same way, rather like a comb, brushing away the negative into the atmosphere. Imagine that all the little bits of negativity that you are brushing away is being swept into a container of any kind. When the container is full, imagine it going deep into outer space and emptied. This will then be neutralised within that time frame.

6. Positive Breathing
Deep breathing is another good way of cleansing the aura. Follow these steps for your session.

• Choose a nice quiet place where you wont be disturbed.
• Seat yourself comfortably.
• Take deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
• After a couple of minutes of deep breathing, imagine that you have a ball of pure white light above your head. Imagine this light becomes brighter, and you may even start to see gold within the light.
• Imagine this light growing larger and brighter and then bring it down slowly towards your head, allowing it to penetrate the aura and feeling the brightness and lightness of this beautiful light as it works its way down your body. You may feel a little light headed as the light moves through your body. This is normal and it will pass.
• Envision the light as it continues to move down your body and out through the soles of your feet. Imagine then that you have roots beneath your feet and the negative energy is flowing down through these roots deep into the earth. The energy that has been drawn away will then be neutralised in mother earth.
• Now imagine the roots turn bright white, they may even sparkle with flecks of silver and gold. This is the pure clean energy you now imagine as it moves back up through the roots, up through the soles of your feet and into every part of your body, radiating outwards so that your whole aura is filled with this pure white light. When the light reaches the top of your head, allow it to move upwards into the aura above your head.
• Take a few more deep breaths and allow yourself to focus on the sounds all around you and the place you are sitting so that you are grounded once more back into the material world.

You should now feel totally revitalised. This exercise is like a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the dirt as it moves over the carpet. All the negativity in your energy field is sucked up as the light moves over your aura.

7. Regular Meditation
Meditation is always a good way of cleansing the aura as you are relaxing and releasing the negative issues that irritate us on a day to day basis.

Hopefully after employing one or more of these methods, you'll feel revitalised and ready to start cleaning the house!

Good luck and happy cleaning!