How to Balance Your Defensive or "Spiky" Aura Naturally?

Feeling an invisible barrier once entering a place? This phenomenon is called aura, an energy field surrounding all living beings. It can be a couple of meters above the surface of the body and reflects the emotional, physical, and spiritual state of yours.

At times, stress, pain, and too many things happening in your life can affect your aura, causing its rigidity, sharpness, and defensive properties. This is known as a "spiky aura." Although the phenomenon is a natural response to danger serving as your protection, it makes you feel isolated, stressed, and disconnected to reality. Nevertheless, there is a way to restore your aura to its normal, flowing state. Read on to explore how to identify such a state and what steps to take in order to return your energy to its optimal state.

Understanding Your Aura Layers

An aura doesn't consist of one layer of light only; it's a complicated system with seven distinct layers, each of which corresponds to a particular chakra or energy center.

• Etheric Layer (Physical): This layer is located closest to the skin, about five centimeters away. It shows your physical health and vitality as well as connects you to the ground.

• Emotional Layer: The layer lies right above the previous one and represents your emotions, creativity.

• Mental Layer: This layer reflects your perception, thoughts, and personal power.

• Astral Layer: It is responsible for your relations, compassion, love, connection.

• Etheric Template: This layer is located above the astral layer at a distance of sixty centimeters, showing you who you really are and your potential to heal yourself.

• Celestial Layer: This layer lies above the body, helping you connect with intuition and dreams.

• Ketheric Layer: It protects your energy body from being affected by the outside world.

In case your aura flows freely through all these layers, you see yourself surrounded by a colorful aura, ranging from cheerful yellows to relaxing blues and calming violets. However, whenever you go through any trauma, stress, and loud environment, your aura stops flowing and your energy becomes blocked. As a consequence, the protective ketheric layer and the emotional one turn rigid, creating spikes that block the energy flow.

Causes of Spiky Aura

Your aura doesn't become spiky suddenly. There are certain conditions that trigger such reactions and make your aura defend itself. Some common causes of spiky aura include:

• Emotional Exhaustion: When you overextend yourself in any activity, whether professional or romantic, your emotional layer starts closing itself off to avoid further wear-out.

• Hyperactive Defense System after Experiencing Pain: Once you experience hurt, your astral layer develops sharp edges to keep anyone from repeating this offense.

• Environmental Noise: Being constantly surrounded by city crowds, loud office environments, and screens causes your etheric layer to protect you from overstimulation.

• Unexpressed Words: Keeping silent and not expressing your thoughts and opinions blocks your etheric template, making the upper aura layers unclear and inconsistent.

Aura reading is based not only on colors but also on textures. For example, while a vivid red aura represents passion, excitement, and courage, a spiky red aura shows an overly reactive nervous state of the aura owner. Grey and dark clouds of aura indicate that your energy body carries your stress and requires a cleansing.

Natural Techniques for Balancing & Softening Your Aura Energy

In case you feel that your energy shield is always activated and does not let you enjoy life freely, here are some simple and natural ways to balance it.

1. Grounding Your Physical Layer (Etheric Reset)

Since the etheric energy layer is physically connected to your body and root chakra, you can use grounding to get rid of energy spikes quickly.

• Going Barefoot: Go out and walk for ten minutes on the ground without shoes. Earthing, or grounding, can dissipate the static energy in your aura through direct contact with the planet's surface.

• Shaking: When we are scared or under attack, we become stiff. Try shaking out your hands, do stretching, or dance silly on your favorite music.

2. Calming Your Emotional Field Via Water and Salt

As it was mentioned before, water is an excellent conductor of energy, and its properties make it the perfect cleanser for your auric layer.

• Salt Bath: Take a warm bath with sea salt or Epsom salt. Since salt has great absorption capabilities, it becomes almost magnetic when trying to draw all the grey, clouded energy away.

• Visualization of Waterfall: You don't need a whole bath to cleanse your aura from the negative energy. Take a shower and imagine that the water streaming from your head creates a waterfall of light clearing and smoothing your irritations.

3. Breaking Up with Blockages Through Breathing and Aromas

While being in a protective/defensive state, people breathe very shallowly, which keeps their bodies and nervous system engaged in a fight-or-flight mode.

• Extended Exhalation Exercise: Take breaths five times with each exhalation twice as long as an inhalation. This practice will calm down your solar plexus and help smooth out your mind and thoughts.

• Smudging and Scents: Another helpful technique is using aromatic herbs and scents that bring high vibrations to your energy shield. Such essential oils as cedarwood or lavender have very high vibrations and thus will soften your rigid aura.

How Can You Check If It Works? A Simple Self-Scan Technique

It may seem that you need to be an experienced intuitive to see your aura, but anyone can master it with this simple technique. Here are techniques to follow:

1. Self-Preparation: Sit comfortably with your feet on the floor in a quiet place. Rub your hands for ten seconds in order to activate the nerves in your palms and then shake your hands.

2. Scanning: Place your hands several inches over your body and gently move your hands along the surface of your body starting at the top of your head and finishing at the gut region.

3. Analyzing Feelings: Do you feel any sensations? Soft warmth, expansive buzzing, or sharpness, coolness, heaviness, or resistance?

If there are some resistant areas, i.e., areas of heaviness around your chest area, then simply note that this body area is well-protected. It is important to be empathic towards it while practicing.

Conclusion

Learning to release a hardened aura is a beautiful practice of coming back to your true self. As soon as you start working with your physical and emotional layers through grounding, water, and aromatic practices, those rigid energy spikes will effortlessly turn into a resilient glow.

Taking care of your inner peace and working with your energetic boundaries, you will easily transition from the state of survival to a deep connection with the world.