Good health is all about internal balance and dynamic interplay with the environment. That means your energy is in balance and flowing smoothly and that you’re exchanging energy and interacting with all the people and situations surrounding you in a harmonious way. It’s when your energy becomes stuck, static, or blocked that you get emotionally off-balance or even sick.
Suppose you lose a parent and instead of giving yourself a chance to grieve adequately, you simply repress those feelings, go to the funeral, and head back to work on Monday. You push your real feelings down somewhere in your body and psyche, where they start festering. A month, a year, five years, or decades later, you may find yourself dealing with a full-blown disease process that originated from the blockage of that grief. Our postmodern culture does not teach us how to deal with negative emotions, and their lower vibrations stay lodged in our energy field and body where, sooner or later, they can wreak havoc if they remain unprocessed.
You are a vibratory being—you are constantly sending out your unique vibration. Your energy field is constantly receiving outside vibrations, and interacting with everyone and everything around you. You take in and respond to the pulsations of energy in your environment. When you were a teen, your mother might have said something like “If you hang around with those losers, you’re going to wind up like them!” She was sensing your energy field when you came home after being around those kids; your energy field had lowered itself to match their vibration.
Everything vibrates. The components of your physical body—your cells, your organs, your internal systems (digestion, breathing, and so on)—all vibrate at their own rate. Your consciousness has its own vibration. The faster the vibration, the higher the consciousness. A wall vibrates so slowly that you think of it as solid. Yet I have learned of masters from the East, now long gone, who could raise their vibration to such a high pitch that they could indeed walk through walls.1 For a recent example, consider Padre Pio, a humble Italian priest who died in the 1960s. He was known for levitating, permanent visible stigmata, and according to eyewitnesses he could bilocate, or be in two places at the same time.2
A key point to keep in mind is that your body grows out of your energy field, not the other way around. Before your physical body manifests and you take birth on earth, your body first becomes organized in the higher energetic dimensions as an etheric template—the design for who you will be and the lessons you are here to learn. Now that you are here in a body, if something’s showing up in your field that isn’t optimal, like a blockage or a distortion, you can work on it on the energetic levels before it manifests on the physical plane and shows up as a disease in your body.
The human energy field is much more complex than you can imagine. It is composed of seven main levels that interpenetrate one another and your body. Each level of the field is a higher vibration and extends out from your body farther than those below it. This is what forms your aura—the luminous radiation that surrounds you and can be sensed with a little training.
Levels one, three, five, and seven—the odd-numbered levels—look like lines of light. Levels two, four, and six are more formless, composed of cloudlike energy that can have different colors and densities. The “clouds” of the even-numbered levels seem to be held together by the more structured odd-numbered levels. Together, all the levels of the human energy field communicate with one another to supply you and your body with life energy.
If any of these levels are insufficiently charged, or aren’t strong enough, your experiences in life may be disappointing. You might wind up with a physical problem if a level is out of sync for an extended period of time. Your body arises from your energy field, which means that imbalances or distortions in the field will eventually impact your body in a negative way. Of course, if you correct those imbalances, your body will respond in a positive way. When you adjust the energy field, you can often prevent a potential illness from showing up in your body. That is why frequently restructuring, rebalancing, and charging the field are so important.
Here are the levels:
The etheric level: This is the level that’s closest to your body, only a few inches out from your skin. As an uneven number, this level is composed of structured lines of bright-blue light. Here is where you feel the physical sensations of pain and pleasure. If you are active physically, the first level will be strong. If you are not as physically active, the lines will look thinner, finer, and be a lighter shade of blue. The better care you take of your body, the stronger this level will be and the more you will enjoy feelings of physical pleasure. Your body likes to have physical contact with its inner and outer environment through activities like eating, smelling, tasting, watching, walking, dancing, and swimming. Issues can arise if your first level is weak—for instance, if you like to eat but hate to move your body in physical exercise.
How would you rate the strength of your first level? Do you move your body for at least an hour a day, or do you spend all day sitting in front of a computer followed by an evening sitting in front of the television? Do you enjoy physical touch, or do you shy away from being hugged? Think of ways you could connect more strongly with your physical body.
The emotional level: This cloudlike level shows how you feel about yourself. The brighter the colors on this level, the more positive you feel about yourself; darker colors indicate a negative self-image. If you allow your emotions to flow through you, rather than repressing or blocking them, the colors are in motion and keep changing. However, if you hold on to an emotion, like anger or fear, the flow stops and this level gets stagnant, which creates blockages that can damage your health not just on this level but also on the adjacent first and third levels. If this level is dark or stagnant, you don’t like yourself very much—an unhealthy state of affairs that needs to be addressed.
To evaluate yourself on this level, ask: Am I in touch with my feelings? How do I feel about myself? Has self-esteem or self-acceptance always been an issue for me? Am I okay with the way I process my emotions?
The mental level: Extending another inch or two out past the second level, this one is about your mind. Strong lines here indicate an active and clear mind, while weak and undercharged lines mean you probably don’t have a lot of clarity and might not be that interested in learning. If your first two levels are weak but this one is strong, you may live mostly in your head. In today’s culture, where you are more likely to be sitting at a desk doing mental work than to be out farming the land, that’s a very common situation.
Do you believe that the way to solve your problems is by using your reasoning capacity rather than by being in touch with your physical and emotional needs? Are most of your activities mental (reading, watching television, playing video games, being online) or do you also enjoy gardening, working out, dancing, playing music, or painting?
The astral level: This level is all about your relationship with others—all the people, animals, flora and fauna, and even the inanimate objects of Earth, as well as the planets, solar system, and the whole universe. This level feels like thick liquid, and if it is undercharged with a low vibration, the fluid may feel thick and dark, and you might experience pain, exhaustion, and eventually disease. Some writers refer to the fourth level energy as “bioplasma,” which sends out streamers of beautiful colors between two people who love or feel good about each other. Love streamers are pink or light-red waves, while dark-red streamers indicate anger and green ones indicate envy.
If this level is strong and healthy, you’ll have great relationships. To evaluate this level, ask yourself: Do I avoid intimacy? Do I choose to spend a lot of my time alone? Am I not all that interested in other people? If so, your fourth level may be weak. If that’s the case, remember that everything is about self-awareness. Be gentle with yourself.
The etheric template: Now we’re on the level of divine will, which looks just like a blueprint of the first level—the form for your body. It extends about a foot or two out from your body. This is the level of the spiritual guides (see chapter 11) and of pure intention, which is why it’s the perfect level for energy healing. Here you find precise order and symbols, not feelings. If you’re in sync with divine will, you’ll feel connected with the world around you, and you’ll sense that you’re on the right path in the right place at the right time. If this level is weak, you may feel disconnected, like you don’t fit in, and you are probably not comfortable with your place, your job, or your life in general.
Do you feel like you’re on the right path? Do you feel a sense of belonging? Do the events in your life reflect your connection to divine will?
The celestial body: This is the level of divine love, which extends two or three feet out from your body and has within it every color of the rainbow in beautiful streamers of light. It’s a high frequency, so when this level is healthy and well developed, the colors are bright with straight beams of light and you can have blissful spiritual experiences. If the sixth level is too weak or undercharged, you may be lacking spiritual training or might have experienced some sort of spiritual trauma. If it’s too strong compared to other levels of the field, you may be distorting this level to avoid life on the physical plane. That is not a good scenario, since you need the vehicle of the body for this lifetime. This level gets depleted every day and needs to be recharged, which can be done with simply twenty minutes of meditation a day.
Are you having spiritual experiences? Do you sometimes feel joy when you meditate or pray or chant? Remember to recharge this level with your meditation practice.
The ketheric template (or causal body): This level is composed of gold lines that vibrate at a very high frequency to form a golden egg of protection all around you. It extends around three to four feet from your body and holds your whole field together. This is the level of divine mind, where you access truth, are able to communicate telepathically, and have “knowings” about others or yourself that flood your consciousness. A healthy seventh level gives you a strong sense of your place in the world, and you will be able to carry out important concepts for how to move the world in a positive direction. You’re a “big” thinker, connected with divine thought. If this level is not healthy, it will be filled with lines that are dull or visually weak, or may even be torn. That usually indicates a perfectionist who is unwilling to accept any human imperfections in themselves.
Do you have trouble manifesting your creative ideas? Are you super hard on yourself? Do you accept your own human failings? Think about it.
Now that you have the big picture of the human energy field, it’s time to learn more about the chakras, the energy centers that are the focal points in your human energy field.