Written By: Pavan Nihalani
We cleanse our skin and our livers, detox our lives and de-clutter our homes, but what if the clearing out you really need to get done concerns your aura?
These days we’re pretty obsessed with bettering ourselves and have at our disposal myriad ways to do that. We’ll sweat through a HIIT class to tone our body and play Wordle every day to sharpen our mind, and naturally, there are methods to improve our aura as well. Aura cleansing and aura clearing are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct objectives.
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Cleansing is like a shower for the aura — removing energetic debris we pick up through daily interactions with people or the environment. Clearing goes deeper: it’s a full detox that identifies and releases entrenched energetic blocks, creating alignment and balance.
The structure of the aura is shaped by our chakras — focal points of energy distributed throughout the body. We have seven major chakras, starting with the root chakra at the base of the spine and ending with the crown chakra at the top of the head, plus over a hundred minor chakras linked to various body parts such as the hips or ears. Each chakra is tied to an emotional theme: the heart chakra, for example, connects to love, compassion, and forgiveness. If it’s blocked, it may signal difficulty in giving or receiving love.
One of my specialties is diagnosing chakra blocks through dowsing — using a crystal pendulum suspended from a fine metal chain. Dowsing, the practice of detecting invisible energy, dates back thousands of years to ancient Egypt and China, when rods were used to find water or minerals. The pendulum form developed in the 18th and 19th centuries to detect illness and read energy fields. In the early 20th century, Theosophists such as Charles Leadbeater and Alice Bailey brought chakra concepts from ancient Indian Vedic texts into Western spiritual thought, merging them with the idea of the aura. By the post-1970s New Age movement, crystal pendulums had become a common tool for diagnosing chakra blocks.
Any crystal can be used; I have one of clear quartz and another of rose quartz. The movement of the crystal over a chakra reveals what’s going on: clockwise rotation means the chakra is open, anti-clockwise suggests it’s blocked. From years of experience, I can also sense the state of a person’s aura — whether calm or agitated, energized or depleted. Combining intuition with knowledge of which chakras are blocked, I can focus my questions to uncover the root cause.
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How do we know if our aura needs clearing? Sometimes it’s as simple as a sense that something is ‘off’, feeling tired and drained, or facing repeated obstacles on our path. These can be signs that the aura is out of balance and the chakras need to be checked.
If only a cleansing is needed, this can be done through a balancing session in which each chakra is activated and aligned to restore harmony. If deeper clearing is required, we may need to combine the pendulum with other modalities such as hypnotherapy, breath work, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to heal the root cause — emotional wounds, limiting beliefs, or suppressed trauma — and open the chakras again. This deeper work may require multiple sessions.
Just as our physical body benefits from regular movement and nourishment, and our mind from ongoing challenge, our aura also needs consistent care. We can support this by adopting a daily spiritual practice — meditation, mantra chanting, or breath awareness — to cultivate stillness and self-awareness. Over time, we develop a natural sense of when our energy is vibrant and when it needs attention. Aura clearing is an essential part of self-care. When our body, mind, and energy flow in sync, we return to our most peaceful, balanced selves.
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