Quick Specs
- Brand: Llewellyn Publications
- Author: Ted Andrews
- Format: Paperback, 168 pages
- Dimensions: 5.25 x 8 in
- ISBN-13: 9780738708157
Learning to Sense, See and Read the Aura
Most people have walked into a room, met someone new and felt at ease or on edge within seconds. Ted Andrews begins there. As the publisher describes it, that reaction is you sensing a person’s aura, the energy field surrounding the human body, and the book sets out to teach you to see it as well as sense it. The approach is practical: Andrews presents simple, effective techniques and builds from one skill to the next. His premise is that anyone can learn to see and experience the aura more effectively. That makes the book a training manual, with exercises you work through in order. At 168 pages in a 5.25 by 8 inch paperback, it is small enough to keep open beside your notes while you practice. The exercises are meant to be repeated, so the same pages serve you more than once, and you’ll likely return to earlier chapters as your perception develops. The publisher says the same techniques help you decipher what the aura reveals about a person’s emotional and spiritual self, so reading follows perceiving. Plan to practice, and expect progress to come in small steps over repeated sessions.
Beyond seeing, the book moves into interpretation and care. The publisher says it shows you how to see the colors of the aura and interpret their meanings, which gives the later chapters a reference point for what you observe. It also covers cleansing, strengthening and protecting your own aura, and increasing your sensitivity and intuition, so the practice includes upkeep as well as observation. The last chapter turns to strengthening and protecting the aura, which means the book closes with ways to look after your own energy field. The six chapters run in a line from what the aura is to how to protect it. Read the chapters in order, since the book builds from sensing to seeing to measuring and interpreting, and color meanings make the most sense once you’ve logged some observations of your own. Use the color chapter as a cross-check on what you’ve observed. Treat the book as a framework for your practice. Your notes about what you feel and see will show you how closely the book’s interpretations match your experience, and that comparison is where the learning happens.
Practical Ways to Work With the Book
Work with the book in brief, regular sessions. Read a section, do its exercise and stop while your attention is still fresh. Start each session by rereading your last entry, then pick up the next exercise. A log is the most useful companion: note the date, where you practiced, what you felt and what you saw, and keep sensations and visual impressions in separate columns so you can see which develops first for you. If a friend is willing, trade roles as observer and subject, and compare notes. Once the chapter on measuring has you making tools, keep them with the book so they’re ready for the next session. For related reading on settling and protecting your own energy, browse my energy clearing books and read them in turn.
How to Work Through an Aura-Reading Practice
Use this sequence to follow the book's own order from sensing to seeing to reading.
- Start With Feeling
Begin with the chapters on what the aura is and how to feel it, and practice sensing before you try to see. Notice the impressions you get around other people and around yourself, and write them down as they come. This step gives you a baseline of what you already pick up.
- Practice Seeing and Measuring
Move to the chapters on learning to see the aura and measuring your auric field. Repeat each exercise over several sessions before you judge the results, and keep notes on setting and timing. When the book has you make simple tools for measuring, build them as written and use them the same way each time so your observations stay comparable.
- Add Color Meanings and Protection
Once you've logged some observations, read the chapter on the meaning of colors and compare its interpretations with your notes. Then work through the closing chapter on strengthening and protecting your own aura. Keep a record of what you actually observe next to each interpretation, and note where the two differ.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock How to See and Read the Aura because aura work is a skill-building subject, and a book that gives you exercises in order is a sound place to practice it. I carry several other Ted Andrews titles, and this one suits readers who want to develop their own perception step by step. It also belongs among my mind, body, soul and new age books, which cover related territory. If you’ve been curious about auras, this is a structured way to find out for yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
An aura is described in spiritual traditions as an energy field around the body, and the word comes from the Latin and Greek for breeze or breath. Spiritualist circles had begun using it for a subtle emanation around people by the late nineteenth century. Auras haven't been scientifically established. Ted Andrews writes for readers who want to practice perceiving them.
No. Doctors use the word aura for temporary changes some people get before or during a migraine, such as zigzag lines, flashing lights, tingling or dizziness, and the NHS says these should not last longer than an hour. That is a medical symptom with its own cause, and the book concerns the energy field described in spiritual traditions. If you get symptoms like these, a doctor is the person to ask.
No. Several books on auras carry near-identical titles. This one is How to See and Read the Aura by Ted Andrews. A separate paperback called How to See and Read the Human Aura, published by Geddes & Grosset in 2004, is by Judith Collins. Check the author's name and the ISBN when you compare editions.
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