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What if everything you've ever heard about auras is only partially true? Usually the conversation turns to crystals, energy healing, aura photography, angel cards, but after more than 20 years studying consciousness, spirituality, neuroscience, and human transformation, I've come to believe something much simpler. Your aura isn't the cause of anything, it's actually the effect. If you really want to raise your frequency or increase your vibration, the answer isn't found in trying to change your aura. It's found in transforming the state that's producing it. So, today I want to ground the conversation around energy and frequency and vibration into something practical, because when you understand what you're actually broadcasting into the world, you can begin to consciously optimize the signal. So, let's get into it.
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All right, guys. Finally, the aura episode. Let's start with the most important question. What is an aura? So, years ago, before I ever got into personal growth, before I was studying neuroscience or spirituality or human development, a woman approached me and she said, "I just have to tell you, you have the one of the most extraordinary auras that I've ever seen. It is so beautiful. It is so powerful."
Now, I'll be honest, 30-something David loved hearing that. My little new age ego inflated immediately. I thought, "Well, that's amazing." But after the novelty wore off, I remember thinking something a little bit more practical, like, "Okay, what exactly is an aura? And what am I supposed to do with this information?" So, if someone tells me I have an extraordinary aura, that's nice, but can I strengthen it? What do I do with it? Does it matter? Does it create my life? Those questions stuck with me, and today, after studying consciousness from both spiritual and scientific perspectives, I think the conversation around auras has become unnecessarily mystical, when it can actually be incredibly practical. And here's what I mean.
Every spiritual tradition throughout history has described reality as existing on multiple levels. So, the yogic traditions speak of the koshas or the layers or sheaths of human existence extending beyond your physical body. Anthroposophy, the work of Rudolf Steiner, describes the etheric body and the astral body in addition to your physical body. Mystical Christianity speaks of the glorified body. Chinese medicine speaks of chi. Other traditions speak of prana or life force or subtle energies. Different languages, different cultures, but a remarkably similar intuition. Now, human beings appear to be more than simply flesh and bone. Now, whether you interpret these descriptions literally or symbolically or phenomenologically is entirely up to you. But, my purpose today isn't to convince you of any particular metaphysical world view. It's to point towards something that almost all of us have experienced. You ever walked into a room and immediately felt tension before anyone spoke? Or have you ever met someone who instantly made you feel safe? Have you ever walked into an old cathedral or a sacred grove or a place where something profound had happened and felt that the environment itself carried a certain quality? So, most people have. We've all had moments where we've sensed something before we consciously understood it. And the reality is that our five senses detect only a tiny fraction of what exists. So, human beings cannot see infrared light. We can't see ultraviolet we can't hear most frequencies that exist around us. We can't perceive magnetic fields. Yet, a lot of animals can. Bees can navigate using ultraviolet patterns that are invisible to us. Birds appear capable of sensing the Earth's magnetic field during migration. Reality is almost certainly richer than our sensory apparatus allows us to perceive. And science continues to reveal that what appears to be solid at its deepest level is organized energy and information, right? Matter and energy are not separate things. They are different expressions of the same underlying reality. So, when mystics speak of subtle dimensions or subtle bodies, I don't immediately dismiss the possibility that they're describing aspects of reality that exist beyond ordinary sensory perception. In fact, one way to think about the aura is simply this. It is the bridge between your embodied individuality and the larger field in which you and all of us exist. It's this gradual transition from what is unmistakably you, the you that we see and the you that we sense, to what is increasingly inseparable from everything and everyone else. You can think of it as the extension of your nervous system into the field, the extension of consciousness beyond the physical boundaries of the body, or the first layer of your participation in a reality that is far larger than your physical form. And again, different traditions describe that bridge in different ways. Some describe it in colors, some in frequencies, some in subtle bodies, some describe it as fields of information. I don't think the terminology is the important part. The important part is recognizing that human beings have always intuited that who we are extends beyond what can be measured with our five senses.
But here's what I think the conversation becomes more useful. Because once we acknowledge the possibility of an aura, the next question becomes why do some people seem to have a more powerful presence than others? Like, why do some people feel expansive or peaceful or magnetic and coherent, while others feel contracted, chaotic, fearful, and heavy? Right? In other words, what determines the quality of the aura itself? And that's where I think the conversation shifts from mysticism into transformation. So, now we have another question. If there is an extension of ourselves into the field, why do people describe some auras as bright and coherent, while others feel dense and contracted? And what determines the quality of that field?
So, here's where my perspective differs from much of modern spirituality. I don't think your aura is the cause of anything. I just think it's an effect. I think your aura is the natural expression of the organization of your nervous system. You can think about it this way. Every experience that you've ever had has left an imprint. Every belief you've adopted, every fear that you've rehearsed, every trauma that your body never fully processed, every experience of gratitude, every identity that you've embodied, your nervous system has been shaped by all of it, and over time, those experiences organize into a baseline state of being. Not the emotion that you feel on your best day, not the emotion you feel on your worst day, the emotional atmosphere that your nervous system consistently returns to. And that baseline is what most people are actually referring to when they talk about vibration or frequency. And the framework that helped me understand this better than anything else came from David Hawkins in Power vs. Force. You may or may not be familiar, but Dr. Hawkins proposed that every emotional state carries with it a different level of consciousness or a calibration. Now, whether you agree with his exact numerical scale is almost besides the point, but the brilliance of his work is that he translated this mystical idea of frequency into something every human being can understand, which is emotion. He determined that every frequency represents an emotion, and he starts out at a scale that goes into the fear type of emotions around 200, all the way up to unconditional love, or what he would call Christ consciousness at 800. So, instead of asking what frequency are you vibrating at, he essentially asked what emotional atmosphere has your nervous system normalized? Do you live in fear or in shame or in pride or courage or love? Cuz your life isn't being created by the emotion that you experience for 5 minutes after listening to an inspiring podcast. It's being shaped by the emotional state that your nervous system returns to when no one is watching. And I think that's what frequency is. I think that's what vibration is. I think that's what people are sensing when they describe the quality of someone's aura. And whether you call that an aura or coherence or nervous system regulation or embodied consciousness matters less than recognizing that it exists.
So, you are constantly broadcasting not just through the words that you speak, but through the emotions that you feel, through the state that you hold. And that's why I believe trying to manipulate your aura, which is a lot of the conversation around auras, is missing the point. It's like trying to improve the reflection in the mirror instead of changing the person who's standing in front of it. The aura never needs to be fixed. The nervous system does. So, as your nervous system becomes more coherent and more regulated and more integrated, the quality of your energetic presence changes naturally. Right? The aura becomes brighter because the system generating it has become less burdened by fear or shame or survival. The signal becomes clearer because the interference has been removed.
So, why does any of that matter? Well, because your nervous system isn't simply creating an internal experience, it's participating in the creation of your external reality. So, every moment of every day your nervous system is generating a baseline state and that state shapes the thoughts that naturally arise. But, it also shapes the thoughts that never quite reach your conscious awareness. So, it's all of your subconscious influence, which influences your intuition and your impulses and the things that you feel drawn to and the things that you instinctively avoid. Long before making conscious decisions, your nervous system is already organizing your experience. And life is built far less by the handful of major decisions that we remember than by the thousands of nearly invisible decisions that we never notice ourselves making, like what time you decide to wake up, or how long you hesitate before speaking, or what seat you choose at an event, or whether you follow an idea that suddenly appears or you dismiss it before it has a chance to grow. Most of those decisions, they don't feel significant in isolation, but collectively they create this really powerful thing called the timing of your life. They determine which conversations happen, which relationships develop, which opportunities materialize, and ultimately the path your life unfolds along. And so, from a psychological perspective, this makes perfect sense, right? Your nervous system is continually filtering reality and organizing behavior in accordance with its baseline state. But it's actually more than that, because your nervous system is participating directly with the field of consciousness. So, things like coincidences and synchronicity, they're part of the architecture of reality, and I believe the quality of your internal coherence influences the way the field responds. So, the more aligned you become, the more life seems to organize itself in aligned ways. The right conversations happen, unexpected introductions, an idea that arrives at precisely the right time. So, what looked like coincidence begins to feel more like intelligence.
Now, you may hear that and say, "But Dave, that's just simply perception." You may believe your nervous system is becoming better recognizing opportunities that are always present, or you may believe that consciousness itself is participating and that the field is responding to the quality of your broadcast. Again, I don't find those explanations mutually exclusive. I think they're different ways of describing the same reality. But what's undeniable is that your inner state doesn't stay inside you. It extends into every thought that you think, every decision you make, every interaction you have, and perhaps even into the mysterious web of synchronicities that so many of us have experienced. Which means changing your life isn't ultimately about changing the circumstances around you, it's about changing the state from which those circumstances are continually being created. And this is why healing matters so much. This is why personal growth matters so much. This is why I encourage you to treat mindset like your life depends on it because it does. Not because healing makes you a better person, but because healing changes the broadcast. And when the broadcast changes, life begins to unfold differently.
So, if your aura is the effect, if your frequency is the baseline state of your nervous system, and if that baseline state is continuously participating in the creation of your reality, then the question becomes incredibly practical. How do I raise my frequency? How do I increase my vibration or elevate my aura? And I think this is where a lot of people unintentionally get distracted because they spend their lives trying to generate elevated states. They chase peak experiences. They go from retreat to retreat or ceremony to ceremony or meditation to meditation looking for a feeling that will finally stay. And while many of those experiences can be profoundly healing, and they've been a part of my journey, the state eventually fades because the nervous system returns to the baseline. Right? You don't transform your life because you touched a higher state for a weekend. You transform your life when your baseline changes. And that's what healing really is. Healing is not becoming someone else. Healing is removing what has been preventing your natural state from expressing itself. Think about a child. You know, and I have a I have a 3 and 1/2 year old now. I get to see this as a reminder on a daily basis. A healthy kid doesn't have to practice joy. A healthy child doesn't wake up in the morning trying to manufacture wonder or curiosity or presence. Those are natural qualities. But what happens is life happens. Pain happens, loss happens, rejection happens, trauma happens, and layer by layer the nervous system adapts. It develops protective strategies, protective identities, and those adaptations are intelligent. They help you survive, but over time they become heavy. They become the interference, and eventually you mistake the adaptation for who you actually are. We start saying I'm I'm anxious, I'm unworthy, I'm afraid. Right? These become identities, when in reality those are simply patterns your nervous system has learned to repeat. This is why I believe transformation is actually less about trying to become something you're not and more about subtracting. Every limiting belief that dissolves, every piece of grief that's finally felt, every old identity that no longer needs defending, the nervous system becomes a little more coherent, a little more open, a little less burdened by the past, a little more returning to who you are. And as that happens, your baseline begins to rise. Not because you're forcing yourself to think positively or pretending everything is okay, but because there is simply less distortion in the system. There's less resistance, and what remains is closer to your natural state. And I suspect that natural state is far more loving and creative and joyful and peaceful and connected than most of us have ever been taught to believe.
So, if someone asks me how to strengthen their aura, I don't tell them to focus on their aura. If they ask me how to raise their vibration, I don't tell them to chase a higher vibration. My My recommendation is to heal, to become conscious of the beliefs that organize your experience, to complete the emotions that your body has been carrying your whole life, to integrate the parts of you that you've probably spent years rejecting, because every time you do that, you aren't manufacturing a higher frequency, you're uncovering the one that was there before fear taught you otherwise. And perhaps that's the deepest misunderstanding of in all of personal growth. People think enlightenment is about becoming more. I think it's about removing everything that has prevented you from being what you already are. Your aura changes because your nervous system changes. Your nervous system changes because your consciousness changes. And when your consciousness changes, your relationship with yourself, with other people, and with the field itself reorganizes. That's why this conversation matters. Not cuz it's about auras, but because it's about learning to become the kind of human being whose baseline state naturally broadcasts peace instead of fear and love instead of protection. And from that state, an entirely different life becomes possible.
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