W. J. Colville says, There is but one way to achieve real success and genuine happiness, and that is to deliberately undertake the task of self-discipline and build around one’s self an impermeable aura.” Aura thieves steal gradually. They find a weak spot that gives when they push on it. There they enter, and then begin dismantling the aura. There are no weak spots in an impermeable one, however.
In the very first entry, My BBL Led Me To Marijuana, I wrote, “My lifetime of fear and victimization made me the perfect candidate or susceptible host in what I call the chain of invasion.” See, my fear created the weak spots that let in thief after thief. I think of each robber as a disease. And in nursing school, I was taught that there are varying tiers of disease prevention. Of course, primary prevention, which occurs before any disease has had a chance to form, is ideal.
And so, I’ve learned to think of my aura, my personal energy field, as my health which when maintained, is prevention of disease. Colville says, “Occult Sciences can be interpreted aright only through familiarity with the human aura, because the state of our aura determines our susceptibility or non-susceptibility in the presence of all conceivable elements and vibrant influences.”
He also says, “The aura of the priest, of the physician, and of the trained nurse is, generally speaking, stronger than that of the average friend or relative of a sick person, who feels armed with no special knowledge or authority, and consequently is much more liable to infection.” He continues, “The great exercise whereby the aura is developed most of all is regular rhythmic breathing, the importance of which can scarcely be overestimated.”
What I once hated more than anything during yoga class and meditation, was the focused and intentional breathing. I’m not sure if I can even articulate why I disliked it so much. Maybe it was because I couldn’t let my mind run free at the same time. But after experiencing partial aura loss, you can be sure I have come to understand its importance no matter how tedious I find it to be. Sometimes, we do have to lose, or nearly lose something, to see the value of loss prevention. Do you remember that old adage? It says, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
In addition to breath-work, Colville suggests that it is “our mental condition (which) most extensively affect(s) our physique and all its emanations.” He lectures, “If every practitioner of massage and of osteopathy, as well as every announced magnetic healer, understood something definitely concerning aura and how it is generated, purified, and vitiated, initially in all cases by mental activities, a very great addition would quickly be made to the benefits accruing as results of the practice of these various schools of mechanical or medical practitioners.“
With all that said however, I have learned something surprising. I have discovered that an impermeable aura is not always in season for me. See, to get to where I really want to be, I must also pass through a season in which my aura is wide open and defenseless. There is a perfectly good explanation for this wild notion. But I haven’t yet gotten to that part of my story.