By Cesca Anderson

All things on our planet are much more than the sum of their visible parts. Everyone has an energy field in and around them, and while scientists might want to say that we are little more than agitated molecules so to speak … there is a lot more to this ever moving energy that makes us up into the human beings that we are.

The main problem we have with treating ourselves for health on an energetic level is that we aren’t aware of what is going on in our energetic bodies. If you get a cut on your arm, you’re going to put a band aid on it, if your throat is sore, or you get the flu, or suffer headaches, you go to the doctor for a prescription, because when it comes to the physical body; we are much more aware of our aches and pains and the fact that we need to fix them. But in the energetic body, you are dealing with invisible cuts, scrapes and ailments. So if you don’t see it, it’s not always as easy as knowing you need to fix it.

What most people don’t realise however is that physical, mental and emotional ailments that you are aware of in your physical body, are actually a direct reflection of what is happening in your energetic body, there is always an imbalance in the energetic body before any illness or injury manifests in the physical body.

The human energetic body is made up of several parts and interconnected systems that all work together in much the same way as our physical organs to keep us functioning and alive. In this article, part one of Human Multidimensional Anatomy; we are going to take a look at the layers of the human aura.

The Aura

The Aura is an energy field that surrounds the physical body in an egg shape. It is comprised of layers of varying density that make up the remainder of our body. There are many different schools of thought on what exactly the bodies are, and what functions they have, but for this article I will go into the main four bodies that we are made up of, noting that the various bodies all exist in the same space at different frequencies in much the same way as radio waves can share the same space at different frequencies.

First Layer - Etheric body

This is the first layer of the Aura and extends about one to three centimetres from the physical body, and is easily visible to most people as a shimmering haze outlining the body. This body is a blueprint of the physical body and illness and trauma can usually be seen or felt in this layer. It is also the layer of the aura that is connected to maintaining the life force or energy within the physical body, and should there be tears or gaps in this layer a person will be slow to heal from illness, and, also very run down in general, finding normal daily tasks difficult to perform or complete.

Second Layer - Emotional Body (Astral Body)

The emotional body is also known as the astral or desire body, it is the seat of our emotions and thought to house all of our sensual appetites and desires, longings, moods, feelings, appetites and fears. Imbalances in this body are filtered down through the etheric layer and eventually manifest in the physical body as illness.

Third Layer – Mental Body

The third layer of the aura is the mental body, and again is less dense than the two that came before it. The mental body is comprised of three parts; the instinctual, intellectual and spiritual mental bodies. This body houses our intellect and is where thoughts and ideas come from, these in turn filter down into the astral body where we develop an emotion to attach to the thoughts - and then from there the energy descends to the etheric and physical bodies. Because energy always filters down from the higher frequency bodies to the dense physical body, healing performed at a mental level will always have a stronger and more long lasting effect on the individual, but healing at this level is not very common as few people really know how to work with this level of the aura.

Fourth Layer – Spiritual Body (Causal Body)

At the next highest level of energetic substance we find what is known as the Spiritual or Causal body, this is the closest thing to what we call the Higher Self. Where the mental body is more concerned with the creation and transmission of concrete thoughts and ideas, the Causal body is involved in the area of abstract ideas and concepts. Causal consciousness deals with the essence of a subject, while mental consciousness studies the subject’s details.