The aura and chakras are real-time, living embodiments of our consciousness. It’s not that the aura and chakras reflect the state of part of our psyche and being; it is that part of our psyche and being. Happening in in 3D space, right now, right under our noses (and around and within all of our body!).

People generically talk about the parts of our energy being that need love as ‘blocks’, but just as there are many types of bumps and hurdles in psyche and spirit, feelings and thoughts, there are different types of blocks and distortions in the energy system.

Each different type of block has its own gift in potential, as the energy within the block is integrated upon healing. And each type of block, while amenable to general and non-specific healing approaches, also asks something different from the practitioner or therapist. There are many spiritual medicines to draw from – healing isn’t just one large amorphous mass of goodness. The spiritual worlds and non-physical energies and qualities that are tapped into in healing, are infinite and unfathomable in their variety.

Here are five different kinds of blocks that I perceive, how they happen, and what they seem to ask for in healing:

Tears

Rips and tears are the closest thing to wounds in the aura. They carry the signature of damage or hurt, whether on a physical level, or emotional, or another level. An etheric tear could be because of an injury or accident or surgery; an emotional tear could be because of a shock or emotional pain.

Tears require mending, knitting, bringing back together. Whether through precision finger work to stitch with the lines of force coming out of the fingertips, or an inner psychospiritual state of reconciliation and repair (or ideally both!), the rips and tears heal.

Misalignments

Distortions and misalignments and are where belief systems, pathways of habituated experience, and trajectories of intentionality, are going in a different direction (metaphorically and energetically speaking) than the rest of the being. Or, if the personality is unified with that different expression, then different to that of the deeper soul. An example might be a misaligned heart chakra that points upwards towards the heavens, with the expectation that human emotional-relational needs can be met by God, Spirit, guides and angels. Or a misaligned root chakra that was jarred out of place at the moment of a physical trauma, and that never felt safe to be fully ‘seated’ in a central position again. To use some metaphors to help get a feel for the consciousness of misalignment, the phrase of ‘going against the grain’ helps, or going against the flow of a river, or a clump of hairs that are sticking up, refusing to be part of the glossy hair-cooperative.

There’s nothing wrong with this internal state of affairs, and indeed it can bring interesting experiences into life and be a source of teaching and diversion. But with diversion as the operative word. One way of looking at a misalignment is the part of self out of alignment is going counter to the evolutionary direction of the person. From a higher perspective that isn’t true, because our evolutionary path includes loops of learning and dead ends and so on, but that’s what it looks and feels like at the level that it’s happening: going in a different direction than the general consciousness of the person.

The healing of misalignments and distortions requires an almost magnetic alignment, as if the iron filings of energy and being are falling into place under the organising field of a magnet. It isn’t a question of forcing or shepherding the split or antagonistic energy bits (in this analogy, the iron filings) into place – it’s enough to feel into the underlying divine order arising, with the intention for the restoration of order and flow.

Cymatics is another excellent physical metaphor for this happening:

Fragmented

Fragmented, or isolated or detached bits of energy and consciousness and soul – form through trauma. The trauma can be of the sudden kind, or a slow drip-feed over time that builds up to an intolerable level. In both cases, there is more difficult-or-impossible-to-handle sensation than the person can deal with, and the part of being that isn’t able to process what’s happening, splits off.

Healing these fragments requires great love and patience. The energetic skill is in creating a bridge in consciousness between the individual part and the greater being, by holding both with awareness, holding and creating space, with an atmosphere of unhurried and unforced reconciliation. The amount of presence and ‘firmness’ used varies depending on how severe the fragmentation is, and how mature the person is in their ability to digest and absorb and integrate old energies that are arising for healing and release and/or integration.

Frozen

Held or frozen blocks also requires love and patience, married with deep grounding. The epidemiology of frozen and fragmented blocks are similar in that they come from trauma, but a frozen block can be considered the lighter of the two, as the overwhelmed part of self and those feelings are ‘merely’ held back and down, rather than split away from. In a sense it’s a less severe inner response to trauma and difficulty, but what’s strictly true in a theoretical sense doesn’t necessarily mean much in real life. For example, with the case of frost bite, if a little finger freezes instantly and drops off (the metaphor of fragmentation) is that really worse than a body which is covered in ice crystals that are causing frostbite burns, causing huge damage and physical shock all over the body, endangering the person’s life? Theoretical knowledge and comparisons aren’t always helpful, as every situation and person is unique.

Just as with ice, frozen consciousness must ‘melt’ in order to release and come into communion with the whole. This happens at it’s own time, which depending on how frozen (or stubborn!) the block is can be anything from very quick (within a few minutes) to, well, glacial (being the work of a lifetime to heal and release, and even then, maybe only a part of it). Trust in love, and the divine, and the life force of the person. There’s no rushing this, and it isn’t a race, and it isn’t to be forced. If the healer is aligned to their heart, body, earth and source, then all the healing ingredients are there, and all that’s left is the timeless witnessing of what is, and the space for that to change into something new.

Stagnated

Stagnated blocks are where energy and feeling have accumulated, without movement or release. It’s energy that’s been held on to. It often feels ‘thick’ in the aura, or can feel prickly or sharp or slimey etc, depending on what energy is being held. Holding on and in is a psycho-spiritual pattern, a default way of reacting and dealing with life in order to render it ‘safe’, according to the internal belief systems. It’s no better or worse than any other life strategy. But stagnation is, in small doses, perhaps the easiest kind of block to clear – it is NOT fun to have your whole system in a state of long term stagnation (hello non-clinical depression!) but ‘normal’ amounts of stagnation blocks are nothing to worry about, and can even be helped to clear with incense, contact with nature, sound, salt, and other clearing tools. To work with stagnation energetically or astrally requires clarity of boundaries and awareness of the differentiation between the heavier and lighter energies present; and closeness with the spiritual essence/inner source of the person; and also vital and new energy, to tap into and upwell into the inner space occupied by the stagnancy. The psychological quality I’ve found that stagnation calls for for its healing is the balancing of patience with compassionate action. Of non-demanding stillness with disruptive (to the holding pattern) activity.

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It’s also interesting to note that the different healing approaches exist on a holographic spectrum of active to passive. And that the blocks also exist on a spectrum of mild to severe. I’ll try to write about that later :)