Although aura sight is most often a gift a few receive at birth, it can also be a trained skill. Thus, for many people, the basic rudiments of seeing auras can be learned and later enhanced.
Auras actually emanate from our whole body, but because of the glandular and nervous centers located in the head and shoulder area, auras are most easily seen around one's head.
When one first manages to see an aura, it's usually the centermost band one sees, the band which extends about an inch or so beyond the person and is a color our eyes haven't learned to see so appears colorless, even in the aura photographs.
At first that seemingly colorless part may appear to be just a slight differentiation in the shade of the background, like gas vapors you see when pumping gasoline in your car.
That first band surrounds not only people, but inanimate objects as well, for it is the band of material form. In the in-animate, it will have no color, but in people it should have some. However, its colors might not be easy to see at first and may even be outside of the range your visual reception.
In learning to see auras, it's sometimes easiest to first see what appears to be but a shadow of light between your fingertips. Touch the middle finger of your right and left hand to each other, then slowly pull them apart, but only slightly, and try to see the light differentiation appearing to be a shadow of some sort between them.
To see an aura around a person's head, you put your eyes somewhat out of focus as though you were determined to make yourself see a silhouette or cutout of the image of the person as depicted in the aura photographs.
Just as an eclipse of the sun allows one to see its corona, that meditative silhouetting process in looking at a person allows your eyes to see that person's aura.
A mode switch to a somewhat meditative state of mind there is as important to seeing auras as the method you use in looking for one. Some call those meditative states of mind intuitive modes of being.
If you try to focus your eyes on the aura itself, you'll most certainly lose it because that action puts you back into one of the analytical modes of being where it is deemed that there is no such thing as an aura.
Where your mind tells you there can be no such thing, you aren't likely to see one.
For the novice, it's sometimes easiest to focus on the larger clearer highly changeable outer rings of the aura first, although there are a few people who prefer to start with the more meaningful somewhat stable inner ring instead.
Equipment is available now that makes it possible for almost anyone to see an aura, and some laboratories have even measured and weighed them.
When a person's life is over, their aura is said to disappear entirely, sometimes even prior to their actual moment of death. It is theorized that's because the soul begins to withdraw when their life is almost at an end, causing their aura to fade. In other words, that's considered to be the soul's effort to make sure that there will only be a slim connection at the end which supposedly helps prepare the way and makes the break from life easier.
