
Everything is made up of energy. rocks, trees and animals are composed of energy. All have energy radiating from them to form spheres of energy around their physical bodies termed auras.
Through the art of aura reading, the color of an aura can be seen by the naked eye. The color of an aura corresponds to the frequency of energy that person is most in tune with. Auras will often change colors depending on the mood of the individual and other outside factors. Through these auras, energy from one object can interact with the energy from another ofject and often the auras will blend during the interatction. For example, if you are in a positive mood and feel completely balanced your aura will most likely be white in color. Now you get a phone call from a friend who is angry and depressed because they are having a bad day. The aura of that person will probably be dark in color, and possibly black depending on how focused their negative energy is. As you interact with theat person, you feel drained and less upbeat than you did before the interaction. By the time this interaction is over, your friend feels better but you feel tired and irritable. On a conscious level you may not understand what is actually going on. The black aura from your negative friend is interacting with your perfectly white aura, causing you to lose positive energy to that individual. After the interaction, both of your auras are now grayish in color. You should do a chakra balancing meditation to regain the energy you lost to your friend.
An aura can be worn down from any number of things. Imbalance diet, dehydration, alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, tobacco products, and drugs of any kind severely wear down the strength of an aura. Emotional stimuli will also affect the strength of your aura. Interactions with surrounding objects, people, or spirits will alter you aura depending on the type of interaction that ocurs. An aura can be re-built up through prayer, meditation, and psychic shielding. Remember, you are dealing with energy here. Science has proven that energy can not be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.

Our auras are like magnets picking up vibrational energies that are floating around everywhere we go. It is important to cleanse our auras freeing them of foreign vibrations and negative energies.
Here are a few simple ways to do it:
Using your fingers as a comb, comb through the space surrounding your body from head to toe. Clean your hands with running water before and after doing this.
Stand under a waterfall or shower.
Walking in the rainfall.
Run freely and playfully in the wind.
Using a single feather or feather whisk make sweeping motions through the space surrounding your body.
Smudge the area surrounding your body with the smoke from sage, lavendar, and/or sweetgrass.
Emerse and soak your body in an epsom salt bath.
Tips:
Turkey or owl feathers are especially good feathers to use for sweeping the aura.
Take care to do some deep breathing exercises while cleansing your aura to aid in flushing your inner body.
Caution: Do not walk in the rain during an electrical storm.