How to Read Someone's Energy (or your own)

Everything in the universe is made of energy. Humans have a unique energetic signature consisting of our emotions, minds, and physical body frequencies. These combined frequencies create an energy field, often referred to as an aura. Certain professionals perform aura readings that help you better understand your energy field and its color.

Learning how to read energy is essential in understanding what lies beneath the surface of you and your life. It can also be useful when you want to know what a new person you meet may be like under the surface. Oftentimes, emotional energies seem to be the most powerful and easy-to-perceived forms of energy. If you're experiencing negative energy, your energy reading ability is essential for finding the root cause of this energy and learning how to remove it. 

This article will guide you through a few quick tips on how to sense energy, interpret your own energy, and read energies of other people.

Energy Reading Ability

Can you or someone you know take one look at a person and instantly feel like you know a lot about them? That's energy reading. It's your intuition picking up on another person's energy, or being able to sense their aura.

When you first meet a new person, your brain quickly "sizes them up". You might feel attraction, curiosity or interest. On the other hand, you could get bad vibes if something suggests they might be creepy or dangerous. This is your intuition working hand-in-hand with innate survival mechanisms that have evolved over thousands of years.

How Energy Reading Works

Each person communicates their energy through their body language, aura, physical contact, manner of speaking, and actions. Positive energies make people more attracting and appealing.

When you're reading someone's energy, you are not making a judgement. Energy reading is not noticing a characteristic and then assuming something based on stereotypical thinking. Rather, it's tuning in to the feeling that is being emanated from them.

Energy reading is not a human lie detector. When you read someone's energy, whether through an aura reading or feedback from your intuition, you are not able to find their motives or if they're telling the truth. Rather, you can pick up if they are the type of person you can have healthy relationships with, or if they are pulling in the opposite direction.

What to expect

Reading energies is about taking a deep dive into the natural state of vibrational communication. It's a personal experience in which you tune-in to another person's vibration and see if it makes you feel comfortable, or if it transmits a concerning feeling. In a moment, you are feeling the accumulation of energies from their life, allowing you to observe what kind of feelings and light they possess without even having to talk.

Some highly intuitive people even find crowded places overwhelming because there is so much clashing energy. Their intuition picks up on so many auras, feelings, and messages from their spirit guides.

As you become more aware of the subliminal energies that are transmitted, you will increase the power of your intuition. Over time, being able to read energy will become second nature to you. You will be able to easily observe the energy of most people that you meet. It can help you more easily avoid negative people, identify and help those with low self esteem, and live a more meaningful life.

Self Scan for Removing Negative Energies

Energy is stored within the body, and you can discover what negative energies exist within you by performing a body scan. Here's how to perform a scan:

Lay flat on your back and close your eyes. 

Breathe in deeply, and allow your body to relax. 

Once you're in a relaxed state, start by scanning your body, starting with your toes. 

Slowly scan up your body, feeling and bringing awareness to each part of your body as you ascend. 

When you feel a sense of tightness or pain within your body, this is where it's holding on to negative energy.

You can remove this energy in two ways. The first is by flooding it with positive energy, which may be white light or anything else you can come up with in your imagination. The second method is to 'breathe' in and out of the area with your breath until it's no longer tense or in pain. 

This is a great way to discover the energy within your body and clear away stagnation. It helps you drop baggage and make room for better things to enter your life.

How to Read Your Energy through Tarot Readings

Tarot cards are able to interpret the overall energy of a person, place, or thing. You can read your own energy through a tarot reading by performing a reading with this intention. 

First, shuffle the deck while asking the cards to show you what your overall energy is. 

If you're looking for a more general answer, only draw one card and use its meaning to interpret your answer. 

If you feel there may be multiple messages at play, draw as many cards as it feels fit until you've gathered a map of all the components of your current energy state. 

Tarot is a powerful tool that can activate your intuition and help you understand aspects of yourself and your life that you would otherwise be completely unaware of. 

Shadow Work

If you're someone that struggles with patterns of negative emotions, thoughts, or intentions, it's important to observe the energy that's empowering these aspects of yourself. Reading your energy through shadow work is a great way to discover the root cause of these issues. 

First, start by listing down what you're currently struggling with. For example, if you're struggling with being angry at a particular situation, write that down. 

Then, reflect on what aspects of the situation caused you to feel angry. Next, write down why each of those aspects makes you angry. 

Then, combine any aspects that have the same or a similar answer. At this point, you'll probably be left with one or two reasons for why a situation caused you anger. 

When you've made it this far, it's time to brainstorm when the first time you felt this way before. You'll want to search back into your oldest memories and try to find one that was early on in your life. These early memories have often profoundly impacted our energy, and because they were never fully resolved, they've created a pattern within our energy and aura. 

Learning to remove this energy is as simple as writing down solutions to your anger, learning to forgive the situation and anyone involved (including yourself), trying to offer your past self a fresh perspective, and writing down why you no longer feel angry or upset about the original experience that created the pattern. 

Aura Readings

You can read your own and other people's energy by performing an aura reading. Some energy readers are able to read auras naturally, but some teach themselves this ability. To read your own aura, you'll want to hold your hand or arm over a white/blank surface. Stare at your hand and allow your eyes to unfocus. Continue staring at your hand until you begin to see a hue radiate around it. There are many aura colors, and these colors have specific meanings for what they mean for you and your personality.

For example, someone whose aura is yellow is usually a very uplifting, joyful, positive person. At the same time, a person whose aura is read is usually very passionate, hot-headed, and confident. Once you learn what color your aura is, and it can be multiple, then you can learn what the aura energy of your aura field is. 

Mirror Energy Reading

When you walk into a room, it's easy to sense the energy of the people in it. This is your mind and body picking up on the energy around you. When you first meet up with a friend, you can feel their energy and sense of who they are just by being around them. Unfortunately, since you're constantly within your own energy field, it may be difficult for you to read your own energy just by simply observing yourself. 

A powerful technique to read energies is through your reflection in the mirror. Stand closely in front of the mirror and stare into your reflection's eyes. Continue to stare as long as you can without blinking, and pear as deeply as you can into your eyes. After a while, your surroundings may become distorted, and your focus will solely be on your presence within the mirror. 

At this time, you'll be able to sense your true energy and better understand how your present feels and the energy that exists within it. If you're holding onto a certain emotion, you may be able to pick up this emotion from your reflection, and it could rise to the surface. If you experience an emotional reaction at this time, allow it to come to pass, and try to interpret its energetic cause. 

Keep Track Of Your Energy

As you begin to tap into your own energy field, it's important to keep track of your finding to help make reading your energy much easier in the future. Once you gather enough information, you'll be able to discover patterns within your energy and how they manifest in different parts of your being. These patterns are indicators of where you have energetic blocks and can help guide you towards understanding how to remove them. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transmuted.

Learn to read your energy and discover the power you wield when you're able to transform your weaknesses into your strengths. There is much truth in energy, and you will flow more smoothly through your life if your energy is as pronounced as it can be. Make sure to perform an energy reading on yourself (or have other energy readers do it) periodically as a check-in on yourself.

What Influences Energy?

There are many ways your or someone's energy can be influenced. As you move through life, your energy will change for better and for worse. When you are in good physical health, you feel adored, you feel happy, and flow through the world with ease, your energy will be powerful and bright. Energy readers will see you emitting a radiant glow, and the feelings you transfer will be positive.

On the other hand, if you are at a tough stage in life, your energy can dampen. If you focus on negative thoughts, and neglect others and yourself, an energy reading will show that you've lost some shine. You may not even realize your aura is tarnished because intuition can be diluted by an unhealthy mindset. If you are stuck in this phase, try using Tarot to pull yourself up.

Among your friends and the people around you, you will see their energies change too. The decisions a person makes as well as the events that unfold affect their energy. Doing constructive or creative activities, living a healthy lifestyle, and feeling fulfilled all contribute to your energy. Positive emotions make a significant impact on your aura especially. An important aspect that influences your energy is how you treat other people in your life.

Some aura readers notice that aura colors can change depending on who is around. In crowded places, for instance, it can be difficult to read the aura of a singular person because of all the conflicting aura energy in the way.

As you progress through your life, keep in mind the truth held within energy, aura and emotions. If your Intuition picks up on an unexplainable feeling from someone, that's a sign you should pay attention to. Always trust your gut feeling, and always try to keep your vibrations and emotions elevated. Your life is the result of the person that you become, which is the result of the energy you create and attract.