How often do you cleanse your aura? Are there repercussions to cleansing it too often?

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I don’t cleanse my aura. These sorts of little rituals are a great way to build up your spiritual self. But a point comes at which they just stop working and you feel like you’re going through the motions. This is the point at which you need to start switching it up.

At one point, I went through a chakra opening and energizing exercise once a day, sometimes even twice. These are visualization exercises in which you create little energy balls in your mind and push them through your chakras.

This, and other similar exercises, are good for helping you get the hang of visualizing, sensing, and manipulating your energy body. But as I got more familiar with how my body and mind and energy work, it just didn’t feel the same way as it did the first time, and eventually, I stopped feeling anything at all.

It was around this point a friend told me that some people out there only have three chakras instead of the customary 7. I was floored, then… intrigued. I started meditating and imagined I had 3 chakras. I did the chakra opening exercise with three chakras, and tried to feel where they were. And after like a day or so, suddenly I had three chakras. Then I decided I wanted just one chakra, and changed it around until I had just one.

And then I found something else to get interested in and stopped doing chakra work.

As esoteric methods go, aura and chakra work are veritable child’s play. When I was reading about Aleister Crowley, he’d spend weeks at a time doing a single thing. Spirituality bends and morphs and accommodates our needs, and Crowley decided to live on a grander scale, and so needed grander spirituality in order to match it.

The aesthetic you create and use is important. I personally like to make as much happen according to my will using as little effort as possible. So I use the tools and principles of magic, and magic is all about front-loading time and effort and mastery to achieve effortless results later. I find that ‘prettiness’ just gets in my way.

But you might like to use incense to make everything smell nice, and put up pentagrams and statues of dragons and wands and such. It would be foolish to think that because I don’t need any of that to get stuff done, that the aesthetic and ritual aspects aren’t worthwhile. Indeed ritual is hugely important for putting the mind in a detached, spiritual state. I don’t need it because my mind is in that state all the time.

If there’s such a thing as too much spiritual exploration, I’ve yet to find it, despite trying my very best. If what you’re doing now starts to get old, find something else. Your aura will be fine, trust me.