Red Overlay

People usually add a Red Overlay to their aura for one or more of the following reasons:

They have had a life-threatening situation at birth or at a young age, which caused them to perceive that they may die, or that the world was not a safe place. Examples of life-threatening situations can include birth complications, severe illness, choking, drowning or suffocating. Many people do not remember these incidents, and so the source of their anger or struggle remains a mystery to them. They frequently have feelings of dread or of impending disaster for reasons unknown to them.

People may also add a Red Overlay if they have been physically, emotionally or mentally abandoned or rejected. Red Overlays frequently appear in people who were unwanted children, adopted or separated from a parent at a young age. This can also apply to children who felt emotionally abandoned by a parent, even when the parent appeared to be physically present in the home.

The most obvious and traceable causes for Red in the aura are those cases in which people have been physically, emotionally or mentally abused. Children who have been sexually abused, physically beaten, or raised by alcoholic or verbally abusive parents usually feel that the world is an unsafe and undependable place and that protection is necessary for survival.

Red Overlays can even appear around children who felt emotionally or physically smothered or suppressed. They feel betrayed by the adults, who were supposed to love, nurture and protect them as children. Not everyone who felt abandoned by a parent has a Red Overlay, however. The experience had to be intense enough or serious enough to have threatened the emotional or physical survival instincts of the child.

To learn how to heal and remove a red overlay, read the Red Overlay section in Pam's book "Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Say About You". You can also watch the video here.

	People are not born with a Red Overlay but add it if they felt a need to protect themselves
	Reasons for adding the Red Overlay are various but they all occurred in early childhood.
	(1) There may have been a life threatening situation (choking, nearly drowning, suffocating, etc.)  (2) There may have been intense feelings of abandonment or rejection (adoption, parent leaving)  (3) There may have been physical, emotional or mental abuse (sexual abuse, being beaten, alcoholic or verbally abusive parents, even being emotionally smothered, etc.)
	The child can grow up feeling unsafe, unprotected, and that the world is not a friendly place
	The Red Overlay is added to the outer bands but needs to be removed for healthy functioning
	This red, protective layer can become a prison if not removed as it shuts everyone out
	Indications of a Red Overlay present are intense anger, continuous struggle and self-sabotage
	There are three significant ways people can remove the Red Overlay from their aura:
	(1) They can visualize erasing the red from their aura and replacing it with another color
	(2) They can visualize themselves as an adult taking care of and parenting their little child
	(3) They can go to a therapist http://www.russellrowe.com/red_overlay.htm

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aura cleansing and recharge

You may want to burn Sage around your home, office or both and meditate on allowing negative energies to release while you are burning the Sage. After you burn the Sage and meditate, I would probably take a shower and cleanse your aura again since water is a natural cleanser. Once you have done that, light a white candle and a black candle, picture your body being showered in white light. 

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Plant Allies and Crystal Healing

Medicinal Plants and Edibles
Plant Allies: did you know you can use plants in spiritual healing, such as Reiki?
Herbs & their Magical Correspondences
Plants and their Magical Uses
I'm intrigued to learn more...

Crystal Healing: An Overview
More on Chakras and Crystals
I'm planning on learning more about this too...

Donna Cunningham's work on:
Spiritual Dimensions of Healing Addictions

alcohol abuse and relationships, heart chakra

http://www.essences.com/vibration/feb02/alcoholism.html

healing through gem elixirs

http://www.essences.com/vibration/aug01/gemessences.html

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Burning Sage

"FOR PERSONAL CLEANSING:  If your energy is low, or you feel depressed and out of sorts, or if you have been around negative people in a negative situation, try cleansing your entire energy field.  The most effective way to do this is with a broad, strong feather, or a group of feathers in a fan.  Have someone sweep the smoke over the entire outline of your body, front and back, head to toe.  Don't forget the top of your head and bottom of your feet.  If you don't have someone to do this for you, pass the sage bundle around your own body covering as much area as you can.  Breathe deeply and calmly while doing this, and you'll notice the difference at once.

Before going to bed, try using sage to clean away the physical and emotional grime and stress of the day.  For a peaceful night's rest, break off a single leaf, and burn it carefully in your safe container.  Be sure there's no paper around, or anything that can catch fire.  Remember to blow the flame out at once.  You don't want the fire......you want the smoke. :)

FOR HOUSE CLEANSING:   To cleanse and bless your house or apartment, again use the entire bundle to light.  Open your front door.  Go to the back of the house, and cover as much of the room as you can reach.  Be sure to hold the bundle as high as you can.  Don't forget the corners of the rooms.  Work from the back toward the open door at the front.  Go into every room, including bathrooms, closets, utility rooms, kitchen...everywhere.  When you get to the front door, say "Anything not here for the highest and best good of those who live here, be gone.  You are not wanted, and you are not welcome. This home has been cleansed and blessed."  Then walk out the door, close it, and sage around the door and door frame.  Leave the bundle outside to burn itself out.  Make sure you put it on dirt, or on something that will not burn." http://www.meyna.com/use.html

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Protection

"Protection From Negative Energy

People in our lives connect to us with psychic energetic cords. These are usually people that we have had intimate moments and/or contact with (good friends, family or lovers), which allows them to stay in your energy field. It is important to remove the cords of the people we no longer want to have attached to us anymore, so that their energy will not stay entangled in our own.

Anyone can attach to anyone at any given moment, even the person that drives by you and yells at you in traffic can connect to you with a black chord, they need to be released daily to prevent future health problems. You can do the following:

Meditate and call in your spirit guides or angels and visualize all the black cords or whatever you feel is connecting you. Ask your spirit guides or angels to help you disconnect to anyone who has sent you negative energy in any shape or form. Ask that all negative connections be broken.

Picture all the cords or webs attached into your body. Imagine a giant pair of scissors and cut all the black cords. Or better yet, picture yourself pulling those cords out by their very roots. Some roots go deep. Pull hard and do it with intention

http://www.energy-healing-info.com/cutting-energy-cords.html

selenite - has a very fine vibration and brings clarity of mind,opening the crown chakra and accessing angelic consciousness. Pure Selenite is a link to the lightbody helping to anchor in the earth vibrations. Excellent for meditation and spiritual work, enhances telepathy." http://www.psychicvision.co.uk/meditation.htm

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