You have an energy field surrounding your body. It’s called your aura, and psychics, mystics, and healers have been reading auras for centuries — because your aura can reveal what you’ve been through, what you’re going through right now, and what’s coming up for you.
I want you to really let that land. The colors that radiate from your energy field aren’t just beautiful to look at. They’re a direct line of communication from your soul. And the best part? You don’t have to be a psychic medium to access them.
In this episode of Dear Guides, I sat down with psychic medium Sean Collyns to get a full education on aura colors meanings and how to start seeing, reading, and working with your own aura. Sean is an Australian medium with a gift for teaching these tools in a way that feels accessible, fun, and deeply practical.
This is one of those episodes I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I came in as a real student, and I left with a completely new way of relating to my own energy. I know you’re going to feel the same.
What Is an Aura?
When I asked Sean to start at the very beginning, he explained it beautifully.
An aura is the energy field around a person. It’s expressed through what you’re feeling and what is literally emanating from your being. Every psychic or intuitive is connecting into someone’s aura whether they realize it or not — but when we understand the colors, we can interpret what the aura is actually communicating.
“The aura is just the field of energy around the person that is expressed through what they’re feeling and what is emitting from their being.” — Sean Collyns
Sean also made a distinction I found really helpful. The energy field and the aura aren’t exactly the same thing. Think of the energy field as the glass, and the aura as the water inside it. The energy field is the container. The aura is the living, shifting expression of energy within it.
And here’s something beautiful: auras aren’t just for people. Animals have them. Trees have them. Anything that’s living has an aura. If you have pets, you can practice reading their energy. You can even look at a tree and try to sense what it’s emanating.
What Do Aura Colors Mean? A Guide to Each Color
This is where it gets really interesting. Each aura color corresponds to one of the chakras, so if you have any familiarity with the chakra system, you already have a head start on interpreting what you see.
Here’s a breakdown of what each color communicates:
Purple and Indigo: Spiritual Connection and Psychic Ability
Purple in someone’s aura signals spiritual energy — a deep connection to spirit, to God, to the Universe. It indicates someone who is highly spiritually attuned in that moment.
Deep indigo blue is the color of the third eye chakra. It’s associated with psychic abilities, heightened awareness, and intellectual information being processed at a higher level.
Blue: Communication and Calm
Lighter blue is throat chakra energy. It signals communication — the desire or ability to express clearly.
Sean mentioned that if you see light blue clouded with gray, that person may be feeling blocked in what they want to say. It’s subtle, but once you know how to read it, you’ll start to notice it everywhere.
Pink and Green: The Heart Chakra
Pink and green are the colors of the heart chakra. When these colors are present, a person is in a place of love and expansion. They’re open-hearted, generous, and radiating warmth.
During our conversation, Sean saw a lot of pink and green around me — and honestly? It felt accurate.
Yellow and Orange: Confidence, Creativity, and Desire
Yellow connects to the solar plexus — that sense of self, of “I am.” It’s where our confidence and personal power live.
Orange is the sacral chakra: creativity, desire, and a deep sense of satisfaction in life. When orange is prominent, that person is in their creative flow.
Red: Foundation and Survival
Red is the root chakra. It’s all about foundational energy — home, money, work, security.
Sean told me that red is the most common color he sees when doing aura readings. And it makes complete sense. Most of us are operating from that foundational level most of the time. We’re thinking about our job, our family, our bills. Red doesn’t mean something is wrong. It just means someone is in their human experience, doing the work of being alive.
How to Read Your Own Aura
This is where the real magic happens — and Sean made it incredibly accessible. He calls the foundational practice “going into the power.”
Step 1: Go Into the Power
Close your eyes and bring your awareness down into the center of your chest. Feel into your heart space.
Visualize a pure white light there. As you hold your attention on it, feel it growing — expanding outward past your shoulders, over your head, filling the space around you.
Within that expanded awareness, notice if a particular color or feeling of a color comes forward. Don’t force it. Don’t analyze it. Just trust the first impression.
Then ask yourself: What does this color tell me about my energy today? Is this something I want more of, or something I’m ready to release?
If you want more of it, imagine amplifying it — turning it up like a dial. If you’re ready to let it go, visualize it being absorbed by that white light, transmuted, released.
Sean reminded us: “You don’t need to know what it was or what it meant. Just see it being released.”
Step 2: Activate Your Third Eye Vision
This is the technique for actually seeing the aura visually — and it’s more accessible than you might think.Practice this in front of a mirror.
Close your eyes and notice the subtle upward-and-backward shift of your awareness — about an inch up and in from where your eyes were focused. That shift is your brain moving from primary vision to your third eye, your secondary source of vision.
Once you’ve located that feeling, gently open your eyes with a very soft gaze — almost like you’re slightly blurring your vision. Hold your attention in that internal space while letting your eyes rest on your reflection.
Look at your shoulder first. Look for a slight fuzziness, a heat-haze quality around the edges of your body. That’s the beginning of the aura becoming visible.
“You’ve really got to trust it. Your mind is going to go: ‘Am I just making that up?’ But if there’s any sense of — I wonder if I’m seeing something — trust it. That’s what’s going to allow it to get stronger.” — Sean Collyns
As the haze builds, use your peripheral vision to pick up on color. Don’t stare directly at it. Let it come to you.
One practical tip from Sean: dim lighting makes auras more vibrant. A salt lamp, curtains drawn, a little natural light — that kind of environment helps. You’re not trying to see in the dark. You’re removing the visual noise that makes subtle energy harder to perceive.
How to Read Someone Else’s Aura
Once you can sense your own aura, reading someone else’s becomes a natural extension. The technique is the same — soft gaze, third eye activated, beginning with the shoulder — but now you’re extending your awareness outward instead of inward.
When I tried this with Sean during our episode, I was surprised by how effortless it felt. It wasn’t dramatic or overwhelming. It started as a sense of color, almost more felt than seen, and then the color began to clarify.
I saw pink around Sean — that heart energy — and gold around his head. And then I started receiving information about his energy that I hadn’t consciously thought out. It was direct. It came from somewhere other than my analytical mind.
“It’s always subtle, and it’s always about trusting in the super subtle impressions. And as you trust them, they get stronger and stronger.” — Sean Collyns
Sean also pointed out something I found fascinating about how auras communicate: what shows up on the left side of a person’s aura tends to reflect recent energy — what they’ve been going through. What shows up on the right tends to reflect what’s coming toward them, where they’re moving next.
It’s not a rigid system. It’s a language your intuition learns to speak.
And you can practice on anyone — people on TV, photos, your pets, the trees in your garden. The more you play with it, the stronger your ability gets.
What Does It Mean When Your Aura Has Mixed Colors?
Nearly everyone’s aura contains multiple colors. There’s usually a predominant color — the one that shows up consistently and reflects your overall energetic nature — and then smaller colors that are more situational, more fluid.
Those smaller colors are telling you what’s happening for you right now. They shift as your emotions, circumstances, and energy shift. They’re the living, breathing part of the aura reading.
Sean describes interpreting these multiple colors as learning your own language. Your brain won’t show you auras the same way another person’s brain will show them. The symbols, the placement, the intensity — all of it gets filtered through the way your unique mind processes intuitive information.
Two people reading the same aura might receive the same information through different images or colors. That’s not a problem. That’s just how the psychic language works.
How to Expand, Protect, and Clear Your Aura
Your aura isn’t static. It responds to your choices, your environment, and your intention. And that means you have real agency over it.
Expanding Your Aura
When you go into a state of openness and high vibration — on stage, in meditation, in creative flow — your aura naturally expands. You start to hold others within your field. You might feel it in your hands, a sense of warmth or tingling, an instinct to open your arms.
This is a beautiful state to cultivate when you want to connect deeply, serve others, or access spiritual guidance. It’s the state of openness to your guides, to God consciousness, to angels.
Deliberately expanding your aura is something you can practice. Use Sean’s “going into the power” technique, choose the color that feels right for what you want to call in, and let it build.
Closing and Protecting Your Aura
This is just as important as expanding it — and I want to make sure we don’t skip it.
Opening up energetically requires a conscious practice of closing back down. When I get off stage, I deliberately close my energy field. I call it pulling my cloak closed. The party’s over. Time’s up.
Sean frames it as a decision: “It’s really about making the decision — that was the time and place for that. And now this is the time to bring it back.”
If you find it hard to close your aura back down, pay attention to that. Sean says it often means part of you is still curious, still wanting more. And that’s okay — but it needs a time and a place. Staying open without that boundary can lead to energetic drain and burnout.
When you’re on the subway, in traffic, in a crowded space, or in the middle of a difficult emotional time: close it down. You can always open again when it’s safe and intentional to do so.
Clearing Low-Vibrational Energy
If you’ve taken on someone else’s energy — and energetically sensitive people do this all the time — nature is your fastest reset.
Walk in the trees. Sit by water. Put your feet in the grass. Walk barefoot on the beach.
Sean put it so beautifully: trees literally take in carbon dioxide and return oxygen. They do the same with negative energy. They absorb the heaviness and transmute it. Nature knows how to clear what we’re carrying.
You can also use visualization: see the heavy energy being absorbed by white light, transmuted inside your field, and released. You don’t have to understand what it was. You just have to let it go.
A Guided Meditation to Sense Your Aura Right Now
Sean led us through a beautiful meditation during the episode (watch it here), and I want to share the essence of it here. If you can, sit in front of a mirror in a dimly lit room. If not, close your eyes and trust what comes.
1. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Let go of any expectation of what you’ll see or feel. Be completely open.
2. Feel your awareness shift. Notice how, behind closed eyes, your attention moves slightly upward and backward. That’s your third eye engaging.
3. Let a color come forward. Without forcing it, notice if any color drops into your awareness. You might see it, feel it, or just sense it. Trust the first thing you get.
4. Ask what it’s telling you. What does this color say about my energy today? Is this something I want more of, or something I’m ready to release?
5. Soften your eyes open. Look at yourself in the mirror (or extend your awareness outward) and look for the haze around your body. Let it build. Let the color develop.
6. Receive the message. Notice what’s bright and beautiful in your field. Notice what feels heavy. Let the heavy be transmuted. Let the light get stronger.
7. Close with hands on heart. Feel all of that energy drawing back toward you — concentrated, clear, and yours.
“Your soul is trying to communicate with you. Trying to open you up to your potential. Trying to bring you back to itself.” — Sean Collyns
FAQ: Aura Colors and How to Read Them
What do aura colors mean?
Each aura color corresponds to a chakra and an emotional or spiritual state. Purple means spiritual connection. Indigo blue indicates psychic ability and awareness. Light blue reflects communication. Pink and green relate to the heart and love. Yellow and orange reflect confidence, creativity, and desire. Red connects to foundation, security, and survival energy.
How do you see someone’s aura?
Close your eyes and notice the slight upward-and-back shift of your attention — that is your third eye activating. Reopen your eyes with a soft, blurred gaze while holding that focus. Look at a person’s shoulder and watch for a faint haze around their body. Trust what you see and let the color build gradually. Low lighting makes the colors appear more vibrant.
How do I read my own aura?
Sit in front of a mirror in a dimly lit room. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and let your awareness settle at the center of your chest. Notice any color that comes to mind. Then softly open your eyes and look for a haze or glow around your shoulders. Trust the first impression you receive — that is your aura communicating with you.
What does it mean when your aura has mixed colors?
Everyone has a predominant aura color that reflects their overall energy, plus smaller colors that represent what they’re currently feeling or experiencing. Colors on the left side of the aura often represent recent energy. Colors on the right side tend to indicate what is coming toward you or where you are headed.
Can you change or call in a specific aura color?
Yes. You can use your aura like a canvas. In meditation, visualize the color you want to invite in and feel it filling your energy field. As soon as you believe it is done, it is done. Many people do a quick version of this when getting dressed — tuning into how they want to feel and choosing colors accordingly.
How do you clear your aura of low-vibrational energy?
Nature is one of the most powerful aura cleansers. Walking among trees, sitting by water, or putting your feet in the grass can quickly clear and expand your energy field. You can also use visualization — imagining heavy colors being transmuted by white light within your aura.
What is the difference between an aura and an energy field?
The energy field is the container — like a glass. The aura is what fills it — like the water. The energy field is the broader space around your body. The aura is the specific emotional, spiritual, and energetic expression within that field, visible through color and feeling.
Resources Mentioned
- 🎧 Sean Collyns’ book: Your Soul Is the Source of Your Power — Get it on Amazon
- 🧘 Try my Free Cord Cutting Meditation here
About Gabby Bernstein
Gabrielle Bernstein is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and host of the Dear Guides podcast and YouTube series. She has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and named a “next-generation thought leader” by Oprah herself. Gabby teaches practical spiritual tools rooted in the principles of A Course in Miracles, the Kundalini Yoga tradition, and evidence-based research. Her work helps millions of people worldwide live with more ease, purpose, and joy. Learn more at gabbybernstein.com.