We are so much more than our physical bodies but we often fail to recognize this fact because these bodies are the ones we most clearly perceive with our five external senses. Our body that grounds us into the physical world and dominates our perceptions when we are alive. It is the slowest vibrational body with the most solid definition. It is the most limited body and yet we must possess a physical body in order to develop spiritually and ultimately realize enlightenment.
We are however a combination of four different bodies. One is physical and three are energetic. The latter three are identified as the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. These four bodies are individual sheaths composed of four distinct vibrations of matter that surround each life stream, providing the vehicles for the personal entity’s journey through time and space. The mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are located only in subtle matter – that is matter that has a vibratory frequency that lies beyond our physical sensory perceptions. They are composed of fields of energy moving around and through our physical bodies. The sum of these various energetic layers is also known collectively as our aura.
We are however a combination of four different bodies.
Our mental body is the energy field in which we store all of our core beliefs about ourselves, about others and the universe. It assists us to process information, solve problems and generate higher abstract thought. This is where mundane thoughts, analytical reason, logic and everyday memories are produced. Whereas positive feelings like love tend to make ourselves accept and connect with other things and people, the mind always keeps us separate.
This happens because it compares and contrasts the current situation with memories from previous experiences, trying to find a pattern or a label with which to classify the situation. And so the thoughts of our lower mind always lie in the past and always create separation. When we clear our negative thoughts and limiting understandings we shift our external perceptions, allowing for greater clarity and love to infuse our being. And then when the mental body is fully cleared, we can link to our heart centre (or chakra) and begin to follow our higher self rather than our ego.
Our emotional body is the centre of our feelings and emotions - love and hate, attraction and repulsion. With the mind it gives us desire and imagination. It is the location for sensual enjoyment and aesthetic appreciation. When we sleep we interpret astral perceptions received by our astral senses as dreams. The emotional body holds all the memories and experiences we have ever encountered. We often refer to its sum total as our ‘emotional baggage.’ In Jungian typology the emotional body corresponds to our feeling faculty. In popular speech the emotional body is referred to as the ‘heart’ and the mental body as the ‘head.’ These labels correspond to the location of the different energy centres predominant in each of these two bodies.
Our spiritual body is our soul link to the universe. When this body is purified from limiting beliefs and perceptions we can more fully connect to the Divine Will and to unity consciousness. This body organizes and vitalizes the physical body and acts as a bridge between the physical, mental and emotional energies, by way of the chakra centres and the median connections. This is the body that acupuncture, healing, homoeopathy, yoga and meditation directly acts upon. Often identified as our body double the spiritual body holds the blueprint for our ascended or glorified body – the one we will inhabit when we have evolved into full consciousness or enlightenment.
Often our three non-physical bodies are described by clairvoyants as being of a blueish or violet colour, consisting of a matrix or network of lines of energetic force. The emotional body is known to be composed of ever-changing swirls of colour. Because of the vibratory nature of light from which all creation is expressed, certain colours represent the predominant emotional characteristics of each individual person. An angry or aggressive person will have a great deal of dirty red in their aura, an intellectual person will project a large quantity of yellow, a loving emotional person will manifest green and pink and a spiritual person will display blue or violet.
