Auras: Why can't you see them?

When learning to see the subtle fields it is handy to know that you 'see'  everything already and that your goal is not so much learning to `see', as it is bringing what you see into  conscious awareness. From an early age your brain is determining the best way for you to move around the planet safely, as you are learning to walk awareness of objects and potential dangers outweighs the importance of seeing colours, even then you carry a sense of that colour regardless held as a back of the mind information source.

Our awareness of it becomes emotive rather than visual and we find ourselves responding with likes and dislikes of others, even without knowing why. You may or may not have noticed that you even lose a sense of the separate visual aspects of your home environment over time, and sometimes it can take a while to notice something different or you may find that you notice something different, but can't quite put your finger on what it is. Your brain really doesn't acknowledge everything it sees, it has a job to do, and depending on how absorbing that task is, in any given moment we can miss being aware of a variety of information, sometimes important information.

Our expectation will override what we see in the moment, many of us have experienced not seeing a car at an intersection even though we knew we looked, there is also that bane of the disorganized persons life, the whereabouts of the keys, wallet and other important stuff. You can run your eyes right over the object and still miss it, but how can that be? Your eyes must have seen them, Think of your eyes as a lens of a camera, when you look through the view finder it is hard to make out details, so you focus on the main area of interest, it is only after you process the film that it becomes clear how much detail the camera picked up, if you let your eyes wander over the picture you are likely to see many things you did not notice at the scene. Your lens or your eyes are simply light absorbers, they see everything, it gets projected back into your visual cortex, which determines what to acknowledge and what to ignore based on the task given to it.

When you are looking for those keys, there is usually an area of probability, somewhere you expect them to be, and you will keep returning to that spot, even though you already know the keys are not there. why? Part of you knows that you have overlooked (quite literally) the keys. Why your brain did not acknowledge seeing them is so simple it is nearly embarrassing, it was given a job to do, and it was doing it, the task it was undertaking was searching... add to that an expectation of where your keys should be and we end up with an unexpected conundrum. The brain completely ignores the visual evidence. This is a well documented phenomena in the area of vehicular accidents although even there it is not allowed for in the way it should be. the secret is to be open to whatever you might see, rather than only processing what you expect to see, or what you consider important in the moment. Try not to give your brain the task of seeking an aura but rather, by learning how to see aura, you are triggering your brain to make conscious the information that previously you were not particularly interested in.

It is not just visually that our brain selectively acknowledges, We don't read properly moving into a mode of general word recognition, which is why you can read upside down, or back to front, and even words that have missed the 'unimportant bits'. Smell is another area where potential danger requires us to tune out of certain smells that are ongoing and don't present any danger, like perfumes and household smells, you need your olfactory sensing to be all set to smell out danger and not perfumes or the daily aromas in your home.This is why a person who wears perfume often reapplies it regularly, they can no longer smell it although it may leave others gagging for air in a confined space.