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What Color Is Your Aura?
Personality Spectrums for Understanding and GrowthBarbara Bowers, Ph.D.AcknowledgementsThis book represents an overwhelming outpouring of love and support from agreat many people who worked on it with me. I am deeply grateful. Thank you.I especially want to thank Allan Roshon, who saw the same vision I saw and thenwent to work helping to build the 'questionnaire and record all the test results. He hasbeen my mentor, my teacher, and my friend.Jim Shores and Garret Annofsky loaned me their computers and trained me to usethe word processing software so that I could get this book written.I want to express my deep love and appreciation to Doretta Winkelman formanaging the office while I took time to write this book. And thanks also to Sinthia St.Martin, who served as Doretta's assistant. They truly empowered me to take my risk.I owe a deep debt of gratitude to my close network of friends, clients, and areacoordinators who have consistently encouraged and emotionally supported me. You arenumerous. You know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Contents
The Human RainbowThe QuestionnaireRedOrangeMagentaYellowPhysical TanMental TanGreenNurturing TanLoving TanBlueVioletLavenderCrystalIndigo
THE HUMAN RAINBOW
This is a book about the human aura and the personality attributes revealed by therainbow of colored light that surrounds the body. The aura is the electromagnetic energyfield that emanates from all living things. The colors and patterns within this energy fieldconstitute a kind of blueprint of a person’s soul, a chart of the individual's potential. Frommy experience seeing the aura, I have developed a system that I call Personality
 
Spectrums to assist people in finding their pathway to a full and productive life. I havewritten this book to share with you the information I see in the aura, and to help you seehow it will allow you to take charge of your life.For the past five years I have been a consultant using the Personality Spectrumssystem to work with individuals, families, school districts, businesses, and nonprofitorganizations. The purpose of my work is to help people know themselves better,communicate more effectively, and find direction for their lives. People who know thecolor of their personality are able to make decisions, implement changes, and take risks—not out of fear or anger, but from the power that comes from knowing themselves. I work to help people act on ideas and internal impulses that they know to be congruent with thetruth about themselves.For many years I was a high school social science teacher and career counselor. Iobserved the endless struggle of students striving to achieve their own identity, notknowing how to go about getting what they truly wanted out of life. Too often I saw themtrying to live according to their parents' dreams and ideals instead of acting on their owninner sense of themselves. As a career and vocational guidance counselor, I often askedthem to consider their choices from the perspective of what would make them happy,what would give them a sense of fulfillment and well-being. It was obvious to me whichstudents were acting in harmony with the energy I saw around them (the aura) and whichstudents were acting in opposition to that energy.I have always seen the human aura. Ever since I can remember, I have been ableto see the luminescent colors around people. Because I was not familiar with thephenomenon known as the aura, I assumed that everyone saw what I saw. I was well intoadulthood before I realized my error. At first I thought this ability to see what, as a child,I called the “pretty lights" led to my intense fascination with color and my interest in art-the use of color, the interaction between color and light, and the psychology of color. Inpursuit of my artistic interests, I took classes on color theory. As a result or this study, Idiscovered that I have the gift of "color memory," the ability to remember color over bothtime and distance. (Most people are able to remember color for three seconds or threefeet, which is why one carries a skirt or a pair of slacks around a department store inorder to match accessories.) I was also given the Color-Matching Aptitude Test [lnter-Society Color Council. Color-Matching Aptitude Test (Philadelphia: Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, 1978] which determined that I can see anddifferentiate fifty thousand hues, tints, and values of colors. Most people who have notbeen trained in color can see only a very narrow range of about five thousand colors.Although I have been able to see the aura and have used what it told me aboutpeople all my life, both as a teacher and an artist, the development of the PersonalitySpectrums system took many years. In the end, the key to, or meaning of, each of thecolors in the aura spectrum came to me, all at once in a kind of epiphany. In that singlemoment of revelation-an "aha" moment-I realized how the correlative elements of theaura organize the colors into an integrated psychological pattern. At first I was unawareof the vastness and complexity of the pattern; but over time and with the help of professional therapists who worked along with me to refine Personality Spectrums, Ibegan to comprehend the structure of the system that I saw as radiating bands of coloredenergy.
 
At the same time I began to peruse the available literature on auras. But nothingseemed to help me understand what I saw and what I knew. I was looking for somethingthat would do more than describe the physical reality I was seeing. I wanted to be able tounderstand the system that seemed to be the basis for what I saw.Many of the books gave me only a vague sense of what the authors thought anaura was. Some called it a halo. Others referred to it as the ectoplasm. Still others thoughtit was theAfterimage they saw after they stared at an object too long. Some of the writersdelved into the esoteric and psychic aspects of the aura. A few authors focused on theaura as a diagnostic tool in determining physical health patterns. Others discussed thecolors in the aura from the perspective of the seven chakra centers, or the seven rays. Nobook focused on the deep psychological patterns of behavior, character, and personalitythat I saw represented by the bands of color within the aura.Most of the literature about the auras seemed to have as its basis Easternphilosophy, spirituality, and mysticism. The writings were helpful because theyconfirmed that the aura was real, that other people saw the aura, and that the colors andpatterns within the aura contained coded information.When I could not find anyone who could discuss something that resembled what Isaw, I was determined to describe my own experience, to record what I was seeing. Bytaking notes and by tape-recording my conversations with people who were willing to letme experience their auras, I gained a sense of the organizational structure of theinformation that the colors represented. Over a period of four years, I compiled theinformation into the Personality Spectrums system. I have used this system to leadseminars on team building and communication skills for businesses and organizations, toconsult on career development and employee placement, and to assist in executiverecruitment. In my consulting practice, I have found that the system is valuable indeveloping communication skills within a group and between groups, because it helpspeople understand the different communication styles of the colors. In careerdevelopment, I assist people in finding their unique niche, combining their innatecapabilities with the career or job opportunity that best fits them. I work with executiverecruiters in matching the applicant to the company with the employment fit most apt towork for the benefit of both.As a result of the way the information is organized within the pattern of the aura, Ihave been able to develop a questionnaire that identifies the core personality andcharacter traits manifested in the aura. The questionnaire is included in Chapter 2, alongwith a scoring key and an explanation of how to read the results. This questionnaire willtell you what color your aura is.The balance of the book presents profiles of the fourteen Personality Spectrumscolors that make up the system. These profiles are designed to give insight into individualstyles of behavior and interaction.The information in the Personality Spectrums profiles delineates the way peoplehandle the major aspects of their lives. Each chapter is a detailed profile of each of thecolors in the Personality Spectrums and is organized according to how that particularcolor works with the following aspects of an individual's life:•
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: environment, health, and the real world
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