Expanding Spirit: Navigating Change Through Your Energy Bodies

LIGHTGUIDED
Jun 27
6 min read

Spirit is always expanding—and we are part of that ongoing unfoldment.

Lately, many of us are feeling the growing pains of transformation. You might be sensing a pull into new realms of awareness, growth, and energetic change. Maybe life feels like it’s speeding up. Maybe you’re riding emotional waves, losing interest in habits or identities that no longer feel like you. Hell, you might not even recognize who “you” are anymore.

Change has become the new normal. Uncertainty, sudden shifts, and even deep loss are showing up in both the outer world and our inner landscapes. These aren't just personal disruptions—they’re reflections of a larger cosmic shift. And while the intensity can be overwhelming or disorienting, it’s also a doorway: an invitation to step into deeper spiritual alignment.

Doorway to Light

We see the shifts around us—but we don’t have to be at the effect of them. We have the power to move through these changes with greater awareness, strength, and clarity.

Higher consciousness is inviting us to step through the doorway into more light. But how do we cross that threshold without losing our grounding?

For me, energy work has been an invaluable tool. It’s helped me listen more deeply to my spirit, find peace in uncertainty, and move through rapid change with more ease and purpose.

There was a time when energy work felt “other”—fringe, strange, or intangible. But we’re waking up to what’s always been true: everything is energy. We’re learning to work with this spiritual technology to evolve more consciously.

Our energy bodies are more than metaphysical concepts—they’re functional systems that shape how we experience the world. They respond to the inner and outer shifts, holding information about where we’re blocked, ready to heal, or primed to grow.

Your Energy Bodies: A Map for Expansion

The Aura: Your Energetic Field

The aura is the electromagnetic field that surrounds and permeates your physical body. It’s not just a protective shell—it’s a dynamic, multi-dimensional system that reflects your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual states. Each layer vibrates at a different frequency and serves a unique function, offering insight into your soul’s experience and evolution.

When viewed clairvoyantly, the aura reveals where your energy is flowing and where it’s stuck. Distortions—like cords, dullness, tears, or static—can signal emotional wounds, energy drains, or spiritual misalignment.

Each of the seven layers offers specific insights:

Physical Layer – Closest to the body; reflects physical health, vitality, and bodily awareness.
Emotional Layer – emotional expression, sensitivity, and unresolved feelings.
Life-Force Layer – stamina, willpower, and the energetic charge driving your actions.
Affinity Layer – Where body and spirit meet; represents connection, love, belonging, and our capacity to be in relationship with self and others.
Creative Layer – expression, communication, and your resonance in the world.
Clairvoyant Layer – perception, intuition, and how you see and interpret reality.
Divine Layer – represents your connection to your higher self, soul agreements, and spiritual alignment.

Working consciously with the aura helps you move from energetic reactivity into clarity and coherence. Through grounding, clearing, and energetic recalibration, you can heal distortions and come back into alignment with your truest self.

The aura doesn’t just reflect your state—it also shapes your experience. As you tend to this field, you create the conditions for deeper clarity, freedom, and spiritual expansion.

The Chakras: Inner Power Centers

While the aura surrounds and reflects our energy field, the chakras regulate the flow of energy through the body. These seven spinning energy centers run along the spine and correspond to key aspects of your physical, emotional, and spiritual experience. They are like tuning forks—each one vibrating at a specific frequency, influencing how we perceive, respond, and engage with life.

Unlike the aura, which reveals the state of our energetic atmosphere, chakras serve as engines and gateways. They process life force, receive and emit energy, and impact everything from bodily functions to spiritual insight. Here’s a brief look at each chakra and what it governs:

Root Chakra (Base of the spine) – Foundation, survival, safety, and connection to the Earth. When balanced, we feel grounded and secure.
Sacral Chakra (Below the navel) – Creativity, sensuality, emotional flow, and pleasure. Alignment here allows for joyful creation and intimacy.
Solar Plexus Chakra (Upper abdomen) – Willpower, personal identity, confidence, and boundaries. A balanced solar plexus supports self-trust and action.
Heart Chakra (Center of the chest) – Love, compassion, forgiveness, and emotional balance. This is the bridge between the physical and spiritual self.
Throat Chakra (Throat) – Communication, truth-telling, and authentic expression. When flowing, we speak with clarity and integrity.
Third Eye Chakra (Between the brows) – Intuition, perception, and inner vision. This is the seat of insight and energetic seeing.
Crown Chakra (Top of the head) – Connection to the divine, spiritual wisdom, and higher consciousness. When open, we feel a sense of unity and peace.

When chakras are out of balance—blocked, overactive, or under active—we might feel stuck, emotionally reactive, disconnected, or physically unwell. These imbalances often reflect spiritual lessons or unmet needs.

Energy work brings the chakras back into harmony through visualization, breath, movement, intention, and sound. When aligned, the chakras create a clear channel through which energy flows, helping us access greater intuition, vitality, and purpose.

The Sefirot: Divine Architecture of the Soul

While the chakras guide the flow of energy through the body and the aura reflects our energetic state, the Sefirot offer a higher-dimensional blueprint—one that reveals the structure of our soul’s evolution and the attributes of the Divine reflected within us.

Rooted in Kabbalistic wisdom, the Ten Sefirot represent emanations of divine energy. They are not physical locations, but spiritual forces—qualities of the Creator expressed in both the cosmos and the human experience.

Each Sefirah offers a gateway to understanding how we grow, integrate, and embody our soul's potential.

Here are the Ten Sefirot and their core meanings:

Keter (Crown) – Divine will, unity, and the spark of pure consciousness. It connects us to the infinite and aligns us with divine intention.
Chochmah (Wisdom) – The flash of insight and intuitive knowing. It represents expansive, creative thought from the higher mind.
Binah (Understanding) – Deep reflection, discernment, and the ability to form meaning. Binah is the womb of creation, turning insight into structure.
Chesed (Lovingkindness) – Unconditional love, grace, and generosity. It teaches us to open the heart and give freely.
Gevurah (Discipline/Strength) – Boundaries, justice, and discernment. Gevurah brings focus, containment, and the power to say no.
Tiferet (Beauty) – Harmony, compassion, and integration. It’s the heart of the tree, balancing love and strength.
Netzach (Endurance) – Determination, ambition, and the perseverance to keep moving forward in alignment with our purpose.
Hod (Humility/Splendor) – Reverence, surrender, and the clarity to step back and listen. Hod supports right action through inner alignment.
Yesod (Foundation) – The bridge between the spiritual and material realms. It governs connection, communication, and embodiment.
Malkhut (Kingdom) – Manifestation and presence. Malkhut is the vessel through which all divine energy flows into the physical world.

Living the Sefirot: A Map for Expansion

The Sefirot mirror our personal evolution. They help us recognize the qualities we are being asked to develop—and how to hold paradoxes like compassion and boundaries, surrender and action.

You don’t need to study the Tree of Life to feel the Sefirot at work. They show up in the tension between overgiving and self-protection, between seeking truth and needing grace. They speak to how we create, lead, relate, and heal.

Meditating on the Sefirot or exploring their qualities through energy work, journaling, or spiritual practice, we gain access to:

Deeper self-awareness
Clarity about our soul path
A greater sense of harmony between divine will and human experience

The Sefirot are more than a mystical diagram—they are a living system, one that meets us exactly where we are and invites us into who we’re becoming.

In These Times: Listening to Our Spirit

Right now, many of us are being pulled—compelled, even shaken awake. Loss, upheaval, and profound change are rippling through both our inner world and the collective field. Yet within that intensity lies a sacred opportunity: the invitation to expand, evolve, and return to who we truly are.

Your spirit remains the constant—the calm within the storm, the unchanging light beneath the noise. When you begin to listen to that inner frequency and tend to the systems that carry and reflect your energy, you shift from fear to alignment, from disorientation to clarity, from merely coping to consciously expanding.

Energy work is a spiritual technology. It’s both mystical and deeply practical. It helps us ground when the world feels chaotic, clear what no longer serves, and reconnect with the truth of who we are. It opens space in the body, brings insight to the mind, and restores peace to the heart.

The aura layers reveal where energy is flowing or blocked across all levels of our being.
The chakras govern how energy moves through us—shaping how we feel, express, and act.
The Sefirot offer divine architecture—a higher template guiding our soul’s growth and integration.

Together, these systems form the multidimensional structure of your energy body. Working with them allows you to heal, transform, and rise into your next level of spiritual expansion—not by bypassing life’s intensity, but by meeting it with more grace, presence, and power.

You already carry the wisdom. The invitation now is to align with it—and walk forward with both your humanity and your divinity fully engaged.