How To Give Yourself Centered Radiant Energy

Discover a simple step-by-step method — Aura Flexing — for inner strength and clarity

What You’ll Gain

Aura flexing strengthens your energy body, giving you resilience and mental clarity. This practice helps you release stress, other people’s emotional influences, and discover your own natural presence in any situation. It helps you stay calm, know what’s true for you, and access your natural vitality.

Through this practice, you’ll reduce stress and anxiety, feel more stable and empowered, and discover the inner peace and joy that already live within you.

Understanding Your Energy Field

Your aura is your energy field—the subtle life force that fills your body and extends beyond it. Think of it like the warmth radiating from a candle flame: you can’t see the heat itself, but you can feel it.

You don’t need special abilities to sense this. Your body already knows how.

Try This Now:

  1. Sit comfortably and close your eyes
  2. Place your attention inside your chest, near your heart
  3. Simply notice what you feel there—warmth, tingling, pressure, spaciousness, or perhaps just a quiet presence
  4. Don’t analyze or judge what you notice. Just observe

This gentle awareness is how you begin sensing your own energy.

Expanding Your Awareness

Now let’s include the space around your body:

  1. Keep noticing the sensations in your chest
  2. Gently expand your attention to include the air just around your skin—perhaps six inches out from your body
  3. You might imagine this, pretend, or simply wonder what’s there. All these approaches work

Notice: Does the space around you feel thick or thin? Cool or warm? Still or moving? Heavy or light?

Whatever you notice is valid. You’re simply becoming aware of what was always there.

Sensing Your Boundaries

Your energy field has natural boundaries—like invisible layers surrounding you at different distances. Think of it like ripples spreading from a stone dropped in water. Each ripple is a boundary.

Feel Your Boundaries:

  1. Start with your attention at your skin
  2. Gently extend your awareness outward, like slowly opening your arms wider
  3. Notice where you sense a subtle shift—perhaps two feet out, or maybe ten feet
  4. That shift is one of your boundaries

Don’t worry about precision. Your body’s natural sense is accurate enough. Relax and notice what you perceive.

Your First Aura Flex

Now you’re ready to practice flexing—intentionally expanding and contracting your energy field. This is like exercising a muscle you didn’t know you had.

Expanding:

  1. From wherever your boundary feels natural right now, gently intend it to move outward
  2. Imagine your personal space growing several feet larger in all directions
  3. Move slowly—take 30 seconds or more
  4. Don’t force anything. Just intend it and allow it to happen

Notice the Changes:

As your field expands, pay attention:

  • In your body: Do you feel lighter? More spacious? Calmer? Does your breathing change?
  • In your mind: Do your thoughts slow down? Speed up? Become quieter?
  • In the room: Does the space around you feel different? Do colors seem brighter or softer?
  • In your emotions: Do you feel more peaceful? More connected? More free?

Even subtle shifts matter. You’re learning a new language—the language your body speaks.

Contracting Back:

  1. Now gently draw your boundary back to where it started
  2. Imagine it like pulling a blanket closer around you
  3. Notice how this feels different from the expansion

The Complete Aura Flexing Practice

This combination of expansion and contraction is what strengthens and clears your energy field. Think of it like the ocean tide—the going out and coming in both serve important purposes.

The Full Sequence:

  1. Expand Large
  • Slowly flex your boundary as wide as the room, or even beyond
  • Take a full minute if you need it
  • Notice: Do you feel more open? More vulnerable? More expansive? More connected to everything around you?
  1. Contract Small
  • Gently draw your boundary in very close to your body—within inches of your skin
  • Move slowly and stay aware
  • Notice: Do you feel more concentrated? More protected? Does energy feel like it’s buzzing near your skin? Do you feel more solid or defined?

This contraction strengthens your “aura muscles”—your ability to hold your own energy distinct and clear.

  1. Expand Again
  • Extend your boundary outward to whatever size feels good to you
  • Notice your thoughts, feelings, and body sensations
  1. Contract Tight
  • Bring the boundary very close to your skin again
  • You might feel a tingling or buzzing sensation—this is your life force becoming more concentrated
  • Work gently. Never force
  1. Let It Rest
  • Release all effort
  • Let your energy field settle to whatever size and quality feels natural
  • Notice how you feel now compared to when you started

This dynamic practice—like breathing in and out—releases stuck energies and clears emotional debris that doesn’t belong to you.

When Your Body Speaks: Reading the Signs

As you practice, your body gives you feedback through sensations:

  • Tingling or buzzing = energy becoming more active or concentrated
  • Warmth = opening and releasing
  • Coolness = settling and integrating
  • Heaviness = releasing old patterns
  • Lightness = freedom and clarity
  • Pressure or fullness = gathering your energy back to yourself
  • Spaciousness = expansion and connection

None of these are good or bad—they’re simply information about what’s happening in your energy field.

Real-Life Applications

At Work (Small Office or Cubicle): When you feel cramped, stressed, or lost in endless tasks:

  1. Take 60 seconds for a quick flex
  2. Expand beyond the walls, then contract back close
  3. Notice how this helps you remember who you are beyond your job title
  4. You’ll find more creative solutions and feel less trapped

At Home (Feeling Tired or Stuck): When home feels draining rather than restful:

  1. Sit quietly and sense your field
  2. Do three slow expansion-contraction cycles
  3. Let yourself remember your potential and inner light
  4. Watch how this shifts the energy in your space

At School (Overwhelmed by Others): When you feel everyone’s stress and can’t concentrate:

  1. Before class or during a break, contract your field close
  2. Then expand it wide
  3. Repeat three times
  4. Notice how you can now focus while staying calm

In Relationships (Lost in Arguments): When you forget yourself in conflicts:

  1. Step away for a moment
  2. Practice aura flexing to release your partner’s energy from your space—and yours from theirs
  3. This paradoxically brings you closer because you become two distinct people choosing to connect, rather than an entangled blur
  4. Return with more compassion and clarity

Before Performances (Speeches, Auditions, Presentations): When you must show up as your best self:

  1. Fifteen minutes before, flex your field several times
  2. Release others’ expectations and your own anxiety
  3. Let your authentic self emerge
  4. Notice how your performance becomes more natural and powerful

Creative Projects (Stuck or Forcing): When you’re trying too hard and losing the creative flow:

  1. Stop and flex your energy field
  2. Expand wide to reconnect with inspiration
  3. Contract to concentrate that inspiration
  4. Let the creative ideas come naturally

Working with Specific Challenges

When you have a problem, worry, concern, or feel stuck:

The Stuck-Release Process:

  1. Acknowledge: “I feel stuck with [specific issue]”
  2. Contract: Bring your field very close and notice where tension lives in your body
  3. Expand: Slowly grow your field wide while asking your inner wisdom, “What do I need to know?”
  4. Listen: Notice what thoughts, feelings, or insights emerge
  5. Repeat: Do this three times, getting quieter and more receptive each time

This practice helps you access deeper truth within yourself. New wisdom emerges. Sometimes people appear to help you. Solutions become clear. Life flows more smoothly.

The Science of Why This Works

When you consciously work with your energy field, you’re actually:

  • Regulating your nervous system (moving between calm and alert states)
  • Clearing mental clutter (releasing repetitive thought patterns)
  • Establishing healthy boundaries (distinguishing your feelings from others’)
  • Accessing your intuition (connecting to deeper knowing)
  • Centering yourself (finding your natural balance point)

You’re training yourself to shift from a tight, worried, contracted state into balance and grace.

Beginning Your Practice

Start small. Practice once a day for just two minutes:

  • Morning: Flex your field before starting your day
  • Midday: Quick flex when stress builds
  • Evening: Release the day’s accumulated energies

As you practice, you’ll discover your own natural rhythm and style. Trust what you notice in your own body, heart, and intuitive mind. This is how you come to know your innermost nature in the present moment.

Take a breath now. Notice your energy field around you—more flexible, more radiant than when you started reading. Feel yourself welcome in this sacred moment, right here, right now.

Your inner light has always been there, waiting for you to remember.

Joel Bruce Wallach

9 Responses to How To Give Yourself Centered Radiant Energy

  1. Jessica ann Proietti says:

    This was a really great read I haven’t read something exactly this way in writing before this was great. xx.

  2. Aiva says:

    Hello Joel,
    Could you give me comment, please.
    The first time I try to expand my aura to room size, I had pressure on neck, very unpleasant feeling that I wanted to explode. Could this happen for physical reasons as light cold or some other things… (we were around 15 persons in a room doing the same practice).
    The second time this practice was perfect I did at home.
    Thank you

    • Aiva,

      Let’s notice that two factors may explain your experience.

      15 people were doing the same practice, and this means that the combined energy in the room would have been rather powerful. You may have been feeling the combined energy, and it may have felt like excess pressure.

      The second factor is that you were experiencing the process for the first time, and so the aura expansion allowed your body to let energy blocks come to the surface, so that they could be released.

      When you did the practice at home, your body was more familiar with the practice, so the results were less dramatic. Also, you were sensing only your own energy, and not the collective group energy.

      Please remember that after you have expanded the aura, you bring the aura back to a comfortable size.

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  4. Nicholas says:

    Hey Joel,
    First, thank you so much for this practice! I have been doing it the last week or so now, and I really enjoy it so far.
    Could you tell me more about the aura, or point me to something I could read about it? I’m very interested in learning more what it is, how it affects your life, etc. I can feel my energy well, and easily, thanks to a regular qi gong and yoga practice, a few years of meditation, and a very intense weekend of entheogens earlier this summer, that I feel definitely opened me up quite a bit.

    The first couple times I did the practice, it was quite difficult at first to visualize my aura expanding out from my back, while it was comparatively quite easy to expand it forward from the front of my body…Is this normal? Would a difficulty in moving one’s aura be indicative of an energy block, or a just a generally tight energy body that needs to be loosened up?
    When doing the practice, should I try to expand my aura in the vertical dimension as well? I noticed the first few times I did the practice that I was only expanding outward along the horizontal axis.

    Are there specific benefits to having/visualizing one’s aura as contracted very tight or expanded out? I.e. are there specific situations where it would be better to have my aura contracted? Like while travelling for example? And then expand it for a good, open conversation or before meditation or something?
    Thanks again for the article, and in general for your amazing work on this website!

    • Nicholas,
      When doing the practice, should I try to expand my aura in the vertical dimension as well? I noticed the first few times I did the practice that I was only expanding outward along the horizontal axis.
      Just imagine your aura as an egg. Imagine all dimensions of the egg expanding in all dimensions: up, down, front, back, and sides.

      Are there specific benefits to having/visualizing one’s aura as contracted very tight or expanded out? I.e. are there specific situations where it would be better to have my aura contracted? Like while travelling for example? And then expand it for a good, open conversation or before meditation or something?
      You never want it too tight or too open. You want just enough healthy tension for focus, and just enough openness for flexibility. So don’t be extreme either way.
      However, as you suggest, you’ll intuitively sense when you want it somewhat more tight, or somewhat more open.

      There is plenty of aura information on the internet. Basically, your aura is the anatomy of your soul, your emotions, and your mind.

  5. Marie says:

    Dear Joel, I return to your wisdom time and time again, knowing that I can trust its source. You have a wonderful way of sharing your healing gifts, thank you so much for these. I value what you have to say, and appreciate the depth and breadth of your sharing. Blessings and love, Marie

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