Lucky for us, there is a safer way to develop the type of sight necessary for the ability to see auras. 3D pictures are a great way to practice. This was a method I used successfully to hone my own skills in auric viewing, and has been completely safe for my eyes.

3D pictures appear to be static colors and spots on a paper when you first look at them. However, there is a picture embedded in that "chaotic static" that will become suddenly visible if you tune your eyesight just the right way. The trick is to work with your depth perception. If you are three feet away from the picture, your focus must be somewhere between 6 inches to one foot in front of the actual paper that the picture is on. You are attempting to focus on what is in the air around the physical object when you are viewing an aura, so you must train your eyes to look there. This is a most important aspect of developing auric sight. The aura is literally in the air between you and the object you are looking at. Where that spot in the middle between you is what you must discover for yourself. If you are to see different layers of the aura, you must be able to look at different places in the "thin air."

3D pictures are a great way to develop that kind of depth perception shift. You have been accustomed all your life to allowing yourself to focus on the very longitude and latitude in reality that the object fills, your depth perception going immediately to the right adjustment in order to see that object clearly. Now you are going to untrain yourself so that you can see what you have never been taught to do, to look right into the air and see what is there.

3D books are in existence, with picture after picture after picture where you can test your abilities. Once you see your first 3D image, you will realize that you can see them all. It is the same with the first time you see an aura. Once you see one, you will see them more easily after that, for your mind has learned the "trick" for seeing them. One of my favorite series of these kinds of books is the Magic Eye I, II and III. They are large pictures to test your abilities on.

It took me quite a while to see my first 3D image, and it was very frustrating indeed. I was starting to wonder if someone was playing an elaborate trick on me and that perhaps I was on candid camera and soon I would find out that everyone was laughing because no such thing as a 3D picture existed that I could see on a piece of paper. However, sure enough, when I did see my first 3D picture, I was elated with joy and quite surprised at how suddenly it jumped into my focus. It literally appeared about one foot out from the poster I was staring at. Once I saw one 3D picture, I could see them all from then on with ease and effortless, for I had learned the visual focus necessary to see them.

The picture was always there, but I simply could not see it because my vision had not been trained to see it. Never had the phrase, "We have eyes to see, but we do not see," been truer. Auras are the same way. They have always been there, we just have to train our vision to perceive them. I wonder how much more we can see, if only we knew how to train our vision. That is the subject for another discussion, however.

The trick to seeing a 3D image in a picture on a paper is to focus the vision in front of the medium the picture exists on, but how does one do that? It is hard enough to imagine how to focus the vision in thin air, let alone do it. Here's the trick: Hold a finger or a thumb in front of the picture about 6 inches to a foot away. Experiment, for each picture may be an inch or so different from another. If you are looking at a small picture close up, you might want to hold your finger or thumb only 3 inches away. Focus on your finger so that you can see the lines on your skin, all the details in full focus. While maintaining this focus, look at the picture at the same time. Do not return your focus to the piece of paper the picture is on. The "static" remains blurry. You are looking at the air in front of the picture. Try moving your finger out of your view, but remain focused at the same depth.

At first your vision will want to return to focus on the piece of paper and the "static" will come back into focus. It is a habit your vision has learned to do. Be patient as you retrain yourself to look at places where there is no object. Your vision has been habitually programmed to only focus on objects and adjust that focus until the object being looked at comes into full detail. Depth perception is actually a precision mechanism, and learning how to adjust your focus is something you started learning from the day you were born. Without it, human sight would be impossible. Now you are trying to override that mechanism that you have been subject to for a lifetime.

Keep refocusing on your thumb or finger and seeing the picture at the same time, looking at the air in front of it, and sooner or later you will see the 3D image that will suddenly emerge into your focus. Practice makes perfect. Use what you learn through viewing 3D pictures and apply it to your aura viewing practices. Let the physical image of your subject dissolve into a blur, and focus on the air about two feet in front of the person, or a little to the left or right. Then see what happens.

I wish I could include in this course the myriad of 3D images that are available, but for copyright reasons I cannot. What I did include for you, however, is a picture that a friend of mine did for me on a computer program that generates 3D images. My name "Christine" is embedded in the picture, and you will see it if you follow my method of focusing on the finger while looking for the 3D image at the same time. Use your peripheral vision in a way you never realized you could. If you are not able to see the image in this picture, try some others. This one is a bit difficult to see for a beginner.