What Color Is Your Aura?

Dr. Barbara Bowers was a lady who had an amazing gift of discerning the slightest difference between hues and colors. She also could see auras. In her book "What Color Is Your Aura?", she catalogues humanity into that correlates with their aura color: 14 distinct personality patterns: red, orange, magenta, yellow, physical tan, mental tan, green, nurturing tan, loving tan, blue, violet, lavender, crystal and indigo. Her book also contains an in-depth questionnaire to determine your predominant personality type and aura. Bowers explains each of the 14 colors and how each approaches physical reality, their mental attitudes, emotional makeup, social style, compatibility with the other 13 colors, personal power and leadership style, financial choices, career options, and spirituality. It's an informative manual on 14 distinct personality patterns that can aid in career searches, understanding mate compatibility, relationships, finding life purpose, and so on. In many ways, this book was a precursor to the ANSIR® personality system. (Bowers and Seich were planning on collaborating before Bowers' untimely death.) What Color Is Your Aura? is a fascinating trip into auras, energy, and personality patternsand--aiding you in seeing yourself and others with fresh, and more compassionate, eyes.

Dr. Bowers has truly been able to capture the essence of personalities in her book. After being able to identify my personality/aura type (Crystal), I felt a sense of relief from being able to understand the differences I've always felt in relation to other people. In many ways, the author's insights have brought me some serenity...I can accept that I have a totally different experience in life than other aura-types, and become the individual that I'm wired to be. It was quite fascinating and helpful to read about all the other aura-types, and it helps me to relate to them in some ways. Thank you, Dr. Bowers!

This book is a great place to start in the study of auras - what better way to become better adept in recognising colours than by recognising yourself and your own colour along with the strengths and weaknesses.The Personality Test has helped me understand family and friends around me a lot more easily and come to terms with things I often took to heart which were in fact, natural intrinsic parts of that person.It was with a sense of justification that I realised that I wasn't alone in who I was - that how I respond and react to situations and do things isn't wrong, it's who I am. I am now better equipped to handle my life and work on my strengths and try to minimise my weaknesses.One comment against the author is that it is often written very "high brow". That is, you know it's written by someone who has studied for a long period of time as the language is a little difficult to understand at times but on the whole you get the gist of what's going on so it doesn't cause that much of a problem.

That's pretty much what all my friends and I screamed when we read our respective sections on our personalities. This book is hauntingly accurate, sometimes to the point it's uncomfortable. It's great now that someone has been able to verbalize a lot of my personality traits (L.tan). It's great for a rainy day.

Within the guise of New Age awareness, Bower's book is more of a personality test based largely on the aura colors she has always seen. During my first year of college, a close friend gave the aura test to me and helped me discover more about myself than any other source. Never before has a book, let alone a personality test, transcribed so much of my inner self. She is the first to allow for the "jack-of-all-trades" personality that normal personality test's just shove off as diverse. She also notices a new color, Indigo, that has a special role in this modern world. By exploring spiritual, emotional, financial, and other areas of each color's life, Bowers has caught the essence of human personality. Even though we are all have one main color, everyone should read all the color's descriptions, for they describe anyone you will encounter and will help you motivate/ cope with other people. Other friends that have read her book have cried because they finally felt understood. Personally, I have never felt so centered and finally know how to articulate my strengths, my weaknesses, and above all, my gifts.