About Subtle Bodies

Some people sensitive to energy experience various levels or parts to the energy field. Often these are referred to as subtle bodies.

While there is much variation, many energy healers speak of the following levels of the energy field, roughly in order (moving outward from the physical body), with each level being a more refined form of energy:

• physical body: composed of matter, the densest form of energy.
• etheric body or template: variously defined in different models, but commonly the first layer in the energy field, conceived of as being directly next to the physical body and connecting it with subsequent bodies.
• emotional body: associated with /vehicle for feelings.
• mental body: associated with/vehicle for thoughts and ideas.
• spiritual body: associated with/vehicle for soul, spirit, or higher consciousness; sometimes called the astral body.

In most systems of energy healing, these are conceived of as both surrounding and permeating the physical body.


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