Emotional Body: Feeling, Desire & Astral Plane

BY NICOLE LAU

Your emotional body is where you feelβ€”joy, sadness, anger, love, fear, desire. It's a fluid, ever-changing rainbow of energy that responds to every experience, every thought, every interaction.

This is also your astral body, your vehicle for traveling the astral plane in dreams and out-of-body experiences. It's the bridge between your physical existence and the realm of feelings, desires, and dreams.

Understanding your emotional body is key to emotional mastery, healing, and conscious astral travel.

What Is the Emotional Body?

Location: 1 to 3 inches from the physical body
Appearance: Rainbow-colored clouds, fluid and constantly changing
Texture: Flowing, liquid, responsive
Function: Feeling, desire, emotional processing, astral travel
Plane: Astral plane

The Feeling Body

Every emotion you experience shows up as color and movement in your emotional body. Joy creates bright yellows and golds. Love creates pinks and greens. Anger creates reds and oranges. Fear creates grays and browns.

Functions of the Emotional Body

1. Emotional Experience

This is where you FEEL. Not think about feelings (that's mental body), but actually experience the sensation of emotion in your energy field.

2. Desire and Attraction

Your desires, wants, cravings, and attractions live here. The emotional body draws you toward what you want and repels you from what you fear.

3. Emotional Processing

Emotions need to move through and be released. The emotional body is designed to process feelingsβ€”when healthy, emotions flow through naturally.

4. Astral Travel

During sleep, dreams, or out-of-body experiences, your emotional body can separate from the physical and travel the astral plane.

5. Manifestation Power

Emotions are magnetic. What you feel strongly, you attract. The emotional body is a powerful manifestation tool.

Emotional Body Colors

Red: Passion, anger, vitality, life force
Orange: Creativity, sexuality, enthusiasm, joy
Yellow: Happiness, mental clarity, optimism, confidence
Green: Love, healing, growth, balance
Blue: Calm, peace, communication, truth
Indigo: Intuition, deep feeling, spiritual emotion
Violet: Spiritual love, devotion, transcendence
Pink: Unconditional love, tenderness, compassion
Gray/Brown: Fear, depression, stagnation, heaviness
Black: Deep grief, trauma, blocked emotion

Signs of a Healthy Emotional Body

  • Emotional fluidity (feelings come and go naturally)
  • Appropriate emotional responses
  • Ability to feel joy, love, and passion
  • Emotional resilience
  • Clear, bright colors in aura
  • Healthy relationships
  • Ability to process and release emotions
  • Emotional authenticity

Signs of Emotional Body Imbalance

  • Emotional numbness or disconnection
  • Overwhelming emotions or mood swings
  • Stuck emotions (chronic anger, grief, fear)
  • Inability to feel certain emotions
  • Emotional reactivity or volatility
  • Muddy or dark colors in emotional field
  • Difficulty in relationships
  • Emotional eating or addiction

What Damages the Emotional Body?

  • Suppressed emotions: Pushing feelings down creates blockages
  • Trauma: Emotional wounds that haven't healed
  • Toxic relationships: Emotional abuse, manipulation, drama
  • Emotional overwhelm: Too much feeling with no outlet
  • Disconnection from feelings: Living only in the head
  • Unprocessed grief or anger: Emotions that never moved through
  • Emotional cords: Unhealthy attachments to others

Healing the Emotional Body

Emotional Release Work

Crying: Natural release mechanismβ€”let yourself cry
Screaming/Yelling: Release anger safely (pillow, car, nature)
Shaking/Movement: Trauma release through body movement
Breathwork: Holotropic or rebirthing breathwork releases stuck emotions
Cathartic practices: Dance, art, music that moves emotion

Therapy and Counseling

Professional support for processing trauma, grief, anger, or complex emotions. Somatic therapy especially works with the emotional body.

Water Healing

Water is the element of emotion. Baths, swimming, crying, or sitting by water helps emotional body flow and release.

Creative Expression

Art, music, dance, writingβ€”creative expression moves emotion through and out. Don't judge it, just let it flow.

Heart-Centered Practices

Heart chakra meditation, loving-kindness practice, gratitude, and compassion work heal the emotional body.

Emotional Body Clearing

Daily Practice

  1. Check in with your emotions: "What am I feeling right now?"
  2. Name the emotion without judgment
  3. Feel it fully in your body
  4. Breathe into it
  5. Let it move through and release
  6. Don't hold on or push awayβ€”just allow

Emotional Shower Visualization

  1. Stand or sit comfortably
  2. Visualize a waterfall of light above you
  3. See it washing through your emotional body
  4. Dark, stuck emotions wash away
  5. Fresh, clear emotional energy flows in
  6. Your emotional body becomes bright and fluid

Color Breathing

Breathe in the color you need (pink for love, blue for calm, yellow for joy). Breathe out the color you want to release (gray fear, brown stagnation).

The Emotional Body and Relationships

Emotional Cords

We form energetic cords through our emotional bodies to people we're in relationship with. Healthy cords exchange energy mutually. Unhealthy cords drain energy.

Empaths and the Emotional Body

Empaths have very open emotional bodiesβ€”they feel others' emotions as their own. This is a gift but requires strong boundaries and regular clearing.

Emotional Contagion

Emotions are contagious through the emotional body. Being around angry people makes you angry. Being around joyful people lifts you up. Choose your emotional environment wisely.

The Astral Plane

What Is the Astral Plane?

The astral plane is the dimension of emotion, desire, and dreams. It's where you go when you dream, where thoughts and feelings take form, where the emotional body naturally exists.

Astral Travel

Your emotional body can separate from the physical and travel the astral plane during:
- Sleep and dreams
- Meditation or trance
- Out-of-body experiences
- Near-death experiences

Lucid Dreaming

Becoming conscious in the astral plane while your physical body sleeps. You're navigating the astral in your emotional body.

Working with Your Emotional Body

Emotional Awareness Practice

Throughout the day, pause and ask: "What am I feeling right now?" Name it. Feel it. Don't judge it. This builds emotional body consciousness.

Feeling Meditation

  1. Sit comfortably and close your eyes
  2. Scan your emotional body (1-3 inches out from physical)
  3. Notice what emotions are present
  4. Where do you feel them? (chest, belly, throat?)
  5. What colors do you sense?
  6. Breathe into the emotions
  7. Let them move and shift

Emotional Body Strengthening

Feel fully: Don't numb or suppressβ€”feel everything
Express authentically: Share your true feelings (appropriately)
Process regularly: Don't let emotions accumulate
Create: Art, music, dance moves emotion
Connect: Healthy relationships strengthen emotional body

Final Thoughts

Your emotional body is not a problem to be solvedβ€”it's a gift to be honored. Emotions are information, energy in motion, the color and texture of your human experience.

When you learn to work with your emotional bodyβ€”to feel fully, process cleanly, and release completelyβ€”you become emotionally free. And emotional freedom is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

Feel everything. Suppress nothing. Release what doesn't serve. This is the path of emotional mastery.

Ready to heal your emotional body? Explore our collection of emotional healing tools, flower essences, water-based rituals, and resources for emotional freedom and astral exploration.

To gently guide your emotional body into clearer alignment with your deepest desires, consider the emotional filter ritual printable spell kit to cleanse what no longer serves you, while the breathe into radiance a breath ritual for inner glow invites you to soften into feeling fully alive, and as you drift into the astral currents of your own inner landscape, the void whisper subconscious drift audio wav pdf can hold space for those tender whispers waiting to be heard.

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More Ways to Deepen Your Practice

If you've ever felt like your practice isn't going deep enough β€”
like your mind stays busy, your body never fully settles, or the space around you feels distracting β€”
it's often not about discipline.

It's about environment.

The right environment doesn't just support your practice β€” it becomes part of it.
When space, scent, sound, and intention align, the shift in awareness happens more naturally and more deeply.

Imagine this:
sacred symbols on the walls, soft fabric against your skin, a steady place to sit.
A match is struck. Smoke rises β€” bergamot, frankincense β€” something ancient and grounding.
Sound moves quietly in the background, and time begins to slow.

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You arrive in it.

This is what a ritual feels like when every element is aligned.

If you want to make your practice feel like this, start simple:

You don't need everything.
Just one element can change the entire experience.

The tools that help create this space β€” and how to use them in your own practice:

Tapestries

Sacred symbols woven into fabric become silent guardians of the space β€” helping the mind cross the threshold from the ordinary into the sacred. Designed to anchor your ritual environment and hold energetic intention throughout your practice.

Yoga Mats

A dedicated surface signals to body and spirit alike: this is where the work begins. Everything else falls away. Built for comfort and stability, so your body can settle fully while your awareness expands.

Audio Meditations

Let sound do what the mind cannot do alone. In the stillness it creates, intuition finds its voice. Guided sessions crafted to deepen receptivity, clear mental noise, and prepare you for meaningful spiritual work.

Ritual Kits

When the tools are already gathered, the only thing left is intention. Light something. Begin. Thoughtfully assembled sets that bring together everything needed for a complete, intentional ceremony.

Personal Practice Journals

Every reading, every vision, every quiet knowing β€” written down before the ordinary world reclaims it. Structured to support reflection, pattern recognition, and the long-term deepening of your practice.

Apparel

What you wear into a ritual becomes part of it. Soft, intentional, yours. Designed for ease of movement and energetic comfort, from morning meditation to evening ceremony.

Aromatherapy Candles

A flame changes a room. Let the scent that rises with it mark the beginning of something set apart from the rest of the day. Formulated with sacred botanicals to cleanse energy, anchor intention, and deepen meditative states.

Books

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About Nicole's Ritual Universe

Nicole Lau β€” UK certified Advanced Angel Healing Practitioner, PhD in Management, published author.

She built Mystic Ryst on a single belief: that spiritual practice doesn't require a retreat or a perfect moment. It belongs in the ordinary β€” in the morning before work, in the breath between meetings, in the objects you choose to surround yourself with.

Through thousands of learning resources, books, and ritual tools, Mystic Ryst helps you weave mysticism into daily life β€” so that even the busiest day carries intention, meaning, and depth.