Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal

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Summary: Unproven Assertions
Review: Having had photos of my aura taken, I thought I might learn more about them with this book. In Life Colors, Oslie does not give any evidence that having a certain color of aura will give you a certain type of personality and I think that this is a major flaw in the book. I suppose one could run a experiment by taking a picture of peoples' auras, determining their main life colors which is supposedly closest to their body, and then have them take a personality exam to see if there was any pattern as far as people having the same color with the same personality. No such exam was cited or mentioned as being conducted in the book. Since asserting that an aura color gives you a certain personality is unusual claim not known by most people, I think an author has a responsibility to provide evidence or documentation for such an assertion, however brief.

The book attempts to determine a reader's aura by taking a personlity exam and then matching characteristics or career interests to a certain color aura. I never could determine what color I was exactly. I suppose demanding evidence for assertions would make me a logical tan but I've never been attracted to scientific careers and I don't really have a boring bean-counting type personality; I'm capable of imagination, vision, and flights of fancy. I like music and the arts better, so maybe that would make me a combo color of yellow-tan or violet-tan?

I thought some of personality colors were implausible as real personalities. Ever met a so-called Lavender who spends their time in a fantasy world and doesn't work? Author Lewis Carroll of Alice In Wonderland is given as an example, but his real job was a math professor, not exactly a career a lavender would have. I don't think anyone could survive in the real world as pure lavender, but only with some more grounded color combined with it. The book could have had more famous examples of color personalities and pictures of life color auras with diagrams on how they are determined, I might add.

The book goes on to cover relationships with these colors. I generally got the idea that it's a wonder anyone gets along with anyone else given the supposed eccentricies of all the different colors. There seems to be only one color you might match up with in a lot of cases. This section further confirmed my suspicions that the book is probably not accurate. Again, I would have to have evidence that a study into these relationships with these colors has been done as to how they interact with one another. No such evidence is cited, even anecdotally. Adding anecdotal stories for evidence would have at least made the book more interesting, although this would have been rather weak proof.

I think you would be better off sticking to a personality analysis that has more scientific backing such as the Myers-Briggs test. Although personality categorizing, like the whole field of psychology itself often seems just like fascinating hokum to me. Such categorising seems to be a human obsession of trying to put everything up into neat tidy boxes in our messy world.

This book is competently written and interesting, but leaves you no more enlightened than when you first started, only more confused and with more questions. This is an incomplete work that needs more evidence to become a definitive, memorable resource guide. I think I'm within my rights to be hard-nosed about that.




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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I can't begin to tell you how much I love this book!It's one of the few books that I still use when it comes the aura colors and such.It has a long quiz but it's worth taking.The book gives great information about all the aura colors in the septucm.I have to say that my colors discribe me excatly.Bravo!

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Summary: Questions Answered
Review: I read this book before I had a consultation with Pamala Oslie. The contents were so fascinating and informative that I shared the book with my husband. We both recognized the yellow life color description fit him perfectly, and we still talk about the characteristics of our life colors and what we feel others around us have as their aura colors. For us, it explains a lot about who we are and why we act the way we do. We can also in all likelihood predict others' future behavior.

Knowing and accepting your negative life patterns and the indications of being out of power can assist in surmounting self-defeating behavior and choosing new beliefs. In this sense, you can take responsibility for what happens in your own life and be your own authority.

When completing the individual color assessments it is vitally important to honestly answer each question. After my consultation I looked back at one of the colors I was told I have in my aura, and I saw how I previously rejected it because I felt there were too many negative characteristics. I then could honestly accept this as who I am, and work on bringing myself back in power as suggested by Pamala.

My rating of 5 stars is intently based on the book and not my experience with the author. However, I would like to describe my interaction because it serves to support her credibility. I had a most interesting session with Ms. Oslie; she related many things she could not have had prior knowledge of. Her descriptions of other people in my life were exact. Ms. Oslie's insights of my beliefs and self-realizing goals have been extremely useful. Her level of understanding, wisdom, ethics and professionalism is unmatched by others in her field, which is typically dotted with charlatans and other individuals of questionable abilities. I was left with no question about the authenticity of Ms. Oslie's abilities to correctly intuit many aspects of my life.





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Summary: Good book
Review: I recieved this book as a gift along with a few other books.I pick this book up everyday.It goes into detail of all the colors of the aura.This book helps you find yours by giving you a simple personality test.After I took the test and looked up my colors that they gave me....they were right on,on who I am.If you are interested in finding your aura color and or colors this is a good book to start with.

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Summary: Invaluable Resource
Review: Over the years, I have collected a vast library on this and related subject matter.If I were to choose one book that would stand out amongst them, it would be, without doubt, THIS BOOK!
I've found Ms. Oslie's work to be insightful, unpretentious,practical and amazingly accurate. I am certain that anyone working in fields like aromatherapy, especially on the auric level, would find this book to be an invaluable resource.

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Summary: Insightful Book
Review: This book has helped me identify the vital aspects of my life. I no longer deny my weaknesses and traits. I love myself for who am I and accept the differences between myself and others. Finally, I have sense of direction on my career path. This method will prove to you less tedious than numerology. I know feel motivated to continue my independent study of numerology. An advantage of numerology is that you can't cheat which are your traits. When you read the Life Color descriptions, you have to be totally honest with yourself.