Originally Posted by durban poison

You can practice seeing auras by just looking at your own hand up against a light or dark background. Some people see better with dark, and some people see better against light backgrounds. Anyway,just kinda relax your eyes as it were. Stare lazily at the very tops of your fingertips, as though kinda looking past them, at them but, not really focusing fully at them.
Eventually you will see a kinda grey or white glow, like the ready brek adverts around the finger tips.
Then practice on a friend, get them to sit or stand against a light or dark background, and again lazily look/stare just above their heads, kinda taking in all of the head area without looking directly at it... Again, eventually you will see a kinda glow, whispy smoke around that persons head and shoulders. That's when you're seeing the base aura, as you get used to doing this you will start to see, sense or just know of other colours other than white or grey in there, then you can interpret those colours into health, mental and emotional issues etc that may be going on with that person.
Hope this helps!