Seeing chi is a little more difficult for some than is feeling it. But, then again, some people have an easier time seeing it than they do feeling it. It just depends upon your own individual native predispositions.

We're going to start with seeing chi or aura around another - a non-human other - a large tree or group of large trees, large meaning trees that tower fifty or more above you with trunks that are bigger than a man can wrap his arms around. As the sun sets in the west, or early in the morning before it breaks horizen, go outside and find some quiet place where there lives a mature tree or group of mature trees. Find a place where you can be alone in that evening or morning twilight. Find a tree or group of trees that are not illuminated by or backlit by any light source...and we do mean any light source - not the sun (you should face any direction except the direction where the sun is rising or setting) and especially not any artificial light sources. Place yourself in such a position as to easily and without strain see the top quarter of the tree or tree group against the clear sky above them. You should already be relaxed, balanced and centered, so enter soft sight - that is, moderately "immersed" soft sight, immersed meaning having entered the state of balance, relaxed, active and moderately deep meditative center including engaging the Gateway Mechanism (breathing correctly, of course).

Now, look in the direction of the top of the trees where they meet sky and soften your sight even more. Then stay "there" in that mental space and watch. Pay attention, now. Stay relaxed and don't want it so badly that you overcome your openness with need. What you will see in the evening is a "flaming off" of chi toward the heavens. What you will see in the morning is more of a "bursting outwards" or glow around each tree. We do this at first in evening and morning with trees because trees change their life processes at those times. It is during that transition between night and day metabolizing that a tree's chi is easiest to see.

Next, lets try some human subjects - cooperative human subjects, by the way.

Find a quiet, white or cream colored room with no features on or in at least one wall. Ask your volunteers to just sit quietly, perhaps reading a book. Now you position yourself unobtrusively and quietly so you can see them (not watch them) against the blank wall and enter soft site in full immersion (see definition of "immersion" above). You will begin to see a halo effect around your volunteers. As they relax and forget about you and each other, their fields will become more apparent, and as you drop deeper and deeper into finding your "sight," their fields will become more and more apparent.

In time and with practice it is a good idea to again sit in the above environments and purposely move between "not seeing" and "seeing" the chi or auras. That helps develop a knowing in you of the state needed to be achieved to see the chi or aura and exercises your ability to quickly and easily enter it without struggle or preparation.

Again, you can further develop this ability to perceive the chi body by exploring the numerous self-evidencing and endless subjects around you in your world.

For visual examples of what auras look like, we have provided some constructs of what we see. Remember that you may see auras a little (or a lot) differently.
Visual Examples of Auras