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Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment
Dr. Brian G. Gilmartin
University Press of America, Inc.
1987

Psychodormia


   
    During the past twenty years a great deal of work has been done at leading universities on the subject of Kirlian photography. Kirlian
photography is a form of electromagnetic photography which is capable of capturing on film a likeness of the electromagnetic energy body
(“aura”) which suffuses the human body as well as all other living things.
    During the past few years a number of psychologists have begun using Kirlian photography as a diagnostic device. For example, New
York City clinical psychologist Lee Steiner has found marked differences between the Kirlian auras of socially self-confident people and
those of individuals who are inhibited and shy. Happy, self-confident people have auras which are vibrant and brilliantly pulsating with a
full and steady glow of strong, white light. Shy and inhibited people, on the other hand, tend to have weak and uneven auras. Dr. Steiner
has labeled this latter pattern as “psychodormia”.
    Numerous types of people have auras which display the psychodormia pattern. Patients with hypoglycemia, iron deficiency anemia,
neurotic difficulties, excessive tiredness due to overwork or insufficient sleep, as well as shyness and inhibition, all tend to exude the very
weak and uneven Kirlian aura that is indicative of psychodormia. The important point for our purposes, however, is that the Kirlian aura
gradually becomes fuller and stronger to the extent that a prescribed, comprehensive therapeutic regimen is followed and the undesirable
symptoms begin to dissipate. In other words, once a person is cured of psychodormia, his/her Kirlian aura manifests itself in a full, rich
glow.
    In sum, the condition of a person’s aura (etheric or energy body) appears to be highly associated with shyness and inhibition. A
person’s life situation can affect his/her aura. And auric health can and does substantially influence the nature and progress of a person’s
life.