In tenth-century Baghdad, the Persian physician Abu Bakr al-Razi wanted to know whether a common treatment helped patients showing early signs of brain fever. He chose a simple, powerful approach: compare. He treated one group of patients and deliberately left another group untreated, writing that he did this "so as to remove the doubt from my opinion." Historians of medicine count his comparison among the earliest recorded examples of a controlled test.
Al-Razi understood that change becomes visible when you look before and after, side by side. A See Your Aura biofield scan is built on that same insight. Here is how the before-and-after comparison works, how people around the world have used comparison to understand energy practices, what kinds of change you may see in your field and how to reflect on your own results.
Why a before-and-after comparison matters
A single image shows your field at one moment. Two images, created before and after energizing, show how your field responded. The comparison turns a snapshot into a story of movement, giving you something concrete to look at, reflect on and return to.
The changes you see between the two visualizations are genuine shifts generated by the technology. For many clients, this comparison is the most striking part of the scan.
How the See Your Aura process works
- First visualization: specialized technology creates a 360° visualization of your biofield from your recent full-length photograph and intake information. Your field appears as a blue grid, with pink marking areas of reduced field strength.
- Remote energizing: Yvette completes the energizing stage from a distance. You do not need to be online or do anything during this time.
- Second visualization: a new 360° visualization is created after energizing.
- Comparison and interpretation: you receive both videos, front, right, left and back still views for each, and Yvette's written report.
Comparison across energy traditions worldwide
Energy practices from many cultures have been studied through the same simple question al-Razi asked: what is different afterwards?
Brazil: the Spiritist passe
In Brazil, many people visit Spiritist centers for the passe, a practice in which trained practitioners pass their hands near the body to transmit healing energy. Researchers at a university hospital in Brazil tested it with 41 cardiovascular inpatients. One group received the passe from trained practitioners, a second group received an imitation from untrained volunteers, and a third received no intervention, over three consecutive days. The passe group showed significantly lower anxiety and muscle tension, greater wellbeing and higher blood oxygen saturation compared with the other groups. The study was published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine in 2017.
China: Baduanjin, the Eight Pieces of Brocade
Baduanjin is a gentle qigong sequence of eight movements, practiced across China for centuries to cultivate and balance qi. A 2024 review in the Chinese journal Traditional Chinese Medicine gathered clinical studies of Baduanjin for people in a state of "sub-health," the Chinese term for feeling unwell without a diagnosed illness. Studies it describes found improvements in fatigue, muscle soreness, sleep quality, anxiety and social connection after weeks or months of practice. The authors call for larger and longer trials to understand the mechanisms more fully.
The Brazilian hospital study and the Chinese qigong research come from very different traditions. Both use the same tool: look carefully before, look carefully after and compare.
Where energy medicine meets science
Research into biofield practices continues to grow, and many studies report measurable changes in how people feel and function after energy-based sessions. Scientists are still exploring how these changes happen, and the mechanisms remain an open question.
A See Your Aura scan offers a different kind of before-and-after: a visual one. It lets you see how your displayed field shifted after energizing. The comparison is a wellness reflection for your own understanding. It is not a medical measurement, and it does not show whether any health condition has changed.
What kinds of change can you see?
Changes in pink areas
A pink area may shrink, fade, change shape or shift position. Some clients see pink areas almost disappear, and others see smaller changes.
Changes in the blue grid
The grid may look fuller, more continuous or more evenly spread around the body.
Changes from side to side
The left and right sides may look more alike after energizing, or one side may shift more than the other.
Changes from front to back
An area that looked prominent from behind may change more than the same region seen from the front. Comparing all four still views shows the full picture.
Areas that remain
Some areas may look much the same in both visualizations. Yvette notes these too, since they can point to themes that may benefit from ongoing attention.
The sample scan: a genuine before and after
The genuine sample scan on this site shows pink across parts of the chest, throat, shoulders and upper back in the first visualization. In the second, several of those areas appear more evenly filled with the blue grid. The sample report reflects on responsibility, expression and rest, and on what the person may have been carrying. The comparison gives those reflections a visible anchor.
An illustration: two ways of noticing change
This illustration is drawn from patterns seen in many clients. A man orders a scan during a demanding month at work. His first visualization shows pink along his lower back and the backs of his legs. After energizing, the pink areas are smaller, and the grid around his lower body looks more even. He watches both videos twice and compares the back views side by side.
That evening he notices he feels more settled than he has in weeks. Yvette's report invites him to reflect on how long he has been pushing through without rest. He treats the scan as a prompt to take two slower weekends, and he books a check-up with his doctor for the back discomfort he had been ignoring.
What Yvette brings to the comparison
Yvette reviews each pair of visualizations personally, drawing on over thirty years of holistic health practice. She describes the first image, then the second, and notes what shifted and what remained. She looks at every angle and connects the patterns with what you shared in your intake. Her report offers possible meanings as reflections and questions, and she invites you to add what you noticed yourself.
How to review your own before-and-after scan
Watch both videos completely. Let the full rotation play before you pause on any single view.
Compare like with like. Place the front views side by side, then the right, left and back views.
Write down what you see. Note which pink areas changed and how.
Record how you feel separately. Some people feel calmer, lighter or clearer after energizing, and others notice little. Both experiences are common.
Read Yvette's interpretation. Notice which reflections resonate.
Keep your notes. They help you see your own patterns if you choose another scan in the future.
Frequently asked questions
Why are two visualizations included?
The first shows your field before energizing, and the second shows it afterwards, so you can see how your displayed field responded.
Are the before-and-after changes real?
Yes. They are genuine shifts generated by the technology in your displayed field.
What if my two visualizations look quite similar?
Fields respond in different ways, and some shifts are subtle. Yvette interprets whatever change appears, and a steady pattern can also be meaningful to reflect on.
What if a new pink area appears after energizing?
Fields can rearrange as they respond. Yvette reads the whole pattern together and explains what she notices.
Can I feel a change even if the images look similar?
Yes. How you feel and what the visualization shows are two different kinds of experience, and each one deserves your attention.
Does less pink mean a health condition has improved?
No. The scan is a wellness visualization. Questions about any health condition belong with a qualified medical professional.
Can I have another scan later?
Yes. Some clients return after a period of time to see how their field looks at a new stage of life.
Where this leaves us
Al-Razi compared two groups of patients to clear the doubt from his mind. Brazilian researchers compared the passe with an imitation and no treatment. Chinese researchers compared how people felt before and after weeks of Baduanjin. Across a thousand years and several continents, comparison has helped people see change clearly.
A See Your Aura scan brings that tradition to your own energy field, with two full visualizations, four views of each and Yvette's personal interpretation of what shifted. When you place your before and after side by side, what change would you most hope to see?
Sources and further reading
These references cover the history of comparison in medicine and research on energy practices from Brazil and China.
Comparison in the history of medicine
- Pormann PE. (2018). Concepts of patient groups in 10th-century Iraq and Persia. The James Lind Library. jameslindlibrary.org
Research on energy practices
- Carneiro EM, Barbosa LP, Marson JM, et al. (2017). Effectiveness of Spiritist "passe" (Spiritual healing) for anxiety levels, depression, pain, muscle tension, well-being, and physiological parameters in cardiovascular inpatients: a randomized controlled trial. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 30, 73–78. sciencedirect.com
- Liu W, Bai L, Zhou H, et al. (2024). 八段锦调治亚健康状态的临床研究进展 (Progress in clinical research on the regulation of sub-health status by Baduanjin). 中医学 Traditional Chinese Medicine, 13(5), 973–978. hanspub.org
Client experience
- The upper-body example is drawn from the genuine sample scan published on See Your Aura. The lower-back example is an illustration drawn from patterns seen in many clients. Individual experiences vary.