I don’t recall the first time I heard about the 7-chakra system… probably because it wasn’t anything I found contrary to the kind of language about energy within the body that I had heard when I was growing up…

I grew up hearing the language of energy moving through the body. The energy within your body could be used to determine the percentage your organs were functioning at, the points at which your muscles needed an extra stretch, or how beneficial a herb could be for you. The phrase I heard most often was the idea of ‘using the body’s own electric signals to determine what’s happening in the body’. Energy was all around us and in us, and we could connect with it to heal our bodies naturally.