The Body’s Energy System comprises three main parts, the Aura, the Chakras and the Meridian system. This is the overview article in a series of articles explaining what they all are and how they work together.

All living things radiate warmth and energy, so more than others

This energy is the life force itself and has as many names as there are human civilisations. We feed our body with food and water to keep it healthy and a healthy physical body will be reflected in our energetic body. This means that an unhealthy body will also be reflected in our energetic body. This energetic body, known as our etheric body, also needs energy and this energy is indirectly available to all living things from the air, sunlight, earth, food, water and love. This etheric energy is delivered to us through our aura and our chakras and circulated through our body via our meridian system. (More of these later).

The Polynesian Huna call this life force Mana, the Native American Iroquois people call it Orenda. In India, it is known as Prana, Ruach in Hebrew, Barraka in the Islamic countries. This is the same energy that the Chinese call Chi, as in Tai Chi. In Japanese, this energy is called Reiki (ray-kee) which means (rei) universal free passage, (ki)i means life-force energy.

Very briefly our physical body is dense and vibrates very slowly. Within our body is the meridian system of energy pathways which can be sensed by trained professionals such as Chinese Doctors and those trained in Acupuncture. These energy pathways connect to what are known as chakras which is where many pathways come together. These meridian pathways and chakras vibrate much faster and cannot be seen with the naked eye but can be sensed by sensitive people and photographed with special cameras. These chakras then connect to the energy field which surrounds all living things which is known as the aura. The aura vibrates much more quickly and is less dense which is why it is not usually visible.

For those sensitive people who can sense or see auras, they usually appear as a slight heat haze around a subject as in this illustration.