the son feels his chakras, so mom will believe

Is all this energy stuff really true, I wondered. Chakras. Auras. I don’t see them. But there are pictures from thousands of years ago of it in different cultures. All these disciplines with meridians. Curious. How can you possibly know. I was telling my son, who was about 6 at the time, what I was learning. “Some say we are all made up of energy, everything is made up of this same energy and it vibrates. And in the body, it centers in certain areas called chakras, so some say. And some people can see this energy around the body and they call it an aura. And some people can even see and feel the chakras. I can’t. Maybe you can.”

He lays back on the bed and says, “Let’s see. Here’s one,” as his touches his head. Then he proceeds to scan his hand 3 inches above his body, stopping at each point where he felt a chakra. And guess what. It’s exactly what the book said.

I laughed. “Um. I guess it is real.” What a teacher he is to me. I opened up after that. Now I feel and see them, too.