"Waking" Part 4

I must admit that while I have learned that just because I did not grow up with a certain concept does not make it untrue, the whole energy flow language is still a hard one for me to grasp.  When I first heard it, I figured that “energy” was simply synonymous with the electrical current that runs throughout our body via our nervous system, and that perhaps different cultures had just come up with a different series of names for this system.  Then, in one of my Biology classes my sophomore year, the girl next to me began explaining to me that her father was a doctor in China and just how differently medicine is practiced there.  She spoke of how each of the kidneys is a filter of our energy, and how it was important to keep that energy balanced.  I was utterly confused.  Obviously, the tests had been run, the results were in, and then printed right there in front of me telling me that the kidneys purpose was to filter our blood.  It made sense to me that different cultures could come up with different religions and ways of viewing the world, but science?  

I stared at the picture in my textbook of the different parts of the kidney.  Clearly, this thing had been studied by quite a few people for quite some time, and yet here I was getting information that a Chinese medical student, possibly at this very moment, was learning a very different function for the very same organ I was staring at.  My brilliant conclusion: it just wasn’t possible.  I couldn’t understand where this so called energy would be coming from, and even if it was actually there, how could Chinese doctors possibly examine it and figure out which of our body parts control it.

Needless to say I’m that I am reading Matt’s book today instead of three years ago.  Now, I have both felt and witnessed this energy firsthand, and although I still don’t quite understand what it is or where it comes from, I recognize its reality.  

I am still awestruck by Matt’s use of this energy to both connect with his own body and even more so with the fact that he can help other people connect with muscles and tendons that he cannot even feel.  Finally, I am in love with the idea that this energy is what helped Matt reach wholeness.  Not just with his mind-body connection, but also with his emotional and social connection to the world as well.