Electricity runs through all things

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have spoken of a life force—chi, prana, ki—believed to flow through the body and influence vitality, balance, and well-being. Modern science moved away from these ideas, yet researchers such as Harold Saxton Burr and Robert O. Becker explored something surprisingly similar: the electrical nature of living systems and the role bioelectricity may play in growth, healing, and regeneration. Could ancient ideas about life energy and modern discoveries about bioelectricity be describing different aspects of the same deeper reality? And if so, what practices—from movement and meditation to nature, massage, acupuncture, and Reiki—might help us cultivate a greater sense of vitality?