Life energy, in the form of cerebrospinal fluid, flows within, through and around the body over three inter-related and interconnected energy systems that interface with each other. The three energy systems are, from a gross to a subtler and more refined level, the nervous, the meridian, and the chakra systems.

Today, in our advanced, modern society, people take time to perform some kind of daily physical cleansing ritual. A shower or bath, teeth brushing, shaving and hair styling are all standard forms of grooming that we make time to fit into our busy lifestyles. After all, it's good hygiene, right?  Our outward appearance is something most of us take pride in, but what about what's going on beneath the layers of the skin?

Last fall, Mary Scott Blake went to the doctor for a routine mammogram and soon got the news every woman dreads: Light blotches on the film proved to be an aggressive form of breast cancer. Blake did all the things one might expect. She arranged for surgery, cleared her calendar, and braced for a long, painful year of chemotherapy, radiation, and recovery. Then the 52-year-old homemaker in Louisville, Kentucky deviated from the norm...