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Modern-day science and medicine focus on the body as a complex machine composed of interacting parts. Maybe you’ve heard the old childhood song with the lyrics “The thigh bone’s connected to the hipbone. The hipbone’s connected to the backbone.” It tells one piece of our bodies’ interconnectness.

You can see your body with your eyes, but imagine that there’s an energy in and around your body that you can’t see. Maybe you’re quite comfortable believing and talking about energy you can’t see with your eyes. Perhaps you’re in tune with your sixth sense or just “know” with your intuition that this energy exists.

Or maybe you’re more skeptical or suspicious of anything you can’t see. Admittedly, even though I’m scientifically trained, I’m one of those people who just “senses” that the body is really made of and is surrounded by energy. I don’t need scientific proof to know about energy. But it’s good to know that scientific research backs up the theory that the body is made of energy.

Einstein’s famous equation E=MC² expresses perfectly that matter — the body — is equal to energy. All you have to do to convert matter to energy in Einstein’s equation is multiply a fixed number (the constant, C) and square it to get the numerical representation of the matter (M) in energy form (E).

I’ll leave the details of Einstein’s equation to physicists, but what this profound equation says is that matter and energy are the same thing. In other words, your body, which you can touch and feel, is matter. It’s also energy.