28/10/2025
YOUR BODY = THE ENERGY OF 3 BILLION CAR BATTERIES
Your body generates electrical potential equivalent to 3 billion car batteries.
This is not a spiritual metaphor. It's a measurable fact: 50 trillion cells, each producing 0.07 volts, totaling 3.5 trillion volts. To visualize this scale, filling one football field requires over 8,000 twelve-volt batteries. To match the electrical potential of a single human body would require 371,000 such fields.
Why should this matter to anyone practicing yoga or meditation?
Because the ancient ta***ic yogic texts knew this. They just used different language.
PRĀṆA IS NOT A METAPHOR
When Vedic texts speak of prāṇa, they're not talking about some elusive etheric energy. They're describing the bioelectric current that sustains life. Each cell functions as a miniature electrical circuit, with elements corresponding to resistors, capacitors, and transistors.
Modern neuroscience confirms this. Our nervous system operates on the principle of electrical potentials. Action potentials in neurons, signal transmission between cells, regulation of heart rhythm. Everything is based on the precise orchestration of electrical charges.
Prāṇāyāma, the control of prāṇa through breath, is not merely a breathing exercise. It's a method for regulating this bioelectric system. Breath directly influences the autonomic nervous system and thus the distribution of electrical potential throughout the body.
SOFT TECHNOLOGY
Each of your 50 trillion cells is capable not only of generating electrical potential but also of accumulating information, learning, and adapting. Your organism is "soft technology". It's a system that, in certain functions, surpasses the most sophisticated processors.
Artificial intelligence attempts to simulate neural networks. Your brain has them in hundreds of billions of actual connections.
A processor has fixed circuits. Your body rewires its circuits based on experience. This is neuroplasticity.
AI requires an external power source. Your system produces, stores, and distributes energy autonomously.
CALIBRATING THE SYSTEM
When you sit in meditation or stand in an āsana, you're not just holding your body in position.
You're calibrating a bioelectric system.
Each stretch opens channels for the flow of prāṇa (nādī). Each breath retention (kumbhaka) alters electrochemical balance. Each concentration of mind (dhāraṇā) redirects attention. And attention organizes the body's electrical potential.
This is why ancient texts are not poetry. They are engineering manuals for working with the most sophisticated technology at your disposal. Your body.
UNKNOWN POTENTIAL
Can you imagine the potential power hidden within each of us?
3 billion batteries. 371,000 football fields of energy. And how much do we use? One percent? One per thousand?
We still don't understand 99% of life and our potential. We dissipate most of our electrical potential in a thousand directions. Stress, scattered attention, chaotic thoughts, unanchored emotions. Every anxiety is a short circuit. Every conflict is an energy leak.
The ancient traditions knew this. That's why they created systematic methods. Not for "enlightenment" as some mystical goal, but for efficient use of what we already have.
We don't need to become something else. We need to learn not to waste the storm we already are.
How much of your electrical potential will you allow to flow coherently today?
