life energy
Animating inner spark
Life energy is a supposed vital force animating living things, distinct from purely physical or chemical processes.
The concept appears across cultures—chi in Chinese tradition, prana in Hindu thought, ki in Japanese.
Alternative medicine and spiritual practices often invoke life energy as something that can be blocked, balanced, or channeled: The healer said my life energy was stagnant.
In everyday use, the term describes someone's vitality or vigor: She has incredible life energy for someone her age.
- pranaVital breath energy
- soulInnermost animating essence
- vitalismNon-physical life principle
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- chiGreek letter or energy
living spirit · animism · qi · inner fire · shakti · kundalini · pneuma · cellular respiration · metabolism · motivation · aura · bioelectricity · élan · shamanism · passion · pulse · healing touch · enthusiasm
- life forcevital force, vital spark, chi, qi, ki
- Orgone TheoryWilhelm Reich, Reich, body armor, character analysis, cloudbusting
- Life Energychi, ki, prana, qi, vital force
life energylifelessness
Quality of having no animation
death · exhaustion · depletion · enervation · lethargy
life energyentropy
Quantified chaos in systems
negative energy · anti-life · decay · stagnation · void