vital energy
What animates beings
Vital energy is the animating force believed to sustain living beings—the invisible current that distinguishes the living from the dead.
The concept appears across cultures: Chinese qi, Indian prana, Greek pneuma.
In alternative medicine and spiritual traditions, vital energy can be cultivated, blocked, or channeled: Acupuncture aims to restore the flow of vital energy.
The term often carries New Age or pseudoscientific connotations in mainstream Western contexts.
- qiVital life energy
- life forceAnimating vital energy
- pranaVital breath energy
- breath of lifeAnimating essence within beings
- breathAir taken in
life essence · vitalism · qigong · kundalini · pneuma · shakti · inner fire · mana · cellular respiration · chakras · metabolism · chi · Taoism · meridians · aura · élan · animism · pulse
- TaoismTao, Taoism, Daoism, Laozi, Lao Tzu
- life forcechi, qi, ki, prana, life force
- TCMqi, yin, yang, yin yang, yin and yang
- Life Energychi, ki, prana, qi, life breath
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- energy fieldsforce field, electric field, magnetic field, gravitational field, electromagnetic field
vital energylifelessness
Quality of having no animation
death · inertness · soullessness · deadness · devitalization
vital energymorbidity
Disease occurrence rate
decay · entropy · degeneration · necrosis · mortification
vital energyexhaustion
State of utter depletion
lethargy · torpor · enervation · listlessness · depletion
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