The Language of the Life Force: Energy is Inergy, Ki Awareness Magazine, July 2010

Culture’s in which human energy figures prominently honor that precious energy by giving it a unique name. In Japan, vital life energy is called ki, in India it is referred to as prana, the Hawaiians call it mana, and in China it is chi. Unfortunately, there is no unique word in the English language specific to human energy. All we have is the word energy, which is confusing because the same word is used to refer to a wide variety of things