To me personally, in my worldview, energy and qi are synonymous. Qi is at once the “vital energy believed to circulate round the body in currents”, and the physical life force, prana, or breath. In Chinese, qi literally means: energy…”as expressed in the continuum of matter and energy as it is now understood by modern particle physics”.Being a farmer, living in a farming community, when I talk with my clients I use farming analogies to get my points across. Everyone can relate to having a water hose in their garden with a kink in it. Under these conditions, you have too much water on one side of the blockage and not enough on the other. Well, I explain to my clients, that this is the same situation for their bodies, energetically speaking. Whatever organs are upstream of the energetic ‘kink’ are getting too much energy, and those downstream, not enough.
In TCM we learn to look at the human body as a “vortex of qi in all its different manifestations, acting together to form an organism.” We study qi’s relationship to the Blood, its subtle expression in various systems in the body, as well as its relationship to the vital substances.
It is said that the qi of Humans is dependant upon and influenced by the qi of Heaven and Earth. To this end I think it important that we are mindful of this relationship, that we honor it and feed it, regularly – since, as reflections of this ever changing qi - we are intimately connected to and influence each other.
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