Do you believe in spiritual energy? Do I??

Photo by Shoeib Abolhassani on Unsplash

I had planned to write about the menopause this week, but you’ll have to wait for that newsletter (something to look forward to lol) because I’ve been thinking a lot about energy recently, and wanted to formulate my thoughts, if only to work out what I believe.

I don’t mean energy as in the cost of living crisis, and I don’t mean the Pete Davidson kind of energy - I’m not even talking about Beyonce’s energy. In scientific terms, energy means the capacity for doing something. For example, anything that moves has ‘kinetic energy’. And something that is taut, like a stretched elastic band, has ‘potential energy’.

But I’m talking about energy with no scientific basis, no evidence or stats to back it up, nothing but a ‘feeling’ - and a lot of people around the world who believe in it. Spiritual energy, otherwise known as Prana, Qi, Chi or ‘life force’, is the ba…