Life force or lifeforce may refer to: *

Spirit (vital essence) In folk belief In folkloristics, folk belief or folk-belief is a broad genre of folklore that is often expressed in narratives, customs, rituals, foodways, proverbs, and rhymes. It also includes a wide variety of behaviors, expressions, and b ...

, in folk belief, the vital principle or animating force within all living things *

Vitality Vitality (, , ) is the capacity to live, grow, or develop. More simply it is the property of having life. The perception of vitality is regarded as a basic psychological drive and, in philosophy, a component to the will to live. As such, peopl ...

, ability to live or exist *

Vitalism Vitalism is a belief that starts from the premise that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things." Wher ...

, the belief in the existence of vital energy **

Energy (esotericism) Proponents and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine refer to a variety of claimed experiences and phenomena as being due to "energy" or "force" that defy measurement and thus are distinguished from t ...

, a concept in spirituality and alternative medicine ***

Prana In yoga, Indian medicine and Indian martial arts, prana ( sa2, प्राण, ; the Sanskrit word for breath, " life force", or "vital principle") permeates reality on all levels including inanimate objects. In Hindu literature, prāṇa is ...

, the Sanskrit word for "life force" or "vital principle" *** Qi, or chi, an active principle forming part of any living thing (translated as "natural energy", "life force", or "energy flow") ***

Élan vital ''Élan vital'' () is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book '' Creative Evolution'', in which he addresses the question of self-organisation and spontaneous morphogenesis of things in an increasingly complex manner. ...

(roughly translated as "vital impetus" or "vital force"), a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson in 1907 *

Vijñāna ''Vijñāna'' ( sa, विज्ञान) or ''viññāa'' ( pi, विञ्ञाण)As is standard in WP articles, the Pali term ''viññāa'' will be used when discussing the Pali literature, and the Sanskrit word ''vijñāna'' will be used ...

(translated as "consciousness," "life force", "mind" or "discernment")

Art and entertainment

* ''Life Force'' (album), a 1967 album by American saxophonist Eric Kloss * ''Lifeforce'' (film), a 1985 science fiction-horror film * ''Life Force'' (video game), an alternate version of the 1986 video game ''Salamander'' * ''

A Life Force ''A Life Force'' is a 1988 graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the Ame ...

'', a 1988 graphic novel by Will Eisner * ''Life Force'' (sculpture), a 1992 sculpture at Columbia University, New York City * ''Life Force'', a 1992 novel by

Fay Weldon Fay Weldon CBE, FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including ''Puffball'' (1980), '' The ...

Lifeforce Records Lifeforce Records is a German heavy metal independent record label that specializes in metalcore and death metal. Their roster contains bands such as Confession, This or the Apocalypse, Omnium Gatherum and Last Leaf Down, and they have helped t ...

, a 1995 record label * ''Life Force'' (TV series), a 2000 British science fiction television series * LifeForce, a fictional group of traveling doctors in Africa, within the 2004 Hong Kong television series ''

The Last Breakthrough ''The Last Breakthrough'' (Traditional Chinese: 天涯俠醫; literally "Heaven Saint Healer") () is a 2004 Hong Kong television medical drama produced by TVB. The drama revolves around a group of doctors who provide volunteer medical relief to t ...

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