Processing Energy:
Energy is all around us -- but when we take it into ourselves, we change it so that the energy inside of us is no longer quite the same as the energy moving outside of us. It's a pretty basic concept, really. When we eat food, it becomes fuel for our bodies, but it's not like we've got little chunks of broccoli floating around in our veins. Instead, there's a vital process that occurs from the very moment that we put the food into our mouths -- the very act of eating it, chewing it up and swallowing, starts to change the state of that food into something our bodies can use as fuel.

It's the same with energy. There is vital chi all around us -- solar chi, earth chi, energy from plants and animals and so on. All of this is radiating around us, moving in eddies and floes that wash over us or move past us as we move. When we take this energy into ourselves, it does not remain the same sort of energy that it was when it was outside of our bodies. If we walk in a forest and take in some of the energy of the trees, it's not like that tree-energy is what's moving around in our chakras. We've changed it to be a part of us.

Vampires seem to need more energy than others. Why is that? Do you think vampires are lacking in energy and that is why they need to feed off of others?