title: Life force
text: # Life force
  
  Life force or lifeforce may refer to:
  
  * Spirit (vital essence), in folk belief, the vital principle or animating force within all living things
  * Vitality, ability to live or exist
  * Vitalism, the belief in the existence of vital energy
     * Energy (esotericism), a concept in spirituality and alternative medicine
        * Prana, 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 (roughly translated as "vital impetus" or "vital force"), a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson in 1907
  * Vijñāna (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 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
  * Lifeforce Records, 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
  * Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982121709, a book co-authored by Tony Robbins, Peter Diamandis and Robert Hariri (2022).
  