There are peculiar things happening in our World, so without saying yes or no, let's keep open mind...
Everything around us is some form of energy. Sand is energy, water is energy, light rays are energy, sounds that you can hear are also manifestation of energy, atoms are energy,...
We are energy as well, just because we call ourselves humans and just because we are (at least some of us) aware of self, doesn't mean we are not composed of atoms like everything else. We are in essence just a form of energy like everything else, our nervous system is composed of the same atoms like e.g. tree, and from that view we are not any different than anything else...
So does some sort of energy, Chi or any other one, run through our bodies? Interesting question. For example yogi describe that force that makes you breathe is a prana, energy of life. Quick experiment, hold your breath for 1-2 minutes and you'll see what are they talking about, there is just something forcing you to breathe. That "force" is simply called prana.
The same energy, prana, can have different manifestations. For example sexual desire - you see a pretty girl and the first thing you want to do is to nail her, empty your 'energy' into her. So you start chasing her and because you don't know any better you get rejected. Your force (prana) is not expressed, it is sort of blocked, and you'll get all depressed. However, the original force remains, and it wants to get that girl no matter what (it is your intensive desire). So you go and google up some GC articles; you read some and you practice for some time, and after some while you are able to get the girl. Note that throughout all this time, say 1 year, all this energy was active, it was the same original energy that arisen in you when you saw her for a first time, except it represented in different form. Freud used to call it sublimation. Yogis could say that the original block was removed and prana is now free to flow through your system... From GC point of view, any GC reader could simply say that you fucked that girl because you've developed new skills...
So Prana is in essence LIFE energy itself, it is everything that makes you breathe, move, eat, chase girls and multiply. Sex energy, the act of fucking itself, is the most intensive manifestation of this energy.
That is one point of view. Another one is that we are simply animals and everything we think is reflected in our body, and vice versa. In essence, everything is just physiological reactions. For example, a guy didn't sleep well, he wakes up, he goes out, and all he sees is cloudy sky. He thinks everything is bad, the day sucks, all is negative.... This original thought of bad day will then multiply, every event that he encounters that day will then be perceived as negative. The next days are also perceived as negative, thus the negativity piles up. If he doesn't change his thoughts he will eventually get depressed, very negative, overcritical... All this will be reflected in his body, his breaths will be more shallow, he will be retaining CO2 and thus changing his blood acidity, his hormonal levels will change, his neurotransmitter balance will change, even reactions on cellular level and expression of DNA will change... Those are simply physiological changes caused by constant negative thoughts. After some time (weeks, months, ...) he may become quite sick, deeply depressed, he can even stop desiring life... His immune system will become weak, and his body may literally develop cancer because of the weak immunity....
Now another guy can be quite sick, depressed, and he is perceiving everything quite negatively. So he goes and reads some New Age books and he changes his way of thinking - now clouds are just insignificant clouds, and he starts believing that tomorrow will be better way. He starts exercising, breathing better, his blood acidity will also change. His brain will now get more oxygen because of deeper breathing. Oxygen will make him feel much better, energized, he will start getting excited about life... He will now be quite excited, he will go out, and he will be happily chasing girls again... His immune system will become stronger, and it may be able to deal successfuly with some forms of cancer...
Do we have unlimited power of our believes? Will everything that we firmly believe happen? Well, the only experiment I can think of is to stand at the top of tall building, start believing that you can fly like a bird, and jump... My hypothesis is that the results will be the same regardless of your believes... Reality is simply slightly different than our believes, but with that being said, our believes are truly the most powerful thing that we humans can experience, much more powerful than IQ... Perhaps we can't change everything, but we can change a lot with our believes...
Third view is from totally different angle: Quantum Mechanics. Here is where it gets all spooky, as bro Albert would say. It is just totally different than everything we know or most of us can even imagine. In quantum mechanics (world of atoms and subatomic particles) the reality as we know is different, here particles can be at different places at the same time. The tiny atomic particles can behave like waves or like particles. They can exist and don't exist, we can't point them out but we know they are there based on probability. They change their properties based on whether they are being observed (looked at by a person) or not.
Those are actually true conclusions of most recent science, this is not sort of a New Age wishful thinking. The more experiments are conducted the more 'proof' we have that that is how the miniature world behaves... In this reality of subatomic particles, Shakespeare would no longer ask: To be or not to be; rather, all he could claim would be: We are, and at the same time are not...
Simple conclusions from this 'new science' is, that we could exist - and at the same time don't. It is so weird that most likely no-human living today can wrap his mind around it; we could just be some holographic 3D projection with unlimited number of variants. Said differently, the reality seems to be that there are bunch of other universes out there, perhaps just next to ours, and some of them are exactly the same like the ours - except in that one we all have for example 6 fingers on each hand in stead of 5. In another one, we all got that 9/10 girl that we always wanted, except in this miserable universe - in which none of us will ever get the desired 9...
So yes, if it is going to make you feel better, there are better versions of the exact You who are doing much better You... like right now, this second... somewhere out there in distant universes or dimensions... Must be actually quite frustrating knowing that somewhere out there is somebody exactly like you, except much more successful with girls. Fucking guy...
According to this new theory, there are different dimensions right next to what we call our reality (our Earth), and it is possible that there could be e.g. another Earth right at the same place and time where we are - except in different dimension.
Can energy flow from these different universes to ours? Can they flow to or through our bodies? I have no idea, but why not? In unlimited number of universes, it is logical to claim that every single possibility is real.
Or better: Are we humans, you and I, just a simple self-projection of some universal consciousness, exactly as described above in: "God created him in His image"...?? Not only in our universe, but in billions of other universes...? Again, why not? If we can accept that quantum mechanics is real, things like that are IMO actually quite likely and more than possible...
Another conclusion is, that if "God created him in His Image", and therefore all of us are God(s) as well, or at least some form of it - we can also create new realities, new universes just with out mere thoughts, mere BELIEVES... So the reality could be, that what you now imagine and what you now Believe can become a reality... maybe not in our universe, but in another one... Logically it would perfectly fit the description of quantum mechanics - we all are simply some 'forms' of higher energy that just keeps re-creating itself in infinite number of possibilities...
May all the Forces of Known and Unknown Universe be with You
