Vitality determines the quality of life
Date: 6 November 2025 | Author: Edina Hodžić
Vitality goes beyond our physical health and outward appearance, it is a holistic understanding of our operating system, both physical and energetic. We could say that our physical vitality is the result of the quality of our inner (energetic) operating system – emotional, mental and spiritual.
Often when our vitality is compromised, we choose traditional methods such as improving our food habits, going to bed early or spending more time at the gym. These methods will probably produce some short terms results but on the long term, our vitality will not be truly transformed. This is why most new food habits don’t stick and why most gym subscriptions are abandoned after 3 months. For a true transformation of our vitality, we have to analyse our energy system, our mental habits, emotional patterns and spiritual connectedness & resilience. This energetic focus is responsible for over 75% of our overall vitality.
Mental habits or thought patterns that often negatively impact our vitality are either rooted in belief systems that we have inherited from our ancestors (epigenetics), through cultural & social programming or originate in mental protection barriers that we have developed during our childhood years. The first step is always to become conscious of our mental habits and thought patterns by observing them. The second step is to identify the thought patterns that are destructive or self sabotaging towards ourselves or others because this will give us insight into the areas where our mental energy is leaking. The third step is to reprogram our mental landscape by choosing different thoughts, for example thoughts rooted in self-compassion, self-love, unity and peace. This is a process of practice and self-discipline.
A similar process applies to our emotional patterns, we have to become conscious of our emotions though for many of us our emotions are deeply suppressed because of our upbringing and societal conditioning. In a way, humanity is coming out of an emotionally repressed area and for many of us old emotions and suppressed emotional patterns are surfacing to be acknowledged and felt. For emotional energy to integrate it is vital to feel the emotion, to allow it to move through the physical body. This is the key to emotional freedom. When we have dense emotions such as shame, guilt and anger stored in our bodies, lighter emotions such as love and joy cannot be experienced and felt. It is as if we are being weighted down by unconscious suffering and this has a negative impact on our vitality.
Our spiritual energy requires similar attention and examination as our emotional and mental energy. There are two elements of spiritual energy that determines our vitality and these are connectedness and sovereignty. Do we feel connected to a benevolent divine force that connects all of us? This divine force transcends all religious dogma though it is acknowledged in each religious system. For the simplicity and inclusiveness, I refer to it as a ‘benevolent divine force’. The second element is the level of sovereignty we feel within ourselves, the sovereignty of our own inherent power. Are we inclined to give our power away to authorities, (family) systems and institutions or are we aware of our own inherent power that is at the core of our being? If we don’t feel this power we have likely given it away to to others though with conscious effort, we can retrieve it and empower ourselves again.
Most of us are unaware of the existence of our energy system that orchestrates everything in our life including our physical health. We can awaken our energy system through conscious awareness, discipline and practice. By doing this we are in essence revitalising and regenerating ourselves and through this process we are improving the quality of our life and the lives of others because everything and everyone is connected so in essence, what we do to ourselves – we do to others.