possessing or exerting or displaying energy; "an energetic fund raiser for the college"; "an energetic group of hikers"

A term loosely and widely used to identify or describe the intangible processes that underlie and govern the material bodily events that are the tangible expression of the "energy" or "forces" of life. Energetics is often part of the vocabulary of alternative or unorthodox healing systems that do not rely on the conventional empirical scientific model that is the basis of modern Western medical theory and practice.