The Reiki Lifestyle Podcast
On the Reiki Lifestyle® Podcast (previously ReikiChat™) we talk about all the ways Reiki can help you in your daily life. Robyn Benelli and Colleen Benelli - Licensed Reiki Master Teacher for the International Center for Reiki Training - talk about how to use Reiki as a life management tool, a spiritual path, an energy healing medicine that reduces stress and pain, Reiki as a path to mindfulness and meditation, and Reiki for healing of the body, mind and soul. Usui sensei said, "Reiki is the secret art of inviting happiness." It reveals our spirit and awakens our consciousness. Colleen ans...
Emergency Preparedness for Reiki Practitioners
True emergency preparedness extends far beyond storing food and water to include the inner resilience of a regulated nervous system. In this episode, Colleen and Robyn Benelli welcome Padraig Ansbro to explore how a grounded Reiki practice serves as an essential tool during unexpected crises. Discover how centering your energy can slow down time, help you make clear decisions, and allow you to become a pillar of calm for your community.
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In This Episode, You Will Learn:
● Discover how to...
Follow Your Spirit's Guides and Trust Your Next Step With Guided Reiki
Join Danni Smith for this Reiki journey to bring forward an insight, question, or next step, asking for your attention and learning to blend spiritual guidance into your everyday life. Through Reiki, whole-body listening, and connection with your Spirit Guides, you receive the time needed to consider what this guidance means and how you choose to respond.
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Key Insights
Whole-Body Listening: Guidance is not just a mental exercise; true discernment requires listening through your head, heart, and gut, allowing your t...Trust Your Spiritual Guidance
Discover how to identify, acknowledge, and deeply trust your unique spiritual guidance through Reiki practice. Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli as they explore how to shift from outside authorities to your own inner truth to trust your own guidance, your way. How to connect with your spirit guides, develop your relationship with them, and follow the guidance you receive. Use your own discernment and trust yourself.
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Microdosing Reiki: Activating Reiki on the fly during a busy day shifts yo...Reddit Reiki Hacks, Unifying Lineages, and Teaching Tips
Join Robyn and Colleen Benelli for an off-the-cuff Reddit review episode exploring creative ways to weave Reiki into everyday life. Discover how to move past lineage divisiveness toward global unification and explore expert tips for teaching your first Reiki class. Tune in for an authentic, grounded conversation on practical energy management and spiritual evolution.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
● Discover creative ways to incorporate Reiki into everyday life, from microdosing energy to charging your food, water, and living spaces.
● Explore the history behind learning Reiki Level 1 and Level 2 together and how to move...
Guided Reiki Journey: Spirit Guides
Join Robyn Benelli in this guided Reiki journey designed to help you commune with your spirit guides and deepen your awareness of everyday spiritual guidance. Experience the Bridge of Light, the River of Life, and the Tree of Life to release doubt, clear resistance, and connect heart-to-heart with your spiritual team.
Key Insights
Activating the Reiki Channel: The journey begins by calling in the power symbol, mental-emotional symbol, and distance symbol to awaken the divine mind, heart, and core consciousness. Healing at the River of Life: Before meeting your guides, the river helps wash away fear...Develop Your Relationship with Spirit Guides Using Reiki
Join Robyn Benelli and Colleen for our weekly Reiki community gathering as we explore how to use Reiki energy to build a conscious relationship with your spirit guides and spiritual guidance. Learn how microdosing Reiki on the fly helps you access and connect with your guidance wherever you are, whatever you are doing. Reiki gives you access to your inner truth, heals mental blocks around intuition, and develops your unique clairsenses and intuition.
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Microdosing Reiki on the Fly: You do not need hours of formal ritual to connect; taking 3 minutes to breathe and activate...Monthly Reiki Q&A: October 2026 Guidance, Distance Healing, and Next Steps
Join Colleen Benelli and Danni for a live monthly Reiki Lifestyle Q&A session exploring intuitive guidance, distance healing practices, and the deep transformation of Reiki journeys. Discover how to navigate spiritual growth, support loved ones through end-of-life care, and apply foundational Reiki principles in your daily life. Tune in to deepen your practice and connect with a global community of practitioners.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Discover how guided Reiki journeys help you access deep inner truth and navigate external expectations. Explore the powerful reasons why distance Reiki sessions are just as effective as...Guided Reiki Journey to the Hall of the Gifts of Spirit
Step into a sacred space of soul coherence and divine alignment. In this guided Reiki journey, we traverse the Bridge of Light to the higher realms, releasing old stories at the River of Peace and following the path to the great Hall of the Gifts and Nourishments of Spirit. Receive gifts that reveal your next step on your path ahead of you anchoring your visions into physical structure and practical action.
Key Insights
Entrainment on the Bridge: The Bridge of Light serves as a frequency-matching tool that entrains your biofield to higher frequencies and aligns your...Understanding Spiritual Guidance & Connecting With Spirit Guides Using Reiki
In this weekly Distance Reiki Share, Colleen Benelli explores how to receive, trust, and discern your spiritual guidance through whole-body listening and Reiki energy. Discover how to cross the Bridge of Light into the third heaven, release final blocks at the River of Peace, and connect deeply with your spirit guides in the "Hall of Spiritual Gifts and Nourishment."
Key Insights:
* Whole-Body Listening: Decision-making and guidance include engaging with every chakra, allowing your head, heart, gut, and entire body to weigh in on your next steps.
* Everyday Guidance: Guidance isn't limited to divine or s...
Uncovering the Hidden History of Women in Reiki
Join Robyn and Colleen Benelli along with special guest Su Mach'ado as they explore the vital and often
overlooked history of women in Reiki. Discover the courageous stories of pioneering figures like Chie
Hayashi, Chiyoko Yamaguchi, and Kimiko Koyama, who kept the practice alive through war and cultural
shifts. This conversation highlights the profound impact women have had on shaping the global Reiki
community we know today. Our conversation features the amazing book "Women in Reiki" by Silke
Kleemann and Amanda Jayne.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
● Discover the un...
How to Move from Vision to Reality with Reiki
Receiving spiritual guidance and actually translating it into physical action can often feel harder than hearing the guidance itself. Join Robyn Benelli as she explores how to break down overwhelming goals into manageable steps, overcome fear, and bring your intuitive insights into reality using Reiki.
Key Insights:
The Gap Between Knowing and Doing: Hearing or receiving spiritual guidance is only one part; a true challenge lies in bridging the gap between receiving guidance and taking physical action. Micro-Actions Overwhelm Antidote: Looking at a massive end goal can paralyze progress. Breaking down your next step into one...Guided Reiki Journey to Your Spiritual Guidance: How to Take Your Next Step
Step into a sacred space of inner clarity and divine alignment with this guided Reiki journey. Join Colleen Benelli as she guides you across the Bridge of Light, through the River of Peace, and into the Field of Opportunities to help you release hidden resistance, listen within, and take your one next step with confidence.
Key Insights
Crossing the Bridge of Light: The distance symbol creates a bridge of light that takes you on a deep journey inward, moving swiftly from your everyday personality to the depth of your soul. The River of Peace: Standing at...Monthly Q&A: Spirit Guides, Reiki History, & Boundaries
Join Robyn and Colleen Benelli for a monthly Q&A session exploring the deep connections between Reiki practice, spirit guides, and historical roots. This conversation offers grounding guidance on working with enlightened beings, navigating psychic impressions with healthy boundaries, and understanding the evolving history of Reiki. Tune in to deepen your spiritual practice and find community wisdom in a supportive healing circle.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Discover how to connect with enlightened spirit guides, angels, and ascended masters safely through your Reiki practice. Master the art of energetic discernment when receiving and sharing psychic...Guided Reiki Journey to Release Blocks and Trust Your Inner Voice
Navigating spiritual guidance and learning how to trust your inner voice is essential for moving forward when life feels stuck. In this guided Distance Reiki journey, Robyn Benelli helps you release past experiences, worthiness blocks, and old beliefs standing between you and your inner truth. Discover how to use Reiki to clear the path and take your authentic next step with confidence.
Key Insights
Clearing Worthiness Blocks: Many of us carry inherited beliefs or feelings of unworthiness that whisper "who am I to know this?"; Reiki helps clear these limitations so you can embrace your inner...Trusting Your Spiritual Guidance
Navigating spiritual guidance and learning how to trust your inner voice is essential for moving forward when life feels stuck. In this weekly Distance Reiki Share, Robyn and Colleen Benelli explores how to receive, recognize, discern, and ultimately trust your spiritual guidance using Reiki. Discover how to align your divine mind and human experience to take your next authentic step.
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The Evolution of Trust: Trusting your spiritual guidance builds over time through reflection and acknowledging past experiences where your inner navigation system guided you successfully. Releasing Worthiness Blocks: Many of us carry inherited beliefs...Reiki Research and Parapsychology with Angela Kolls
Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli as they sit down with Angela Kolls, founder of Waves of Zen Healing Arts and research curator for the Center for Reiki Research, to explore the fascinating intersection of Reiki and modern science. Discover how rigorous clinical studies, parapsychology, and consciousness research are validating the profound anecdotal healing experiences. Reiki practitioners witness every day. Tune in to gain a fresh, analytical perspective on how Reiki works beyond ordinary laws of nature and how it is successfully integrating into clinical settings.
Center for Reiki Research Conference
In This Episode, You Will...
Is It Guidance, Fear, or Overthinking? How to Tell
How do you tell the difference between spiritual guidance, fear, and your own overthinking? In this episode, Robyn Benelli and Danni Smith break down how intuitive discernment actually works in daily life. Learn how to tune into your physical body to recognize fear-based mental spinning, shift out of emotional matching, and anchor into grounded truth with micro-practices like Gassho and the Reiki Ideals.
Key Insights:
The Somatic Check-In: Real guidance carries a calm, grounded weight in the physical body. Fear, worry, and intrusive thoughts typically present as urgency, repetitive spinning, tension, and a racing mind. When...Reiki Journey for Intuition: Testing Guidance vs Fear
Are you tired of second-guessing whether an intuitive download is authentic spiritual guidance or just fear and overthinking? In this guided Reiki journey led by Danni Smith, you will bring a specific decision, hunch, or concern into sacred space to test its energetic tone and physical somatic response. Learn how to recognize the felt difference between steady inner knowing and urgent mental pressure while anchoring deep self-trust without needing immediate certainty.
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Somatic Tone vs. Mental Urgency: Authentic spiritual guidance registers as steady, spacious, and clear, even when asking you to do something challenging. In...Best of Reiki Lifestyle: The Sacred Meaning of DKM with Kenloch Cheung
Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli in this special "Best of Reiki Lifestyle" conversation featuring ICRT Licensed Reiki Master Teacher Kenloch Cheung. Explore the deep spiritual roots, kanji strokes, and historical context behind DKM, the Usui Master Symbol, direct from the sacred traditions of Mount Kurama. Kenloch shares his cultural wisdom and personal journey, revealing how this master symbol serves as a practical, illuminating bridge between the spiritual and physical worlds in everyday life.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Explore the sacred prayer of Sonten at Mount Kurama Temple and how it directly illuminates the origin...How to Recognize Spiritual Guidance & Take Your Next Step with Reiki
Discover how to clearly recognize your inner guidance and take your next aligned step using Reiki and intuitive awareness. Colleen Benelli explores practical tools to move beyond self-doubt, access your unique clairsenses, and align the perception triad, head, heart, and gut, into physical reality. Learn how microdosing Reiki in your busy daily life opens the door to your authentic spiritual direction.
Key Insights:
Guidance in Busyness (Microdosing Reiki): You do not need absolute quiet or rigid rituals to access intuitive wisdom. By "microdosing Reiki" on the fly, taking a breath and activating Reiki while walking or...Guided Reiki Journey: Hear Your Spiritual Guidance and Take Your Next Step
Step into this guided Reiki journey to clear intuitive blocks, release comparison, and reconnect with your authentic spiritual guidance. Travel across the Bridge of Light to the River of Life and the sacred Tree of Life to unify your divine mind, human self, and higher consciousness. Learn how to align your Perception Triad, head, heart, and gut, to receive clear, grounded direction for your next step.
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Surrendering to the River of Life: The river moves effortlessly without needing to see the entire bend ahead. When you stop trying to control every outcome from the...Uncovering the Untold History of Usui Reiki with Justin Stein
Dr. Justin Stein returns to share groundbreaking historical discoveries about the life of Mikao Usui and the early evolution of Reiki. Colleen, Robyn, and Justin explore newly uncovered archival records from Taiwan, revealing Usui's diverse studies in psychology, education, and transnational healing philosophies. This conversation illuminates how early global influences, christianity, esoteric traditions, and historical connections shaped the spiritual practice we know today.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Discover the historical details revealed by Mikao Usui's newly discovered curriculum vitae and early career records. Usui's years in the USA and as a Christian educator in...How to Access Spiritual Guidance & Take Action
Discover how to connect with your inner authority, and clearly recognize your spiritual guidance using practical Reiki tools. As major astrological shifts move us from outside authority to personal sovereignty, Robyn and Colleen Benelli share how to listen to subtle signs and take your aligned next step with confidence.
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Moving to Inner Sovereignty: We are moving away from relying on external authorities and remembering how to access our own inner truth, autonomy, and Divine Spirit to guide our daily lives. Guidance in Everyday Life: Spiritual guidance does not require rigid dogma; it appears through...Reiki Journey to the Temple of Illumined Waters: Spiritual Guidance with Robyn Benelli
Step into the Temple of Illumined Waters in this deeply restorative guided Reiki journey led by Robyn Benelli. Release outdated patterns at the River of Peace, connect with your spiritual guides, and access automatic writing to receive clear insight on your soul's next step without burnout.
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Automatic Writing for Direct Clarity: Automatic writing channels pure spiritual guidance onto the page. Asking focused questions while in a high-frequency Reiki state allows your soul's truth to flow effortlessly. Releasing at the River of Peace: Before receiving higher soul insight, the River of Peace offers a sacred...Online Reiki Community Q&A | August 2026 Navigating Reiki Myths, Shifts, and Spirit Release
Robyn and Colleen Benelli explore the natural evolution of how we experience Reiki energy through different life cycles and health transitions. They address persistent historical myths surrounding broken bones, pregnancy, and pacemakers while sharing the gentle truth about Holy Fire spirit release techniques. Tune in for a grounded discussion on navigating unexpected spiritual guidance and staying centered in the Reiki precepts.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Understand how shifts in your personal energy coherence change the physical sensation of channeling Reiki. Examine the historical origins behind common Reiki myths and explore modern clinical perspectives. Discover...Animal Reiki Healing: Reconnecting Humanity to the Circle of Life & Nature's
Discover how Animal Reiki teaches us to heal our perceived separation from nature and step back into the sacred circle of life. In this session, Robyn and Colleen Benelli explore how working with animal energy guides us into deep belonging, human acceptance, and community reciprocity. Learn how to shift your perspective from dominion over to communion with and create meaningful solutions from a foundation of love. Join the animals in the circle of life.
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Healing Human Separation: Animal Reiki is not merely about sending energy to pets; it is a profound mirror that heals...Animal Reiki Journey: Step Into the Circle of Life
Step into the sacred Animal Reiki Healing Experience to awaken your authentic human spirit and restore communion with the Earth and the animal kingdom. Cross the Bridge of Light into the Third Heaven, drink from the primordial River of Peace, and take your divine place within the eternal circle of life. Experience profound renewal as you exchange blessings with nature, release heavy layers of separation, and send healing light across global peace grids.
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The Bridge of Light & Third Heaven: Using the Reiki distance symbol as an energetic pathway, you traverse dimensions into the Third...Your Angelic Ancestry: Awakening Your Divine Origins
Have you ever felt a deep, unexplainable longing for another home or felt as though your soul doesn't entirely belong in the human realm? In this powerful conversation, Robyn and Colleen Benelli welcome angel communicator, author, and spiritual teacher Alisha Das to discuss the profound concept of angelic lineage. Alisha shares her unique journey from a strict medical background to channeling the sacred language of the angels, revealing how remembering your celestial origins can bring immediate healing to your physical and emotional life. Discover how the human and angelic realms are opening up to one another right now, allowing...
Spain Eclipse Reiki Stories, Synchronicities & The Sacred Tree of Life Energy
Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli as they return from Spain with incredible stories of real-time Reiki guidance, eclipse magic in Valladolid, and synchronicities on the road. Explore the profound teachings of the Tree of Life within Animal Reiki and life, and learn how to heal feelings of separation to step fully into belonging and unification consciousness.
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Everyday Reiki in Motion: From locating a lost hearing aid in a large ocean bay to receiving real-time airport ease, engaging Reiki in daily life opens the door to synchronicity and divine orchestration. Healing the Illusion of Separation...Rest & Receive in the Tree of Life - A Reiki Experience
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Step into the heart of the Great Tree of Life in this deeply restorative guided Reiki journey led by Robyn Benelli. Drink from the River of Life, release the weariness of the world, and experience accelerated rest and rejuvenation enveloped by the light of the Divine Earth and the Divine Animal Kingdom. Reclaim your belonging within the sacred circle of life and restore your inner vitality and unification consciousness.
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Accelerated Rest in the Heart of the Tree: Resting inside the trunk and heart of the Great Tree of Life allows the deep-seated...The True History of Traditional Reiki
Robyn and Colleen welcome back Rika Saruhashi, a dedicated Reiki Master, editor, and translator who has spent decades bridging the wisdom of Japan with the global Reiki community through her historical translations. In this profound conversation, Rika shares exclusive insights from her newly translated book, written by Hiroshi Doi Sensei, "Traditional Reiki: History and Essence of Dento Reiki of Mikao Usui," which explores the deep roots of traditional Dento Reiki and Gendai Reiki. Together, they uncover information about the Reiki symbols, the inner workings of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, and how the practice has evolved into the modern...
Animal Reiki & Nature Healing: Leave Reiki Trails & Send Distance Reiki to Earth
Discover how to weave Animal Reiki and nature healing into your everyday life with practical Reiki tools and active observation. In this session, the Reiki Lifestyle team demonstrates real-world animal communication and consent, sharing how to leave "Reiki Trails" wherever you walk to support animals, land, and urban environments.
Key Insights
*Observing Animal Consent: Animal Reiki begins with telepathic consent and passive observation. When an animal stays neutral or shifts its body language toward you, it signals acceptance. Always allow the animal to dictate the length and dynamic of the session.
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Online Reiki Community Q&A | July 2026 Finding Your Inner Truth & Reclaiming Your Energy
Join Robyn Benelli, Colleen Benelli, and Danni Smith for a soulful exploration into reclaiming your personal authority and trusting your inner guidance. This conversation dives into navigating different Reiki lineages, releasing rigid rules, and working with energy bubbles to maintain personal boundaries. Experience a relaxing guided chakra meditation designed to awaken your body's vibrant natural frequencies.
In This Episode, You Will Learn
Discover how to trust your own inner truth over external authority and rigid rules. Master the practice of using a Reiki bubble as a protective filter for sensitive empaths. Explore sending distance Reiki across...Animal Reiki: Healing & Sacred Connection
Discover how Animal Reiki differs from human sessions and learn to navigate safety, observation, and consent with our animal companions. Explore the core principles of the ICRT Animal Reiki energy, combining Reiki and Divine Earth energy to connect deeply with the Divine Animal Kingdom. Join us as we share practical techniques, including "Reiki in Motion," and dive into a sacred Tree of Life guided experience to restore your life force energy.
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Consent and Free Movement: Unlike human sessions where clients lie still, animals lead the process through "Reiki in Motion". Gaining consent, whether from...The Science of Heart Coherence with Howard Martin
Discover how the physical heart functions as an intelligent master rhythm maker within the body. Howard Martin, Executive Vice President of HeartMath, joins the conversation to reveal how stress is a measurable physiological state that can be consciously transformed. Learn how simple, heart-focused techniques can synchronize your major body systems, quiet the inner critic, and build deep resilience. Tune in to explore how emotional self-regulation can radically upgrade your health, perception, and spiritual connection.
In This Episode, You Will Learn
• Discover the physiological definition of coherence and how it harmonizes your entire nervous system.
• Master the Quick Co...
Best of: Animal Wisdom and Telepathy with Penelope Smith
Animals hold profound spiritual wisdom, unique emotions, and direct guidance for daily life. In this special Best of episode, Colleen and Robyn welcome Penelope Smith, the grandmother of animal communication, to explore how humans connect telepathically with the animal kingdom. Discover how subtle intuitive perceptions like feelings, images, and impressions allow anyone to receive the quiet messages animals share every day. Listening to these living companions opens new doors for personal spiritual growth, deepens energy healing work, and enhances overall Reiki practice.
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Guided Reiki Journey for Chakra Alignment
Step into a sacred space to balance your inner ecosystem and align your life force energy. In this guided Reiki journey, Robyn Benelli leads you across the Bridge of Light to the Tree of Life in the enlightened realms. Listen to the wisdom of each chakra to clear subtle blocks, ground your spirit, and bring your authentic soul intentions into daily physical reality.
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Full System Communication: Manifestation functions best when your whole body systems are connected. Aligning your Crown, Third Eye, Throat, Heart, Solar Plexus, Sacral, and Root chakras allows your divine mind, heart m...Reiki Chakra Alignment for Manifestation
Expand your ability to bring your goals into physical form by aligning the energy of your chakra system. In this session, Robyn Benelli explores how each chakra acts as a unique frequency for manifestation, moving past surface-level desires into deep inner truth, freedom, and clarity. Learn how Reiki restores the natural flow of life force energy across all your chakras to clear subconscious blocks and bring your dreams into your life.
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Manifestation Beneath the Surface: True manifestation extends beyond material goals to align with core inner desires such as freedom, strength, and personal growth. R...Shelter Animal Reiki Association: Healing with No Ego
Leah D'Ambrosio, the co-founder of the Shelter Animal Reiki Association (SARA) joins Robyn and Colleen in this episode. Leah shares her inspiring 18-year journey of teaching animal Reiki and explains how the "Let Animals Lead" Reiki method transforms the lives of vulnerable shelter animals. Listeners will discover how to approach shelters with deep humility, respect animal agency, and use simple yet profound mindfulness techniques to build trust with animals. This episode is a beautiful guide for anyone wanting to offer comfort to animals in need while effectively managing compassion fatigue.
In This Episode, You Will Learn
...A Gentle Energy Scan Through the Seven Chakras
Learn how to tune into your body's energy field using intuitive Byosen scanning and a deep, self-Reiki chakra healing meditation. Through the grounding energy of the Tree of Life, you will learn to listen to your chakras, release subconscious survival patterns, and restore your inner alignment. This gentle practice empowers what is ready to grow by clearing what no longer serves your highest good.
Key Insights
The Power of Byosen Scanning: By passing your hands over your body without judgment, you tap into your intuitive "clairsenses" to feel where energy is dense, light, or requesting special...