everything breaks down to energy work
if you eat food you are consuming energy
if you are running you are using energy.
This is a base breakdown of everything.
Some people do use entities and some don’t.
But it yes, to qualify being a spell, then some defining ritual is done.
and there we draw the line, to the differences.
we can class everything and anything as energy work.
then it holds true to say, I am going to do my magical digestions using energy to fuel a process in my body.
which is just eating…
From the approach of there is just an equal measure and everything is energy work, while it may be true, we cannot define one as ‘just’ the other.
The far greater complication is using the finer detailing of energies to create new purposes.
while we generalize, casting a spell is using the outside world and the forces there to direct energy to a purpose.
Via whatever rituals / beings etc.
while on the the other hand energy manipulation is vastly different process.