People complain that gift-giving becomes more and more empty, heartless, worthless, boring and obligatory. But the problem is not in choosing and giving gifts, but in the emotion and energy with which we do it.
Everything in our physical reality has “energy” carried by people, the circumstances in which we are surrounded, the places we are in, the gifts we choose and the objects we are surrounded by. So, everything that comes in our experience brings its own certain energy.