As another non-expert which investigated this, there are two Higgs related things which give mass. One of them, the Higgs mechanism, gives mass to bosons (forc

As another non-expert which investigated this, there are two Higgs related things which give mass. One of them, the Higgs mechanism, gives mass to bosons (force carrier particles) by direct interaction between the Higgs field and the bosons fields. The other one gives mass to fermions (matter particles). This one is more related to the Dirac equation. There are basically two kinds of all fermions, a left kind and a right kind (chirality), and one electron for example constantly "oscillates" between these kinds. At each such oscillation it emits or absorbs a Higgs bosson.