Euthumia is characterized by general healthiness, freedom, the ability to provide for ourselves, being productive, and living a relatively harmonious life with others.
My current opinion is that most of us are naturally euthumic.
However, just as maintaining our physical health is an ongoing process, so is maintaining the health and well-being of our spirit.
Euthumia is not a constant state we strive to attain and then enjoy. Throughout our lives we face constant challenges to our basic, natural euthumic condition. Even so, we can develop the following practices that nurture the wellness of our spirit:
Mindfulness of spirit: being intentional about paying attention to our spirit and its condition.
Assessing the condition of our spirit: evaluating our spirit in terms of the three general categories of euthumia, athumia, and dysthumia and the more specific conditions in these general categories.
Choosing whether or not we want to change the condition of our spirit.
Knowing what to do to regulate our spirit: knowing what lifts, calms, strengthens, softens, collects, opens, expands, or otherwise regulates our spirit.
Regulating our spirit: actually putting our know-how into action.
Future posts will go into more detail about these practices that help us regulate our spirt.
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