Indications for Thumotherapy

The condition of our thumos, our spirit, naturally varies through the course of our day. We can be mildly hypothumotic at the beginning of the day. We can go through periods of athumoticity. We can also have periods of hyperthumocity, especially when we are engaged in an activity that is important to us and has a feeling of urgency about it.

Variations in our spiritedness through the course of our day, week, year, and life are normal. They are not indications that we would benefit from thumotherapy.

The key indicator that we would benefit from thumotherapy is when we are troubled in spirit to the point that it interferes with living our life as we desire. When we are so hypothumotic that we do not have enough spiritedness in us to get out of bed and go about our day, so hyperthumotic that we cannot sit still, focus, and finish a task, or so athumotic that we're neither here nor there, we do well to receive care for our spirit along with our body and mind.

Additional indicators that we would benefit from thumotherapy include the various types of dysthumia: 

Malthumia, ill- or mean-spiritedness 

Cyclothumia, cycling- spiriitedness

Disthumia, diffused-spirit, spread out, scattered

Melanothumia, dark-spiritedness

Photothumia, light-spiritedness

Stenothumia, constricted-spiritedness

Pyknothumia, dense, contracted- spiritedness

Schizothumia, split-spiritedness

I will discuss the above dysthumic conditions in upcoming posts