Reanimation

The counterpart of deanimation and the shorter half of the pair, since the framework spends far more time on how energy is lost than on how it returns. Anima is life energy, an animus is life contained within a membrane for the use of an individual or group, deanimation is the loss and reanimation is the gain. The routes are the primary anima sources Marsh lists, and they are ordinary. Personal interactions involving connection rather than sublation or violation. Ritual and sharing involving bonded nations and communities. Meeting strangers, which brings fear and danger alongside attraction and the possibility of exosocial expansion. Altruism, including time spent with children, elders and animals. Experience of nature, art, music, dance, creation and beauty. What each has in common is conscious engagement, since primary anima cannot be accessed without it. The distinction that matters is between reanimation and the alternative, which is why the term is worth defining separately. Secondary anima is also a gain in a sense, and it does not reanimate, since it produces highs, crashes and cravings, creates no conduits and can cause the body to release its own stores, deepening the deficit. Auto-anima is the same problem in another form, energy produced by feeding on oneself through asceticism, drugs or other attacks on one's own animus. Reanimation therefore names gain from outside through connection specifically, and Marsh wrote that vitality depends on developing connections to primary anima and curing addictions to secondary anima.

There is no single counterpart and the territory is divided among restoration and recovery research, with attention restoration theory studying the effects of natural environments, the literature on social support documenting health benefits of connection and recovery research in occupational psychology studying what replenishes people after work. Positive psychology's broaden and build theory treats positive emotion as building durable resources. Marsh's term unifies these under one quantity and adds the exclusion, since her framework holds that some things which feel restorative are not, which is a claim the wellbeing literature has no comparable mechanism for making.