Polarity
Therapy
by
Jan Milthaler, MSW, RPP, CMT
Polarity is a holistic natural health care system for balancing life
energy. It can increase levels of energy, relieve fatigue, unwind
body stress, relax muscular tension, balance the nervous system,
release emotional holding patterns, increase body awareness, and
provide an improved sense of well-being.
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Polarity
was founded by Dr. Randolph Stone, an Austrian born in
1890. In the early 1900's, Dr. Stone emigrated to Chicago, where he
studied Chiropractic, Osteopathy, and Naturopathy. Dr. Stone had a
unique interest in healing systems from all over the world. He
observed many cultures and paid particular attention to three Eastern
modes: the Chinese acupuncture system, the Indian Ayurvedic system
and the ancient Egyptian or Hermetic Wisdom Teachings. Polarity as we
know it today was Dr. Stone's synthesis of his knowledge and
experience of Eastern and Western healing systems.
Polarity teaches that we are fields of pulsating energy made up of
specific frequencies of life energy known as the five elements. These
elements are ether, air, fire, water and earth. Each element relates
and flows in a balance of positive, negative and neutral attractions.
When our thoughts and emotions are out of alignment with the energy
requirements of a life event, an imbalance of life energy results.
Energy imbalances may lead to confusion, pain, emotional discomfort
and other physical symptoms. Over a long period of time, energy
imbalances may appear as clinical dis-ease. Polarity teaches that the
pain and discomforts of life are signals for us to learn, and present
an opportunity to change and realign our lives.
By learning to tune into energy patterns and flows, we can create
an opportunity for a clearing of energy imbalances in our lives. To
accomplish this, Polarity utilizes bodywork, exercise, nutrition and
verbal guidance. Polarity bodywork involves learning gentle rocking,
stretching and pressure-sensitive touches based on energy flows.
Polarity exercise utilizes easy stretching postures combining sound,
breath and self-massage. Polarity nutrition views food as energy and
develops an ongoing, ever-changing, creative nutritional awareness
rather than a rigid set of rules. Polarity verbal guidance is based
on Dr. Stone's teaching that right thinking is the cornerstone of
health. Verbal processes involve understanding and feeling our
emotions, taking self-responsibility, and creating life enhancing
thoughts.
Polarity teaches that a dynamic, challenging, ongoing balance of
life energy is the foundation of good health. We focus on developing
the flexibility, spontaneity and creativity necessary to meet the
challenges of our everyday life. When our physical, emotional and
mental energies are in harmony, we naturally and spontaneously rise
to higher levels of well-being. Being well is a life-long process
involving increasing depths of understanding, awareness and
sensitivity in a continuing intimacy with each moment of our
life.
The Polarity Wellness Center West in Santa Rosa, California
provides an Associate Polarity Practitioner training program approved
by the American Polarity Therapy Association. The Center is
affiliated with the Polarity Wellness Network in New York, and with
additional centers in New England, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Scottsdale,
Dublin, Zurich and Geneva. Courses taken in any of these centers are
transferable with the Network, and are recognized toward Associate
and Registered Polarity Practitioner status.
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