The Basis of Polarity Therapy

Polarity therapy is based on the belief that man's body, like everything else in nature is created and maintained by the pulsation of energy between positive and negative principles, the union of opposites. It finds some vindication in the sexual nature of procreation; the unions of positive and negative, aggressive and passive, male and female results in new life. Polarity therapy maintains that the very same forces that gave birth to a human being are responsible for the continuity of his life.

They maintain that health is a state of unimpeded and natural flow of energy in the human body. When blockages exist in the current, illness and disease set in. This is the malady that polarity seeks to identify so that in unblocking the current, health may be restored.

According to polarity therapy there are three kinds of energy currents in the body, vertically oriented currents, horizontally oriented currents and spiraling currents. A distinction it has earned among the healing sciences is that fact that this therapy gauges health by the energy current patterns in the different dimensions of the human being, physical, mental and emotional. In this sense it is a type of holistic therapy, placing as much emphasis on mental and emotional as on physical well-being in its approach to healing.

Polarity therapy was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone (1890 -1981). During his lifetime as a medical doctor, he investigated the influence of energy in the healing arts. He found that the Human Energy Field is affected by tactile stimuli, sound, movement, attitudes, relationships and environmental factors. Due to this concept of multi-factoral influence on energy, the system has implications on nearly all disciplines that consider the health of the human being. What the system connotes is that the study and treatment of disease should be approached from the dimension of the physical, psychological and spiritual.

According to the polarity therapy, energy moves with the universal rhythm of expansion and contraction, attraction and repulsion. It is by maintaining the steady and unhindered flow of this rhythm that health can be sustained.

The polarity therapy system makes use of diet, exercise and self-awareness to prevent and cure bad health.

The concept of tattvas as outlined in Hindu philosophy has considerably influenced polarity therapy. As energy comes down from the central source, it gets differentiated into five forms, air, water, ether, fire and earth. The components of the human body consist of mixtures of these 5 elements. Earth is found in the tissues of the body. The element of air is present when we breathe. Water accounts for a large portion of body tissue and fire is our thoughts, the warmth of our bodies generated by energy. Finally ether is the space in which all these elements interact, the medium where they are bound.

The many combinations of these elements can result in just as many imbalances. Such imbalances can be identified by an experienced polarity therapist. It is these imbalances that the energy routines, and diet given in polarity therapy seek to set aright.