Polarity Therapy

What is Polarity Therapy?

A blend of modern science and complementary medicine; Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive health system involving energy-based bodywork, diet, exercise and self-awareness. Scientifically, it works with the Human Energy Field, electromagnetic patterns expressed in mental, emotional and physical experience.

When energy is unbalanced, blocked or fixed due to stress or other factors, pain and disease arise. Blockages generally manifest in sequence from the subtle to the dense levels of the field. Polarity Therapy seeks to find the blockages and release energy to normal flow patterns and to maintain the Energy Field in an open, flexible condition.

Following the integrative energy-based therapeutic methods of Dr. Randolph Stone (1890-1981), Polarity Therapy is a natural health care system based upon the universal principles of energy: attraction, repulsion, and neutrality. The interrelation of these principles forms the basis for every aspect of life, including our experience of health, wellness and disease. With this understanding, Polarity Therapy addresses the interdependence of body, mind, and spirit; the importance of relationships; the value of creating a way of life in harmony with nature. As part of the larger field of Energy, Therapy Polarity complements existing systems with an integrated, holistic model. Polarity Therapy is a transformative influence for change in healthcare, wellness education, and complementary and alternative medicine. 

Polarity Therapy: Nutrition

The Polarity Therapy approach to Nutrition is based on the energetic properties of foods in contrast to nutritional systems which measure specific components.  For example spicy and hot foods like peppers, cayenne spice, onions, etc. are considered fiery foods, whereas squashes, melons and cucumbers are considered water foods – fire has a different energy than water and will affect the body differently. In addition, Polarity Therapy employs foods for specific beneficial effects, particularly cleansing and rebuilding through specific high-energy foods, herbal properties, good food combinations and matching foods with specific constitutional and activity needs.

The fundamental concepts of Polarity Therapy nutrition include:

• Energy is what sustains us. Polarity Therapy nutrition emphasizes foods which are fresh and vital, preferably as close to their natural living state as possible.

• The Polarity "Health-Building" Diet emphasizes good food combining (proteins eaten separate from starches) and absence of specific problem foods such as heated oils, processed foods, refined sugar and intoxicants including caffeine.

• The Polarity "Purifying" Diet is very effective for cleansing, and is recommended periodically or whenever a specific health problem has surfaced. A purifying diet includes fresh and cooked fruits and vegetables, with plenty of fluids.

• Dr. Stone was enthusiastic about sprouted seeds and beans. The sprouting process intensifies the energetic vitality of any food.  Sprouted foods offer the contain the most energy because they haven’t spent their allotted supply by growing to their adult state. 

• Polarity classifies foods by energetic properties. Foods are often recommended according to the life situation which is present at a specific time, and according to the constitution of the person.

Somatic Process (Touch)

Polarity Therapy is best known for its energy-based approaches to somatic contact (touch). 

The fundamental concepts of Polarity Therapy touch:

• The hands are Energy Conductors. As a Polarity Therapy practitioner I have learned the pathway locations and use conscious touch to facilitate energy movement. 

• You respond not only to touch itself, but also to my energy and consciousness. By creating an environment of safety and recognition, I support your self-healing process. 

• Energy can be palpated by both you and I.  You may feel relaxation, tingling, wavelike movement, stillness, and similar phenomena during the contact. I may feel warming and softening, pulsation, relationship between the two hand contacts, stillness, energetic shaping, and related subtle sensations, as the Polarity contact is held.

• Each individual has a subconscious inner intelligence and self-regulating capacity which emerges with awareness of energy movement. In the Polarity Therapy session, I may employ verbal skills to support your increasing self-awareness of energy movement.

• A common energetic situation encountered in Polarity Therapy sessions is what Dr. Stone called "fixation at the negative pole." This phenomenon reflects the universal tendency to become attached to events, people or things, experiences and thought-forms and thereby experience reduced flexibility, adaptability, and forgiveness. Polarity Therapy contacts are often oriented to relieving this condition by supporting the full cycle of energy out from the core to the periphery, and then especially, the return current back to the source.

• A Polarity Therapy education explores the relationships of the chakras and their parallel lines of current flow human energy fields flow in 3 different patterns, North and South also known as long line currents, east and west known as transverse current and spiral current starting at the navel and circling outward, the "five pointed-star" pattern of the torso, the "Interlaced Triangles" of the Craniosacral system, positive-neutral-negative polarized relationships throughout the body, and similar energy mappings which are the basis for hand placement. "God Geometrizes" was one of Dr. Stone's themes, and Polarity Therapy contacts often have recognizable patterns of symmetrical relationship.

• Polarity Therapy has a special affinity with Craniosacral Therapy. Dr. Stone's osteopathic training led him to a deep appreciation for the "Breath of Life" intelligence which is conveyed by the cerebrospinal fluid. Dr. Stone's statements about CSF are entirely consistent with and supportive of the revolutionary findings of William Garner Sutherland, DO (1880-1954), the pioneer of fluid-based Craniosacral Therapy. In the Polarity Therapy model, Craniosacral techniques address the "Primary Energy," core layer of the Energy Anatomy Esoteric anatomy, Wireless Anatomy and Energy Zones.