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Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive and very effective health system involving energy-based bodywork, diet and lifestyle changes, simple exercises and self-awareness.
What is Polarity Therapy good for?
Polarity Therapy is beneficial for many conditions including
- Back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, abdominal pain and any other type of pain
- Rotator cuff injury
- Anxiety and Depression
- Headaches and Migraines
- Arthritis
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Digestive disorders such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Menstrual Pain and PMS
- Pain and Discomfort during pregnancy
How does Polarity Therapy work?
Polarity Therapy works with the Human Energy Field. Pain and disease always exists as blocks in the Human Energy Field first before they appear as physical symptoms. The aim of Polarity Therapy is to locate and remove blocks in the Human Energy Field. Once blocks have been removed, the life energy can flow freely again and the body can do what it is designed to do: heal itself.
What can I expect?
A session lasts 60 minutes and begins with questions about your medical history and lifestyle. You are then asked to lie fully clothed on the massage table for the Polarity bodywork session.
The practitioner moves his or her hands to different areas of the body depending on where the energy blocks are located. Touch may be light (neutral) to restore body awareness and balance; medium (positive) to stimulate energy by stroking, moulding and rocking the body; and firm (negative), which uses deep-tissue manipulation to release ‘blocked’ energy.
The results of Polarity Therapy sessions vary from profound relaxation to hot and cold sensations to emotional release to mental clarity as energy blocks and stagnation are cleared.
You may be given stretching exercises to perform at home and a health-building, cleansing diet. If the practitioner feels that negative thought patterns are a factor, counselling techniques may increase self-awareness and the emergence of your own inherent ‘knowing’ can help you realise your potential.
History of Polarity Therapy.
Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981), who conducted a thorough investigation of energy in the healing arts over the course of his 60-year medical career. Drawing on information from a wide range of sources, he found that the Human Energy Field is affected by touch, diet, movement, sound, attitudes, relationships, life experience, trauma and environmental factors. Since Polarity Therapy lends an energy-based perspective to all these subjects, the scope of Polarity practice is often very broad, with implications for health professionals in many therapeutic disciplines.
As a result, Polarity Therapy supports strong connections to many other healing and holistic health systems. For example, basic characteristics of the Human Energy Field are described in many sources, both ancient and modern. From the Ayurvedic tradition, Polarity Therapy integrates the “Three Principles and Five Chakras” and has been called the modern manifestation of ancient Hermetic Philosophy. Polarity Therapy is experienced as the universal pulsation of expansion/contraction or repulsion/attraction known as Yang and Yin in Oriental therapies. Energy moves out from a central source – which is repulsion, then back to the source – which is attraction. Polarity practitioners use this natural phenomenon as a way of tracking energy flow.
"True health is the harmony of life within us, consisting of peace of mind, happiness and well-being. It is not merely a question of physical fitness, but is rather a result of the soul finding free expression through the mind and body of the individual."
"AS YOU THINK, SO YOU ARE "
Dr. Randolph Stone, founder of Polarity Therapy