Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive health system involving energy-based bodywork, diet, exercise and
self-awareness. It works with the Human Energy Field, electromagnetic patterns expressed in mental, emotional and physical
experience. In Polarity Therapy, health is viewed as a reflection of the conditiion of the energy field, and therapeutic methods
are designed to balance the field for health benefit.
Polarity
Therapy was developed by 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 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 has strong,
mutually supportive connections to many other holistic health systems.
Basic
characteristics of the Human Energy Field are described in many sources, both ancient and modern. For example, the term "Polarity"
refers to the universal pulsation of expansion/contraction or repulsion/attraction known as Yang and Yin in Oriental therapies.
Similarly, Polarity integrates the "Three Principles and Five Chakras" of Aryuvedic tradition, and has been called the modern
manifestation of ancient Hermetic Philosophy. At the same time Polarity Therapy also enjoys rich ties to modern science, which
has confirmed its essential theme of energetic relationship as the basis of all phenomena.
In
the Polarity model, health is experienced when energy systems function in their natural state; energy flows smoothly without
significant blockage or fixation. 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.
In
a typical Polarity Therapy session, the practitioner assesses energetic attributes using palpation, observation and interview
methods. Sessions usually take 60-90 minutes, do not require disrobing, and involve both touch and verbal interaction. Touch
contact may be light, medium or firm. In the session, the practitioner supports the client in increasing self-awareness of
subtle energetic sensations, which are often experienced as tingling, warmth, expansion or wavelike movement. The results
of Polarity Therapy sessions vary, and may include profound relaxation, new insight into energetic patterns and their implications,
and relief from numerous specific problematic situations.
In
the healing arts, Polarity Therapy is special in its comprehensive exploration of multiple dimensions of the human condition,
and in its effective bridging of the full spectrum of experience, including body, mind and spirit. Applying the Polarity Therapy
system can take diverse forms, always based on the underlying intention to support the client's inherent self-healing intelligence
as expressed in its energetic patterns.
To learn more about Polarity Therapy please contact:
United Kingdom Polarity
Therapy Association, Monomark House, 27
Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3XX Tel
0700 7052748 Email: info@ukpta.org.uk
