Polarity

POLARITY = having two opposite poles as the earth has a north and south pole.

QUESTION: Have you done some work with polarity?

STORY: What is polarity? It comes from the Latin word ‘polus’ = “end of an axis”. What is an axis? It comes from the Sanskrit meaning ‘beam of a balance’. A “BEAM” is a straight line with two ends and both ends are essential! Our world is full of polarities: male/female, good/evil, rich/poor, black/white, left/right and lots more. Our brain has two hemispheres - the left and the right. The left hemisphere processes information logically and sequentially. It is highly verbal and intellectual. It loves to name, measure, compare and analyze things. The right hemisphere processes information spatially, holistically and visually. It is highly relational and loves to notice connections and senses the oneness of all things. It is time that we approach polarity with LOVE rather than standing on one side and pointing our fingers and judging, fearing or hating the “OTHER”. As we creatively work with the polarities of life, we are able to reclaim a sense of ONENESS with our world.

QUOTES

“Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and pain, when you have both winter and summer, day and night. When you have both sadness and happiness, discomfort and comfort. Life moves between these two polarities. Moving between these two polarities you learn how to balance. Between these two wings you learn how to fly to the farthest star.” ~ Rajneesh

“How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?” ~ Carl Jung

EXERCISE

STOP.

Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture. Sense the breath.

Sit calmly and observe polarities in your world: light/dark, warm/cool, high/low, close up/far away, male/female and lots more.

Get your pen and paper and write a few words or draw lines expressing the ONENESS that is the truth of polarity. The poles are two sides of one beam.

Move forward into your day aware of the BEAM of ONENESS flowing through you.