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The Polarity therapy is a holistic treatment
procedure, based on western and eastern medicine. It
was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone (1890 - 1980).
He studied many old eastern healing therapies,
searching for an effective and durable healing
success. He came to the conclusion, that for a
recovery both the body and the soul must be included
in the process, so he developed Polarity; techniques
working on the musculoskeletal system, the effects
of the five elements, etc. It includes also the deep
understanding of spirit (thoughts and feelings) and
body. Dr. R. Stone called his procedure Polarity to
describe the fundamental universal movements of the
life principle which operate in this therapy form.
People experience Polarity daily, by waking up in
the morning, rising, becoming active and going to
bed in the evening and rest. We experience it in the
change of the seasons, in the day and night rhythm
and the tides. People experience it in the change of
their feelings, in being cheerful or sad, in love
and hate and also in their biological body systems
(heart circulation, digestion, respiration).
The vegetative nervous system also consists of two
opposite parts. The sympathetic nervous system
delivers the necessary energy for activity and the
parasympathetic nervous system controls the phases
of regeneration and recovery. It is necessary for
their health that humans express these opposite
poles. Especially nowadays, where the requirements
of daily life increase and it gets more difficult to
relax. The modern way of life reminds us sometimes
of a struggle for survival and is focused mainly on
activity and attentiveness. Such a one-sided
accentuation affects in the long run the physical
ability to adjust and can lead to vegetative
disorders, high blood pressure, chronic exhaustion
etc.
The somatic trauma therapy (SE®)
from Peter Levine is based on the principle, that
overwhelming or unexpected events which people are
unable to master lead to a lasting hyper-activation
of the nervous system. Like all mammals human
reactions to threat are primarily instinctive. They
contain three innate survival strategies: Fight,
flight and the possum reflex (immobility). If humans
are unable to fight or flee in a situation, only the
opossum reflex remains as a possibility. If they
remain in this condition, the energy supplied for
the action cannot be discharged and the high
activation in the nervous system remains. Symptoms
which are called post-trauma stress reactions can
develop from this experience even after years. They
express themselves in the mental field, as
depression, fear or panic and in the physical field
as exhaustion, chronic pain, sleeplessness etc.
Gradual discharge of the mobilized, frozen energy
and the development of resources which were too weak
or missing during the situation are a main part of
this therapy. Resources work as means of security
and invigoration to enable steps for the dissolution
of bonded energy and their symptoms in an
appropriate way. It is not necessary to experience
the traumatic event again.
People experience this therapy as a release in the
body, by deep breathing, release from body tension
and spreading warmth, their eyesight improves etc.
Both procedures are very effective by themselves,
but particularly in their combination. Through the
direct bodywork of Polarity therapy a bridge is
created between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Events and experiences which are stored in the
tissues by the reactions of the nervous system, can
become conscious during the contact and express
themselves in pictures, feelings etc. Somatic
Experiencing techniques support the process of
reconciliation and of new integration in a gentle
way.©Rita
Sandau, RPP, Traditional healer and bodytherapist
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