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Integrative Spirituality
Universal Laws
• The Law of Polarity
By Marie C. Barrett
Integrating spirituality into our daily life compels us to use the universal laws with care and discretion. It is vital we educate ourselves as much as possible in how these laws can serve us best in our quest to be conscious and wonderful creators of our experience. Elsewhere we have discussed the the universal Law of Attraction. Now we diversify a little further.
So let's start by investigating the universal Law of Polarity. First we must understand the nature of a polarity before we can delve into the Law of Polarity itself. Then how do we use this universal law and how does it fit in with another universal law called the Law of Attraction?
First, let’s define five characteristics of a polarity.
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A polarity is a singular experience stretching in two opposing directions, toward positive and negative poles.
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Each of these polar elements contains the essence and characteristics of its opposite pole. It is holographic.
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The spectrum of possibilities within that polarity includes all the variations of vibratory resonance between the two extremes.
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The positive extreme cannot exist without the negative extreme within the spectrum of the same polarity, or the polarity would collapse.
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The point of balance between each extreme of the polarity is neutral space.
What does the Law of Polarity have to do with you and how do you use it? Happily, it is this law that helps you define your experiences and gives you a benchmark with which to compare how you feel and how you want to feel.
For example, to appreciate and rejoice in success, you must know what it feels like to fail. Likewise, to appreciate wealth, you must know that poverty exists, and to feel the bliss of love, you must have felt the pain of being deprived of love or wanting more love. Every question generates its own answer, an inside has an outside, love knows anti-love, light defines no light (dark) and so the Law of Polarity expresses in every facet of life.
You do not need to dwell in the negative energy pole for long, and it is our aim to experience more positive pole emotions most of the time. Being aware of the negative possibilities allows us to more deeply appreciate the positive, uplifting emotional experiences in our journey through life.
The greater the reach of your experience and understanding of one extreme of an emotional experience (polarity), will define the extent of your capacity to experience the opposite end of the spectrum. Compare the spectrum of pain through to joy with the depth of feeling in the spectrum from agony all the way up to ecstasy; the same polarity stretched to greater limits.
The Law of Attraction states that like energy attracts like energy. I have heard people dismiss this universal Law, proposing that like energy does not attract like energy at all. They use the example of a magnet, where a positive repels a positive and a negative repels a negative, or electricity, where only opposites attract. The reason the negative attracts a positive in these examples is because they are opposites within the possibilities of a singular polarity.
Take the polarity of green. The spectrum of possibilities for green ranges from deepest dark green to lightest light green, while all the possible shades within the spectrum share the same vibratory resonance: they are all green. This applies to so many questions in life. To every question there must be an answer. To every up there must be a down, equal and opposite.
When we speak, in relation to the Law of Attraction, of energy attracting like energy, we are speaking of the shared vibratory resonance (the various shades) of the creative thought (of green).
To experience light we must know what dark is like. We can experience all the variations of light between the two extremes. So it is with heat and cold, happiness < > unhappiness, love < > hate and success < > failure. The polarity holds within itself both extremes and all the possibilities in between that share the same resonant frequency. Hence every desire has the posssibility of fulfilment.
A familiar symbol of polarity is the ancient Chinese yin-yang symbol, where each element compliments the other, the union of yin ((female) with yang (male). This Tao symbol is also the perfect symbol of Creation. The female and the male each hold within themselves, the essence of the other. The predominantly female part is also male, and the predominantly male part is also female, as we find with human chromosomes.
Each is holographic, containing the essence of the other and the fusion of the two manifests in a new creation. The yin-yang is really a three (and more) dimensional sphere because while each complements the other, they share the unity of their essence. Each longs for the other and both for their Source.
Similarly, a creative thought is the negative pole, the empty vessel, the female yin, the void that attracts the male yang (life force). Both negative (thought) and positive (energy) must share a similar resonance or attractor factor to complete that circuit of thought energy, which can then manifest into physical reality.
Now that you appreciate how the Laws of Polarity and Attraction work together, you will be able to explain them to those who dismiss the harmonious Law of Attraction because they do not understand the science.
Imagine how you will feel when your dream becomes real. Feel those feelings now, in advance, for these are the feelings and emotions that pre-create or pre-energize future situations in your life. Take a few moments to choose something you really want. It may be a car, a relationship, an achievement. Think about how wonderful it will be when you have manifested this into your life.
Excerpt from Holistic Wealth: A Guide to Creative and Joyful Living, by Marie Barrett.
