Polarity Therapy:  Nutrition

A blend of modern science and Complementary medicine, Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive health system involving energy-based bodywork, diet, exercise, and self-awareness. Scientifically, it works with the Human Energy Field, electromagnetic patterns expressed in mental, emotional and physical experience—energetic relationships are the basis of all phenomena.  In Polarity Therapy, health is viewed as a reflection of the condition of the energy field, and therapeutic methods are designed to balance the field for health benefit.

In the healing arts, Polarity Therapy is special in its comprehensive exploration of the different dimensions of the human condition (physical, mental and emotional).  Polarity Therapy seeks to bridge the full spectrum of 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.

Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981) Dr. Stone Lecture CD’s, 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 Health Building, 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 supports strong connections to many other holistic health systems. For example, basic characteristics of the Human Energy Field are described in many sources, both ancient and modern. Polarity has been called the modern manifestation of ancient Hermetic Philosophy.  Polarity is experienced as the universal pulsation of expansion/contraction or repulsion/attraction known as Yang and Yin in Oriental therapies.

The Polarity Therapy approach to Nutrition is based on the energetic properties of foods in contrast to nutritional systems which measure specific components.  For example spicy and hot foods like peppers, cayenne spice, onions, etc. are considered fiery foods, whereas squashes, melons and cucumbers are considered water foods – fire has a different energy than water and will affect the body differently. In addition, Polarity Therapy employs foods for specific beneficial effects, particularly cleansing and rebuilding through specific high-energy foods, herbal properties, good food combinations and matching foods with specific constitutional and activity needs.

The fundamental concepts of Polarity Therapy nutrition include:

1. Energy is what sustains us. Polarity Therapy nutrition emphasizes foods which are fresh and vital, preferably as close to their natural living state as possible.

2. The Polarity "Health-Building" Diet emphasizes good food combining (proteins eaten separate from starches) and absence of specific problem foods such as heated oils, processed foods, refined sugar and intoxicants including caffeine.

3. The Polarity "Purifying" Diet is very effective for cleansing, and is recommended periodically or whenever a specific health problem has surfaced. A purifying diet includes fresh and cooked fruits and vegetables, with plenty of fluids.

4. Dr. Stone was enthusiastic about sprouted seeds and beans. The sprouting process intensifies the energetic vitality of any food.  Sprouted foods offer the contain the most energy because they haven’t spent their allotted supply by growing to their adult state.
   Polarity classifies foods by energetic properties. Foods are often recommended according to the life situation which is present at a specific time, and according to the constitution of the person.