Don your smirking jacket and retire to your heavily damasked thinking room this autumn with Richard Gordon's first book. It is called "Your Healing Hands - The Polarity Experience" and very good it is too. "The purpose of this text is to introduce you to the Polarity system and explore your healing potential, and to expand the boundaries within which we experience ourselves." This is definitely the simplest healing process that I have come across, and the easiest to start on. Try as I might, I have found it difficult to inflict serious injury by misapplication. The only thing you really need is a massage table. The process does involve touch, but nothing intrusive, and if desired potential legal issues could presumably be avoided by performing the work in the presence of a friendly observer. The top of the body is regarded as positive, and the lower part as negative; the right side of the body is also seen as positive, and the left as negative. By putting your hands on different parts of the body you can create circuits and heal headaches and pain, and improve the quality of sleep. 'Cradling' parts of the body between your two hands (close to but not necessarily touching the body) can be useful, as can 'brushing off' stuck energy, and rubbing the webbing between the thumb and first finger. For Richard Gordon, Polarity is concerned with the body, and the definitive meaning of Polarity in the Chinese system is I believe set out in the 'I Ching' (Richard Wilhelm's translation (ISBN 0 7100 1581 X), and 'Eight Lectures on the I Ching', also by Helmut Wilhelm' (ISBN 0 7100 6661 9). The 'tummy rock' sounds especially appealing ! "Your Healing Hands : The Polarity Experience" ISBN 978 - 1- 55643 - 525 - 6 £13 or less if ordered via your friendly local bookshop.
Comments