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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Polarity comes from consciously choosing one path or the other, not from your position along either path.
Imagine the flow of electricity through a wire. Which way is the current flowing? In non-polarized people, there's no consistency, so there's virtually no current.
Polarizing brings more decisions to conscious awareness -- you begin to ask, "Which option aligns with my polarity?" This makes it possible to align more of those decisions in a consistent direction (the direction of choice), such that a strong current begins to build.
Before polarizing, people invariably make lots of decisions that cancel each other out. As soon as they start building some momentum, they turn around and erase it. They try to be selfish, but as soon as it starts working, they hold back. They try to be giving, but as soon as that starts working, they pull back again. They live like yo-yos, thinking that balance between the extremes is the correct choice. It isn't. Balance means no current. |
This is my big sticking point about polarity. I feel fine about the concepts of life purpose, commitment and the dynamic nature of that commitment in terms of inflow and outflow. But as to why the commitment can only be free of internal conflicts if it is a commitment to a strong consistent flow in one or other direction, I do not see it, and many other forum participants do not see either. It does not help that you use two analogies that do not justify this conclusion [1][2].
I think that if the general level of understanding on this point is to improve, Steve, or someone here who sees what he is getting at better than the rest of us, should come up with a better analogy or explanation of this point.
[1]: The electrical analogy: strong charges are consistent with little flow, or flows that change in time. Cf. what I said in
On the "Polarity" and "Polarization" articles (linked to now, I note with some embarsassment, for the 3rd time)
[2]: The momentum analogy: momentum can be cyclical, eg. that of a weight bouncing on a spring, or a planet revolving on its axis.