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Digital Dr Stone — Writings of Polarity Therapy founder Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981) have been digitized, indexed and made searchable in this new free resource for Polarity students, practitioners and teachers.

Youth Posture for Balance & Elasticity

If the elimination of the waste matter lags, then there is a back pressure which slows down the entire procedure and we call it indigestion. In this condition, the foods lay inactive in the stomach and ferment. The temperature there is normally 105° Fahrenheit [65.6 Celsius]. This warmth is needed for the digestion of foods, but it causes souring or fermentation of foods when they remain too long in the stomach and when they are not churned properly by the energy in the stomach and mixed with the natural hydrochloric acid secretions of the stomach walls, which are liberated in this churning and secretive action.

Again we find here that energy travels in circuits of Polarity Currents, where the beginning and the end processes depend on each other. It is a series of sequences rather than isolated factors. It seems as though the first is last and the last is first in the Polarity sequences of life's wheel.

In explaining these simple facts to mothers, they usually tell me that they have observed their younger children to take the squatting posture naturally before they go to potty. The posture usually precedes the function of elimination. However, it is done so naturally and regularly that it often escapes the attention of the parents. Since this instinctive procedure of adopting this posture for elimination is given as a heritage to babes, who do it unconsciously, could it indeed be valuable for grown-ups to use regularly when mastered once again, to regain a small fraction of the naturalness and youthfulness of childhood? Truly, it is said that Truth is revealed in its simplicity from the mouths of babes and sucklings.

Also, many of the postures and seemingly unimportant actions of children have a more direct relation to the Life within than we can fathom. Life in that stage expresses itself freely and spontaneously. When we see youth take these postures naturally and frequently during each day, could we call these postures by any other name than "The Easy Stretching Postures of Youth and Natural Beauty of Childhood"? There is a great cry for naturalness in this Iron Age of strain

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