Summary of Basic Principles in the Use of Polarity Technique

charts 1 and 2 in book II, and wherever the Caduceus currents are illustrated in these books. When the need for deep effects of polarization is indicated, these particular currents are treated by a contact on one side and one on the other side, or anterior and posterior, as the case may be - in the same region or above it, and below it. The "X" in each circle shown in figure 2 of chart No. 6 in this book illustrates this idea. A cross-over contact in local areas is very effective. And to polarize that area with an inferiorly or superiorly located area also gives good results.

There is an unlimited variety of POLARITY contacts, depending on the current of energy and the particular area to be polarized. In fact, most bipolar contacts commonly used in manipulative therapy owe their success - not to the manipulation itself, but to the POLARITY reflex stimulation which is produced by the contacts which the operator uses for manipulative purposes only!

CRANIOPATHY, applied on adults, owes its fine results to specific polarity reflexes on the head alone. Adult cranial bones are quite firmly interlaced by their sutures. However, the brain expands and contracts in rhythmic movements, especially in the daytime and under stress. Then the sutures act like hinges. Even the lightest contacts give good results in the energy fields here.

THE SORE SPOTS found on the bones of the head or anywhere are due to depolarized energies, acting as stagnant blocks in the vital field beneath the bone. All body areas and functions are represented in the brain. Sore spots indicate these reflexes when they are found on the skull. This has been illustrated in various charts in these courses.

Impulses act through the bones. Bony positions depend upon the tension in the energy field with its structural energy currents. The bones themselves are given too much importance in such a vital field. Bones are not causes, but are effects in the body economy. Trying to position them by external force, without changing the Polarity action in that field, would not be successful nor do any bones stay in position when so adjusted.

Children have softer cranial bones. A molding of the whole head is very beneficial in its re-polarizing effect on the entire body. Much can be done here with regard to the double process of physical molding and polarity balance.