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Polarity Balancing with Pressure Adjustment for Posterior Vertebrae and Spinal Curves

When the patient stands on the plumb line test board, as shown in chart No. 10, page 62 of "POLARITY THERAPY AND ITS TRIUNE FUNCTION", the posterior bulging of spinal muscles can be seen very clearly. These are usually caused by stasis in the area of the intestines and the colon, in that location.

As the patient lies face-down on the table, with the head resting between the split cushions, these tensions and protrusions are also easily detected.

The most contracted posterior area is the place to make a steady pressure contact, with the hand or the elbow. Hold the pressure contact firmly. DO NOT SLIP NOR ROLL THE CONTACT. That hurts. The steady pressure contact, given for a minute or so at a time, releases the lower pole or acute pull from the gluteal and lumbar regions which caused this compensation posteriorly in the mid-dorsal [thoracic] region.

A deep perineal contact with the right middle finger works wonderfully well with the above combination. Usually a contact along the coccyx, on either side is also indicated. At this point the apex of the sacrum can be reached and balanced by contacts under the inferior side. (See "THE MYSTERIOUS SACRUM")

Find the sorest, tense muscle fibers over the great sacro sciatic [sacrosciatic] notch in the gluteal region on that side which you are inhibiting above. Make a firm contact on this with the thumb in a headward direction and hold it steady, with but a slight change of direction of the thumb so as to elicit the best relaxation on both contacts. This can be sensed very easily by the response at the points of contact.

When relaxation has taken place, in about a minute or so, change the contact to the next most tense posterior area above, on the other side. Then come back to the first one if more relaxation is needed.

The apex of the sacrum, where it joins the coccyx, is also a very important contact as a negative pole for relaxation and correction.

A posteriority anywhere means that something has gone anterior either above or below that point. Along with a posterior rotation there is usually an anterior 5th lumbar vertebra [L5] as well as an anterior sacral base on that side or straight across.

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