When Polarity Goes to Extremes
In this morning’s New York Times, opinion columnist David Brooks writes, “Even when justified, permanent indignation is not a healthy emotional state. We’ve become a little addicted to our own umbrage ….”
Sound like anyone you know?
You will not be surprised that the United States is caught in a polarity war, but this is, if you will, Polarity Plus, polarity gone to its worst extremes.
It’s only a matter of time before the tension between opposites snaps and we go into a contraction—simply because the polarity has expanded so very much.
This is an energetic phenomenon that happens in our personal lives all the time.
You start a new job and everything is rosy. The honeymoon period we call it. Expansion, expansion, expansion.
Because we live on a planet based on polarity as a principle, there’s only one way for the energy to move once it expands to its fullest extent at that moment in time.
Contraction. The honeymoon period is over, and you discover that you have caused some jealousy on the team.
No worries, of course, because eventually expansion will rule the day again. We do this all the time as I’ve said.
But not usually as a collective. Not all of us at once. Which is what is happening in lots of places in the world right now.
When the polarity continuum is collective, it feels a whole lot more dire than when it simply happens personally.
How can you or I, one small person against a collective of who-knows-how-many around the world, make a difference? Surprisingly easily it turns out.
As the news has gotten more and more Chicken Little, shall we say, in the past few months, my husband has taken to adding a few words to the end of each lament. His, mine, ours or those of our clients or our friends.
He says, “And we’ll be okay.”
And he keeps saying it until the woe-monger, whomever it may be, really hears it.
And we’ll be okay. 4½ words.
There have been bad presidents before … and we were okay then, and we are okay now, and we will be okay when that individual leaves office.
There have been nefarious court appointments before … and we were okay then, and we are okay now, and we will be okay when that individual is no longer on the bench.
There have been botched elections before … and we were okay then, and we are okay now, and we will be okay when that election is long forgotten.
There have always been doom-mongers. We need them really.
Does that surprise you? It shouldn’t.
This is a planet that functions based on the principle of polarity. What goes up must come down. We know this.
Those who doom-monger remind those of us who, if you will, okay-monger that we, too, have an equally vital job. That of reminding ourselves and everyone else that this too shall pass.
And we’ll be okay. The 4½ words are a gift from our household to yours. Deploy them. For real. Teach them to everyone you know.
Perspective is a part of wisdom, Beloved. We need to remember the truth encoded in our bones: that we’ll be okay.
Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual teacher, the founder of iAmpersand, and the author of The Mex Mysteries, the Boots & Boas Books, and spiritual nonfiction.