When you accept and integrate your polarities, you become more yourself, you become authentic and authentic. Follow the path that always leads to your purest essence, a path that is always born in you and comes back to you.
But what is polarity? Polarities refer to the ends of the same whole, opposite ends. If one side is clear, the other is shadow; if one side is passivity, the other is action; when one is clear, the other is dark. Therefore, we are talking about the extremes that exist in the whole.
- In the psychological aspect.
- Can we find examples of these polarities in the following pairs: Sadness-Joy.
- Euphoria-Quiet.
- Extroversion-Introversion.
- Femininity-Masculinity?I’m sure you understand what I mean and you can even complete your list.
- Probably every one of these opposites lived in you.
- Who has never felt sad and happy?Who has never been euphoric despite being calm in general?.
Polarities talk about life to its full extent, they talk about what life is and what it is, are you looking for light?I will also give you darkness, being able to see these polarities and how being at one end or another influences us is part of our personal growth.
Culture, social norms, family heritage, disguised commandments, silence and abuse on one side of the whole, one end of this couple. Silence on one side of the polarity. It amputates our essence, often without letting it grow, like an outbreak of grass that has trouble coming out, but always cuts, the energy you use to want to get out is totally amputated by the tool that cuts it.
Still? And if it doesn’t come out naturally, it will come out in a less healthy and more violent way. How many times have you caught yourself being aggressive and offensive, when your image of yourself can be?How many times have you been surprised to find yourself calm and at peace when you consider yourself nervous and easily irritable about your surroundings?
This is its authenticity. Both are extreme, aggressive and gentle, calm and nervous, is it light and shadow?We usually position ourselves at one end completely with total conviction denying the existence of the other end: “I am very quiet, I never get angry !?”I’m very independent and I don’t need any help.
It is at this point that I must-be part of our nature that we strongly criticize the other, if I am not able to accept what repudiated me and what society makes me repudiate, I will see it and repudiate it in others as well. But not me, because it’s not me. Because I’m so calm and I never get angry. However, when I see what others do, my being boils and explodes.
We identify with those parts we are proud of or those that stimulate the culture in which we live, being a man and being a woman?(which society considers feminine) is sometimes considered strange in some cultures, but in others it is quite normal and natural.
Once we recognize our extremes, we can accept ourselves, when we stop projecting what we do not love ourselves, even when it exists, we can understand it without judging it, we will contemplate it calmly. and without feeling disturbed, because we will not project what we do not like ourselves, we will simply contemplate it.
“You don’t see who you are, but your shadow. -Rabindranath Tagore-
Work for your authenticity, to integrate your polarities. The more you accept yourself, the less you will reject the other. The less prejudices you have, the freer you will be, the more you accept yourself, the more you can work with yourself with love to improve yourself, thus eliminating the need to project what you don’t like in others.