Why Do People Try Polarity?
People come to a Polarity Practitioner for all sorts of reasons.
Stress Management: Clients often experience deep relief from stress through the treatments, and gain perspective on themselves and their lives. Many report that it helps them move forward toward their goals with less pressure, and greater ease.
Self-Care: Others come to see a Practitioner because they want to learn more about their energy in order to take better care of themselves, for example to lose weight or start a health regimen. For persons in relatively good health, it also acts as preventative care — a chance to check in and get a tune-up of the energy system.
Pain, Illness or Injury: Others might come because they have pain, illness or injury; they want to encourage their body’s own natural capacity to heal itself. Maybe they are already working with a doctor or physical therapist but want to get support from a more holistic perspective as well.
Personal Transformation & Trauma Healing: Others are looking for a change in their life. They are in a process of transformation. Maybe they are healing from trauma from the recent or distant past. They might be working with a psychotherapist who is addressing the mental-emotional factors, but they understand the body is involved too, and want support from the “bottom up” (working with the body‘s influence on the mind) as well as the “top down” (working with mind’s influence on the body). As an integrative practice, Polarity Therapy supports all levels of health—in body, mind and spirit.
How does the Practitioner Help?
The Practitioner helps you find and experience a greater sense of wellbeing within yourself. They help you to look at your own life, at yourself, and to support you as you make changes if you feel they are needed.
Practitioners work physically with the body, using manual techniques, to invite you into a more balanced state where healing tends to occur on its own.
The Practitioner can also introduce you to resources in the Polarity system, such as diet and exercises, that you can adopt as part of your self-healing process. They are trained as wellness educators.
How Many Sessions are Needed?
The amount of sessions needed depends entirely upon you, and how much you want to take advantage of the practice for support. Some persons come for a single session, while others may remain in the practice for years as they continue to enjoy the benefits and resolve more deep-rooted issues that impact their wellbeing.
A tremendous amount can happen in a single treatment. Someone with an illness who has been tense and worried for a long time finds relief with the feeling of relaxation at the end of a treatment.
But this relief on its own will not last long. In the case of someone with an ulcer, for example, the disturbance might only be relieved for a few days. If the client fails to solve an emotional problem or to make changes to their diet or way of life - any one of which may have caused the ulcer in the first place - then the ulcer will likely remain.
So each individual in consultation with the practitioner determines what is the right number of sessions, depending on their goals for themselves. As a holistic practice, Polarity Therapy can support people with many different issues and goals.