Exercise 4: Making Use Of Polarities
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Instead of giving yes no answers, for these can be rather vague and do not
give a lot of information, discover what you associate with various feelings
that are on different sides of the spectrum, or two polarities. Sometimes
a yes or no answer is in order and appropriate, but sometimes more information
is needed, and sometimes more information is being conveyed as well.
Here are some examples of interpreting polarities.
Someone may ask a question and suddenly you get a hot feeling. This could
mean there is growth, activity, healing, good, positive, yes. Perhaps you
suddenly got a cold feeling. This could mean rigidity, death, pain, negative,
no. Now use the polarities below and determine what they might mean in a
reading if you receive these images or feelings. Each reading will have
an individual interpretation of these, but for now just get a sense of what
they mean to you in this moment.
hot/cold
day/night
hi/low
heavy/light
good/evil
healthful/harmful
nourishing/depleting
growing/shrinking
smooth/rough
clear/entangled
developing/eroding
rising/falling
birthing/dying
forward/backward
beginning/end
hard/easy
white/black
love/hate