ACU-POLARITY

FOR
WELL BEING

Using natural ways to promote balance,

vitality and beauty

Polarity Therapy / Ayurvedic Medicine

PATRICK Dev HOLIMAN, D.O.M.

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 BOOK I
PREFACE ......................................................................................... vi
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... vii

POLARITY THERAPY THEORY

POLARITY ..................................................................................... 1
Awareness ………………………………………………………………. 1
Manipulation …………………………………………………………. 1
Exercise ………………………………………………………………….. 2
Nutrition ……………………………………………………………….. 3
Tissue Development …………………………………………………. 5
Food Properties and Taste ………………………………………… 7
POLARITY ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY ............................. 9
Cell Physiology ………………………………………………………. 9
Digestive Process …………………………………………………….. 10
Cerebral Spinal Fluid ……………………………………………… 11
Muscle Tissue ………………………………………………………… 12
Energy Impulses …………………………………………………….. 12
POLARITY METAPHYSICS ................................................... 13
Microcosm/Microcosm ……………………………………………… 13
Samkhaya Philosophy …………………………………………….. 13
Purush/Prakruti ................................................................. 13
Chitta …………………………………………………………………….. 13
The Three Gunas ……………………………………………………… 14
Rajas, Sattva and Tamas …………………………………………. 14
Intelligence/Mahat/Buddhi ………………………………………. 14
Ego/Ahamkar …………………………………………………………. 14
Five Organs of Action, Five of Sensation and Manas ….. 14
Five Elements …………………………………………………………. 15
DOSHAS (PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION) ................................. 22
GEO-POLARITY REFLEXOMETRY ............................................. 33
FEELING THE PULSE .............................................................. 37
LOOKING AT THE TONGUE ……………………………………………… 38
LIVER FLUSH AND PURIFYING DIET ........................................ 41
SIMPLE MAINTENANCE EATING ............................................. 42

POLARITY THERAPY PRACTICE

POLARITY THERAPY GENERAL TREATMENT .................. 46

FURTHER MANIPULATIONS ................................................ 58

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 MARMAS, ACU-POINTS

MARMAS AND ACU-POINTS .......................................... 68

THE ACU-POLARITY TREATMENT

THE ACU-POLARITY TREATMENT .............................. 89

THINGS TO DO BETWEEN TREATMENTS ......................... 99
POLARITY YOGA ................................................................... 100
ACU-POLARITY SELF MASSAGE ..................................... 105

YOGA
YOGA PHILOSOPHY ………………………………………………….. 110
KISS THE SKY YOGA PROGRAM ……………………………… 112
YOGA POSTURES SET ……………………………………………… 113
FLOOR AND INVERTED POSTURES …………………………… 120
YOGIC ATTITUDE AND PERSPECTIVE …………………………. 132

WESTERN/AYURVEDIC HERBAL MEDICINALS

HERBAL PHARMACOLOGY …………………………………………. 137

SOME HERBAL CATEGORIES ……………………………………… 138
HERBAL PREPARATION ………………………………………………. 139
BASIC AYURVEDIC HERBAL THEORY …………………………… 140
SOME COMMON WESTERN AND AYURVEDIC HERBS ……. 142
TISSUE BUILDING HERBS …………………………………………….. 159
HERBS FOR ORGANS & BODY SYSTEMS ……………………… 159
HERBS ACCORDING TO DOSHA …………………………………….. 160
GEM AND PRECIOUS METAL ELIXIRS ……………………………. 161
MISCELLANEOUS …………………………………………………………… 161

NON-CONCLUSION

THE VISION OF POLARITY, THE NEW MAN/WOMAN …. 163

APPENDIX I – STUDY GUIDE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE

ACU-POLARITY HOME STUDY COURSE …………………………….. 165
APPENDIX II - GLOSSARY ...................................................... 170
APPENDIX III - EVALUATION FORM ........................................ 176
BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................ 177
HOME STUDY MATERIALS …………………………………………. 178

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 PREFACE
Watermelons generally grow
in the summertime; there is a season
and time for all things.
Polarity Therapy and
Acupuncture are not to be accepted as
types of religious practice, although
they do border on sacred knowledge.
Sincere application of these
disciplines introduces a sense of
physical and psychological well
being and prepares the ground work
for higher life.
The world has never been
without stress and disorientation, but
with mass international
communication, we are now better
informed about the kind of things
that have perennially caused distress
and tension. Atom bombs have
replaced sticks and the evening news
has made the family problems of
international man/woman a part of
everyone’s daily consciousness.
Many of these social conditions point
to the need for a more intelligent and
lovingly gentle way of life for the
planet at this time.
Dr. Randolph Stone was the
founder of Polarity Therapy. He was
an eclectic and student of many
disciplines who received degrees in
Osteopathy, Chiropractic and
Naturopathy. He also studied
Acupuncture. One of his main
sources of knowledge was Ayurvedic
medicine, the ancient wisdom of
India. I learned Polarity Therapy
from Pierre Pannetier; who carried on
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Dr. Stone’s work after his retirement,
and from years of studying Dr.
Stone’s writings.
Polarity Therapy is a
combination of the hand
manipulations of Osteopathy and
Chiropractic combined with the
ancient knowledge practiced by yogis
and Ayurvedic doctors of the body's
energy fields. In a Polarity session,
the life energy is balanced more by
hand manipulation than by body
postures common to yoga, although
postures do play a role in Polarity.
Hand manipulation (massage) is a
long-time tradition in Ayurvedic
medicine.
This book presents some of the
theories, philosophies and practices of
Polarity, Ayurveda and the Acu-
Polarity treatment. The Polarity
treatment, Polarity yoga, and the
Acu-Polarity treatment are
demonstrated on two videos. Further
information can be found at:
www.acu-polarity.com
These practices are offered with
the hope of presenting at least some
constructive lifestyle alternatives.
They can be successfully applied by
anyone of any economic, social,
philosophical or religious
background. If the time for these
practices to flourish is now, and if
they can be of any assistance in
ushering in more harmony,
understanding and peace, let it be so
 INTRODUCTION
ACU-POLARITY MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY
The term Acu-Polarity has its
background in Ayurvedic Medicine,
the ancient wisdom of India and
Oriental medicine, the teachings of
Chinese Acupuncture and herbology.
Nevertheless, this book is not trying
to represent those teachings as they
are now, or how they have been
practiced in India and the Orient, but
rather to help the reader understand a
practical truth.
The first thing to look at is our
manner of perception, internally as
in mysticism and externally, as in
science and technology. Science
uses analysis and division of
consciousness into the object and the
observer.
Science and technology are
very impressive. For example, if
someone invented a solar battery that
could be mounted on the hood of a car
to make it run on energy from the
sun, we would all benefit from this in
an obvious way. The inventor would
become rich and famous.
In mystical experience, to
know is to become one with the object
of knowledge. There is no division of
consciousness but an experience of
oneness. Regardless of the time or
country, there is universal agreement
on this among those who have had the
experience. This, however, is not as
overtly impressive as are the
discoveries of technology. If someone
tells us they have experienced a
heightened state of awareness, we are
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not sure. The person may be
delusional, or we may simply not
understand what is meant without
having had the experience ourselves.
Both Ayurvedic and Oriental
medicine acknowledge that
man/woman is the microcosm and
the Universe the macrocosm. The
physical universe is recognized as a
level of consciousness that devolved
in a step down process from a higher
and primary source of energy and
awareness.
Darwinian evolution
encourages us to think the opposite:
that we evolved from the elements and
lower life forms. In Polarity, the
elements are considered the most
negative pole of the original source
energy manifestation.
In Polarity, all creation
evolved from and rotates around a
center, whether one considers cells
and atoms or universes. The task in
energetic medicine is to understand
the physical in terms of the higher
energies.
In the spiritual sciences, a
purely spiritual philosophy with no
physical reality is no longer accepted.
Likewise, the physical sciences can
no longer be understood without
reference to the higher energies and
consciousness as the source.
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THEORY