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Polarity

Bob Proctor said, “Everything in the universe has a polar opposite. In every failure, lies a success.”

Every single thing in our lives has its equal and similarly, everything has its opposite. We can learn so much from the law of polarity  because it can guide us greatly in our lives.

Sometimes, it is hard to recognize polarity in our lives. Polarity is found all around us. Day and night, happy and sad, right and wrong, light and dark. Sometimes we may not recognize it but it is all around us. Everything has its opposite and those opposites work together to create experiences in our lives. An example of Polarity is our experience with Covid-19. In March 2020, we had no idea what the next few months of our lives would look like. All we knew was that we couldn’t go to school, had to limit gatherings, and couldn’t see the people we loved for a while. At the beginning of our quarantine most of us felt a lot of sadness. It felt like things would never get any better.

"School is out" by Can Pac Swire is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

    As the months went on things progressed and we didn’t see much light at the end of the tunnel. There were many opinions and rumors spreading and the news and media swarmed our thoughts and feelings. It was hard to find happiness while being stuck in our houses, but we were able to do it. We learned to spend time with the most important people in our lives and bond in ways we wouldn’t get to otherwise. I got to see my dad every day who was now meeting on zoom instead of traveling around the United States. I got to spend time with my sister who was now attending college classes from home instead of  two hours away. All of a sudden the emotion of sadness and despair turned into happiness and joy. As we are able to turn the hard things we experience into opportunities of happiness and joy, we can learn great lessons and forever have experiences we are grateful for.

This was a great example of polarity for me because the situation contained both  the emotions of sadness and happiness.  The sadness was completely changed for me and turned into happiness, even though the situation didn’t change. Remembering the law of Polarity can make it so with every bad emotion, a good one can and will come. 

Eliza


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