It’s time we take the next big step forward on the path of mastering one of the most troublesome roadblocks standing in the way of our well-being, resilience, refinement and connection to higher intelligence and new emerging universal possibility. 

We know from recent Portals conversations and practices that polarities — often highly charged and emotional divisions appearing across our cultural and political experience — can be a powerful energy vortex. It’s easy to get drawn in and be captured by the heated rhetoric and media portrayals around right/left, liberal/conservative, men/women, rich/poor…the list is endless.

Fortunately, as we learn in this conversation, there are equally potent steps and strategies to not only release ourselves from the polarity trap, but transform a charged and divided circumstance into a way forward to new integration, perception and potential.

Aviv Shahar and longtime Portals friend David Price Francis, who cohost the series Current Openings: What the World Doesn’t Quite Get Yet, reveal that as long as we’re alive on this planet, polarities will be our companion. Among their insights and counsel for moving forward:

• A martial artist of polarity mastery will create in themselves pre-event integrations, with ready-made responses to address polarized occasions; being prepared prevents being surprised.
• Don't let the rewards of reaching a goal turn out to be the warden of your jail. We tend to get a trophy, and the trophy becomes atrophy; we stopped our continuation.
• There needs to be a third space, or vector, to be a witness; to get enough of an awareness to say, “Hang on a minute; take a deep breath.” It’s using the law of polarity to move forward.
• Life is not a static equilibrium; it’s ongoing, on the move, a work in progress; continually shape shifting every day, in every moment. We need to have all these polarity releasing moves available.
• When we actually have a purpose, an aim, and some consciousness about what we're heading toward, then we are able to work with polarities to support our life’s passion.
• We need to say “no” many times to facilitate the one central thread of our life we want to say “yes” to. The “no” power gets exhausted; we need to recharge the “no” battery, a very important power in supporting our journey.
• If a person wants the truth, they need to prepare their systems to integrate with truth rather than bias; it’s a daily practice. This itself would release polarity, which cannot capture truth.

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