LEARN TO RECOGNIZE AND RELEASE POLARITY PROGRAMMING VYWAMUS through Patricia Marston-Snow & Halsey Snow April 2008

Welcome My Friends, this is Vywamus, and at this time I will be discussing with you one of the most pervasive and self-damaging forms of denial that Humanity and Creation have played with for eons. It is a form of denial that has been accepted as the norm for many, many people. It is a destructive and paralyzing illusion. It has been and is one of the primary reasons why wars are fought and personal battles are waged. The denial that I am speaking about is what I am calling Polarity Programming. It is a type of denial which, when used by a being, allows one to “make believe” that the infinite possibilities of creation can be reduced to just two options. The act of “making believe” in itself is not a problem, but when one makes believe and then forgets that one is making believe then it becomes a problem, and that is exactly what has happened with the use of this form of denial by humanity. Some forms of denial that humanity plays with have stayed in the realm of simply “a game of make believe”. For example the act of lying, or the act of comparison. Yet other forms of denial, what I call the “games of illusion”, are much more deadly and treacherous for they are constructed with layers and layers of denial. In these forms, it is very easy to forget that denial is being played with. In these games of illusion, the creator of the illusion comes to believe that the illusion is a “truth” within itself, rather than an illusion. The result is a construct of “make believe” that is then assumed to be a cornerstone of truth. It is these creations of denial that have ensnarled the Mind of Humanity in a realm of illusion, a space in creation in which the Mind does not even know it has been caught.

Polarity programming is an example of one of these treacherous illusions that when engaged by the mind causes one to believe that a “truth” is being interacted with and should be respected in the current reality of Self. This illusion is so real that the ego/personality begins to include the “reality” of this make believe state in it’s flow of creation. Awareness is then distorted and accompanied by the activation of certain emotions which are inserted into the current reality making it even more believable to Self.

This dynamic of polarity programming also exists within Spirit for there is in reality no separation in the belief structure between Spirit and Humanity, even though many would like to believe that there is. The separation that is said to exist between Spirit - the “Divine” - and Humanity – the “non-Divine”, as many would like to believe - is also an illusion created by the use of denial within Self. The Divine / Non-Divine pairings are simply an illusion, a typical example of polarity programming in action, “making believe” that something is different and opposite than the way it truly is.

Polarity programming is a type of denial that is used by Spirit / Self that allows one to make believe that the infinite possibilities of Creation can be reduced to just two options. Spirit / Self uses this illusion in as an attempt to define creation and limit the infinite choices that exist within the realm of creation. It is a form of denial that allows one to believe that all possibilities of a situation can be known and are known by the Mind, be it the Mind of Spirit of the mind of the ego/personality and that these possibilities can be reduced to two options, allowing for the “right” decision to be made.

Why would Spirit utilize this “game of Illusion”? Many people want to believe that Spirit is completely at ease with itself and it’s creations. That Spirit is a loving parent who sits upon a throne and views it’s creations with nothing but Love, Joy, Unconditional Reception and Peace of Mind. That it is “All Knowing”, “All Wise”, “All Loving” and especially “All Right” in it’s perception of itself and creation. And it is believed that it is from this State of Being creation is birthed.

Perhaps my friends, there is more to Creation and the composition of Spirit than just these experiences. Perhaps Spirit is evolving just like you, and - just like you – Spirit has a difficult time in receiving Itself, It’s expansiveness, It’s creations and It’s power of choice. “As above, so below”. And just like you, Spirit engages in the illusionary game of denial. After all, denial is simply a choice within the entire palette of infinite choices.

In Creation and hence in the Mind of Humanity, polarity programming has become one of the predominant “thinking” frameworks, virtually excluding all others and creating much of the havoc, pain, ignorance, arrogance and separation that characterize the current condition of much of Spirit and Humanity. The polarity framework creates certain conditions, and it is these conditions which can be changed and transformed through release of the compulsive polarity programming.

In the polarity framework, all possible options for anything - actions, ideas, feelings, - anything - are reduced to just two options. This is the essence of the polarity approach: the creation of opposites. Now you know that two things can be different and not necessarily opposite. However in the polarity framework, the two things locked in this framework are seen as always opposite. There is no exception to this. Hence, one can take any two points, regardless if they are actually related or not and place them in this position of opposite. For example, you can take the color red and the color pink. In one reality, you can see the relationship between these two colors as one being highly similar. However, when put into a polarity framework, they would be perceived as opposite and then it would be believed that they could never be experienced at the same time and place together. This approach of opposites also carries with it the intention to either maximize one experience and minimize the other, or to completely eliminate an experience and only hold open space for the experience that is defined as “opposite”.

In some spiritual disciplines, “balance” is sought in an attempt to allow this play of opposites for the purpose of making space for each side of the equation. However these approaches towards “balance” do nothing to alter the limitations which this programming imposes on those who utilize it to create their reality or shatter the “illusion” of the denial. Nor do these approaches toward “balance” affect the non-reception and separation that is inherent in the polarity approach, or the ability to perceive that there are other choices which are available to the individual.

Look at your world, my friends. The effects of polarity programming are all around you. You can see this play of opposites in most everything that you interact with. And when you add another layer of denial in the form of judgment, you create the experiences of good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse, true or false, success or failure, accepted or rejected, and so on. Morality as you know it and most of the current religious doctrines of the planet are affected by polarity programming that has been surrounded by judgment. Systems of education, politics, social services, international relations, justice, and on and on – these are all entwined with this polarity approach to others and to Self. Although polarity programming is anchored within the mind (the mental body), it is not only the mind which experiences the devastating effects of it.

Within the mind - your mind - the polarity framework has been created as an attempt by you, by Spirit, to manage the infinite choices and experiences of Self. Self is comprised of many different realms of experience. Experience is birthed from choice. When you, Spirit, create an experience, there is not an option to “delete it” simply because you / Spirit cannot receive it as it is. Once a choice moves into the manifested state, be it a thoughtform, feeling, or physical manifestation, the manifestation exists. And as you / Spirit interact with your creation, the creation evolves and you/Spirit evolve. It is through the evolution that the creation is changed. It cannot be simply un-created or deleted.

It is interesting that your / Spirit’s response to this inevitable “responsibility ” has been the insertion of denial. The choice of denial when mixed with other choices creates the “illusion” that the creation – the manifestation, has either not occurred or has been successfully eliminated. Hence the belief that you / Spirit can simply smite the creations that are not liked, wanted or understood. The elimination of specific experiences or creations has become the underlying “reason” why transformation is originally sought by many seekers of the Light. Yet the “illusion of elimination” is only another illusion. The creation is still present, breathing and evolving, and in spite of the “illusion of it’s absence” it is still connected to it’s creator. Hence self responsibility…the ability to respond to self and it’s creations never can be eliminated only hidden from one’s awareness. There are experiences and choices that you are comfortable with and those that you are not. Denial in it’s many forms, polarity programming being one of them, is an attempt to shield yourself from experiences that you are creating and are responsible for.

Although your mind experiences some limitations due to the polarity programming, most of the damaging effects of this programming are experienced within your emotional and physical selves. Take a moment and look at these areas, and you will see how your approach to your emotions and your physical body tend to be based on right and wrong, good or bad, acceptance or rejection. What is there to self perception and awareness that is outside of this polarity framework? This is a very good question to ask yourself often, and allow yourself to receive something outside the box of your programming.

Polarity programming is generally infused with two other forms of denial, separation and judgment. When you approach experiences with polarity, wholeness is not supported through the filter of polarity. Since the perceived goal of polarity is the creation of the opposites which within itself inserts an experience of separation, then your resulting internal experience can only be one of pain, suffering, and contraction either consciously or unconsciously. And when the polarity approach and its effects are not acknowledged internally, they automatically are projected outwards to be experienced as reflections in your external reality, the "outside world". This is why you “see” so much pain, suffering and judgement in the world. People are constantly engaging the construct of “polarity” linked with judgement as they assess themselves and others. Which thoughts or ideas are right? Which are wrong? Which feelings inside are appropriate or inappropriate? Which parts of the body are right and healthy or wrong, diseased, broken? Who in your reality is right, who in your reality is wrong? Who deserves to be punished? Who deserves to be honored? Right…wrong…right…wrong How can I be right? . . . How do I hide I am wrong? . . .Promote the rightness….eliminate the wrongness. This is the game Humanity and Spirit are playing. These are the effects of the polarity programming that you are subjecting yourself to.

Most people would admit that they desire their creations (their experiences) to be experienced as good, right, joyful, loving, full, and so on. At the same time most people tend to acknowledge that their experience with their creations is not like this. In fact, many see their creations as wrong, painful, lacking in love, joy and fullness – the way many people see the world.

Not seeing how they have their ideas about their creations in polarity, they create struggle, seeing themselves as unable to bring into manifestation what they really desire in the manner that they desire. This experience comes about when one believes that he or she are successfully playing with only one side of the polarity framework when in fact one is actually playing with both. For example – “light and love” versus “dark and evil” – Most people prefer to experience the “light and love” side of the equation seeking to avoid, discredit, and even eliminate the “dark and evil” side. Yet in the polarity framework, the two sides of the equation are inextricably linked to one another. One side doesn't exist without the other.

So if you have one side you must also have the other side, whether you acknowledge it or not. When you put two things into relationship – even if the relationship is one of opposites – then you have created a linkage between those two things, and so they are and will be experienced together as long as you hold them together with your choice of linkage. And polarity, my dear friends, is a form of linkage. There is no right without someone or something being wrong at the same time. As soon as you judge - however you judge, using which ever side of the polarity you choose - you are automatically creating both sides, and you are and will experience both sides.

The greatest deception which you play upon yourself when you use the polarity framework is that you actually believe you can create or experience only one side of the polarity, and that you can actually eliminate or not experience the other side. It takes a very substantial set of denials to convince oneself of this, and then to believe that it is your experience.

Furthermore, when you play with one side long enough, you will eventually end up expressing the other side. If you try to create only good (which is really only your idea of good) you will also create what you believe to be bad (your idea of bad) or whatever else it is that you are putting into polarity with good. This is because when you or anyone else plays with the polarity framework, both sides are created because both sides have been linked together through this idea of opposition and the game of denial. I say to you again so you will remember it - opposition is a form of linkage (another type of denial) and whether it is acknowledged or not, when you link things together, you get the reflection of this in your experience. So, if you think you are right, there will come a point when you think you are wrong. You cannot escape this back-and-forth movement unless you choose to act and think outside the polarity framework altogether. Trying to make yourself entirely right will only lead you eventually and inevitably to the conclusion that you are somehow wrong. People who always feel that they are wrong are also creating a play inside them where they firmly believe that they are right.

One of the most deceptive effects of polarity programming is that it is a state of non-reception. What this means is that whenever you attempt to receive something from within the framework of polarity, you never really touch the essence of what you are attempting to receive. You only touch the rightness or wrongness of it, never the thing itself. It is like having two large mittens or gloves on your hands, and trying to touch or feel whatever is being given to you. Your hands never touch what is placed in them, they only touch the gloves. That is how polarity programming affects your reception - you never really receive, whether that is yourself, another person, or your creation. If you attempt to receive something within the framework of polarity then you guarantee that you will not receive it. Only the polarity itself is being touched.

Always remember that polarity programming is an illusion. In reality, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, there just IS. Opposites are a “state of mind”, an arbitrary relationship that you can create between any two objects, situations, people, etc. You are not right or wrong, other than your mind deciding that it is so. And when you choose to think otherwise, then you create otherwise.

If you have had enough of what polarity programming brings you, then you can begin to remove it from your consciousness by recognizing it for what it is - an illusionary position taken by yourself in order to simplify all the choices that you have available to you, and narrow them down to just two. And in this game of illusion/denial, remember that the unconscious goal is to hide something else from your conscious awareness – something that you are actually manifesting. And remember that you can put any two things into polarity. What I am talking with you about polarity is much, much more than just right and wrong, good and bad. For example, another very common form of polarity which is not recognized as such by most people is in the form of what I like versus what I don’t like. These are common examples that almost everyone can relate to, but in your life there is a lot more polarity which has been hidden by you from your conscious awareness. And you can discover this by using what I am telling you here and looking at how you have constructed relationships between different things in your life.

In order to release this programming you first have to recognize where you are playing with it. and then receive that you are creating it by your choice to play with this manner of thinking. This means that the emotional effects of the polarity approach must also be received by you, the feelings which are being created by you and hidden from your awareness when you use the polarity approach. Taking yourself "out of polarity" means letting go of the need to judge things as right - wrong, good - bad, opposite, and so on. It means being willing to receive whatever is in your reality without this filter. When you do this, you can participate with the evolution of the situation, moving and creating change within it. This needs to be a conscious process, because the choice to judge and separate your experience into opposites is a conscious choice, although you have made it unconscious in many areas. Invoke greater conscious awareness of your own play with polarity, and see what you become aware of in your experience.

Polarity Programming is invisible to your mind most of the time, unless you consciously focus on becoming aware of it. It is so commonly accepted by so many people all over the world that very rarely is anyone even considering the effects it has, or the possibility of changing it. Yet change is possible, and is not even that difficult. But in order to create change here you need to hold a focus on becoming aware of it, and when you do become aware of it, receive it without judging yourself - or the polarity approach itself - as right or wrong. In other words, you need to receive your choice to use the polarity framework without judgement.

What other choices could you make? How about simply receiving yourself exactly as you are, and receiving your experience just as it is presented to you, without having to make it right or wrong? Many times the polarity within your psyche is very subtle, and as you make progress in uncovering how you have played this within yourself, you will discover more and more ways in which the "invisible" polarity has been used in different areas of your life. One easy way to identify your use of polarity is to pay attention whenever you find yourself becoming pressurized inside – angry, frustrated, out of the moment, even raging. These are usually signs that self is feeling wrong and “there is a perpetrator who is doing this to me”.

One of the best pieces of advice I can give to you, and you can receive is to relax when approaching this area for the purpose of transformation. The release of polarity programming is not an all-at-once process. It will most likely happen gradually. The more you seek to recognize this programming consciously, the more you can act to think differently in the moment. If you stay connected to your desire and your intention, you will make progress, and every change you make will make a difference. You can also do “belief structure clearing” in the area of polarity programming. I have created many tools to aid you here, simply ask for assistance.**

Don't doubt yourself, you do make a difference. Don't become discouraged, you are learning. And most of all, support yourself by not using the polarity approach when you look at your process of change and manifestation – such as “I am not progressing fast enough,” or “I will never be able to change this within me.” The polarity programming in your psyche dissolves quite easily when you choose to focus on doing something else with your mind. You are supported in this by many aspects of self, so take heart and be brave – you have only yourself to discover in the process.

My love to you. Vywamus


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