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Polarity therapy
{{Infobox Alternative Medicine | image=Yin and Yang.svg | claims = Healing can be achieved through manipulation of complementary (or polarized) energies.|topics = [[Energy (esotericism)]], [[Energy medicine]]|origyear = 1940s| origprop = [[Randolph Stone]] | laterprop = [[Pierre Pannetier]] | seealso= [[Reiki]], [[Therapeutic touch]]}}
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(contracted; show full)apy Association: Standards for Practice (Fourth Edition), page 2. APTA, 2003.</ref> practitioners of polarity therapy seek to balance and restore the natural flow of energy which, it is claimed,{{Who|date=December 2008}} flows from the universe and into the body through the [[chakras]].  The aim is to re-establish "balance". In addition to polarity bodywork, specific polarity [[yoga]] exercises, counseling/positive thinking, and nutritional recommendations are claimed to enhance vitality.


Between 1947 and 1954, Stone published seven books describing polarity therapy principles and applications. These were subsequently consolidated into three volumes: '''Polarity Therapy''' Vol. I and Vol. II (CRCS, 1986), and '''Health-Building''' (The Book Publishing Co., 1999), '''Principles of Polarity Therapy'''.<ref>Stone, R.: "Polarity Therapy, Vol. II", page 227 ff. CRCS, 1986.</ref>⏎

Advocates and practitioners of PT claim that a subtle, invisible and intangible energetic system is the substrate for all phenomena. According to proponents, if the energetic flow is corrected and restored to its original design, the form will follow. Further, they claim that blockages in the flow of energy lead to pain and disease (directly contradicting the [[germ theory of disease]]) or may be experienced as stuck emotions and lack of vitality. They claim that this is similar to the measurable and quant(contracted; show full)
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