I have considered the power of polarity for a number of years now.
The concept was shown to me when I read Steve Pavlina’s blog many years ago. The concept talks about using energetic flow in a polarized direction by deciding to become 100% dedicated to service to self or service to others. But not both at the same time.
There are two polarities, light-working or dark-working.
Light-working is the idea that you dedicate your life to serving the greater good.
Dark-working is the idea that you dedicate your life to serving yourself.
Most people are somewhere in the middle, and this is why they have mixed results.
The common person hasn’t made a decision to be a light-worker or a dark-worker.
When you choose one polarity, your motivation will skyrocket.
You’ll become a more congruent person. Your intentions may be the same either way, but your energy will flow better because a polarized person has one direction of energetic flow. The flow is either love energy (giving) or fear energy (taking).
Choosing the light-worker path means that your life now becomes about service to others.
Your mission is to make the greater good better off.
I have leaned more towards the light-worker polarity. The goal of serving all helped me become a better Army Cadet because my efforts were about making my unit better off.
I still wanted individual success, but this was for the purpose of being able to make a larger contribution.
Light-working doesn’t mean you neglect yourself, in fact you have to take care of yourself more so you have more to give.
Consider that you have to be more selfish to make a larger contribution to humanity.
More money allows you to be more generous. It also allows you to reward yourself for the contributions you make to humanity.
Dark-workers will also eventually know that the best way to serve self-interest is to be service oriented.
To have money and success it takes contribution to the market.
A dark-worker may have an easier time using marketing to manipulate potential customers. The light-worker may feel like it eats away at their conscience to practice marketing.
The work here in business is about integration, if you truly create a great product that helps others, you’ll want to do marketing.
The thing that held me back with marketing was the idea that I didn’t want to be too intrusive.
As someone who’s beginning to embrace light-working I have to consider that my efforts to market are still benefitting others. So I would actually be screwing people over if I didn’t make efforts to market.
Being a dark-worker would be all about personal gain. A dark-worker would actually try to extract as much profit as possible from a business. The light-worker would be focused on service.
The real work is to polarize, but to use the opposite polarity when it makes sense to do so.
The work of integration between service to self and service to others is a part of this process.
The dark-worker learns to think about the greater good to get more success. The light-worker thinks about how to get fair value for their contributions.
If I want to make more money so I can ultimately be more generous, this is a good reason to be selfish and selfless at the same time.
Using polarity to think about the good of all means that you yourself are part of the greater good. Also worth noting that a dark-worker can make a greater contribution to mankind because they are fulfilling a greater role in the game of life.
Choosing a polarity is something that will occur gradually.
You might be drawn to being a Jedi or a Sith.
When you take the light-working polarity to the extreme, it will seem like you are self-sacrificing.
Only at lower levels of consciousness will it feel like a difficult decision.
At lower levels of consciousness you are wrestling between your self-interest, and your conscience. At higher levels of consciousness you will be able to see that each polarity is actually two sides of the same coin.
As you have a higher level of consciousness, you’ll find your actions would be similar regardless of what polarity you picked.
Contribution requires selfishness, and meeting your self-interest requires contribution.
So being a highly conscious dark-worker won’t make you evil. It will allow you more freedom from your conscience to execute positive decisions for yourself. A light-worker will be able to focus on themselves so they have more to give.
The reasons for your actions will have a great difference if you choose to pick a polarity of service to self or service to others.
You will find your actions may be the exact same regardless of why they motivate you.
Motivation will be endless if you decide to pick one polarity.
I’m not polarized yet but I’m leaning more into the polarity of contribution and I’m also able to now practice the more selfish aspect of light-work which is allowing yourself to get value for the value I’m giving.
To your success,
Angus