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Leveraging AND Being with Natures Tensions Barry Johnson March, 2012

Why dont we figure out how to settle the ongoing feud between sunshine and

gravity over water? Sunshine wants to lift water up to the highest place possible.

Gravity wants to pull it down to the lowest place possible. Lets just decide who

should win this battle and settle it once and for all.

What if the tension we are trying to remove or solve were the essence of life itself?

Then we could leverage it and just let ourselves Be with it.

If we were to see the relationship between sunshine and gravity as an ongoing

oscillation between two poles of a polarity, a number of things become instantly

clear:

1. Both bring something essential in their relationship with water.

2. Life is sustained by each doing their job.

3. At first glance they seem to be in a fight over opposite outcomes. Sunshine

causes water to evaporate and go high into the increasingly cold and thinatmosphere. When the limits of this part of the process are reached, the

water condenses and becomes snow or rain and gravity takes over its part.

The water is brought down to earth and runs down our hills to our lakes and

to the sea as low as possible. As these limits of lowness are being reached,

the sunshine continues its effort to raise it up.

4. We can leverage this energy (Doing) AND we can just enjoy the beauty of it

(Being).

5. There is no compromise required between sunshine and gravity. The more

powerfully each does their part, the better the relationship works. To remove

the apparent tension between the two opposing outcomes by weakening

gravity to empower sunshine or weakening sunshine to empower gravitymakes no sense, even if you love sunshine more than gravity.

6. We live in this polarity. We can move the water around for irrigation. We can

dam it up for lakes and hydro-electric power. We can convert sunshine into

electric energy. We can ski down mountainsides and swim in our water.

What we cant do is exist outside the ongoing phenomena of sunshine and

gravity and the cycle of evaporation and condensation.

7. The polarity lives in us. We drink the water. We sweat. We urinate.

8. Like all polarities, Sunshine AND Gravity are a free gift.

All polarities are energy pairs we can leverage AND we can be with. When we see

them as a problem to solve in which we must choose one over the other, we have setourselves up for unnecessary difficulties. Polarity Associates are all about increasing

our capacity to see, leverage and Be with polarities.