Negativity and Polarity

[ricdaw]

Do we polarize negatively when we do an evil deed by the intensity of that deed? No more, no less?

If it's a lot of little dishonest actions, do they add up to overall negative polarity?

Do our deeds both good and bad provide a certain inertia to how we polarize?

If one's character is to steal, and to get paid for work they didn't do, does that overall affect one's polarity in an intense manner? Is one's character a determining factor?

I don't think the intensity of polarization is measured by the length of a list of deeds. That is a mechanical approach, like Santa's Naughty and Nice lists.

Thus, many little dishonest actions do not add up to negative polarity.

Doing good deeds and bad deeds may provide some momentum, I suppose, in the sense that it gets easier to do like deeds having already successfully done them in the past. But this does not mean a momentum to harvestable polarity.

Deeds, in and of themselves, are not the point. Let's try this example.

You are a parent to three children. You feed them, provide shelter, advice, clothing, and support. But you do these things lovingly, with intensity, in the hope of giving your children all that you can give so that they can be all they can be. This is a polarizing activity because of its intensity.

Example two. You are a parent to three children. You feed them, provide shelter, advice, clothing, and support. But you do it because it is socially and legally required. You do these things out of obligation. This is not a polarizing activity, even though identical in every deed, because there is insufficient intensity to move the inner spirit to grow.

It takes effort to polarize. If you are in the game for yourself, you gotta to out there any make yourself BIG. Whatever it takes. And that usually means subjugation and control over otherselves.

If you are in the game for others, you gotta go out there and help others. You have to find the love in the activity. You have to engage the heart and expand it through activities that make the heart sing.

Everything else is the unpolarized middle.

Polarizing deeds are always known and felt. If you feel love and compassion while doing it; it probably* means the deed polarizes positive. If you feel powerful and in control while doing it; it probably* means the deed polarizes negative. If you feel neither, and your only interaction with your deeds is intellectual, then, I submit, that deed is not serving any polarity.

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*There are a zillion counter-examples. You may feel powerful and in charge while playing sports and competing. This is not a negatively polarizing activity. You may feel love and compassion while watching a dramatic movie. This is not a positively polarizing activity.