The document discusses the concept of "The Polo Effect", which refers to the repression of powerful energy in the human body that can lead to an "implosion" and disruption of energy distribution. This implosion creates a "black hole" sensation and disrupts communication between the body and mind. It can result in symptoms like memory loss, delusions, and changes in consciousness. The author argues that experiences like schizophrenia should be viewed as extensions of human potential rather than illnesses, and that addressing the internal imbalances through approaches like drama therapy is preferable to reliance on psychotropic drugs. Overall, the document examines how repression of energy in the human system can cause disruption and potential for growth.

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"The Polo Effect" - The nature of breakdown.
By Alix Harrow.
For wholeness, the therapist must be concerned with all
Phenomena, from the dense end that corresponds to the most
Primordial, instinctual level of biology, to the least dense
Areas of pure spirit".
McNeely (1987:40)
"If Research and methodology in Mental health practice progressed as
fast as computerized systems develop, considering that the integrated
network of the micro-chip is basically an externalisation of neural
networking, there would be a substantial variation in practice and
procedure governing the training of psychiatrists and mental health
professionals"
Alix Harrow 1998.
Western Culture in particular has affected the ability to be mere
human beings. We find continually that we no longer feel comfortable
with ourselves; something or someone distracts us from our very
capable resourcefulness. Is this an easier option?
Passion, desire, and faith in human nature no longer seem to be
priority. As we look around each day, we see the great need that the
human being has, to express his/her physical, emotional, and
spiritual life.
Life in its most basic form is energy and matter formulated into
organic and non-organic atoms/particles. These are grown and
expanded by time, into many shapes and sizes. Life is the length of
time that organisms retain energy.

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"This psychic communication depends on the action and re-
action of electrons. An electron, an elementary particle that
constitutes our bodies, is similar to a black hole in its structure,
density, and its ability to bend space, enclose space upon itself,
and form a new space-time-possibly the space-time of the
spirit".
Johnston (1996: 323)
There are energies that are contained in non-organic matter; these do
not appear to be living at all. Nevertheless, these materials have an
energy that is related to their construction, whatever that may
constitute in terms of our perception.
How can we connect these opposing energies (more-often-than-not)
to create free-flowing movement, enabling the creator to be less
inhibited by his ever-increasing sense of being isolated by life? Just
because we live in a world with different types of energy, does not
mean that there can be no harmony.
Let us think for a minute about the transference of energy through
matter. The way that we perceive this is through our conscious mind
and body sensation. What happens if this is disrupted in some way?
Matter is so condensed into sometimes quite small and restricting
areas (such as muscle tissue in the human body) that particles
become blocked and mould into each other. How can we create a
shift in order to re-engage the trapped energy?
It is possible to create an illusory sense of freedom through the use of
drama which can be formalized and grounded in reality.

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It is vital to maintain our organic qualities. It is important to maintain
a good healthy state of being. The consequences of ignoring our
state of being may lead us into severe mental health problems and
other dilemmas.
When these inevitabilities occur, we are forced into becoming
dependent on other peoples remedies, we have been taught that this
is acceptable behaviour. These corrective treatments can often be
found within ourselves to a greater or lesser degree. Obviously, this
is dependent on the severity of the condition.
In order to demonstrate what can happen, when we neglect ourselves
in some way I have chosen to identify an "effect" or consequence.
This I have defined as "The Polo Effect". The "Polo Effect" is caused
primarily by repression of powerful energy.
Let us imagine that the Human Body is a planet. Contained within this
planet is a mass of energy. Towards the centre of the planet, the
energy is of greater density. If the energy then becomes so great that
it can no longer contain the density, it must, by the law of physics
disperse. If the centre explodes, it will, split the whole planet, which
it cannot do for its own survival. Consequently, it must implode,
creating internal combustion. This leads to the planet experiencing a
loss or a darkening of energy, which, as an image might be seen as a
hole at its centre. As Johnston says of the conservation of our inner
planet:

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"Existence as we know it consists as a flow of energy created
through the maintenance of the polarity of subatomic particles.
The positive pole in our body is our thoughts; the neutral pole is
our emotions and the negative pole is our body. Psychological
health is dependent on the state of the energy patterns of
emotions and thoughts, which need to be arranged in a
harmonious way.
Johnston (1996: 323))
We might construe, that if the whole planet disintegrated by
exploding, there would be no way to rearrange the internal energy
sources. By imploding, the planet still conserves something of its
physical nature.
"However, we do not know much about how that core is reached,
nor do we know how it is affected when emotions are
discharged? Through muscular actions which may affect changes
in deep body Tissue".
McNeely (1987:82)
One of the most basic forms of dramatheraputic input at this stage of
being, could be grounding and embodiment work, this would help the
client to refamiliarize himself with his surroundings and himself
within the environment, moving on to re-member his body form.
This process of implosion creates varying degrees of isolation from
intense separation to equally intense engulfment.
Once we have enabled a client to recognize himself to some degree.
We can start to work on re-energizing and balancing the imploded
material, filling the loss with empowered realization of "self".

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Thinking on cause and effect.
The Polo Effect inevitably disturbs the distribution of energy that is
released. What is “’caused“, is a pulsating vibration that travels from
the centre of the planet out to the surface. In an ordinary planetary
shift, we might experience earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanic
eruptions. In the human body, this shift might be a surge of
emotional release from the solar plexus. (Which is situated at a
central point within the body)?
The pulse that is sent through the body, reaches the surface of the
skin where the mechanisms of the nervous system, send messages to
the brain. Messages are sent via the receptors on the skin. Usually,
the receptors on the skin detect sensation and a message is sent to
the brain and an appropriate "perception message" is returned.
In this instance of implosion, all of the receptors on the skin are
activated simultaneously, which causes massive disruption in the
body and mind chemistry. At this point the "Polo Effect" occurs.
At the point of, “breakdown", (which has many taboo's attached to it).
Something occurs which ultimately makes it impossible to function in
a "normal" (that is to say "normal" in the eyes of society) way. The
person may think that the way they are behaving is perfectly
expectable within their own re-ordering. When a person experiences
a very great emotional release, of some kind, it is almost as if the
place where it originates implodes and becomes literally a black hole.

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"In the black hole, space and time become cyclical and
information increases. Each of the billions of electrons that
constitute our Bodies can be seen as a micro black hole as well
as a micro-universe that contains a soul (Charon)."
Johnston (1996).
An aspect of the inner universe is revealed, and the recognized state
of ordering is disrupted. If this happens over time, the body and
mind experience several things. Memory loss, loss of time, lack of
concentration, feelings of worthlessness, sleeplessness, loss of
appetite, waking at odd times, nausea. In severe cases the human
may experience delusions, feelings of great strength, visual images
external to the body, heightened awareness, depression and many
other variations of consciousness.
Depressive phases may last several weeks before strong
emotions from childhood break through. It is almost as if the
depression has held back the effect. (p.80)
Miller (1995)
What happens to the mind under these circumstances? As we know,
the mind within its intrinsic nature, tries to attach meaning to all
feeling and feeling to all meaning (one without the other cannot exist
without disruption in the human being). What happens then in the
'Polo effect'?
The mind experiences a void where it cannot find meaning or feeling,
ultimately causing mental anguish and emotional panic.

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Initially, time passes and the image of the "black hole"(a visual image
of the solar plexus possibly) caused by the "Polo effect", becomes
defined in the imagination, within the state of conciousness, waiting
for an answer/explanation. At this point, there can be none, because
in a sense the body has disowned the material that has emerged from
the emotional/body, (The solar plexus) closing down the connection
with the mind.
At this point, the imbalance sets in. Memory Loss as an example.
Emotion and memory are without question linked and because a
memory is usually an emotion linked with an image, allot of the
images may be in the short term; faint, due to pushing out quantities
of emotion. There are two polarities in this equation. These might be
a great deal of imagery with no emotion; or a great deal of emotion
with no imagery. The first we might determine as a psychosis and the
second as some level of neurosis.
If we try to defend the 'Polo effect' by introducing psychotropic drugs
of some description, trying to re-align body and mind, we are in
effect increasing the 'Polo effect' because the distribution of thought
and feeling becomes muddled by externalising treatment. The
internal imbalance/chaos is the point at which the process needs to
begin. Although, the medical model, has its place within treatment
programs.
We might assume that at the point of division (the 'Polo effect'), the
mind elevates itself by leaping into another dimension, another part
of the universe i.e. the part of the mind that we might call
schizophrenic, for example. Might we say that incorporating
psychotropic drugs into the equation adds to the minds, further
imbalance in a sense? i.e. the external intrusion of stimuli aimed at
re-balancing certain diagnosed illnesses.

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As an example:
"There are good theoretical grounds to suggest that not all
Individuals who are labelled as having schizophrenia, or who get
neuroleptics, actually have schizophrenia".
Healy (1997:45)
Therefore, more damage may be initiated than is present in the first
instance. Because, infact, we are creating a re-alignment that in
reality is not there, possibly? Further unreality is not required. (We
could say that using the illusion of drama is a far healthier approach
than using the illusion of psychotropic drugs, although we have
stated that the medical model has its place during treatment.)
What is required is someone to treat this other dimension, the
dimension of the experiencer, as valid, in the eyes of the experiencer,
the person who has experienced this ' Polo effect.’
The person ultimately finding relief in the knowledge, that in fact,
what has happened, is that their reality has been extended to a point
that some of us will never reach.
At the instantaneous moment of the 'Polo effect’, the neurological or
emotional re-balancing finds its place within various aspects of the
human mind; aspects that within our everyday presumed reality do
not exist. The possibilities of the human mind are infinite, so we
must be ready and able to deal with any unusual occurrences such as
schizophrenia, or any other types of internal experiencing outside of
the normal perimeters’. This is reality.

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If we continue to disguise our very brilliance, we are denying an
immense opportunity for growth within the source given to us by the
"Polo effect ".
It could be that, this may be a doorway into the next phase of human
development. It is therefore possible for the human being to leap so
far into this next phase of development (another dimension of the
mind) that s/he may not be able to re-establish a sense of everyday
reality. This notion of development in terms of psychic awareness
must be considered of value to the experiencee and the experiencer
for ground to be broken.
This division will become increasingly more acute because of our
technical age, and the pre-disposition of creating a world of psuedo-
comfort for us.
This, in our ever faster changing world, which does not allow us to
face conditions such as the 'Polo effect' without shame and
judgement, must inevitably sustain the inability and acceptance of a
valuable gift in terms of mental health and treatment.
This will have re-occurring consequences if the issues of internal and
external environments are not questioned.
The more falsified the external world becomes the more frightening
and unreal the internal world becomes. Where, in fact it is more real.
There are an increasing number of people with problems related to
incompatibility with the external environment that we are creating.
Unless we choose to start to live an inner life and face our ever-
growing human awareness problem, we are destined to destroy
ourselves. The human being will rebel against pseudo-reality but not

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in the form that is logical to the 20th Century mind i.e. war, illness.
He will rebel with his mind in some other form.
Cc. Alix Harrow
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