Polarity and the trap of being "anti" anything

Everything is energy at some level. You can see this with brain scans that show thoughts starting with an electrical signal. Or, how all matter is both particle and wave—and waves carry energy. Realizing this, the concept of polarity becomes quite interesting.

Since everything is a wave or energy, that means our thoughts, concepts and words are energy. By protesting or being anti-whatever we actually re-enforce the thing we are against. As the nature of energy and our existence is polar—night does not exist without day—then anti-violence can’t exist without violence!

Being anti-X carries the concept of whatever X is. By holding the concept of, say, anti-burrito in your thoughts, you are also holding the concept of "burrito". How can you get rid of burrito's if you are perpetuating the concept and thus the energy of burrito? (Ed. note: this is obviously a silly example as no one would actually be anti-burrito.)

“If you are resisting something, you are feeding it. Any energy you fight, you are feeding. If you are pushing something away, you are inviting it to stay.”
—Michael Singer

Now there may be times when a thing has gone so far that an anti movement is needed. But we don’t want to perpetuate the anti movement indefinitely. As this will just lead to perpetuating the thing you are against. You can only be against something if that something continues to exist.

It’s like the difference between “remember your keys” vs “don’t forget your keys”. The first statement emphasizes remembering while the latter emphasizes forgetting. The negation word “don’t” is meaningless without the following “forget” so the statement carries the energy of forgetting!

This concept is reminiscent of a lesson taught in skiing and mountain biking: Don't look at the trees you want to avoid, look where you want to go. If you just stare at the trees and repeat to yourself "don't hit the trees, don't hit the trees"—you guessed it, you're going to hit the trees.

This is where parallel systems will pave the road of the future. Don’t build a new system that exists “against” the old, as that perpetuates the energy of the old. Instead, build a new thing in your ideals from a place of love and compassion. Advocate for what you want, not what you don't want!

“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
—Albert Einstein (maybe)