The Memory of Polarity

Before the body ever formed bones, muscles, or even a nervous system, it formed gradients – differences in charge, concentration, and polarity. These gradients weren’t visible structures, but they were powerful ones. They created the conditions in which life could begin to organize itself.

Before there was form, there was flow. Before there was identity, there was separation – inside and outside, rest and activity, high and low charge. These opposites are what gave to our body its first sense of direction.

And what made these gradients possible? Not hormones. Not genes. Not even proteins. The very first materials to guide and stabilize life were minerals – simple salts dissolved in water. Sodium. Potassium. Magnesium. Calcium. Chloride. These minerals, often overlooked in modern nutrition, were the original architects of biological structure. They did not build like bricks. They built like fields – creating the invisible tensions and balances that let cells hold energy and pass signals.

These minerals are not passive. They carry electrical charge. They move. They regulate. They protect. When sodium rushes in, the nerve fires. When potassium leaves, it resets. When magnesium is present, the firing doesn’t go too far. Calcium makes a muscle contract. Chloride keeps it all in balance. Every heartbeat, every thought, every breath, every emotion – it all depends on the right ions in the right place at the right time.

Even DNA – the symbol of life itself – cannot be expressed without the correct gradients in place.

The enzymes that read and copy genes need the right pH, the right charge, the right balance of salts.

Without this balance, genes stay silent. Proteins won’t fold. Signals can’t travel.

So before biology became complex, it was electrical. Before it built form, it built polarity. And that polarity – the ability to hold opposites in tension – is the first memory of the body. It is not a memory we can see, but one we can feel. It is the memory of what it means to hold charge, to return to center, to come home after stimulation.

This is why salts are so important – not just to health, but to life itself. They don’t just support structure. They are the structure. They remind the body of how to organize, not through force, but through quiet, steady alignment.

In the Tetrahedral Artificial reality full of stimulation and synthetic loops, this memory may be the most powerful one we have forgot.

It seems that electricity holds the polarity – like it holds the duality. And this insight brings us to the heart of both physics and biology. It may seem abstract at first, but it’s not. It’s the very foundation of life and form, of thought and action, of what it means to move through the world with awareness and health.

Polarity is the existence of two opposing charges or states: positive and negative, inside and outside, fire and rest, stimulus and recovery. These opposites do not cancel each other. Instead, they create tension – and that tension is not destructive. It is creative. It gives rise to direction, flow, rhythm, and choice. But for polarity to stay intact, something must hold the space between opposites. That something is electricity.

In the body, this is more than theory – it is experience. Every nerve cell maintains a resting membrane potential – a charge difference between the inside and outside of the cell. This charge isn’t passive. It’s held by active pumps that use ATP and rely on minerals like sodium, potassium, and chloride. When a nerve fires, the polarity temporarily collapses – depolarization – and then it resets. This firing and resetting is not a flaw. It’s life. It’s how the nervous system communicates, how the heart beats, how the muscles contract and release. Without electricity, the system cannot hold tension. It becomes flat, overactive, or chaotic.

In nature, the pattern repeats. Electromagnetic force is what holds matter together. Atoms hold their electrons through electrical attraction. Planets stay in orbit because of a tension of forces. Rain falls. Trees grow. Cells divide. All of it depends on polarity – and polarity depends on something deeper holding it in place. That something is electricity – not as power, but as balance.

Even in the mind, polarity is essential. Awareness and rest. Stimulation and peace. Thought and silence. When we become overstimulated, we lose polarity. We fire without reset. We chase without holding. We think without landing. And that collapse is not just mental – it is bioelectrical. It is the body losing its ability to contain tension without breaking it.

Rebuilding polarity means learning to hold energy without leaking. To sit inside the space between opposites and not rush to one side. This is what the body remembers when it has enough salts, enough rest, and enough time. The ability to contain both stillness and movement. Fire and water.

But polarity is not only electrical. It is biochemical. It is hormonal. It is the very architecture of what becomes masculine and feminine in the body. Just as minerals create charge differences across cell membranes, so do subtle differences in hormone balances create the unique rhythms and tendencies we call male and female.

Testosterone and estrogen, though both present in every person, exist in delicate ratios that craft the polarity of physiology, of tissues, of drives. Testosterone leans the body toward structure, direction, outward force. Estrogen leans the body toward receptivity, cyclic renewal, inner nurture. These are not merely social ideas — they are molecular realities. They are differences in concentration, gradients of another kind, that shape how tissues grow, how the mind perceives, how emotions flow.

This biochemical polarity is not separate from the electrical one. It is layered on top of it, interwoven. The same minerals that create resting potentials in neurons also regulate the enzymes that synthesize sex hormones. Magnesium calms, potassium soothes, sodium excites, calcium triggers. A body lacking these ions cannot maintain stable electrical charge — but it also struggles to keep hormonal signals balanced. Without the right mineral foundation, the hormonal polarity that sustains masculine and feminine can falter, blur, collapse into confusion or exhaustion.

So when we speak of the memory of polarity, we speak of many layers at once.

It is the memory of the cell holding a charge across its membrane.

It is the memory of the organism holding a balance of hormones that guide growth and reproduction.

It is the memory of being able to differentiate — to sustain difference without immediately equalizing it into flatness.

In modern times, many lose this memory. Not just through social overstimulation or mental stress, but through biochemical erosion. Diets depleted of minerals, overloaded with synthetic additives, strip the body of the very gradients it needs to hold both electrical and hormonal polarity. The result is not only nerves that misfire and hearts that race or stumble, but also a confusion of deeper biological identities. The polarity of masculine and feminine becomes harder to maintain, not only culturally, but biochemically.

Rebuilding polarity, then, is not merely about returning to an idea of gender roles. It is about restoring the physical capacity of the body to hold difference — electrically, hormonally, structurally. It is about replenishing the minerals that sustain charge, so that cells can fire and rest, so that hormones can flow in their natural dance, so that masculine and feminine energies — each with their own essential tensions — can meet in the body without collapsing into sameness or disorder.

This is the memory of polarity.

It is older than culture, deeper than opinion.

It is written in the gradients that gave life its first direction — inside versus outside, sodium versus potassium, testosterone versus estrogen.

It is a memory not only of electricity, but of the very forces that allow opposites to exist in fruitful tension.

To forget this is to lose the ability to differentiate, to choose, to create.

To remember it is to restore the profound intelligence by which life organizes itself — from atoms to cells, from bodies to loves, from breaths to thoughts.