Dowsing with a pendulum

Dowsing with a pendulum is a very good way to receive spiritual guidance. It is sometimes called "Divining" because it permits you to connect to a divine source in order to access information. The power of your intention is what directs the pendulum to access the information you wish to know.

HISTORY OF PENDULUM DOWSING
For years the pendulum has been associated with the Svengali image of the hypnotist holding a person in his power. Actually, the pendulum goes much further back in history. Ancient kings and queens such as Solomon, Sheba, and Cleopatra employed pendulumists who practiced the science of Radiesthesia. Dowsing has been known for its ability to locate water, gold, oil and other minerals. It has also been used in many instances involving medical issues of life and death. In France, physicians have used the pendulum to help form a diagnosis. The use of the pendulum is known as a science throughout Europe called Radiesthesia or in French "Radiesthesie". Many have used the pendulum to detect allergies, other ailments and to accurately determine the gender and birth date of unborn babies.

Throughout history, people have used the pendulum to guide them when their lives were at risk. During the Vietnam War, some U.S. marines were taught to use a pendulum to locate underground mines and tunnels.

History shows many accounts of the successes of dowsing. The pendulum has also had its share of controversy throughout history. During the 1960’s Cold War, American pendulist Verne Cameron was invited by the government of South Africa to use his pendulum to help to locate their country's natural resources. He was denied a passport by the U.S. government. A few years earlier, he had shown his special dowsing talent to the U.S. Navy by successfully map dowsing every submarine in the Navy's fleet. He shocked Navy officials by locating every Russian submarine in the world. Afterwards, the CIA determined that Cameron was a risk to national security and he was prohibited from leaving the United States.

In today’s world, pendulums are widely used by psychologists, hypnotists and individuals to create a link of communication with the subconscious to discover information that is unknown or presumed forgotten. Many experienced E.S.P. researchers use the pendulum to connect with powers and intelligence beyond the physical. This tool can be as serious as you make it. Dowsing pendulums can be as expensive, cheap, as small or as large as you want.

ABOUT DOWSING WITH PENDULUMS
The most inexpensive pendulum can be made by tying a small object like a small nut on the end of a piece of string. Expensive pendulums can be made from the finest of crystals. Crystals are believed to possess energies compatible with the user's energies to achieve the best results. A common pendulum for beginners to use is acrylic pendulums. Acrylic pendulums are a molten plastic that crystallizes on cooling and is polished so that it is perfectly clear. These are easy to use because they are spherical and there are no distractions from rotating shapes that many others have.

Unlike some divinatory tools pendulums are associated with connecting with good and powerful forces. These are the forces that bring health and prosperity to the user. They do this without doing so at the expense of another's health or prosperity. You can develop pendulum dowsing skills to achieve your potential or just for fun.

So how does the pendulum work?
Albert Einstein was known to perform impressive feats with dowsing tools. He believed that it was due to electromagnetism. Birds migrate following the earth's magnetic field; dowsers react to energies that are unseen. Some argue that the pendulum creates a bridge between the logical and intuitive parts of the mind. Some argue that the pendulum connects them with a higher power and call it "divining" as the information comes from a divine source. Research by many scientists indicates that the pendulum responds to electromagnetic energy that radiates from everything on Earth.

Muscles in your finger tips are connected to the motor centres of the brain. It is these motor centres that are affected by unconscious thoughts.

Your unconscious thoughts cause the muscles in your finger tips to react and move the pendulum. This is called the ideomotor response. The pendulum becomes a direct link to your unconscious. The unconscious is where thoughts and memories are stored that your conscious is unaware of. The pendulum is a way of connecting to those unconscious truths and memories.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN
It is very important that you set an intention for psychic and spiritual protection before dowsing with a pendulum or using any divination tools. Whenever you open yourself to connect with your spirit guide, you become a receiver for psychic energies. This is what allows you to access information. It can also allow other entities to access you through that link if you have not psychically protected yourself adequately.

The Law of Free Will reigns on Earth. Your energy can only be used if you allow it to be or if you give away your power in some form. The first thing you must do before dowsing with a pendulum is to imagine a thick bubble of white light completely surrounding you and declare: "The light of love surrounds me, protecting me from all that is not love". It is advisable that you begin each dowsing session with this visualization. You should also begin and end each day surrounding yourself with the light of love and affirming your protection. This will hold you in a high vibration and protect you from negativity.

You can hold the pendulum in your hands and envisage the pendulum surrounded by white light. While doing this make the statement: "This pendulum is a tool for accessing only the highest source of wisdom and guidance for the highest and best good of all, and it is protected from all else. And so it is, forevermore."

When you have done this close your eyes and relax. Imagine there is a beam of light going from the top of your head going up and going directly into the sun above you. This sun is the source of all wisdom, guidance and healing. Imagine this sun is sending you energy, guidance and love through the beam of light above you, and down through your head and body, and into the pendulum.

When dowsing with a pendulum, you become like a radio attuning yourself to receive information. Your mind and intention become attuned to the frequency of the information you are searching for. You are sending your question up through the beam of light to the source of all knowing and the source will send you back the answer. Your mind is the antenna and your body is the receiver. The pendulum becomes the speaker or screen through which you see the answer clearly shown to you. The pendulum allows you to receive any information that you focus on.

Pendulum dowsing is a very good way for you to communicate with your spirit guides and for them to communicate with you. If you have opened yourself to negative entities, you may feel nervous about dowsing in the future. You can use the pendulum to help release negative entities. Make sure that you do the aforementioned visualizations and affirmations, and then call upon your spirit guides to help you remove all negative entities. Ask your spirit guides to: "Please take all negative entities to their rightful place and dimension. Neutralize their presence in my energy field and remove all negative effects of these entities and all patterns that attract them." Hold the pendulum while you do this. The pendulum may swing in a negative direction until the task is complete. Then it will start to swing in a positive direction once the negativity is cleared.

If you feel that the pendulum itself has taken on the energies of other people or negative energies you can get another pendulum or you can clear your one with your will and intent. Hold the pendulum in your hands, close your eyes and say out loud: "By the power of All That Is Light and All That Is Love I command you to be cleared of all negativity and to be cleansed and purified in the Light of Love. And so it is." Open your hand, blow on the pendulum and imagine that your breath is blowing away any negative energy and cleansing your pendulum. You can also add: "I banish all negativity from this pendulum, from me and from my space and command it to return to its rightful place forevermore, never to return again." You can do this with crystals and with all divination tools.

Crystal pendulums need to be cleared and cleansed often because crystals naturally absorb energy. Many people prefer brass pendulums because they are highly conductive to electromagnetic energy. This makes them highly responsive. Different shapes of pendulums influence dowsing results. The Diamond Pendulum is made of solid brass. It draws on sacred geometry energies by incorporating two inverted pyramids. This pendulum gives clear and accurate responses. It is ideal for those who want to learn dowsing. Many expert dowsers prefer the Diamond Pendulum because it is so responsive and accurate.

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE YOUR PENDULUM
Hold the pendulum between your thumb and index finger. Keep your elbow slightly bent by your side. Use the hand that feels most comfortable for you. Then relax. It is important to let the natural vibrations of your own body move through your hand to the pendulum. The pendulum works by through your sub conscious. Your sub-conscious knows what you need to know. The pendulum will show you the answer by picking up and amplifying subtle vibrations from your sub-conscious. This is what causes the pendulum to swing. You can ask any question that requires a YES or NO answer.

SOME IMPORTANT TIPS
The pendulum uses your own energy and should not be touched by others as they may impart their vibrations into the pendulum and reduce its reliability. Keep the pendulum with you as much as possible during the first 3 weeks. This will enable it to absorb your energies. Ask the pendulum simple questions to begin with so that your trust in the answers builds. The pendulum will learn to resonate with you within your own energy field. Cleanse your pendulum in salt water (1 tsp. salt in 8 oz. water). Do this overnight after your purchase your pendulum and then once a month thereafter.

Some people find their results are more accurate by holding the pendulum one inch above the open palm of their opposite hand. This opens your energy circuits and creates a bio-feedback loop. The energy will flow more freely. If your pendulum doesn't move very well for you try opening and closing your hands a few times to activate the hand energy centres or the hand chakras. Empty your mind of doubts and preconceptions about the answer to your question. It is important to have a clear mind so the answer doesn't become clouded by your own thoughts. Clear the energy from the pendulum after each question by lowering the tip onto your hand or other surface. This signals that your question has been answered and you are ready for the next question. Use this technique often, particularly if your answers appear confusing.

SUGGESTED USES FOR YOUR PENDULUM
Your pendulum will answer any question with a "yes" or "no", so make sure you structure your question properly. For example, “Will I get a promotion?” Open questions such as “Will I get or promotion or not?” are impossible to answer using a pendulum.

If you have a number of choices to choose from use a list or a chart. Draw a circle or a semi-circle with a radius of between four to six inches. Mark the choices off as degrees on the circle. Hold the pendulum in the centre. The swing of the pendulum will align with the appropriate choice. This technique can be used to select many things from which vitamin supplements to take, herbal teas, colours in the aura and what healing stones to wear.

You can use pendulum to determine a date to do something using the pendulum and your calendar. Hold the pendulum over each date of the month and wait until the pendulum registers an answer. As you become experienced with the pendulum your answers will become almost instant.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR DOWSING CHARTS FOR PENDULUM DOWSING
Draw a circle of about four inches in diameter on a blank sheet of paper. Draw a straight horizontal line through the circle to intersect the centre of the circle. Place an arrow on each end of the line and label the line, "NO." Then draw a vertical line through the centre of the circle and add an arrow on each end and label this line, "Yes." At the top of the circle draw a curved line inside or outside the circle to match the curvature of the circle, place one arrow on the right side of the line and label this curved line, "I don't know." At the bottom of the circle, draw another curved line as you did at the top, place an arrow on the left end of the line and label it, "I don't care to answer."

USING THE DOWSING CHART WITH THE PENDULUM
If you're right handed, place your right elbow on the table with your forearm and hand held above the chart. Drape the chain of the pendulum over your right forefinger and hold it in place with your thumb so that the ball of the pendulum is a half inch to an inch above the centre of the chart. If you are left handed, you use your left arm and hand.

Begin by thinking the word, "Yes." Don't try to make the pendulum move or try to hold it still. Just repeat the thought, "yes," in your mind. For some people the pendulum begins to immediately move up and down on the chart along the vertical line labelled, "Yes." The response might be minimal or strong. Either way it doesn't matter.

If the pendulum doesn't move it's because you are trying too hard. Relax, take a few deep breaths, close your eyes and repeatedly think, "Yes." Let your mind and body feel the direction of, "yes." If no response occurs, skip to the horizontal direction. Repeat this for the horizontal direction representative of, "NO." There are only two other directions, clock wise and anti clock wise. Think, "I don't know," to have the pendulum move in the clockwise direction. Then think, "I don't care to answer," to have the pendulum move in an anti clock wise direction.

Now you are ready to begin communication. Avoid starting with complication. Keep your initial communication basic. Begin by asking your pendulum something that is true:

"IS MY NAME ..................? (Insert your real name). Now ask your pendulum something that you know is false. "IS MY NAME BARNEY?" Make sure the question is clearly stated because if it’s not, the pendulum may swing diagonally.

If you are having trouble getting the pendulum to respond, you are trying too hard. Keep practicing. Good results come with practice. Once you have communication with your pendulum and feel confident, you can use it to find answers which are not known to your conscious.

Caution: the pendulum gives you literal interpretation from the subconscious, e.g. you may ask yours subconscious mind if your name is (name) and even though that is what your birth certificate says, it may swing, NO." This is because your subconscious doesn't regard you as that but rather as your nickname. Perhaps you ask yourself if you're a writer and it may say, NO because you regard yourself as a poet. You may not always have rational explanations for the answers given to you. Your mind is influenced easily. If someone disappointed you today, don't ask if you will resolve the issue. A "NO," answer may mean that the disappointment is linked with them at that time rather than friendship.

Many have used what they have learned from dowsing using pendulums to change careers or relationships or to make existing careers and relationships better.

UNCOVERING HIDDEN TRUTHS
An example could be how you feel about your job or career. You feel that you enjoy your job or career but don't understand why you're lacking initiative.

"I'm asking my subconscious mind if I enjoy my job." The pendulum swings, "NO".

"I'm asking my subconscious mind if I like the type of work that I do." It swings, "YES."

"I'm asking my subconscious mind if I like my supervisor." It swings, "YES."

"I'm asking my subconscious mind if I enjoy the commute to work." It swings, "NO."

"I'm asking my subconscious mind if I want to relocate closer to work." It swings, "YES." There you have your answer.

The pendulum can be used to answer many questions. These include questions relating to: determining romantic compatibility. Uncovering reasons for phobic reactions. Finding lost articles. Determining the sex of unborn child/children. Uncovering reasons for resistance to weight loss. defining the best suggestions for use in self hypnosis inducing hypnosis or self hypnosis questioning witnesses in forensic investigations Pendulum dowsing can also be used: as a food finder have fun at parties have fun picking lottery numbers, winners at the track etc metaphysical, ESP etc.

Pendulums can be used for a wide variety of activities including finding missing objects, locating ley lines, determining the sex of an unborn child, diagnosing blockages in the human energy field or more commonly to answer simple yes/no questions.

What can you use as a pendulum?
Pendulums can be made of different material. You can make a pendulum or buy one. The most common types of pendulums are a stone tied with wire and then placed on a chain or cord, a necklace with a charm or wedding ring suspended at the bottom or a chain with a metal or crystal pointer at the bottom.

The best length for a pendulum is six inches. The pointer weight should not be too heavy or too light. The best shape for the weight is something that comes to a point.

HOW DO I USE MY PENDULUM WITHOUT USING A CHART?
To begin with relax your mind and body and let go of any stress you may be holding on to. Rest your elbow on a table in front of you or hold your arm in a horizontal position. Pendulums generally move in four different ways. These are a straight line which can be side to side or front and back, a circular motion which is either clockwise or anti clockwise, an elliptical motion i.e. oval or egg shaped or a bobbing or nodding motion. What each movement represents is different for everyone. The first task is to determine what each movement means for you.

Start by ascertaining the direction your pendulum will take for yes and for No. Hold the pendulum in your hand. With the other hand touch the point to ensure it is still. Keep your eyes on the point. Say "Show me 'Yes'." aloud. It will soon swing in one direction which could be any of the various motions outlined above. Now say, "Show me No." It could swing in the opposite direction or a different direction completely. Make sure the pendulum is not being guided by the movement of your hand or fingers. Keep your hand as still as possible.

Once you determine the pattern for Yes and No - you are ready to ask your questions.

To begin with ask questions which you know the answer to. Only ask a question ONCE. If you want more information it is better to use a chart. If the motion of your pendulum increases or the circles get larger, this means the energy is increasing. You can expect a change linked to the question you were asking. Ask further questions to get additional information.

There are times when the answer to a question is unknown or more information is needed. On these occasions the pendulum will remain motionless or swing diagonally. The faster a pendulum moves in any direction, the stronger the energies.

Sometimes a pendulum will appear to bob up and down. This usually affirms a response. However, if you feel it could mean something else ask the pendulum in the form of simple yes/no question if that is what it means. If the pendulum repeatedly stays motionless, stop and try again another time or find another way to channel.

DIAGNOSING BLOCKAGES IN THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD ‘CHAKRAS’
Method One: Standing Position Stand in front of or behind the person you are working with. Place the pendulum over their crown chakra which is at the top of their head. The pendulum should swing in one of three ways: back and forth, side to side or in circles. Next place the pendulum in front of the third eye which is located on the forehead. If the chakra is balanced the pendulum will swing in the opposite direction to the crown chakra or the circles will be reversed.

Continue to do this with each chakra down the line, the throat, solar plexus, spleen, and root. If a chakra is balanced the pendulum will continue to reverse polarities. If the chakra is out of balance the pendulum will either swing in the wrong direction or not at all.

Method Two: Laying Down Position
Sit by the side of the person you are working with. Hold the pendulum a few inches above each chakra in turn. If the chakra is balanced the pendulum will not move. If the chakra is unbalanced the pendulum will move.

There are no rituals involved with pendulum use, although cleansing and programming them regularly a good idea. Please note that a pendulum should not be relied on to decide every way to go in life. Use it with the intention to help you grow spiritually. Always look for answers that contribute to the greater good rather than just personal gain.