I keep going back to try things that I thought I was unable to do, and finding that experience, or whatever was blocking the skill, has now allowed me to achieve it. A case in point this time is my experiences with the pendulum. Even this year I was saying to people attending my dowsing course that I couldn’t use the pendulum – it just didn’t work properly for me.
- Grahame Gardner of the BSD
A few weeks ago I was listening to Grahame Gardner, President of the British Society of Dowsers, and he was going through his method of using the pendulum. He made some interesting points about how to use the pendulum that I hadn’t picked up on before such as keeping the pendulum in motion when it is in its “neutral” or “ready” position. I had always thought that this should be a ‘standing start’, i.e. hanging motionless. His second tip was to use a short chain to make the pendulum swing faster, and thus shorten the response time. Of course! How could I not have tried this before? Sometimes I am so stupid!
I thought I would have another go, so I dug out my old lapis lazuli pendulum and tried some of the suggestions. I pushed the pendulum into a back and forth motion using my wrist to maintain the momentum, then I prepared myself to program the pendulum’s responses, or program myself to accept the pendulum’s response – whichever way was going to work. After only a few seconds the pendulum was responding and I had my “yes” and “no” responses firmly developed and distinct. Pendulum dowsing finally ‘clicked’ with me!
Since then I have been testing the dowsing response to questions that I know I can get answers to with the L-rods and the responses have all been fine. All this time I have been saying that I was unable to use a pendulum, and actually all it took were a few suggestions for using it in a different way. Just a reminder that when we set ourselves limitations, it is always worth re-visiting those limits once in a while to see whether we are capable of transcending or surpassing them. We are not always aware at the time of what it is that is blocking our progress.
Sometimes the work we have done elsewhere and with other skills feeds into things that we have previously dismissed. Now I have a new string to my bow – one that I thought had snapped!
Gwas.
Glad to have been able to help you overcome that blockage, Gwas. We all need to remember that the only limitations on your dowsing are self-imposed ones.
Hi Grahame,
Thanks for mentioning that. You’re quite correct – all “inabilities” related to skills and cognitive processes generally are self-imposed limitations. I find it amusing that I often don’t think to use dowsing to overcome these problems, or even to investigate their sources! Luckily, with the kind of spiritual path I follow, eventually these blockages get removed either directly or indirectly by events and being at sites with useful energies. Nature finds a way to overcome my daily distractedness.
Gwas.