The Healing Pendulum
Posted on October 16, 2007
Filed Under Dowsing, Embrace Your Highest Path and Purpose, Spiritual Development |
It’s been a very odd around here for the last four days. My website, which just received a makeover, is strangely quiet. None of my students have written to me with questions. None of my clients needed me to follow up. My email in-box is not backed up. My appointments this week have mysteriously rearranged themselves or canceled altogether. By yesterday, all this calm was freaking me out. Where was everybody? Then I tried to write my article for Blog Action Day only to have complete writer’s block. I tied up a bunch of administrative loose ends that required no creativity whatsoever, and checked my email every hour, totally befuddled at the sudden lack of work before me.
By evening, I was disgruntled and grouchy. True, I’ve probably needed a vacation for several months now. I tend to put a lot on my own plate. But I love my work … and now I had nothing to do. No deadlines, no readings to get done, no major projects to complete. The total loss I felt at my sudden lack of work made me realize that I had gone out of balance. There’s a fine line between passion and over-identification. Some detachment was obviously needed. But what had brought about the sudden shift?
I figured it out as I was going to bed last night. On Thursday night, I received a brand-new pendulum in the mail, which I’d used to complete my readings on Friday. I’m an avid dowser - even though I can work without a pendulum, I still prefer to use one as a focus tool. This one was special - a Mer-Isis healing pendulum which had been recommended in a class I took two weekends ago. It is oddly shaped, big and brassy (my husband’s comment: “Hey, it’s a doorknob!”). And apparently way more powerful than I gave it credit for!
I bought this pendulum because of its healing properties - it seemed like a good tool to energetically support my clients in my work. I did not realize that this pendulum would also work on my own behalf. This pendulum will actually override the conscious intent of the user in favor of aligning with the will of the Higher Self. My Higher Self knows that I’m working too much, with too much investment. But my conscious mind wants to work. Normally, conscious intent wins this tug-of-war. Using the pendulum, however, actually allows the will at Higher Self level to prevail.
The end result for me is a mini-vacation, apparently! My work life has ground to a sudden halt. It’s taken my conscious mind a good three days to catch up to the wisdom of my Higher Self. I’m fairly sure that by Thursday, this lull will be over … but I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, I get to remember what I do with myself when I’m not working. Maybe I’ll get caught up on my scrapbooking. Or I’ll finally hem my living room curtains. Or maybe I’ll just nap …
Blessings,
Andrea
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Andrea, I like reading this honest expression of your bewilderment. Just after reading it, I found myself drawn mysteriously to another one of your posts, entitled Serving Ourselves.
Neat to ehar thet you’re a dowser! I sense a need to attune more with a pendulum. I sense its supposed to work as an extension of myself, and its a new exercise in freeing my mind of foreign or negative energies. It makes me more aware of electromagnetic and other kinds of potential interference. For me, this represents a new means to become better attuned with my own energy.
Andrea,
I’ve been experiencing this same super-quiet calm, a clear schedule, no pressing To Do list, and no clear forward momentum when trying to create and execute tasks…
My partner’s psychotherapy clients seem to have evaporated for a few weeks… We’ve both been feeling this “Where’d everybody go?” — almost like reaching the calm eye in the center of a storm.
I’m a bit of a workaholic because I do love my work so much and don’t know what to do with myself otherwise.
I meditated and prayed and tried to push myself forward, seeming to only make myself feel more uncomfortable about the quiet… Finally, yesterday, I gave in to it — it was raining all afternoon and I just spent the day on the couch reading for pleasure and listening to the rain.
Hard for me to do, but exactly what I needed to do. I took it to be the Universe telling me that the one I needed to nurture and heal right now was simply me.
Christos - I revisit that article frequently myself … always a good reminder! Although I have to say that my work is so satisfying that it feels pretty self-serving most of the time.
Liara - I’m a huge fan of dowsing. When done right, it can be an awesome connecting point to our Higher Self, because it allows us to circumvent the conscious mind. However, some beginning dowsers tend to tap into their subconscious, which always yields questionable results. The trick is really in specific programming and questioning … don’t get me started. This is pretty much what my book is about - the journey from dowsing to effortless communication with the Higher Self.
A couple more words about this healing pendulum - it is really blowing me away! Who knew? It apparently arrived with a Special Assignment Guide who is working on my Inner Circle, so that was part of the bewilderment. New Guide, big adjustment. And then I’ve found myself suddenly confronted with an issue I think I’ve been dancing around for the last year or so. This pendulum is helping me step up, big time. I had a wild night last night, almost no sleep, just a lot of processing of old, stuffed-away negative emotions. No wonder things are so quiet - I’m exhausted today, and happy my schedule is so clear. I’m not a big fan of spiritual gadgets and gizmos, but this thing rocks. It does have a certain “be careful what you wish for” quality. Definitely not for the faint of heart.
Slade - I’m so glad I’m not the only one having this experience! Maybe it’s that Mercury is in retrograde? Also happy to know that someone else loves their work so much … it seems sometimes like I’m the only one who’s thrilled when Monday rolls around! Anyway, I’m surrendering to the calm, too. Just taking care of loose ends and working on some stuff that’s coming up.
Blessings,
Andrea
Ah yes- the settling calm. Funny that as of monday I am in the same boat as you Andrea. After months of hectic working I now have a reasonable schedule that allows for some calm. At the same time there is this rather insistent voice in the background saying work on your lightbody, work on your spiritual side. So I guess maybe my slate was being cleared a bit for me.
On another note, I have always been curious about how any pendulum (from any other) can physically provide a different dowsing experience. Many expert dowsers say you could dowse with anything and obtain the same result, as the pendulum is only an inert tool which is an extension of yourself. I have always just dowsed with a simple glass bead pendulum, however it seems as though something perhaps does happen at a quantum level with different pendulum designs. Having a special guide come with it is a bonus! I suppose if everything is broken down at the quantum level to light energy then different designs would work at the energetic level in a different manner. Slim Spurlings Accu-Vac coils and rings are case in point, with their amazing healing abilities and ability to work with energy.
Hi Shep,
I know, I really don’t know what gives this pendulum so much power … except that its shape is very, very unusual, and so it must funnel in specific energetic qualities that affect the dowser. I’ve always dowsed with simple pendulums before, also. I have to say that I’m not sure if this Guide came in because of the pendulum, or because I opened myself up to specific rebalancing by using the pendulum, thus signaling my readiness to receive its assistance.
Try it out (the links are included in the article) and let me know about your experience!
Blessings,
Andrea