Why doesn't dowsing work for me?

Why doesn't dowsing work for me?

by Martyn
(London)

I seem to have some kind of block when it comes to dowsing. My mind gets in the way and I'll get two completely different answers to the same question. I've used various pendulums and have the same problem with them all.

Any advice?

Best Wishes

Martyn

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Why doesn't dowsing work for me?

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Why dowsing appears not to work NEW
by: Nigel

Thanks for asking this, Martyn, as I'm pretty sure that a lot of people would like to ask this at one time or another. So this is an excellent opportunity to deal with this.
The answer, however, may not be simple, because there can be various reasons at play and one or more of them could be affecting you at different times.
I'll do my best, though...
1) It could be that you have had a past life where you were persecuted for engaging in predicting the future (divining) and your subconscious wants to stop that happening again; hence the problem with dowsing. Despite the number of times you can read that in various places, I haven't come across it that much, but it's definitely a possibility.
2) Not being able to disengage your conscious, logical, rational mind. This can certainly interfere with allowing the answers to come through, because there's that little voice in the back of your head saying, 'This can't work'. To get over this, I'd suggest that practice is the only sure method, as it shows that part of your mind that you mean business. Eventually, it will stop, or you will stop dowsing.
Another way of stopping your mind from working too much, is to make sure that you hold your pendulum such that you can just see it from the corner of your eye. It doesn't take your full attention, and that's what you need, to be in two minds, when you dowse. Too much concentration on the tool will make problems. That's why we start with deviceless dowsing when we teach.
3) It could be the type of dowsing you're doing. If you are practicing 'guessing' playing cards colors, or heads and tails, your mind gets really bored, because it doesn't really matter what the answer is. Or, it could be that you are asking questions you already know (or half-know) the answers to. Again, without some pressure to know, it becomes a pointless exercise.
4) A belief in the tool being responsible for the answers. It really doesn't matter what you use to dowse with, as long as you remember that it's you that's the most important thing. Looking to the tools is just displacement activity, when you are the one actually getting responses.
5) Probably the most common reason is that people really WANT dowsing to work and focus ferociously on the tool, waiting for the answer. Instead, just start off with some simple 'calibration' questions to make sure it's happening (like full name or place of birth, getting the Yes/No response) and then get into that sort of soft-focus, dreamy state where you REALLY don't care about the answer and let it happen.
This can be achieved with meditation, soft focus of the eyes, or thinking furiously about one thing before dowsing about something entirely different.
Basically, you're trying to fool the mind into sitting back.
Any one of these, or any combination, can make for problems with dowsing.
I hope that helps!

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