My friend who has studied metaphysics for decades showed me another metaphysical tool, the pendulum. I had heard about pendulums, but I never really paid any attention to them. He showed me that you can either make a statement in which it will answer true or false, or not provide an answer at all. You hold a pendulum with one hand over the palm of the other hand. If it twirls in a clockwise direction that means true and if it goes counterclockwise, that means false. It only worked when I held it with my right hand over my left palm. He explained that the right hand projects and that the left hand receives. He also said to make very obvious statements so that you can establish a baseline. So, I said that “My name is Bob”, and it twirled clockwise. Then I said, “My name is Bill”, and it twirled counterclockwise. That fascinated me, and maybe it was because of my innate skepticism from my logical training and education. I found it to be very interesting and fun to do, and so I went to the Shining Lotus Metaphysical Bookstore to look at pendulums.

Pendulums can be made from wood, crystals, or metal, and come with a chain and a small glass bead at the top of the chain. The bookstore has a large variety of crystal pendulums. I immediately noticed an Indigo Gabbro pendulum, and as I checked out other pendulums, I kept coming back to it. Maybe it was because I had written an article about that crystal. Later after doing some research on pendulums, I found out that you don’t choose the pendulum, the pendulum choses you and there may be several pendulums that resonate with you. There’s a lot of information on the internet about pendulums and how to use them. The nice thing about using crystal pendulums is that you also get the energy of the crystal, although you need to clear the energy of the crystal before using it. Pendulums have no magic themselves, but they can be used as dowsing or divination tools. I use pendulums to tap into my subconscious mind much like the same way of using muscle testing in determining simple true or false declarations.

There are different ways to hold the pendulum when asking it for a result. The obvious way is to hold it with your thumb and index finger, but I thought that it might be too easy to influence it doing it that way. I found that by putting the glass bead between my middle and ring finger and then draping it over my ring and little fingers, it would be harder to manipulate. It takes a few seconds before it starts to move. To avoid the energy from any previous claims, it best to clear the energy of the crystal by saying “Clear Crystal” three times which I did as I tapped the crystal with my middle finger. I also state “This is only for the highest good, truth, wisdom, and light” so that no malevolent entities come forth. You then make a true statement to see what it will do. When I did that, it rotated clockwise which this time I expected. After clearing it, I made a false statement, and it rotated counterclockwise. For a non-answer, it just swung horizontally from side to side. After each declaration, it just occurred to me to thank the crystal, and when I did that, it stopped rotating.

I made statements similar to what I do for muscle testing. The results to me are much easier to determine with the pendulum. When I said that salmon was good for me to eat, it went clockwise, and when I said the same thing about fast food, it went dramatically in a counterclockwise direction. I showed it to my acupuncturist, and she was amazed. As I thought about it, I wondered how I could use it for healing. I came across lots of techniques for clearing chakras and getting rid of blockages and negative energies by holding it over a person, but I’m more in tune with distance healing and not hands-on. What my intuition told me to do was to hold the pendulum over a picture of the person in my left hand, or to see the person in my mind, that I was sending the healing energy to, and to ask the pendulum to remove any blockages and negative energies of that person. It’s not my energy that I’m sending, but the healing energy of the crystal and Spirit. When I did that, it began spinning clockwise and stayed doing that until it gradually slowed down to a standstill and then I thanked it and disconnected from the connection with that person. Maybe it helped that person or maybe it did what it could to the point of not interfering with any karma. It’s kind of spooky but also very exciting. Using a pendulum is going to be a lot of fun. I feel like a whole new world has opened up to me. I’m very grateful to my friend for showing me this wonderful new tool!