The intuitive tool you’ve never heard of: What is dowsing, and why it’s my new go-to

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Hello, wise body and ancient soul. Welcome to today’s episode. And I want to talk about a tool that you have probably heard of or maybe not at all. I think it’s a tool that most people have not heard of or if they have, they’ve only heard about it in a really old context or they’re doing it and they don’t even know that they’re doing it. So what I’m talking about is dowsing. And I am bringing up this tool today because…

For a bunch of reasons, one, it’s become one of my go -to practices just to check my energy, check what the messages I’m getting from my intuition. It checked myself as I’m making decisions, that sort of thing. So I don’t like douse everything. I’m not obsessive about it. And there are times where I can tell that maybe I’m a little attached to the outcome.

of a situation or, you know, I have a query, but I’m kind of, you know, I might have some resistance or some, I might have my own blind spot. Right. And so one of the very useful tools that I’ve started using is a dowsing pendulum, a pendulum, just to kind of check with myself and say, how’s my energy flowing today? Right. And, um,

you know, of these like two options or is this a yes, is this a no? Like keeping it simple, right?

The other reason why I’m introducing this tool, not only because it’s become so valuable for me in terms of tapping my intuition, confirming the messages I’m getting through my body, right? So I’m primarily what one might call a body dowser or natural dowser, a device -less dowser is what they call it. And I’m going to be speaking to someone in the next few episodes.

the head actually of the president of the American Society of Dowsers. And she will do a really deep dive into what is dowsing, where did it originate, etc.

or me two years ago, you couldn’t have, I really didn’t know what dowsing was. Yes, I’d seen dowsing rods. I’d seen people use them. And in thinking about it, like when I was a kid, this is kind of random, but when I was a kid, without even realizing it, I kind of like created a mystery school with my best friend Kim at the time, where we were exploring concepts that we weren’t learning about in school.

We weren’t learning about, you know, on TV or in books, but we just knew that we wanted to explore some things that were, you know, more in this realm of like the unseen world. And so we were playing with pendulums. It actually like, as I reconnected with the pendulum, I was reminded like, oh yeah, when I was a kid, I used to do this. And then it was like, how did I know as a kid to do this? Well, that goes back to past lifetimes, but.

and bringing those memories forward. But what I wanted to do was introduce this tool to you today to give you a little bit of a background. Because also what’s coming up, I’m super excited to announce and share that I’ve started a collaboration with the American Society of Dowsers. So I’ll be basically I’ll be creating a video show for them interviewing

just some leading dowsers, some dowsing hobbyists, you know, just how people are using it in different ways. And where that content kind of overlaps with my content, I’m going to share that here in Wise Body, Ancient Soul. So you’ll be hearing from some really interesting people and even some of the people that I’ve already interviewed. Like I was noticing the thread and so I approached ASD and I was like, Hey, I’d really like to interview more of your people.

They keep showing up in terms of my guests, right, already. So let’s, you know, let’s work together. And so I’m, I’m excited that’s coming to fruition. And I’m excited to share. I’m so I’m through that. I’m connecting with some really fascinating, amazing guests. And it’s going to be my pleasure and honor to bring those conversations to you as well as, you know, like my.

My other guests, right? Oh my goodness. There are so many cool people coming up so, so soon. Dowsers, non -dowsers. Like I’m so excited. I’m looking at the calendar and I cannot wait to bring these conversations to you. Everything from Hawaii and wisdom from Hawaii. I have an expert on ho ‘oponopono.

who’s also on the ground in Maui. So like, I am really looking forward to speaking with her, not only about how things are on the island now, but you know, what she, she comes from a generations of, um, you know, this is something her mother did and her grandmother did and her great grandmother did. So tapping into that. And, um, I personally believe that Ho ‘oponopono, which is that Hawaiian, it’s commonly known as like a Hawaiian.

uh, con, uh, forgiveness practice. Um, you can also think of it as conflict resolution. Sounds like it might be handy, uh, right now. Yeah, absolutely. I, the more I’ve learned about it, the more I’ve felt like, wow, if we actually embraced this very ancient practice, um, in a wider, in a more broad fashion, the changes we could affect on the planet, right?

I already mentioned Dr. Michelle, I’ll be bringing her on. Anyway, so.

Today I wanted to bring to your attention this little known tool or a tool that’s often associated with finding water, right? One of the first things that will come up if you look up dowsers besides a lot of, there’s a lot of stuff out there about, oh, it’s a pseudoscience, et cetera, et cetera. But I don’t need to, if you’re watching a show called Wise Body, Ancient Soul or listening to this podcast,

I don’t think I need to worry about explaining to you that there are things that mainstream is not quite ready for. Like, you’re right there with me, you know?

Um, but what you’ll find often is references to dowsing as a water witching, right? And that is a, definitely a part of dowsing. Um, but what I really came to learn as I dug deep into it, I went to, uh, one of ASD’s conferences a couple of years ago, cause my good friend Roseanne was speaking and that’s when I really got introduced to it. And, um, the

people I met and the wisdom that they were carrying. I was like, I want to talk to every single one of these people and share their knowledge with the world. Everything from…

like working with energy lines, ley lines on the planet, working with water, finding and locating water and even redirecting water. The weather, working with the planet, you know, really learning how to communicate. You know, when I think about water witching, dowsing, it’s really like, it’s exactly, it’s exactly the same as

the same communication that happens.

in like indigenous practices, we’re being able to connect with the planet, connect with nature without devices, right?

communication with the stars, communication with the earth, like knowing how to follow the energy lines because they are still connected. And we live in a time where many of us are not so connected. You know, we’re more connected to this, right? We’re more connected to a phone than we are to the planet. And so what dowsers do, it’s really a term that

covers what I consider it connecting with your intuition, connecting with all that is, connecting with Gaia, with the wisdom of the planet, opening up those channels of information because we know so much more than we think we know. We know so much more than we’ve been told that we can know, right? So this is what I love about this practice.

And so I just wanted to introduce it to you. I just wanted to bring this into your awareness, right? Of dowsing as a practice. And I wanted to talk about how I use it. And so like I mentioned, I use it kind of as a checkpoint. It’s just for information gathering, right?

And I have started using a pendulum to check my own energy and energy alignment, as well as, you know, when I have a decision to make where I’m a little bit on the fence and I need a little, you know, I need to get out of my head and into my intuition.

And so I’ll use the pendulum in that case to just be like, okay, what’s really true here? You know? So first, so here’s the thing. And I’ve talked about, so if you tune into earlier episodes, and I’ll link to them in the show notes, but I’ve presented body dowsing tools, which is like very simple ways to get a yes or a no from your body, right? A little uplift in the energy or a lean forward versus a lean back, right?

There are all these different ways that we can tap into that. What a pendulum allows you to do is sometimes it can give you some more nuanced information. We’ll be talking to folks that used dowsing to find people, find lost objects, find treasure. It’s like you can, people who are using an interior design to figure out where the lay lines are.

who are using it with Feng Shui to like figure out the energy of a space, you know, so there is a lot of applications. So in terms of checking my energy, Michelle and I will talk about this. We’ll do a deeper dive on this in her episode. And I want to give you like a little preview sneak peek, right? So our truth is in our heart.

That’s where our truth lies. So, because one of the questions that I often get with the pendulum is how can I trust the answer? How do I know that the information that I’m getting is valid? Easy. First, you check into what your heart is saying.

Show me my yes, right? And it’ll change. It can change, especially now with the energy moving as fast as it is and transformation happening as quickly as it is. Your yes might change from day to day. So you want to check in, you know? But I do this just kind of like before I make any kind of decision or even if I’m just even if or if I’m feeling a little bit off and I want to check, like, is my energy aligned? Am I like, you know, running two different energy systems?

I’ll check in here. You just want to check in with your heart.

Okay, cool. Right. So my pendulum right now is with my heart. I’ve got my heart, my left hand on my heart space. And as a result, my pendulum is going, what is that? Clockwise. Clockwise, counterclockwise. I get them. I always get them confused. Super interesting, like total side note. A few weeks ago, my yes was always counterclockwise. And then I had like a healing, full body healing process.

actually with Dr. Michelle. And now my yeses are clockwise, which is really interesting because actually like the body’s energy moves clockwise. Side note, there you go. Do with it what you will. But everyone’s going to have a different yes, right? It doesn’t have to be a particular way. Now, how do you check to see if you’re running more than one energy system or running counter energy systems? And this simply means like in a simple way of putting it, it’s like you’re at war with yourself.

your heart saying one thing and you’re kind of like in another energy alignment. It’s a way of saying, I’m not really in alignment right now. I’m a little, I’m a little out of alignment. And then all you got to do is get back in alignment. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy, right? It’s kind of like when we talk about being in the vortex, not in the vortex, being in flow, not in flow, right? It’s just as simple that. So you put your left hand on your heart. You let your

pendulum swing freely and you let it tell you, okay, what’s my energy resonating with? Right now my energy is showing up as a clockwise circle. Okay, awesome. Then I take my hand off my heart and I just drop it to my side, right? Like I’m just like kind of opening and then I see like, does my pendulum continue to swing the same way? And if it does, that means awesome. Your energy is in alignment. Sometimes what’ll happen is,

it’ll start to swing the other way or it’ll start to swing forward and back. So right now my yes is a clockwise and my no is like a forward and back of the pendulum swing. And it’s fascinating to me because it is like, I can feel it when it switches. You know, even if I wanted to say yes, like.

The other day I was like, Hey, should I sign up for this program? And I kind of wanted it to say yes, even though I kind of knew that it was a no. And the answer that I got was a no. And I was like, are you sure? I doused on it like twice, twice more. Cause I was like, are you sure? Cause I kind of wanted it to be true, but I knew in my heart that it wasn’t for me. Right. And that’s really what it is. And so it’s just like, it’s just a little checkpoint. It’s just a little way to say.

Am I making this decision from my heart, from my truth or not? Right? So it’s just a tool. It’s just for gathering information, you know, and then it gets really deep, like you can douse on all kinds of stuff.

So I gave the example of using this just as a decision -making tool, you know, is this for me? Yes or no. Right. And as I showed earlier, you can use it as a way to just kind of check in with your energy, you know, and say like, am I in alignment right now? Like if you are about to make an important decision, make sure you’re aligned with your heart first. Right.

And if picking up a pendulum doesn’t agree with you, like I was like, mm, I don’t know, it’s not my jam. And for a long time, it wasn’t for me either. I was like, eh, I just wasn’t feeling it, you know? And I haven’t gotten it. There’s, oh my God, there’s so many other tools too. There’s like dowsing rods, L rods. You might’ve seen those used in cool places. There’s, oh my gosh, there’s so many different tools.

And everyone’s going to have their favorite. And honestly, my favorite favorite is Deviceless. Mine is like no tool at all. And just, you know, hence the name of the body and the name of my show, right? Wise Body, Ancient Soul, because all of our answers are right here. And in fact, you know, when you look into people are like, how does this work? You know, how does the pendulum work? And some people go into like, oh, it’s picking up the subtle, you know, the subtle subtleties, subtle messages from your body.

And that’s probably correct because what is your body transmitting? But subtle messages from your intuition, from your inner knowing. I talk about this all the time, right? Our emotions, even when we, you know, have an accident or get sick, it’s like, there are messages there. What is the message that’s embedded in this thing that’s happening? Because nothing ever happens to us. It happens for us, like for a reason, right? That’s my firm belief.

There are no accidents, right? There are no coincidences. Like everything is, hmm, okay, what is the meaning here? You know, ooh, I was meant to talk to this person today. Why is that? You know, and usually it’ll just reveal itself in the conversation. Like, oh, that’s why I needed to talk to this person. They had this piece of information that I was looking for. Sometimes that you’re consciously looking for, and sometimes you didn’t even know you were looking for that information, and it’ll just hit you and you’ll get those.

like truth goosebumps, or you might tear up a little bit, you know, there’s so many ways that the body will send you those messages, right? So if the pendulum is not your tool, you still want to check in with your heart and say, am I in that hard space? And kind of sometimes you can just tell if you’re feeling ungrounded, you’re not here, right? If you’re feeling untethered, if you’re kind of like, ah,

You know, we’ve all had those days. We’ve all had those like, I mean, not just days, right? It’s like it could change like minute to minute. You can be like, oh, I’m like feeling great. And then you get a phone call or you see something online or what have you, right? This is why it’s so important. You know, the inputs that we that we agree to allow to come into our space.

You know, not, I’m not saying like become a hermit and like isolate from all things, cause that’s not only impossible, but I mean, it’s not impossible, but, um, not only impossible, but not, not necessarily desirable. I don’t want to cut off for everything, you know? Um, and I want to be conscious of what I am experiencing. Right. So an easy way to get into your heart is.

Super simple. We’ll dive deeper into this in the next episode. Or I should say, we’ll reiterate this in the next episode. But I really wanted to sit here with a minute and allow this tool to sink in. Your heart carries your truth. So when we are not in alignment with our heart, then that’s when we can sometimes make decisions where later we’re like, why did I say yes to that? Or why did I say no to that? Or what have you?

How do you get here? Left hand on your heart, right hand over your heart and just breathe.

Deep breaths in through your nose, out through your mouth.

And as you’re breathing, you really want to say to yourself or vibe into, and this is going to sound cliche, but it is, it works, gratitude and trust for real.

I trust that I’m safe.

I’m grateful for this wise body. I’m grateful for this ancient soul. Whatever you want to feel grateful for. I’m just putting stuff out there, right? It could just be, you know, I’m grateful to have five minutes to listen to this episode. It could be a lot of things.

but that feeling of gratitude, it might be, you know, and if you’re like, I’m like, I’m not feeling real grateful right now. Like think of a moment when you did, right? Tap into that. What was, what was a moment that was a real high point or where you were like, ah,

This is life, right? A life worth living. The life I want to live. Maybe it’s like a beautiful vista or having fun, playing a game with your friends or, you know, sharing a moment with a loved one, cuddling with your cat. You know, it could be all of these things, right? Just tap into that warm fuzzy.

and it can really change everything. And with that, from my heart to yours, I love you. Take what you need, pass it on.

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