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An inspiring experience by Guy from West London

I was requested to put down in writing an account of my experience on the 1st day of the 7 Tools Workshop in Energy Healing.

I'll say up-front that there were many things taught in the syllabus that I'm already 'onboard' with, so to speak.  For instance, I'm comfortable with the idea that there is some form of subtle energy field generated by the living human body and indeed any living thing. However, the idea that you can use a pendulum to find out what is going on in that energy field and that you can even repair dysfunctions in that field through the power of intention alone left me a little cold. I didn't expect to sense anything in this exercise at all.  

We were asked to draw a pendulum slowly over someone's body - from groin to crown - and see if the pendulum 'resisted' us at any point, and observe its rotation over the chakra/area it had be 'drawn to'. (You can tell by my inverted commas how skeptical I was.)  I did one pass and felt nothing at all, and then the facilitator pointed out that I needed to keep the pendulum low and close to the skin.  I did this and the sensation was very different.

Now, before I go any further, let me also say that I've looked into a fair number of unconventional practices and belief systems in my time and read a huge amount of literature on all sides.  I'm well aware that movements of the pendulum can be put down to subconscious prompting of microscopic movements in the muscles of the hand, for instance.  However as I reflected on the experience and questioned it over and over again, I have to say that this doesn't seem to me to be the point.  So what if it is subconscious prompting?  You're still left with the question, why does my subconscious want the pendulum to go one way and not another?  What are the causes of its decision?

From my point of view - and this was my sensation as I carried out the exercise - the pendulum is not the source of the information, it is not magical in any way, it is simply a marker, a signal, a surface indication, perhaps an amplifier of what is already going on between the two people involved, letting its user confirm for themselves in clearer terms what they are already learning about the client.  I daresay if you're sensitive enough you probably don't need one at all.  It is (in my opinion) the float on the fishing line, not the fish itself.

As I did the exercise I had the distinct impression that - perhaps because of our mutual concentration - on some level my (or my body's) own innate sensitivity was responding to the presence of Petra and whatever her body was 'giving off.'  We've all had times when we came physically close to someone and just didn't like the feeling of being near them - just a 'nasty vibe' or something - and this was basically the same principle just slowed down, done with care, and with a physical object to focus my attention very specifically on what was happening and what I felt about it.

Anyway, I found there was a definite impulse to stop in a certain place - over the solar plexus.  I'll say this again just to be clear - the pendulum did not physically 'resist' me, or anything like that. The impulse didn't come from outside of me - the impulse was mine.  I had the sense that this was a place to stop.   Eventually it started swinging back and forth in a straight line and I called the facilitator over to diagnose this.  She said the 'chakra' was very closed and asked Petra if she was having problems with her digestion.   Petra replied she had been in pain for a week now.

The facilitator began opening the 'chakra' and the pendulum and began to make circular movements over the area with her right hand, much as one would stir a full basin in order to get the water moving and so disappear down the plughole quicker.  The pendulum kept doing its thing.  The facilitator tried something different and began a scooping motion, as though she was trying to get the water out of the basin.

At this point I noticed something odd. Her fingers appeared redder than normal as she was doing this, as though she'd just had them soaking in really hot water or as if they were slightly sunburned.  The weird thing was this effect was only obvious when her hand came close the centre of the imaginary whirlpool I've described.  I had the distinct impression I was watching them go from pink to red to pink to red as she scooped.

If someone had been shining a red torch down on the area and her hand was moving in an out of its beam, this is the effect you would get.  I asked myself if this was persistence of vision, if my optic nerves were overlapping her skin with the colour of the blue t-shirt the client was wearing, but blue and red are not opposites chromatically.  Before I could speak to say 'what's wrong with your hand, are you hot?' she said 'do you see all that red that is inflammation in Petra's digestive tract?'

So at this point I was quietly shocked and could only nod.  She stopped to call everyone else over to observe this and she recommenced the scooping motion.  This time the effect was far less intense, maybe a fifth of what it had been.  I began to think I'd been mistaken and that I was about to have to pretend I could still see it in order to save face, when the facilitator said 'oh, you see it's much less now' or something to that effect.

At that point, Petra said her pain was withdrawing.   Whatever it was we had seen, we had seen the same thing and seen it independently of each other.  Of that I have no doubt. Persistence of vision doesn't explain why the effect should be there, consistently strong for about six to eight seconds and then two seconds later be vastly reduced, while I was watching the whole time. Persistence effects are easily reproducible and this wasn't.

I have to say I felt a bit freaked by the whole thing, and I have to say that if I were reading this and not writing it, I'd have a hard time taking me seriously.  I won't sit here and declare a belief in this or that, but I will declare that I'm not as sure as I was about what I thought I knew.  'There are more things in heaven and earth...' as Shakespeare has it.