The Monthly Dowsing Topic—2005

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The topic for dowsers to share in the month of January 2005:

Each month we invite you to participate in a dowsing topic. The last topic was to share your methods for recovering from those frustrating dowsing moments when things didn't work out. Or better, what was your most beneficial dowsing goof, and how did you turn it into a dowsing success? I want to sincerely thank Frank Long for the following letter.

Hi Shirley,

First, let me state that it is my belief that we consciously dowse in an attempt to regain that part of our intuition which was lost during our wounding and resultant separation. Those who realize the separation become more "conscious". I believe, ideally, that if we were all able to tap into those subtle first signals that we get at the onset of a situation where we need a new solution, the answers would not be answers at all, because we would not have had to ask the questions in the first place, as the solution to any problem would just "appear" to us as insight before we needed to ask for help.

Several years ago, I was going through the clutter in our garage and ran across an older, very sturdy briefcase that I thought I could put to some use in some project. It had a combination lock on it, the number to which I thought would be easy to remember. But after trying several PIN codes, SSNs, and family birth dates, I was drawing blanks. As I became more invested in the outcome, I could feel myself getting sucked into an ego-driven answer quest.

It was at that point that I realized that, yes, I could actually sit down and dial in every combination by hand, in an attempt to salvage what my intuition couldn't, but why had my intuition failed me? Why, at that time, I suppose I'll never know, but my next thought was that I had to release the charge I had on the item. I remember envisioning a bottle, into which I put my "request". I then put a cork in the bottle and tossed it out there, somewhere, wherever those bottle go in the sea of lost thoughts, and had decided that if the bottle didn't come back in a reasonable time frame, then next month I would turn the briefcase into dumpster fodder.

Several days later, as I was driving down the road, in one of those theta-like trance states one gets into while driving, I immediately got two successive images; one of the briefcase, and immediately after that, the second image of a woman's face—the woman I had been dating several years earlier. It was her birth date that I had used as the combination to the lock.

This wasn't really a dowsing story, per se, but more to illustrate that we all have times when we put charges on often innocuous little things; charges that can sandbag our intuition. I suppose I could have dowsed the answer if I had the time, but that's the way that story turned out.

The next time you're in Half Moon Bay, stop in at Oasis Natural Foods, 523 Main St. and say "Hi" to Frank, the co-owner, and ask him about hydration!

Bill Mundy had this to say.

My primary use of dowsing is for healing. Dowsing your own health is probably one of the hardest things to dowse as it will always lead you to challenging how you hold your own thoughts, feelings and opinions or rather your own identity of yourself. Dowsing other's health issues can be equally challenging for the same reasons; we are more alike than different, and often illness is related to issues that we all have, but haven't yet broken down (gotten sick) ourselves. So it can be difficult bringing health or identifying the actions to someone else when we have the same problem.

There are lots of tricks and techniques that I have used to shift my perspective. I highly recommend that everyone explore methods on their own. That means that even if it's working, try to get it to not work. I know it sounds crazy, but it's the fastest way to learn. Kids don't learn to walk by not falling down. And you don't learn to dance by not stepping on toes. Dowsing in groups is one of the best ways to do this (go to the Open Forums). Any time two dowsers get a different answer, try to see if you can get the same answer as the other Dowser, and understand why. You can do this by first trying to dowse from their point of view—try to take on their perspective. Imagine you are them, or imagine that their context, or mind-set or consciousness is guiding your dowsing. When you get their answer, ask why it's different than yours. I usually get an answer, and when I do, something else happens; the other person thinks you're reading their mind. What you're doing is learning someone else's point of view, and your world gets a lot bigger. Enjoy.

Be sure and schedule a consultation with Bill today if you need problem relief, pain relief, want to explore the power of energetic influences, want more self empowerment, more from life or more life! Call (877) 762-6179; e-mail: info@reliefnow.us or visit: www.reliefnow.us.

The topic or question for January is: how do you find items that have disappeared? or what process do you go through to return lost items to this dimension? or do you have a technique that works for finding lost items? Along this same line of questioning would be, do things actually disappear into other dimensions? Please send your responses to dowsershirley@hotmail.com so that they can be published in the next newsletter.