The art and science of Feng Shui deals with unseen energy and its effects on the person and the environment in which they live and work. This unseen energy has been known to every civilization throughout human history. Called by different names in different cultures, it has been called Chi, the Breath of the Dragon, in ancient China. The dragon is a metaphor for lines of unseen energy, in grid forms, that travel through the earth. This energy that the Chinese call chi, or qi, exists also in our bodies, in the meridians that acupuncture seeks to adjust. It exists in the air, in our buildings. Feng Shui seeks to adjust, re-align, block, or augment chi in a building, much as acupuncture does in our bodies, to bring the chi energy in a building into balance and harmony. This raises the level of flowing chi, which invigorates and revitalizes and person in that building. Removing energetic blocks to the flow of chi is not only a metaphor for but brings a person into resonance with removing the blocks on their life’s path, opening the way to a person’s goals.

How are these chi paths to be found? They are found by dowsing. How to dowse is not the subject of this article, but briefly, the art of dowsing is this: one uses an instrument such as a pendulum or a pair of L-rods (although some advanced dowsers use only their bodies) as a means of detecting unseen energies, underground water and other information. This is an acquired skill, utilized little in western, linear-based thought and habit. Yet there are cave paintings many thousands of years old depicting a group of people following a dowser who is looking for underground water with a “Y” rod. Dowsers are to this day using such an instrument to find underground water, and other information. Humans possess this ability to connect with unseen energies, and the skill is not hard to learn.

But the question here is not ‘what’, or ‘if’, but ‘how’ dowsing is used in conjunction with Feng Shui. Different dowser/Feng Shui practitioners have different methods of using dowsing in a consultation. Below are some of the ways I use it.

Upon entering a home or office, I first look around for any obvious material blocks to the flow of chi. Then, as a diagnostic aid to my learned knowledge of Feng Shui methods, I’ll want to know the level of chi in each room. I ask the pendulum to show me the percentage of chi in the space. One can ask only ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions of the pendulum, or an indication of a number on a specified scale. I say, as I swing my pendulum, “Please indicate the percentage of chi between 1 and 100% in this room. I usually start at 40%, and go up at intervals of 5, until the pendulum gives me an indication of the level of chi in the space. My master, Dr. Jes T.Y. Lim, taught us that a room or house must have a level of at least 80% chi to support health; most buildings will have a chi level of 80-90%.

I can tell now by looking at a space what the chi level in a room is likely to be. If the chi is unexpectedly low, say in the 50-65% range, I might suspect the presence of an entity, and I will ask if one is present. Entities (beings who have died but have not transitioned) lower and suck the chi from a space and are never a positive thing in a house, even those who are benevolent. Entities are not regularly found, but are probably more numerous than most would expect. If an entity is present, I will use my L-rods to locate it exactly, and will use my protocol to release the entity. This action happens on the swinging of my pendulum, which is akin to turning on a radio and finding the station. All in the universe is vibration and frequency, the constant movement inherent in atomic structure. Though unseen, air itself, containing chi, has atomic structure and vibration. Different qualities of chi,such as that of quiet harmony, violent trauma, or an entity, can be detected in atmosphere by dowsing. An entity has a unique vibration; thus, you can not only to detect it, but also check to be sure it is gone.

When I want to compare remedies I might use, or other things, I can ask: ”On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 representing the worst and 10 representing the best, please indicate how good is this (object of inquiry) for (me/client/to remedy the energies in this space? Please indicate.” Then I swing my pendulum and count slowly, “1, 2, 3, 4, …..” to 10. The pendulum will indicate a number on the scale I have picked.

Although I have learned the practice Feng Shui, I still corroborate my remedies by dowsing. I choose and place the remedy, then ask, “Is this the optimum remedy for this space at this time? Is this the right location?” I receive a yes or a no (when you learn to dowse, you will learn how your pendulum expresses a yes or a no for you in particular, and at first you will program or reinforce these yes or no indications from your pendulum by asking repeated questions to which you already know the answers).

I have also corroborated a client’s best directions by muscle testing, or kinesiology. Muscle testing is another form of dowsing – the most direct way of dowsing. In classical Feng Shui, everyone falls into one of two direction groups, and I have proved to myself over and over that facing one of your good directions has validity regarding how well you sleep and are affected in other ways. Charts derived from classical Feng Shui methods indicate these best directions as related to your birth date, but muscle testing corroborates and demonstrates the validity of this practice to the client. In practice, for example, your strength in an arm muscle can be tested for a condition such as, is this direction good for you/her/him. Your body cannot lie. If the condition is good for you, your muscle will remain strong. If it is not good for you, your muscle will go weak. Kinesiology is a fine-tuned art of which this is only the briefest description.

Other uses for dowsing in a Feng Shui consultation include using an L-rod and asking it to follow the chi flow through a house. Chi energy has a flow similar to water; it flows around curved things most easily, but is impeded by sharp corners. It flows down, not up. It also flows in a clockwise direction, and meanders like a river on level land. The reason we follow the chi flow in a house is to see that it flows smoothly and is not impeded by objects, dead spots or areas of trauma, all of which can be cleared.

Anywhere a trauma has occurred in a home, a negative residue of energy lingers, interfering with the flow of chi. The L-rod will turn sideways at such a spot, indicating a need for a clearing procedure. In Feng Shui this is called “predecessor energy.” This ‘clearing’ is done right at the spot during the swinging of the pendulum while focusing on the intention to clear the space. Such traumas can range from a family spat at the dinner table to an act of real violence.

There are many ways to clear space of negative energies. The real masters only need be in the space with the intention to clear it, and the space becomes clear. Native Americans have used the smoke of burning sage to clear space, and drumming and chanting. In Bali, temple bells are used. One simply rings the bell over the space that needs clearing. Over the area with negative energies, the bell will at first sound tinny and dull. As the ringing continues and the clearer focuses on the space becoming clear, the bell resumes its clear tone as the negative energies clear from the space.

A key ingredient – perhaps THE key ingredient - of the clearing is the focused intention of the clearer for the space to become clear. One focuses, visualizing or feeling the process of the clearing and the desired, clear result as one asks for the space to become clear, and through the instrument, be it a tool or one’s body, the clearing occurs. This is not magic. This is the human’s inherent knowledge and ability to detect and manipulate energy through the principle of resonance. This is the very essence of dowsing, and of Feng Shui.

Who does one ask? You may find as many answers to this question as there are dowsers. But there exists a loose consensus that there is a higher power, a higher something. Call it Jung’s collective unconscious, call it Universal Mind, call it God or any other named Higher Power, or Spirit, dowsers agree that there is something that gives answers. Some call this the ‘Dowsing System’. But whatever you call it, somebody is picking up the phone, and it isn’t merely your subconscious mind.

The responsibility of the practitioner is not only to clear the space and balance it with appropriate remedies in order to create harmony and the highest level of chi, but also to do everything possible to ensure the health of the client, insofar as their relationship to their environment is concerned.

There are ample studies proving the existence of geopathic stress. The word ‘geopathic’ implies earth (geo) and pathic (related to a diseased condition). ‘Geopathic’ stress is a condition in the earth sending harmful radiations (energy) upward to the person in their house. Geopathic stress comes from a variety of conditions: underground flowing water, fault lines, earth energy lines, and especially the crossings of any of these. These crossings are particularly bad spots of geopathic radiation, and can cause or worsen degenerative diseases such as arthritis and cancer, with prolonged exposure. Also, ancient burial or ritual grounds can radiate geopathic stress. These spots can be detected only by dowsing. Many of these studies come from Germany, well ahead of us in this area, where dowsers are licensed by the government. Most especially you don’t want your client’s bed to be over such a spot. Sometimes the solution is as easy as moving the bed a few feet, or to another wall. These lines and crossings in a house must be detected by dowsing, the direction of flow indicated, and the line blocked or otherwise remedied. These conditions also can be detected by remote map dowsing and then corroborated on-site, the explanation for which is outside the scope of this article. These conditions can be blocked either by the above-described clearing procedures, or by device-based procedures, or in some instances by geometric shapes, by the use of crystals or other objects, or by other transcendental means. The point is, these very real threats to health cannot be detected without the use of dowsing. Instruments exist that can measure these energies, but they are too costly for commercial use.

These methods are indispensable aids for me. To promote deeper methods to bring balance, harmony, and health to an environment, I would call upon all Feng Shui practitioners to become dowsers. Otherwise, one simply applies remedies learned from books or teachers without a way to corroborate if they are correct or effective for the client. There are good books available, and also less good books. There are good teachers, and less good teachers. It is the responsibility of the practitioner to be sure they know well and rightly, and are sufficiently trained. If you become a dowser, you will know.

For more information, contact:

The American Society of Dowsers
www.dowsers.org 
Shirley Runco
www.dowsersofthewest.org 
Eric Dowsett
www.clearhomeclearheart.com 
Lynne Ashdown
www.AuspiciousPaths.com