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Dowsing for Optimum Health
A talk at North Hill Village hall
by BSD tutor, David Lockwood
When you set out 35 chairs, hoping you’re not being too optimistic - and then 50 people turn up on a cold, wet January afternoon - you just know you have tapped into an unexpectedly rich lode of interest.
For over a decade, David Lockwood has been a stalwart of Dowsing for Health, both locally here in the south west and as part of the British Society of Dowsers national register of approved practitioners.
This talk to the TDs was well overdue, and was an excellent summary of much of his experience of the subject, delivered in his approachable and engaging style.
Dowsing for health is no spectator sport - and is not to be treated as a party trick. Yet here, David managed to get the whole audience, including many who clearly had not considered this aspect of dowsing to be on their personal radar, participating from the word ‘go’.
Most of those attending, myself included, were able to make a reasonable fist of a skill that we may have been wary of applying in anger. Even those who struggled with the practicalities were clearly very interested both in the content and the implications of dowsing for the health of others and themselves - and I feel we all took away a little more information and, perhaps more importantly, a little more confidence to look into it quietly at home later.
David started us off gently, with a self-assessment of the health our own chakras. Even hardened tangible dowsers would have been quite comfortable with this task. Just about everyone could carry out this first exercise with a reasonable degree of success, even if some the results were a bit surprising. A fair proportion of the group dowsed a weakness in one or more of their auras. As I was just recovering from a nasty cough, having low energy level in my throat chakra was perhaps a bit predictable - but others had results that were more surprising to them.
The next stage - have a first attempt at raising the energetic quality of those charkas that needed some attention in others - took some of the participants closer to the edge of their comfort zones. However, with experienced tuition and a supportive community, quite a few were able to make an appreciable and dowsable difference to the invisible shortcomings of their new-found clients. I am sure that those of us who tried it probably got as strong a reward from the smiles of our partners, as they did from experiencing a little gentle relief themselves.
We were then encouraged to sense the auras of those seated around us, which enabled us to experience a sound, practical, personal demonstration of a somewhat esoteric concept. Moving on to have a look at holes, tears and energy blocks in auric fields took the investigative work to another level, but again most at least attempted to get to grips with the skill. Even those of us who would be in the remedial class of pendulum users were able to obtain some credible results, to the extent that we realised it was an area of the dowsing spectrum that could be put to good use – albeit with a lot more practice!
David’s explanation of the how auric energy can often be ‘seen’ emanating from tips of fingers had the whole room looking at their outstretched hands against the background of subdued fluorescent tubes. It was a good job the local press had not turned up at this point, or we might all have been taken away by the men in white coats! However, we understood the principle, and writing this article in the bright, cold light of a January morning, I feel I really can ‘see’ - and can certainly feel - the auric energy passing from one set of fingertips to the other. As ever, with any aspect of dowsing, you get better at it with practice.
David finished his talk with an introduction to healing the home environment, covering such topics as detrimental earth energies and negative energy forms. This generated a discussion about the harmfulness, or otherwise, of energy arising from underground streams. This is an important topic, not to be skimmed over, so with the sleet picking up pace outside, this seemed the right time to close the afternoon’s proceedings. There was much to digest and, for some, much driving in the dark still to be completed in safety.
Such is David’s range of experience that he could clearly, and willingly, have carried on explaining aspects of dowsing for optimum health well into the evening. Hopefully, we can arrange a second session with him sometime in the future, to enlarge on the topic of healing sick homes and also to look at personal allergies and mineral deficiencies.
This was the first time for some while that the TDs had utilised the workshop format indoors - and it seemed to work very well. It certainly generated a lot of discussion and much interaction.
Many thanks to David Lockwood for finding time from a busy schedule of practical work and presentations at BSD events across the country to come to North Hill to talk to us.
David also holds regular courses and workshops at his Innyside home in Trewen, East Cornwall, the contact details of which are shown on the enclosed copy of the handout he prepared for this Tamar Dowsers event (for those who didn’t get one to keep, as a result of unexpectedly high demand!).
Nigel Twinn
Tamar Dowsers
January 2012