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    • Exploring the Subconscious with Dowsing

      by Kathryn Klvana

      (Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

      Know thyself. That good advice goes back all the way to the days of Plato and Socrates, and the ancient Greek inscription at the Temple of Delphi. But sometimes, knowing yourself is a lot harder than it should be, especially if you are out of touch with what is going on at the subconscious level.

      Even though our conscious, rational mind determines what choices we make in life, the hidden part of ourselves, our subconscious mind, is equally important. If these two halves of your mind are out of sync, you may find that everything becomes more difficult. Illnesses, accidents, anxieties, and fears are some ways the subconscious tries to get our attention. If your subconscious doesn't agree with what you'd like to do, making changes becomes nearly impossible.

      Dowsing is the perfect tool to talk to the subconscious mind and find out what's going on beneath the surface. In many ways, it's like the old-timer walking a field with a forked stick, trying to find water. In this case, you will use a pendulum to explore the subconscious and try to strike those deep veins of truth that are flowing beneath.

      A pendulum can be anything that can dangle in a balanced way on a chain or string. Hold your pendulum in your dominant hand and tell yourself, "Show me a yes." You are programming yourself to recognize a positive answer. My yes response is a clockwise circle, but yours may move counter clockwise or back and forth. Once you've established your yes, ask for a no. It may take some time to get your pendulum moving with just your thoughts, but you'll eventually find that it gets easier with practice. For more help in learning to dowse, see my book, Intuition in an Instant.

      Once you become comfortable with dowsing, you will have a valuable tool to help you explore your hidden motivations, much like a therapist might in a counseling session. You will want to get in the habit of talking to your subconscious on a regular basis. To do so, take a few moments to center yourself. Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Once you are in a relaxed state, hold your pendulum and ask if you can connect with your subconscious mind. Then ask yourself for the name of your subconscious. This will help you access your subconscious more easily. Once you have a name, use your pendulum to confirm that this is what your subconscious wants to be called. In general, you may find it best to talk to your subconscious as if you were talking to a child. Be gentle with yourself and offer thanks for all the hard work it has been doing on your behalf. Then be quiet and ask what it is feeling. Something might come to mind quickly, an emotion or a thought. If you are having problems with a particular project or goal, you might want to check in with your subconscious and use your dowsing skills to explore what's going on. Deep-rooted blocks, false assumptions, and self-limiting attitudes can be buried deep in the subconscious. First you have to identify these blocks, and then you can begin to release them with the help of your pendulum. For instance, if you determine that the phrase, "I don't deserve," is rooted in your subconscious, you can do a clearing to help erase that from your mind.

      Get settled in your favorite dowsing place. Take a few moments to center yourself and take a few deep, complete breaths. Calling upon your higher self to assist you, say out loud or to yourself, "I ask my higher self to examine my subconscious mind and remove the blocks that are related to ______ (the negative statement). Fill the space that is created with love and whatever I need most at this time."

      Dowse again to check and see if the block remains. If it does, you can talk with your subconscious and present reasons why that statement is false. Someone who deep down feels she doesn't deserve all the success she has experienced might say to her subconscious, "We do deserve all the good we have in our life. We have worked hard to achieve our goals. We are a good person and we always try our best." Then dowse to see if the subconscious is now ready for a clearing, and repeat the process.

      Another way to use dowsing to interact with your subconscious is when you want to make a major change in your life. If you are calling on willpower to lose twenty pounds, or quit smoking, or tackle a big project, check to make sure your subconscious is in agreement. If your subconscious doesn't want the change to happen, most likely it won't. That is worth repeating: you will not be successful in reaching your goals unless your subconscious is open to the idea.

      Anytime you call upon willpower to make some sort of change, you are using your logical, rational, conscious mind to set it in motion. You will spend a lot of time thinking about your goal, perhaps drawing up a detailed plan that you can put into action. You tell yourself, "I can do this. I will put these steps into action and I will succeed." But there are many times when that's not enough. Is it lack of willpower, or is it a tug of war between the conscious and subconscious mind?

      As a dowser, you have a distinct advantage. You can get in touch with the underlying motivations and beliefs of your subconscious simply by asking questions and using your pendulum.

      Start by asking, "Are there subconscious blocks to this goal I would like to achieve?" If you get a positive response, you can follow with other questions to understand what exactly it is, and then clear it. Call upon your higher self to assist you with removing whatever obstacles the subconscious has placed upon this goal.

      Understanding what is going on inside the subconscious mind is a good place to start dowsing, because the process helps to remove obstacles—both to the goals we want achieve and to the intuition we want flowing in our lives. The clearer we are, the more accurate our dowsing will be. That journey starts by "knowing thyself."

      Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2011. All rights reserved.

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    • DOUBLE VISION: SPIRITUAL TECHNIQUE FOR BREAKING IT OFF?

      3.recallbroken-heart

      This may sound foolish, but I’ve come to the end of my rope and don’t know what else I can do. I am currently in an unhealthy relationship. Now, as simple as it may be to tell someone that you no longer want to be involved with them, it hasn’t been that easy. He’s a wonderful man and we love each other a great deal, but due to circumstances (it’s a long-distance relationship) and some of the events that have occurred recently in my life, I know this is not something that I really want. I have told him directly that the relationship is over. I have been firm; I have been empathetic; I have explained my reasons but nothing is getting through to him. Nothing I do to disconnect seems to work. I know it sounds silly, but I couldn’t possibly explain the full situation or we’d be here all day. A friend of mine who practices Wicca suggested using a binding spell, but also explained that there could be serious consequences to this. I’m not in any physical danger, but I know if I continue with this relationship, it will be emotionally detrimental. Please help! – E.

      My birth date: July 22 1983 His: May 22, 1977

      Dreamchaser:

      The first thing I would recommend you do, since it is long distance, is not answer his calls. If there is a way to do it, block his number on your phone. Also block his emails, im’s and any other method of contact he has at his really want to be done with this relationship, allowing him any kind of contact just encourages him and prolongs the inevitable.

      This relationship makes you feel as if it is poisoning your very soul. You feel guilty and you carry this weight around with you all day, every day. It is like you keep looking over your shoulder, expecting to get caught. If you are found out, your world crumbles; in your mind, that would be a bad thing. You know all of this! You know you have to end this now if you are to regain any sense of peace in your life.

      I personally have issues with any kind of spell that in any way interferes with another person’s free will, so your approach to binding would determine how I feel about it. If you are binding him, then I can’t get on board. If you are binding any negativity from being able to trouble you in any way, then that is another thing altogether. Do you see the difference? It may sound like nothing more than verbiage, but not interfering with another’s free will is very important.

      You can’t look to a spell to do the dirty work so you do not have to. You have to be strong and confident and know that you are doing exactly what you should be doing for yourself, your soul and your family. You are not happy in your life, but that is independent of him. Break up with him and then take a good long look at your life. It will change by itself; I think you have figured that out already. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Take one step at a time. Stand firm in your decision to be without him. If you stand firm enough, he will hear you.

      You will have to withstand his further attempts to contact you. You have gone back in the past because you achieved what you wanted to achieve. You got his attention. In relationships, we become like conditioned animals. We react the same way over and over to certain stimuli. He is conditioned to step it up when you cut him off. You have to show him that you are sincere this time by blocking all his routes of contact. You can do this.

      I wish you total freedom.

      *****

      Astrea:

      I’m sure that you love your ex-boyfriend, but it’s clear to me that you can’t be together anymore. People born on any cusp often seek a “mirror” quality in someone else with a birthday on the day the signs change. I’m sure the things you have in common seemed enough at the beginning of the relationship, but you have grown and matured beyond him now. He is stuck somewhere in the past, while you see the future and what might be if you make the right choices. I know it hurts to let go, but you know you must.

      I see why you would be moving on in your life now. You’ve met someone else and you want to be able to be with him. You feel dishonest about letting your ex think that there is ever going to be a chance that he will be welcome back into your life in the way he was before. If you haven’t broken up with him officially, do it now, so you won’t have that added guilt and worry to carry into your new relationship.

      I know that you’ve done everything possible gentle thing to let the ex go, but he is determined that you’re mistaken about breaking up, and wants to prove to you that he is the one. He’s not. It may take you actually telling him about the new love coming into your life to discourage him and make him leave you alone.

      If you’ve told him truthfully what is going on with you, and he is still not hearing you, then it’s time to either try to get him some professional help to deal with your break-up, or to stop speaking with him at all. While that might not sound like a spiritual way to finish things with him, it may be the only way he will understand that you are not going to be in his life as his girlfriend/partner any longer.

      Before you resort to crushing him, however, see if he will agree to try no contact for 30 days. This means no email, no text messages, no smoke signals, no phone calls. At the end of that time, tell him you will contact him and you can talk again. Then, ask for 60 days apart. This will get him used to not being in touch with you, but will give him something to look forward to, without giving him the false hope that you can still be together. The longer you two go without any contact, the easier it is going to be for him to move on with his life.

      Sometimes the spiritual way – wanting the other person to understand your feelings – just doesn’t work. Then you have to be cruel to be kind.

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