Which hand do you hold your pendulum with?

Nearly every guide/instructions/manuals on using pendulums tell you to hold it with your off hand so that it taps into the side of your brain that you're not consciously using. For me that would be right-handed. However, I cannot get the pendulum (any of the three I own plus other odd necklaces and things I've tried with) to respond to me unless I'm holding it with my right hand. As a side note, I am pedidextrous (I have ambidexterity in my feet and this is a very unusual trait). It literally does not move at all with my left hand, yet with my right hand, it begins to swing quite swiftly rather immediately... What hand do you suspend your pendulum with and do you think it really matters?

~~Solitary Faery~

[Adrienne]

Originally Posted by Solitary Faery

As a side note, I am pedidextrous (I have ambidexterity in my feet and this is a very unusual trait).

hi Solitary Faery,

For a minute there I thought you were going to tell us you swing your pendulum using your feet !

I use my right hand, which is my writing hand. I just always have, I have never read any guide manuals for a pendulum, so I didn't know about using the off hand.

Interesting question.

Dream Angel xx

Well, today I had a long talk with my metaphysical teacher about several of the questions I posted last night. Pertaining to this one, she told me that yes, it makes sense that holding it with your off hand would access the lesser used side of your brain, but that really it boils down to which hand works for you in dowsing. She said if you're a right handed writer and also a right handed dowser, there's nothing wrong or unusual with that. So yeah, that was the answer I got...

[Adrienne]

so I guess I can continue as I was thanks for asking your question

Definitely. I'm glad, too. I was reading left and right on these online manuals that if you don't use your off-hand, you can't access the right side of your brain which is the subconscious and therefore your pendulum divination will never be accurate. I'm a medical technology major, i.e. a medical assistant in a doctor's office (with a phlebotomy technician/(blood sample drawing) and an EKG technician/(hooking up various machines that take pictures of peoples' hearts) - triple certification from a medical technology vocational school) and first off, I can tell you the subconscious mostly lies in the frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex to be exact), with those messages actually coming in from the central part of the brain and lower cortex. It is generally evenly spread amongst both sides of the brain - there isn't actually a side you don't use and one side doesn't hold the subconscious while the other holds the conscious. (I've been sitting here reading out of my physiology and anatomy textbook on the brain right now about the subconscious). So whoever says that, and there a lot of people out there publishing that on websites, is anatomically wrong. And then of course, there's the answer my metaphysical teacher gave me which is to always go with instinct. If something's working for you, than that's the right way, for you; for someone else, it may be different.

"The brain appears to use the very same neural circuits to execute an unconscious act as it does a conscious one. In a study that appeared in the journal Science in May, a team of English and French neuroscientists performed brain imaging on 18 men and women who were playing a computer game for money. The players held a handgrip and were told that the tighter they squeezed when an image of money flashed on the screen, the more of the loot they could keep. As expected, the players squeezed harder when the image of a British pound flashed by than when the image of a penny did — regardless of whether they consciously perceived the pictures, many of which flew by subliminally. But the circuits activated in their brains were similar as well: an area called the ventral pallidum was particularly active whenever the participants responded."

"Scientists have spent years trying to pinpoint the exact neural regions that support conscious awareness, so far in vain. But there’s little doubt it involves the prefrontal cortex, the thin outer layer of brain tissue behind the forehead, and experiments like this one show that it can be one of the last neural areas to know when a decision is made."

So I guess according this article from The New York Times called The Subconscious Mind - Who's Minding Who? (Authored by Benedict Carey)... The ventral pallidum, which is located in the center of the brain, sends out its messages to BOTH sides of the brain, particularly the prefrontal cortex.

[Adrienne]

Interesting, I can understand with your line of study, occupation, why the question came to mind .. regarding which hand to hold your pendulum with. Too much complicated thinking for me, lol !

Sometimes I think one has to let go of the logic and the technical info, when dealing with psychic or divination tools. To me they seem at opposite ends of the spectrum.

I agree. I do like to analyze how they work, scientifically, but when actually in session with myself or a friend, I think it's best to just let everything go and work through intuition and spirit.

[Adrienne]

Interesting combination, analyzing and using the pendulum. At first thought I guessed you were new to using a pendulum, then I read your other thread and you are an experienced pendulum person