Circle of Healing | An Holistic Approach to Health in the Mettawee Valley of Southwestern Vermont

At Circle of Healing we are exploring the cutting edge of dowsing applications to vibrational medicine and healing.

I was introduced to dowsing as a young lad by my great uncle in my parent’s back yard. Years later, Quaker friend and long time dowser, Herbert Douglas was teaching me to dowse in my own back yard at a picnic. But I was really re introduced to dowsing ten years ago through muscle testing.

As a clinical social worker and psychotherapist I was studying the new and cutting edge field of Energy Psychology (“the cause of all negative emotions is a disturbance in the body’s energy system”). We were taught muscle testing as a means of identifying underlying subconscious beliefs that tend to sabotage our best efforts to heal. In Energy Psychology, muscle testing is also used to determine what acupressure points need stimulating as part of the treatment procedure. Following that training, a chiropractor friend of mine explained that the muscle testing I was using was a “bastardization” of Applied Kineseology. AK is a very complex diagnostic practice developed by Dr. George Goodhart in the 1960’s. The muscle testing I learned is a more simplified variation named “Behavioral Kineseology” by Dr. John Diamond (Your Body Doesn’t Lie).

I got to thinking that this muscle testing seemed a lot like the dowsing I had learned from Herbert. So, out of curiosity, I attended my first American Society of Dowsers conference in 1997. I was looking to see if anyone was talking about muscle testing there. No workshops I attended mentioned it. I went to the ASD bookstore and pawed through all the back copies of The American Dowser they had. I found only one vague reference. But I learned a lot more about dowsing. And then a couple of years later Walt Wood’s book and boxed set about dowsing came out. There, in the very last chapter, he introduced muscle testing.

Over the years I’ve dowsed a lot: water wells, geopathic stress and earth energies, pendulum charts, as well as radiesthisia. My keenest interest has been exploring the application of dowsing to psychotherapy. Just talking doesn’t do it all. I have searched for years for more effective and efficient ways to help my clients heal. I have found dowsing charts offer a great short cut in figuring out what might be wrong and determining what therapeutic interventions might be most effective for a particular client at a particular time. I’ve developed charts showing an array of treatment options and others delineating possible causes of the symptoms the client is presenting anywhere from toxic reactions to polarity imbalances. However, it can be a little weird to pull out a pendulum with some clients in a psychotherapy session. So I have discovered over time with dowsing I can body dowse (or deviceless dowse). Standing straight, my body would tilt forward or back, giving me a yes/no reading. But I sit a lot. I then began to notice that my eyes would flutter ever so slightly when pendulum dowsing and then track back and forth when my pendulum was getting a “no”. So now I can sit and subtlety get dowsing responses as I conduct a psychotherapy session. Is it information from “higher self”? the collective unconscious? the Universe or the Divine? Dowsers will debate that maybe forever but I find the information accurate and useful.

Radiesthesia provides maybe the greatest contribution of dowsing to psychotherapy. Having studied quite a lot with Alijia Aratyn from Canada, I have learned about the healing effects of a variety of pendulum forms. Assessing and treating chakras with a “neural pendulum” or a “virtual cone pendulum” gets things done quickly. When using an Osiris Macro or Isis over a client it is as if the pendulums have a mind of their own and go to work clearing or balancing what is necessary to allow the clients own innate self healing ability to click in. It is a pretty weird looking intervention for someone in emotional or psychic pain but for clients that are open to it, the Radiesthetic treatments prove very effective.

Dr. Mo Wheeler (ASD member) has also been exploring the interface between dowsing and emotional/spiritual healing. Her development of Creative Energy Therapy is at the cutting edge of the cutting edge field of Energy Psychology. The group of healers and therapists that are working collaboratively in Creative Energy Therapy co create with higher power. A number of healing protocols are emerging that use dowsing as elements of the approach. We have only begun to delve into the applications of dowsing in healing the brain/mind/emotion matrix. If all is vibration, (as quantum physics teaches us) and if the cause of negative emotions is a disturbance in the body’s energy system, than dowsing’s potential in psychotherapeutic healing may prove profound as we continue to investigate what is possible.

Glenn Cratty LiCSW has been providing psychotherapy in Vermont for 30 years. He is a founding member of Circle Of Healing, a collaborative community of healers in Pawlet, Vt. The clinic specializes in the treatment of PTSD using a variety of alternative therapies.