Dowsing for Health

The practice of healthcare, both conventional and holistic, is generally held to be both art and science, and even in the most high-tech of therapeutic environments, the intuitive "hunch" of the practitioner is rarely disregarded and is often found to be of great benefit.

As a way of disciplining and refining such intuitive senses, dowsing is a valuable and practical tool available for the assistance of both assessment and treatment selection. Not to be discarded as unscientific or because not readily explained as a phenomenon, dowsing, like any other tool or technique, should be assessed on its merits of useful and beneficial outcome.

Many holistic therapies rely on an assessment of and interaction with wide-ranging aspects of a persons’ life and condition, some of which are readily apparent or detectable through history-taking, examination and investigation, and many of which may lie beyond the immediately apparent, and exist in more concealed areas of the human psyche. As an intuitive interaction between client and practitioner, carefully directed dowsing can access information from regions of body, mind and spirit that can allow the therapeutic process to be directed towards the underlying causes of health and disease rather than towards the current symptomatic expression of those issues.

Dowsing is best regarded in the clinical setting not as a substitute for therapeutic knowledge and skills, but rather as an aid and additional tool to be used to support and guide the practitioner in doing their best work. Effectiveness when dowsing relies on framing and asking the most relevant questions, and therefore the more knowledgeable and skilled the practitioner is in their chosen therapeutic field, the more relevant and useful will their dowsing be to them. Cross checking one’s dowsing responses against other process allows dowsing to be integrated into the practitioners’ "tool kit" alongside all of their other skills.

Dowsing is of immense potential benefit to all those concerned with either their own or with other peoples’ health. Dowsing is simple, low-tech, and available to be learned and used by anyone who chooses to study and practice it. It is important to train carefully and thoroughly as a dowser, and spending time with experienced practitioners for training and coaching is highly recommended.

The British Society of Dowsers supports, encourages and promotes dowsing and dowsers in a manner consistent with the highest standards of personal integrity and behaviour, and is a resource for all those interested in exploring and contributing to the field.

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