Yes / No Questions.
If you have successfully tried the previous three lessons, then by now you will be able to get a response, and understand that response, from your dowsing pendulum.

Some dowsers have the ability to ask “yes / no” questions and, in order to see how far your skills can be developed, try this step.

• Sit or stand comfortably and hold the pendulum as normally.
• Ask a question to which you know the answer will be “no”. For example “Is it raining outside this house?”
• Repeat until you get a response from your dowsing pendulum. Note the response.
• Now ask another question, again to which you know the answer, but for which the response will be “yes”
• Again repeat until you get a response, and note that response.
• Do not be discouraged if you get no discernible reply, many dowsers cannot do the yes/no dowsing. Or if they can, they do not phrase their questions in a manner in which they get an unambiguous reply.

Now you have tried the basics of dowsing and will be able to expand your skills, develop your responses and have fun.

Good luck and remember to keep practising!

Practice, practice and practice.
Very few people can pick up a dowsing pendulum for the first time in their life (with no other dowsing experience) and get results. You have to practice, see what works for you, tune your pendulum to yourself and, finally, find your limits.
And that can only be done with lots of practice.  But that practice can be easy and fun and need only be a few minutes each day – or an hour or so a week. It is entirely up to you and what you feel happy with.

Some key requisites before you start to practice:
1. You must want to do it
2. You must have confidence in your ability to learn
3. There must be no strong negative influences around you (for example a sceptical partner laughing at you).
4. You must try to put personal worries, everyday concerns etc to the back of your mind
5. Before you start you must get everything you need prepared so you do not have to stop and break your concentration
6. Turn off your mobile phone or put it out of earshot. If it rings it will distract you.
7. Do not practice if you are tired or sleepy.

In the links to the posts below, I have put a series of exercises that you could follow in sequence. They will give you an insight into what / where / how you dowse as an individual.

• First step, your pendulum
• Second step, looking for a hidden object
• Third step, looking for water using a map
• Fourth step, yes / no questions