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!

Third step, looking for water using a map.
By now you should have completed steps 1 and 2 and be able to obtain and recognise the response to your own pendulum and your own questions.
You should be able to ‘find’ a ‘hidden’ object, the coin in step 2. Now lets proceed to what is a very important step, map dowsing.
Many people can dowse using a pendulum and map and never have to go out in the field. So lets give it a try now.

• Get a map (for this first exercise I suggest an accurate map or sketch) of an area you know and which is close by you.
• Set the map on a table and decide what you are going to look for. Obviously at this stage it should be something that is shown on the map, such as a stream, river, lake or sea.
• Holding the pendulum in the way that feels most natural natural to you, start to move over the map, asking yourself the appropriate question. “Is there a stream here”, for example.
• Note the way your pendulum moves and apply the lessons you learnt in the previous steps.
• If you are successful and confident, try looking for something not on the map.
• Try looking for something not on the map, but something that you could go outside an visually see where it is, even if it means a short drive in the car.
• Why not try looking for a friend’s car (and when you think you have found it on the map, check with your friend). Or pick a place on the map you have not visited and ask a question “does this street have yellow parking lines on it?” or “does this field have a hedge around it” or “does this church have a flag flying from its tower today?”. The aim is to look for something in a remote location that you can go and check as see if you were correct.
• When you are ready, move on to the next step.

Map dowsing

Second step – looking for a hidden object.
Now that you can get a reaction from your pendulum from an object that you can see it is time to try to locate a hidden object.

• As before, place a coin on a table. Now cover the table with a piece of paper, newspaper or a cloth. It does not matter at this stage if you know where the ‘hidden’ coin is. What matters is that the object is out of sight.
• Start away from where the coin is and ask yourself “where is the coin?” or “is there a coin here” or whatever question works best for you. (Remember the exercise in step one).
• Watch your pendulum and try to navigate to where the coin is located by means of how it swings or circles on the chain.
• The movements you discovered in step one will guide you.
• After you can locate the coin, then try closing your eyes, sliding the coin onto the table top and covering with a cloth without looking. Now see if you can locate it.
• Repeat and practice and your ability and confidence will grow.
• When you are ready, move on to the next step.

In the picture below I am approaching the coin under the paper. See how the pendulum is swinging to show me in which direction the coin lays.

Looking for a hidden coin under a sheet of paper