Let's think outside the box for a moment, shall we?

Creative ways to use your Reiki pendulum:

1. To figure out the best piece of fruit in the bunch (hold the pendulum over each one until you receive a ‘Yes’
2. Hold your pendulum over each day in a calendar until you receive a ‘Yes’ to figure out the best day to do something
3. Ask your pendulum a series of questions to figure out who you were in past lives and what your most important issues are that you are working on in this lifetime
4. Learn which areas of your home (or body) need extra attention and care

A very Zen-like pendulum

Tip when using your pendulum:

 Some pendulum users like to hold the hand not holding the pendulum one inch below the pendulum, palm facing up. This opens up the Reiki energy in that hand, and creates a biofeedback loop of energy that allows the Reiki and information to flow more easily.

If you can’t feel any Reiki flowing from your open palm, open and close your hand a couple times to activate your hand chakras. (Yes, although we tend to focus on the seven main chakras centers in the body, they are chakras all over! Hands, feet, between the knees, diaphragm, etc. ) Since another name for Reiki energy is ‘hands-on-healing’ after all!

 Also, be sure to clear your Reiki pendulum between questions so it it ready to provide you with the next answer. You can do this by touching the tip of your pendulum to your hand or the table, or also using the Reiki ‘clearing’ symbol or charging it up with the power symbol for a fresh restrart.

And, because we just don’t feel right not adding in a way to use your pendulum during Reiki treatments, here is an additional way to use your Reiki pendulum on clients:

5. Since most pendulums have a pointed tip, there are excellent for really focusing the   energy. Let’s say your client is having earaches. You can hold your Reiki pendulum directly over one of his ear chakra (which we all have, by the way. How else would we hear messages from Spirit and our ancestors?).  Intend for the healing Reiki energy to come through your hands, out the pendulum and into his ear to provide an extremely fine-tuned and direct stream of Reiki energy directly where he needs it most.

How do you use your pendulums in Reiki sessions? We’d love to hear from you!

 For more info on Reiki and pendulums, please visit:

Reiki and Pendulums FAQ

Keeping Your Reiki Pendulum Accurate

Reiki Sessions with Pendulums; and

Preparing Your Reiki Pendulum

Your pendulum can be your biggest ally, if you use it correctly.

Before you can understand how to ensure your Reiki pendulum is providing you with accurate information, you’ll need to understand how pendulums work.

How A Pendulum Works

Pendulums work in the same way as kinesiology and muscle testing do; they pick up on what your subconscious believes or Higher Self already knows but you are unaware of in your conscious mind.

Here is a little factoid we at Reiki Training Classes find fascinating: According to Bruce Lipton, a prominent biologist, 95% of your behavior is determined by your subconscious mind.  And ‘subconscious’ by its very definition means you aren’t even aware of it! So basically, we live our lives according to our subconscious beliefs we have picked up from past lives, in the womb, during childhood and every single day.

What the energy from your Reiki pendulum looks like

But we digress. Everything in this world has its own unique vibration, since everything is energy, and all energy vibrates at some frequency.  Pendulums pick up on your subconscious’ vibration, and swing according tho that vibration. Your subconscious sends signals through the neurological pathways of your brain to control your involuntary hand movements that in turn cause the pendulum to move.

You want to remember that your subconscious mind is moving the pendulum, and not Spirit. Although, Spirit and your Higher Self answer your questions through the use of the subconscious.

Your subconscious believes, your Higher Self knows

Your subconscious holds all the beliefs you hold about yourself, others and the world around you. Whatever you have taken in as a ‘truth’ becomes a part of your subconscious mind. Your Higher Self, on the other hand, is not limited by the beliefs you’ve acquired throughout your lifetimes, including the present one. Your Higher Self is connected to infinite wisdom, truth and Universal consciousness.

Use your pendulum to get answers from your Higher Self

You may want to try an experiment where you specifically formulate your statement to include your Higher Self. For example, you can first say to your pendulum, “I am a powerful healer.” Your answer will be determined by what your subconscious mind believes. If you ask your pendulum, “My Higher Self knows me to be a powerful healer,” however, you will almost certainly receive a Yes. This is truth, since, at the very least, we all are powerful healers in that we can heal ourselves!

Be as unattached as possible to the answers your Reiki pendulum gives

Your pendulum will move how you want it to. For example, intend to make your pendulum move in a Yes motion and watch what happens. It will move in a Yes motion! So the best way to get accurate answers and information from your Reiki pendulum is to ask it statements and be open to either answer. We repeat, either answer.

For example, if you really want a ‘Yes’ answer, then why are you asking your pendulum in the first place! Rather, you should ask yourself why you want the answer to be yes. If it is to fulfill an egoic desire, then perhaps you should try to detach from the outcome. If, however, the desire for the ‘Yes’ answer comes from deep within your soul as it is what your heart really and truly wants to do, then follow your heart! You don’t need a pendulum to tell you what you already know. When you follow your heart, you never go wrong. Never.

Well, then how can I know if my Reiki pendulum is accurate?

Detachment is key. After all, it doesn't really matter what happens. What matters is our reaction to what happens.

We knew you would ask that! The key is to stay detached to the answers your Reiki pendulum will provide. Since you are usually not as emotionally invested when practicing Reiki on another person as opposed to yourself, you can often get accurate readings in your Reiki sessions more easily.

Saying statements rather than asking questions also helps ensure the accuracy of your Reiki pendulum. For example, you can say,  “I should send the grounding symbol into my client’s feet during this Reiki session to ground them,” and wait for your Reiki pendulum to give its response. Statements helps your subconscious mind get out of the way and lets your Higher Self answer.

So use statements, and really try to stay detached to the response from your Reiki pendulum by focusing on the words in the statement. The more you practice using your pendulum, both with yourself and in Reiki sessions, the easier you’ll be able to get out of your own way. Good luck!

For more information on Reiki and pendulums, visit:

Reiki and Pendulums FAQ

Reiki Sessions with Pendulums ; and

Preparing Your Reiki Pendulum

Pendulums – A gift from Spirit to use in your Reiki treatments

Your Reiki pendulum knows the answers... even if your head doesn't!

What is a pendulum?

Technically, anything can be made into a pendulum. (You could even use your body as a pendulum!) Just make sure that you determine beforehand whether each movement means ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘maybe’.

What can a pendulum do?

Essentially, pendulums offer us access to our subconscious, our Higher Selves and the collective unconscious; three types of consciousness most people typically cannot access very easily (or at all).

The reasoning behind using pendulums is to connect with how your subconscious feels as well as what your Higher Self knows. Since your Higher Self already has the trus answers to your questions. As writer Erica Jong so eloquently put:

People seek advice about the answers to questions they already know but wish they didn’t.

Using a pendulum during a Reiki session allows you to receive these answers into your conscious mind.

How to use pendulums in Reiki treatments

A pendulum is an excellent tool to use in a Reiki session or treatment. While we at Reiki training classes encourage you be creative when you use your pendulums in your Reiki treatments, there are three common ways Reiki therapists use them in Reiki sessions:

1. see what is happening in the chakras
2. ask questions about what to do in the Reiki session (i.e. which Reiki symbols to give)
3. set up Reiki treatment times and choose crystals and complementary tools
   

   Reiki sessions using a rose quartz pendulum get the added love and healing vibration benefits that rose quartz posseses.

   A deeper look at using a pendulum in a Reiki treatment

You can use pendulums with Reiki in a couple different ways:

First, when you start your Reiki session, you can use the pendulum over the client’s chakras to gage what is happening in each one. The pendulum should swing in a clockwise circle over the chakra if the chakra is healthy. If the chakra is blocked, deficient in energy or has excessive energy in it, however, the pendulum will do something other than a clockwise circle.

You may want to check the chakras with your Reiki pendulum at the beginning of the Reiki treatment, and also at the end. Seeing the improvements from your Reiki treatments is always nice to see!

Another way to use pendulums with Reiki is to ask the pendulum any questions that arise for you during the session. For example, suppose you are not sure to move to the client’s head and give them the mental clearing symbol, or to stay at the client’s feet and send grounding symbols into each foot chakra. You can ask the pendulum for the answer, and send your Reiki healing energy accordingly.

Let your pendulum do the work and choose the right crystals for your Reiki session.

You can also use your pendulums to create the best times for your Reiki sessions, as well as choosing the perfect crystals to use.

Learn how to program your pendulum in our article Preparing Your Reiki Pendulum.

Why you should try using a pendulum in your Reiki practice

Another benefit to using pendulums in your Reiki treatments is that you come to trust them as time goes on. This may sound simple, but deepening your trust  in your Higher Self, yourself as a powerful healer and Reiki practitioner, and in Spirit can strengthen your practice immensely.

How pendulums can help deepen your connection with the healing Reiki energy

Besides, it is not uncommon for the students in our Reiki classes to have shall we call them ‘crises of faith’, where they start to question the power of Reiki. We have gone through them ourselves, and even though you ‘know’ in your head that the Reiki works –  and even though you turned off the electricity in your entire home when you returned from your first Reiki master attunement ( just to use a random example) – true knowing and believing with all your heart can take a little bit of time.

Dive into the healing Reiki energy

You are learning to work with Universal Life Force energy in a specific way, and using your Reiki pendulum and getting the right answers time after time can help you transfer that knowledge from your head to your heart. Though they don’t seem that far apart at first glance, it can be a quantum jump…

For more information about pendulums and Reiki, please visit:

Reiki and Pendulums FAQ

Keeping Your Reiki Pendulum Accurate ; and

Preparing Your Reiki Pendulum