There is evidence that a dowser's muscles twitch when something is dowsed and this twitch is magnified by the dowsing tool being used.
Everything has energy impinging upon it, going through it or going out of it. The form of energy, and energy movement, depends upon the composition of the object and its structure.
The energies we easily sense are light, heat and sound.
But any energy we cannot see, or normally sense, will be entering or exiting objects.
Some of these energies will be those which we use for radar, radio, television, x-rays or cooking. The "pattern" these energies make can be unique for each object.
So do we pick up this energy pattern when we dowse, and is Ki or Chi "energy" something to do with a pattern? Perhaps Ki can be thought of as a sort of building-block which is the foundation of all the other energies. If so, it may be that our right brain senses the Ki.
As our right brain hemisphere cannot easily communicate directly with our left (analytical) hemisphere it may signal with these arm muscle twitches.
These twitches cause consequential "L" rod or pendulum movement followed by the Dowser's call of "I've found it!"
If Ki, or Chi, is somehow behind the existence of all those other energies, and if it holds unique patterns for each and every object, or condition, then perhaps we are getting closer to a theory of how dowsing works.
None of this explains how our wonderful minds are able to receive a stimulus to cause a twitch.
Many questions remain. Is the right half of our brain always aware of Ki energy, but normally unable to send that awareness to the left-side into "consciousness"? Is Ki somehow connected with those other "building-blocks" - the quanta of quantum mechanics etc.? Are these patterns linked to the grid shapes in Crystallography, Reiki Symbols or patterns used in Radionics (another form of dowsing)?
Fortunately, we don't have to have answers! We can just be happy using these gifts. But if you are inquisitive I'm sure you'd like to have some sort of answer - Perhaps this short article has set you on the exploration trail

In future articles it is hoped to consider other aspects of dowsing.

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