Geopathic Stress
by Pauline Roberts
Recently I visited friends at their new house. The house had a sorry tale attached to it, including the (several) builders and developers going badly broke and, as a consequence, there were a few things left half done, not to mention some bad feelings between all involved. Although I do not consider myself a "sensitive" without my trusty read-out devices (pendulum or rods!), even I could feel that all was not well on a subtle level, almost the moment I stepped in the door. After hearing about the house's troubles, I asked them whether they'd like me to take a look. Receiving an interested "it can't do any harm" type of response, I returned to the car to get my rods, which I rarely travel without even on holidays, only to find my windscreen severely cracked. Since it was intact the hour before when I had parked it, I knew the car port was a good place to start looking for non-beneficial energies!
I was lucky enough to be taught techniques for finding and rectifying geopathic stress by Joan McFarlane and Carl Bracy, both professional water and energy dowsers in Northern California who frequently give talks at ASD conferences. Their techniques, my own tweaks and a lot of practice have stood me in good stead over the years, but anyone newly interested in this field would do well to read Ann and Roy Proctor's "Healing Sick Houses" as a great starting point to understanding geopathic stress and how it can affect the space we live in. To read more about their dedicated house healing work, new book and dowsing classes, go to www.dspace.dial.pipex.com/procter.com.
Not surprisingly, my friends had a recent floor plan of their house to hand, and it was not long before I had traced the dirty great negative line that had affected my windscreen as well as others going through the study, kitchen and main bedroom. All in all, not too healthy for the inhabitants but luckily all transmutable from deleterious-to-health, to beneficial, which was a relief. For once, I had the luxury of doing a map and 'walkabout' survey which made for a fun cross-check, and meant I got to spend as little time as possible on these lines.
After the house was 'fixed up', we got down to socialising the Australian way which is quite incompatible with accurate dowsing! However, the experience did remind me how important it is for us to check our own environment as previously positive energies can be unbalanced by all manner of things including our own strong emotions. Raymond Grace who does a lot of personal and environmental healing in the US, said healing energy work was "like taking a bath - you can't just do it once and be done with it". How true.
Clearing geopathic stress can have dramatic or subtle effects on the inhabitants, including the animals. Cats are usually not impressed, since "negative" energy lines are seemingly beneficial to them so they like them just as they are; whilst dogs will go to places in a house and its surroundings that they previously may have avoided. The human occupants often experience a change in atmosphere for the better within the house or within themselves - this can be experienced immediately, or over time.
Since living things require different types of energy to thrive, it is important we remember that what may not be beneficial for us, may be health-giving to another creature and thus we should, I believe, seek to change the energies that affect only us rather than going about clearing whatever we perceive to be "negative" wherever it may be found. In a following article, I will illustrate just how many different creatures thrive in environments which we would determine geopathically negative. I always use the permission question trio before changing any energy state and transmute energies so that they can do no harm to any other living thing. The result in- house is usually that cats will find new spaces, although they may take a time to settle!
In my friend's house, there are no pets, but the husband of the house, a "benign" skeptical engineer, who was quite happy to let me do my dowsing thing whilst he watched with a beer, rang me up a month or so later to say how the house now, for the first time in months, felt like home and that he was much happier in it. Although I still have to get my windscreen fixed, I'll settle for that!
Pauline Roberts is a member of the BSD, EEG and committee member of the Dowsers Society of NSW, Australia. Pauline is a professional water diviner by first love, but also works with energy and health dowsing since she now lives in the city of Sydney. She attends dowsing conferences around the world on a regular basis, as well as running a dowsing information website for the last 10 years, one of the first on the web, now called “Dowsing Down Under” to reflect her relocation from England to Australia and found at www.divstrat.com.au/dowsing. Pauline edits an issue of the BSD and EEG journals and is also co-editor of the DSNSW’s monthly newsletter with Noel Jordan. She also teaches the DSNSW Learn to Dowse class each year. Pauline has been dowsing for 25 years, ever since she saw dowsing on the TV program “Why Don’t You?” and picked up a coat hanger. You may reach Pauline at dowsing@divstrat.com.au© Copyright 2002, Dowsing Down Under. (Reprinted with permission of the author.)
