Chakra Diagnosis with a Pendulum

A pendulum acts as an amplifier for your kinesthetic sense of energy flow. It helps increase sensitivity to the chakras' energy. As you hold it over a chakra, your energy flows into the pendulum's field, and that combined field interacts with the subject's field, causing the pendulum to move.

The size and direction of the movement indicates the amount and direction of energy flowing through the chakra.

Brennan recommends beechwood pendulums that are pear-shaped, one inch in diameter and one and a half inches long. Their energy field is diffuse, easily permeated, and symmetrical around the vertical axis — which is important for measurement.

As you develop sensitivity, you may eventually be able to simply look at chakras to see how they're spinning, what their colors are, and how they're disfigured — but the pendulum is the best starting tool.

To measure the front chakras, ask your patient to lie on their back. For back chakras, have them lie on their stomach.

1. Hold the pendulum on a string about six inches long over the chakra
2. Empty your mind of all bias about the chakra's state (this is the hardest part)
3. Keep the pendulum as close to the body as possible without touching
4. Your energy flows into the pendulum, combining with the subject's field
5. Observe the movement pattern — circular, elliptical, straight, or still

The size of the circle relates to the chakra's strength. Compare relative sizes among chakras — for health, all should be about the same size. If both people's energy is low, all chakras appear smaller; if high, larger.

Each symbol is drawn as you are looking at the front of the patient's body.

Elliptical swings indicate right/left imbalance. Right (CER) represents the active, aggressive, "masculine" or yang nature. Left (CEL) represents the passive, receptive, "feminine" or yin nature.

The more the circular movement is distorted, the more severe the psychological distortion. The most severe right/left split is the back-and-forth movement at a 45-degree angle (R3, L4).

When an individual is focusing psychological work on a particular aspect, the chakra may display chaotic or asymmetrical movement with a shifting axis. The pendulum swings chaotically, usually elliptical with a shifting axis.

This means a lot is going on. It's time to work deeply on the issues, but also give the client personal time and space for self-examination and transformation.

With practice, you can pick up qualities such as:

• • Rate of swing — how fast the pendulum moves indicates energy metabolized
• • Tightness or tension — overwork and pressure
• • Exuberance — positive aggression and vitality
• • Heaviness, sadness, grief — emotional quality of the energy
• • Peacefulness and clarity — balanced, open state

You can tell how stable a chakra is, how long it has been in its current state, whether it changes back and forth, and what percentage of time it's open (20% or 80%).

A woman came to two weeklong intensive retreats (1979 and 1981). Her readings showed:

Interpretation: Her primary clear function was reason. She compensated for vulnerable feelings with an overly aggressive will. Crown, third eye, and heart remained open throughout — she was connected to spirituality, had clear concepts, and could love. All will centers were problematic initially but resolved by the second retreat.

Use the Chakra Diagnosis Log tool to record your own readings over time and track your progress.