move a pendulum with the power of your mind?

[ladydiamond]

i think everyone can do this easily. get a string, approximately 12 inches (or 30 cm? i think) and tie a small weight to one end--just heavy enough to keep the string straight. sir in a chair and place your elbow on a table. hold one end of the string between your thumb and forefinger, and let the string hang down, with the weight 2 inches or so (4cm?) or so from the surface of the table. hold your hand still, and make sure the weight is as still as possible. then start thinking to yourself that you want the weight to swing in circles, you dont even have to say it out loud. tell it to go counterclockwise, tell it to go in small circles, tell it to go wider, tell it to go fast--then tell it to slow down, tell it to stop, or dont even tell it to stop first, just tell it to go clockwise this time, small circles, wide circles, whatever. then tell it to go back and forth, up and down, left/right. tell it to go fast, slow, whatever. i dont have a webcam or id have recorded myself doing this. try it. i dunno why it works, but it does.

[Sparky]

I heard you can talk to pendulums. You can ask them "yes" or "no" questions supposedly. Like when they circle it means "yes" or when it moves back and forth it means "no". Although, to be honest, I don't know if I got that right, it could be the other way around. ^^;;

Something about them makes me want to run, it gives me the same scary feeling as those dowsing rods. :/

[jenica]

I've been using pendulums since I was young. From what I remember, it's not power of the mind, but tiny pulses in the fingertips that direct the pendulum. When I used a pendulum frequently, I used it to talk with my subconscious. I set the "yes" and "no" answers to certain movements. I did this by focusing on the word "NO" (or "YES") and waiting for the pendulum to swing a certain way. I would repeat this step until I got a consistent result. Once it was consistent, I could use it to communicate with my subconscious. Really a useful tool.

[piccolo]

You are totally right, the micromovements in your fingers and arm do it. But there is an exception, if you use a human hair and a ring of that person then you can find old broken bones, cancers, ulcers etc.. Basically stuff that isnt good (or hasnt been good) in the body. Doing it properly with a not too heavy ring, you can even see the ring jump up or the hair gets pulled out from your fingers. Also you may find places where the ring holds on a spot and you can move your hands a few centimeter off and keep it there whilst the ring stays on that place. This kind of work is quite different then the standard pendulum work.