I started experimenting with dowsing under this catawba tree about 30 years ago when I was in my early teens. After locating a forked branch, I held it out at waist level and began walking around. I had only taken a few steps, when I felt the dowsing rod being pulled down by what seemed like a magnetic force. I took a few more steps and the rod gradually returned to a horizontal position. I continued walking and the same thing happened. In fact, everywhere I went, there was either a magnetic force that was pulling the rod down, or a lack of magnetic force that allowed the rod to return to the horizontal position. My results were consistent and repeatable. If I found a spot that produced a strong reaction, I received the same results when I approached the same spot from a different direction.
Everything I knew then about dowsing was based on what I saw on an episode of Gunsmoke back in the 1960s. I wasn't even sure how to hold the dowsing rod. I just held it with palms down and started walking like I was mowing the lawn. Recently I read that the palms are supposed to be facing upwards. It works for me either way, but holding the rod with the palms up seems more awkward. Some people use other instruments for dowsing such as L-rods or pendulums. L-rods didn't work for me at first, but after some practice I started getting reactions that corresponded to the same results I received with the dowsing rod. One advantage of the L-rods is that they indicate a direction of flow.
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