Do any of you use Dowsing Rods?

I have used them. I found that the L rods worked for me and I have traced drains successfully with them. Drains are easy to check and very good for practice. I've also had responses to other things (presumably underground water) but it was difficult to say what it was.

I never managed to get the Y shaped hazel twig to work for me but I think that is down to practice. I have had interesting and promising results with a pendulum, as well.

If you are starting out, especially if you don't have an experienced dowser to show you, you will find that the L rods are more positive and easier to manage. Keep your mind open to ideas and try not to be led astray by people who claim to know how it works. There are many theories and most of them are simply that!

Practice, practice and practice - especially with things that you can check later. I believe that most people have the ability to dowse but that it needs developing. My own view is that it is a natural sense that people (and animals) in open country needed to survive. Now that we no longer need to look for water for ourselves, that sense has become hidden through lack of use. People have described the sense in many ways, even without using rods or twigs (which are basically amplifiers of small muscle tensions). Some say that they can 'smell' water, others say they can see a mist or colours. I have heard of some who get a ringing in their ears, too. All of these are the body's ways of interpreting very minute changes which it has no other way of describing.