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The pendulum is a fine tool for certain clients. One of the values of this tool is that while both therapist and client consciously attend to the to-and-fro of the swinging weight they are also each placed in the peripheral vision of the other. The physical structures in the eye that give us peripheral vision are very different, and respond to very different kinds of phenomena, than those of foveal vision. For the therapist who has trained herself to creatively use the information available in such a situation pendulum work can be very powerful. Some people develop a refined sensitivity to the otherwise unconscious cues that are only visible in the part of the eye that tracks peripheral vision. People who grow up in physically abusive homes often develop tremendous abilities at "reading people." Pendulum work is one way to approach developing such "people reading skills" in a healthy and adaptive environment as a competent and capable adult.
However, there is the stigma of occultism and hypnosis to contend with, and some clients will not be able to divorce that stigma from the otherwise meaningless act of pendulum work. Later entries will touch on the ideo-sensory aspects of pendulum work, for now it is enough to contemplate the pendulum as an aid to an altered view of ones clients, the shifting of the therapist's mode of information gathering and processing to one that allows powerful, but seemingly effortless, intervention.
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