Translation of an article in the Dutch magazine ParaVisie, September 2004

Eric Dowsett uses the power of the compassionate heart
Clear yourself and your surroundings energetically

A simple and effective approach. This is how Eric Dowsett sees his work. He teaches people to trace energetic imbalance by means of a pendulum and subsequently to clear it. How does this work? Eric: “You embrace the disturbed energy with compassion and awareness. You love it more than this energy loves itself. And that gives it the room, where tension can discharge, can come into harmony again.”

When Eric Dowsett introduces people to energy clearing, he usually uses the pendulum as an instrument. Recently he was in Holland for a two-day workshop. “The pendulum is only an extension of yourself,” Eric explains to his audience. “Don’t be attached to it, even a tea bag will work,” he says with a grin, holding it in the air. “Do use a dry bag, a wet tea bag will make stains on your clothes, ha, ha.” It is not for nothing that Eric Dowsett emphasizes with humour what the function of the pendulum is. The more you train clearing people and spaces energetically, the more you get into contact with your natural capacity to sense energy. In the end you will not need an instrument anymore and your inner intuition is your ‘instrument.’ Then the feedback of your pendulum gets less important for you and you will already understand the sensations in your body more easily. After explanation in the workshop about how the pendulum works, several exercises follow in which students personally get experience with energy clearing.

Residue of energies
People, rooms filled with new or old thoughts and emotions: it is all energy. Everything is interconnected and may influence each other. Twelve years ago, Eric was already working to clear disturbed energies. Gradually he developed the vision which he now teaches worldwide. He also wrote a book about it: “The Moment That Matters.” What he found out is the importance of intention. “My intention and awareness determine the energy which prevails. The more clear you are, the more clear the energy is in your surroundings. Of course there may also be some tension in the air. Irritations, tension and quarrels often linger longer, energetically, than the moment in which they actually took place. These leftover energies may influence us. Altogether, we all are affected by three sorts of energy: the residue of thoughts and emotions, left by others or purely from ourselves. The second is earth energy, the third is electromagnetic pollution (energy fields caused by computers and simular things). All these energies influence us.”

Step-by-step
Eric Dowsett developed a method to teach how to release disturbed energy step by step. When you begin to learn, you pose questions about this energy and receive a reply with the pendulum. Very specific questions make sure that you will not open yourself any longer than necessary and receive as much information as necessary. In this way your nervous system and body can handle it. Thus there is safety. Eric: “Suppose that you are in a disco. Perhaps you are a bit sensitive. You open yourself to a lot of information, action, energy around you. There are many people, lights, emotions, thoughts. This may be very overwhelming and tiring. This method of clearing is effective because we localize and clear the blocked energy step by step. You only clear to the limit that feels comfortable to you. The more you are involved in energy clearing, the more your nervous system and your heart will learn to open themselves. While clearing someone else’s energy, you also clear yourself as well. The more clear you become, the more clear your surroundings will become. And clearing gets easier and simpler for you to do.

I’m angry…and now?
We all influence our surroundings. One person has an anxious, worried atmosphere around him, another one radiates peacefulness. So when we talk about the energy of the space around us, we talk about our own energies, together with the earth and electromagnetic radiation mentioned earlier. How exactly do we make contact with disturbed energy so that we may clear it? For example what do you do when you are really pissed off with somebody and feel that this stands between you and the other? “Suppose that somebody is really angry with somebody else,” Eric explains, “and that those two people meet. What happens then? A tension will arise. One person transmits anger to the other and the other reacts to it. The other recognizes: ‘this is anger, I don’t like this,’ and wants to push it away. In this way together we create tension and we increase it because we want to push it away. People do this continuously; conflicting personalities always ‘push’ against each other. And most people are inclined to pretend that the anger of the other one is the problem. ‘It is not my judgment of that anger that this is about,’ people tell themselves. Everyone tends to see himself as less to blame than the other.”

Permit a place without judgment
Eric continues: “Exactly this judging reaction is at stake. When you are able to let go of the judgment around the anger, the anger of the other one cannot attach to anything. When you make room in your heart, you create a safe place where the tension of the anger may flow off. Release. Liberation. That is the act of compassion: absence of fear and judgment. Unconditional love. Don’t start to judge whether the anger was good or bad. Don’t get upset by this anger: this attitude will reduce the tension which the other person holds. They will automatically feel more at ease, perhaps without knowing why. Because you didn’t bounce the ball back, didn’t push against their anger. If you push back, you will receive more tension. Instead, you don’t feed the anger. The beautiful thing is that when you let go of your judgment about anger in yourself, you don’t have to do anything more. Then it is no longer about doing. You are just present with this person and the tension will diminish in a natural manner. This is an ability that you can develop. In the workshop, by means of exercises, we lay the base for using this in everyday life, in a safe, gentle manner. I teach people how to connect with this place of non-judgment.”

The surroundings
The principle for energy clearing for people may also be applied for surroundings. Eric: “Just like with people, in rooms, there can be imbalances. How do you deal with this? How do you clear your surroundings of tension? You tune in to receive the information there. Let’s say it is about the residue of energy from a quarrel that once took place there. What do you do? You open yourself, go and feel what the room transmits there at that moment. It transmits energy just like a radio station. Perhaps you may feel the tension. Perhaps you are less sensitive to it. It is all right if you feel little or nothing - many people have lost their sensing capacity. We teach how to do this in the workshops. One person may get images, another one bodily sensations or certain emotions. It’s different from person to person. However the energy feels to you, you try not to identify with the feelings you get. You should see it as something which just is there. 'This ìs warmth, this ìs a headache, this ìs cold'. Not 'I am warm' or 'I have a headache'. At the moment that you do thàt, you step back into the old circle of identification and judgment and subsequently you create these symptoms, the warm, cold, or headache in your body."

"An energy in the surroundings cannot be judged as good or bad. You may observe that your body may react to it in a certain way. But you don’t have to identify yourself with this reaction. When you are able to view the information that your surroundings gives you with compassion, you decrease the tension. The degree to which you are able to give unconditional love in such a situation, determines the degree in which the surroundings can 'react back' in love, can come into a balanced state. When at that moment you try to fix something energetically, try to ‘do’ something: then you spoil it. We tend to have an inclination to control situations. Because we think we know better. That is not what clearing is about. Clearing is: just be there for your surroundings, without fear and judgment. Then we allow the energy in the room again to come into balance, to the degree that it needs it, through the compassion in your heart.”

Eric finishes that the key is not in his words. It is in your own experience. Beautiful to put this into practice.

Translation by Karin Karsten

'The more you are engaged in energy clearing, the better your nervous system and the more your heart will learn to open.'

'Irritations, tension and quarrels often linger longer, energetically, than the moment in which they actually took place.'

'What do you do? You open yourself, go and feel what the earth emits there at that moment.'

Exercise: 'This is'
Eric Dowsett provides a simple, practical exercise to learn to recognize your thoughts and feelings, and not to personally attach to negative feelings. The next time you think or feel something with a negative charge, for example, anger, try this: Often your reaction would be to say ‘I AM angry‘. Replace this by saying ‘THIS IS anger’. When you can do this, you prevent your brain from producing the substances which are responsible for your really experiencing anger in your body, that make you physically ‘become angry.’ Just try it, this step from ‘I am’ to ‘This is.’

© Paravisie, September, 2004