Why I’ve been nervous to talk about pendulum healing

This is something I’ve been reflecting on for quite a while and I’ve struggled to work out how to articulate my thoughts. Not because I am uncertain about my own experiences, but because I know the assumptions people may make.

For most of my professional life I have worked in education, teaching and researching religion, spirituality, belief and faith development. Academic life rightly values evidence, critical thinking and careful questioning. Those values have shaped me deeply, and they continue to do so. Alongside that professional life, however, I have also quietly explored another way of understanding wellbeing through pendulum healing and energy work.

Bringing those two parts of myself together publicly has not been easy. I know that some people may assume that an academic should dismiss anything that cannot be easily measured. Others may assume that someone who practises energy healing has abandoned critical thinking altogether.

Neither assumption reflects who I am.

One of the greatest lessons my work in religious education has taught me is that it has never been about telling people what they should believe. Instead, it has been about exploring how human beings search for meaning, wrestle with life's deepest questions, and make sense of experiences that often lie beyond simple explanation. Across cultures and throughout history, people have sought healing, hope, purpose and connection in many different ways. My role as an educator has been to approach those stories with openness, curiosity and respect—not to dismiss them because they sit outside familiar ways of thinking, nor to accept them uncritically.

 Perhaps that is why I feel drawn to pendulum healing and my other related interests. Not because I have abandoned critical thinking, but because I remain curious. Pendulum healing is part of my own journey of exploration.

I do not expect everyone to believe in it. Nor do I believe that it replaces medicine, counselling or professional healthcare. Rather, I see it as a complementary practice that invites stillness, reflection and curiosity. It is one way of listening more carefully to ourselves.

Perhaps the hardest part has been deciding whether to be open about this. Academia often encourages us to separate our professional identity from our personal lives. Yet authenticity matters too. Over time I realised that hiding something that has become meaningful to me no longer felt honest.

So here I am. Not asking anyone to agree with me. Not telling anyone what they should believe. Simply sharing a practice that has brought insight, comfort and hope to me and to others who have chosen to explore it.

Curiosity has always been at the heart of my academic work. It is also at the heart of pendulum healing. Both begin with a willingness to ask questions. Both invite us to pay attention. Both remind us that not everything that matters can be reduced to certainty.

If this practice resonates with you, you are very welcome here. If it doesn't, that's perfectly all right too.

My hope is simply that this remains a space where curiosity is welcomed, conversations are respectful, and each person is free to discover what supports their own wellbeing.