I wouldn't over-think it, or put a lot of effort into it. That perhaps sounds like the opposite of what you should do, but if your current method is working pretty well as you say, then trying to force more out of the enterprise could back-fire on you since you would be focusing on lack or disappointment rather than happiness and victory. I think if you enjoy your wins and just continue feeling like a winner, your percentage will improve with no effort on your part other than what you are doing. Interesting! Best wishes!

This is for playing in the USA. The collective consciousness is a huge pool especially when they covet say a race. You can determine if your dowsing self is in fact gravitating toward those thought forms IF your winning dowses are the favorites or near favorites. AND if very large win prices have dowsed as NO responses before the race. If so then those NO RESPONSES might have been different than an actually CORRECT NO ANSWER. Having this talent early in learning the art, it can be chased away by thoughts of doing something wrong.

This is not a get rich quick method. It is an art form and best serviced while practicing without limiting expectations such as the need for action or the need to find the winner.

Yes you want to cash some winning wagers, but while actually dowsing prefer to have a sense of wonder about the process and looking for a feeling of discovery.

i would say bet on the one the less popular. or go see the horse before the race. you will see if they are healthy. the one that serve you best is your number 1.experience and enjoy.

What exactly does "using a pendulum mean? ... it is a particular way of knowing and perceiving things other than by using the five senses, it's a precious aid in everyday life.

Events to come are directly linked to events from the past and present and by their structure humans are naturally linked with these influences, as soon as you think of a particular event your subconscious enters immediately into resonance with it, you are not conscious of this hitch up but as a result there is an immediate involuntary response.

It's important to quiet your mind so that you can perceive these very subtle and fleeting messages that come through from your subconscious, you need to reduce mind chatter to a minimum and increase the volume of the subtle messages. You also need to calm down your whole system, the signals come through your body too, your "body mind", so if the whole system has attained a sort of coherency and quietude, you'll be able to perceive the signal much more easily and get a much more accurate answer.

You can increase the volume of the messages, the flow of signals by activating the subconscious mind and you do this by making use of the involuntary nervous system (autonomic nervous system)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system

The subconscious mind already knows in advance all the details about what you wish to know, to tap into it you need to by-pass the very strong conscious logical mind.

Imagine you wish to know which horse will win the Hong Kong Cup that takes place at Sha Tin Racetrack today, In other words you wish to know the "Result" of an "Event" that will take place at a particular "Moment" in time at a particular geographic location or "Place".

You already consciously know a lot about the winning horse "the target", you know that it will cross the finishing line at a particular place at a particular time (to the nearest minute or so), you can now draw a sketch with as much detail as possible, you can copy from photos of the actual winning post, what it looks like, what are the surroundings, hedges, fences, trees, what kind of racecourse, grass, sand, clinker ... etc. Add labels in particular the racing colors, horse, and the position of the horse number

The winning horse can be characterized not only by it's number but also notably by it's racing colors that the jockey wears and also by the horse's name, each racehorse has a distinct name and identity. Using these three characteristics simultaneously you can greatly increase the signal strength and thus get much more clear cut results.

Now you are going to use a bit of eraser magic and make this conscious image disappear by rubbing it out with a rubber, you can longer see it physically but your subconscious is still aware of it's energy traces on the page and has recorded it.

The target is now internalized, digitalized in your subconscious, it has been incorporated within, personalized and made subjective. Now using the same piece of paper you are going to draw a picture of how your subconscious "sees" the target. To do this you use an ideogram, it's a movement by your autonomic nervous system through your muscles to create a little motion that you get down onto the page that tells you about the target.

So with your body nicely relaxed and your mind quiet and centered on the target, with a pencil in your hand just allow your hand flow freely on the page and trace a line, this is your ideogram, it can be any form for example

Since it already knows all about the target ... when you touch it ... when you sound it's frequency ... when you probe the sketch with your finger tips ... when you feel the vibration of it's colors ... it can modulate, adjust and adapt that feeling and through the subtle way of how your whole nervous system functions and interacts with your immaterial aura and body energies it can create different sensations, different feelings (smoothness, hot, cold, wet, dry, soft, hard ...), characteristics that applies to the target wherever or whenever it exists in the virtual world. In this way you can extract information from the subconscious mind and by-pass the conscious mind.

Use your finger and probe the drawing, first get basic impressions ... is it man made, natural, water, person, animal, emotion, energy, get the gestalt, get the most basic impression that you can describe which feels correct.

Probe the ideogram again and describe some of your sensory impressions of colors, sound, texture, temperature, taste, smell, ambiance, contrast, whatever feels correct ... write down on the right and let go any nouns, any mental analysis ... now impressions of size, mass, orientation, direction, density, patterns, shapes, volumes, vibrations, energies ... now move 50 feet over the target area and describe patterns, direction, colors, textures ... and put your hand on the page and let your hand move as if you were at the target location, what might it look like? ... shapes, patterns, size, orientation, what would fit? ... what feels correct? describe your sketch, use words and labels.

This work can take anytime between half an hour to an hour or even more, the more time you put in the more details you get. The ideogram is like a kind of hologram, you can touch the page and get information. When you try it yourself you'll find that you'll get a lot more information than you would expect. This is a spontaneous holistic way of getting information, it comes to you like in thought balls, like a gestalt it all comes at once, then you have to write it all down. Anything that exists has it's own specific bar code that the subconscious can identify and tune into. This way you can get information about the colors of the jockey's jacket, the number and name of the horse.

Now you can clarify and verify the results using your pendulum, the graph and patterns, a pattern acts as an identification model, a sort of bar code and allows comparison. Here is what i like to think of as a bubble grid, it's basically 12 disks (spheres) arranged in a grid fashion with one of the disks much bigger than the others and surrounded by tension lines that form the shape of a lozenge. The smaller disks are 3cm in diameter and the larger disk is 6cm, thus they are in resonant harmony ... more to follow ...

Annex;

Event, Moment and Place are the key factors that fit together to form the reality of the research and for practical purposes they're arranged in graphical form

The question should always be posed in such a way that there can only be a clear yes or no reply, for example :

« will horse number 1 win the Hong Kong Cup that takes place at Sha Tin Racetrack today ? »

Notice that "result" is also materialized by a disk, and when operating we allow the pendulum to escape towards + and - signs,

Using a lead pencil write the question on a square of white paper and place it on the question disk, then let the pendulum girate above the question and slowly direct itself towards the result disk and the + or - sign,

Each circle carrying a word forms a good pattern of what the word within it signifies, The event disk is a complete pattern of the event, the same applies to the moment, place and result disks, All that directly implies the research finds itself well and truly evoked at the moment that you operate,

This basic drawing can however be expanded upon so as to represent by isolated disks all the factors susceptible to have their importance in a divinatory research,

A horse race is always part of a whole suite of events, it's a result of previous horse races and it joins and prepares those that follow so we represent the possible influences all this can have by a disk "ensemble events"

We wish to select a single horse, an element amongst a whole list of participating elements, so we figure a disk "element event" to be used for testing each horse individually

The position and aspects of the planets, manifestations of providence and other such energies can produce rectifying influences that we can group together as "rectors event"

Elements and ensembles can also have their own predetermined course of events, they too can produce rectifying influences, "rectors elements" signifies horse owners, jockeys and their destinies as well as the destinies of the horses

and "rectors ensemble" figures the race course directors and their destinies

The collective energies of the stable staff and those betting can intervene to boost certain horses and bring down others, It can also play a role in creating a barrage to all those that use occult practices and dubious means to realize gains that can be considered detrimental to the masses, So it's useful to figure a disk "collective unconscious"

and there can be secret arrangements, hidden negotiations that take place behind the scenes, fixed in advance before the race, So a disk "intrusions" is added

Here's the complete representation of what's going on in the box : it figures all the possible influences imaginable ,,, and if you can think of any more, let me know :)

Before starting the research it's a good idea to test the collective unconscious, intrusions or rectors disks with your pendulum, if it indicates a strong reaction then it's best to do the research later,

It's important to fully understand the role each disk plays, For example the disk carrying the words « rectors event » forms a perfect witness, physical, of all the influences that actively operate on the subject of the research, You don't have to be concerned what these influences are about, they're there, evoked by the disk and the words that it carries,

You don't need to search for rectors events, neither rectors elements, etc ,,, all you need to do is work with the disks that are absolutely essential for the research, the other disks functioning automatically, That's exactly why the disks are figured once and for all on the graph, to relieve your mind of the task and facilitate the research,

references; méthodes et pratiques de radiesthésie - b.g. condé ; radiesthésie divinatoire - servranx