What is geopathic stress?
The word geopathic comes from two Greek words: geo meaning ‘of the earth’ and pathos, meaning ‘suffering’ or ‘disease’.

Geopathic stress is caused by ‘radiations’ which emanate from some underground streams, mining disturbances, rock faults and energy ley lines. The specific nature of these radiations is at present unknown but they can affect the buildings that we live and work in, adversely affecting our immune systems. By far the most common source of these negative earth radiations is from underground water flows.

How can it affect us?
Geopathic stress has been linked to many serious and long-term illnesses. It is not thought to cause illness directly but can have a detrimental effect upon the immune system, making sufferers more susceptible to illnesses. Existing problems can also be exacerbated. The effect can be instant, for example after moving into a different house, but is usually more gradual, with a slow deterioration in health. Disturbed sleep patterns are common, along with tiredness, headaches and feelings of fear and depression. Many sufferers say that they cannot explain the exact feeling but that the atmosphere at home or at work feels depressive or ‘not quite right’.

It also seems that some electrical equipment may be adversely affected by geopathic stress.

How can it be detected?
We use dowsing to detect the presence of geopathic stress. We either use angle rods during a site visit, or we use a pendulum over a map.

What is dowsing?
Dowsing is an ancient art that uses a pendulum, angle rods, forked twig or similar device to determine information that is not known to the conscious mind. It has been shown by the late Maxwell Cade, using a brain rhythm monitor, that the information that operates the muscular response of the person dowsing can be observed in their brain rhythms. Indeed, people who claimed not to be able to dowse were shown to possess exactly the same changes of brain rhythm. Dowsing is therefore an ability inherent in the vast majority of the population. The main difficulty lies in forging a reliable link between the intuitive areas of the brain and the muscles responsible for the dowsing reactions.

Dowsing has been shown to be accurate under a very wide range of conditions. Double blind tests have given absolutely accurate results with odds of billions to one against their being due to chance ("The Physics of the Divining Rod" by Barrett & Besterman). The main problem confronting scientific opinion is that there is no explanation that will fit within the confines of present-day scientific theories. That, of course, does not invalidate the fact that the phenomenon exists.

In skilled hands, dowsing can be used for many purposes. Perhaps one of the most well known is that of water divining where water can be found by dowsing with angle rods or a forked twig. Geopathic stress can be detected by the same technique, .