The Shendor Pendulum …
Energizes the brow chakra – develops your energy awareness, eventually making the pendulum itself obsolete
Purifies your fortune path – reduces or fully-eliminates energies that generate future misfortunes
Draws down mana – increases your energy for developing higher awareness for liberation from karmas
Opens the heart chakra – transforms your karmas into new faculties or fortunes
Seeing right action – right actions strengthen your wisdom, inner strength, happiness, success or higher awareness
Body energy-balancing – every stress you experience reflects your need for more-balanced internal energy
Environmental energy-balancing – imbalances of home or office energies impact your life and fortune energies
Becoming ‘anti-fragile’ – every challenge you experience holds energy you can employ to make you stronger
Relationship energy-balancing – every stress in a relationship reflects imbalances in the relationship’s connecting energies.
Leads to empowering power places – certain places are, at specific times, sources of energy for new forms of higher awareness, unusual talents or essential creativity
Awakens essential creativity – ongoing issues in your life reflect your need for novel solutions for your ‘root karmas.’ Your essential creativity is the energy within you that transmutes your root karmas into personal power
Reveals what is true – when words, written or spoken, are misleading [for you], they cause energy at your forehead to contract [if you are vulnerable to them]. The Shendor pendulum responds to this stress
Advances intent – an energy in your upper abdomen that generates a higher-energy, more conscious future. As time passes, intent usually becomes weaker. The Shendor pendulum – together with a Shendor Angel – can be used to reverse this decline
Each Shendor pendulum function is succinctly explained in the Instructions. And in greater detail in the Shendo.
There are 12 Shendor pendulums – ‘spirit’ or Shen of Oak, Shen of Olive, Shen of Purpleheart, and nine others.
Your heart chakra – located about 5cm up from the bottom of your sternum – holds an energy that transforms karmas – repetitive challenging situations in your life, (e.g. with your health, relationship(s), abundance, security, etc.) – into fortunes, (more wisdom, happiness, inner strength, success, higher awareness). This unique energy is traditionally referred to as the Self or the Heart.
You can use a simple shendo energy test to see if a particular Shendor pendulum is resonant with your Heart. This means it directly ‘speaks to your Heart’ such that responses to your energy tests and the energy cultivation practices included with your Shendor pendulum will directly cultivate your karma-transforming Heart energy.
To perform the test, you will need to know a kinesiological method of energy testing, or just use another pendulum. The test is with Time for Awareness mudra. Time for Awareness mudra is …
- Fingers splayed and pointing up
- Thumb bent into palm
- Palm facing forwards

Then test each Shendor pendulum. A Yes response means your Heart is saying ‘Yes.‘ If you get more than one Yes, this means the shen or ‘spirit energy’ of more than one wood is resonant with your Heart.
A Heart-resonant Shendor pendulum will gradually cultivate the energy of a dormant ‘talent.’ Some of the practices described in the Shendor Pendulum Instructions – Empowering Spirit Place, Awakening Your Essential Creativity and Advancing Your Intent – assume that you have a Heart-resonant Shendor pendulum. This is also essential for the advanced Shendor Pendulum practices included in the Shendo.
You can see Stephen demonstrate a heart chakra resonant Shendor Pendulum and how this strengthens Marya’s heart chakra in our video below:
Question:
If I own a Shendor Touchwood and a Shendor Pendulum, should I keep them both on the left hand side of my body?
Answer:
We recommend that you keep the Shendor Pendulum on the left and the Shendor Touchwood on the right side of your body.