Chevreul's pendulum

Train your brain with one of Amy's gemstone pendulums. Each beautifully polished gemstone disk is suspended on a metallic thread for easy mobility.

The name derives from Michel-Eugene Chevreul,a prominent French natural scientist who investigated the 'occult' phenomenon of the pendulum in 1833. In modern times Chevreul's pendulum is used to demonstrate the astonishing and remarkably strong effects of autosuggestion.

Now comes the interesting part. While holding the pendulum as still as possible (minor movements are unavoidable, but they don't disturb the experiment,) try to imagine how it would feel if the pendulum would for some reason start swinging. Don't do anything to make it swing, just IMAGINE as intensely as you can how you would feel if the pendulum were -- against all expectations -- to start swinging all by itself. Give it a few minutes and be patient--you will find that the pendulum will begin to move and the movement will actually go as your thoughts dictate.

Chevreul found that if you imagine something intensely, then the human body behaves in a way as if the imagined situation had already come to pass..