Before you start to use a new pendulum and once every couple of months depending on how often you use it, you should cleanse your pendulum of any negative energies that may have become attached to it. This is especially important when you purchase a new pendulum because it could have been embued with the energies of the maker of the pendulum.

There are many massed produced, cheap pendulums available on the market, but many of these were made by laborers in 3rd world countries at what could at best be called slave wages. These people are desparate for work and live in adverse conditions that make their daily lives a struggle to say the least.

As they build the pendulums, their energies of hate, anger, resentment and lack are being embued into the pendulum. The same can happen when the person making the pendulum is doing so simply for the money instead of desiring to create a high quality spiritual object.

There are many ways to cleanse your pendulum of negative energies. Passing the pendulum through the smoke of sandalwood incense is good, as is allowing running water to pass over the pendulum. My preferred method is to allow the light of the moon to cleanse it.

With any of the above methods, as you handle the physical act also see within your minds eye as the energies are cleansed. You may visualize the smoke (or water or moonlight) pushing all the negative energies out as the good energies fill up your pendulum. Always keep in mind, where thoughts go, energy flows and your thoughts are directing the postive energies to cleanse out the negative ones.