Art,
How do you get the self confidence to go dowse in the field and remove the self doubt? I keep having issues with this even tho I have got some placer gold from aerial creek photos I had map dowsed first off of my computer screen and using Google Earth and a pendulum. Of course, I am at age 60 now when I thought I'd be 40 forever , but it apparently don't work that way. Aches and pains set in pretty bad this year plus nobody ever wants to go digging with me and I'd rather not go alone anymore...am slowly making progress with the aches and pains. My main discovery this year was that Electrolyte potions and drinking extra water helped immensely with sensitive feet, teeth, cramping, muscle spasm issues, for me anyway. Gots to get my self confidence back,but how

I need to go check a spot for a gold cache as it seems too small for a placer gold location in this creek, maybe 50 x 100 feet on a hillside adjoining the creek and along 1 side of the creek bank looks like. I am suspecting a cache eroding into the creek below. I never had any luck map dowsing gold caches before ,only gold placers, but every now and then a gold placer spot comes up that doesn't make sense cause its too rich, not in a known lode gold area, or too small an area I have marked. So, I am suspecting these are gold caches next to a creek.
I have heard of these. I heard of a treasure story in northern Indiana and the teller told me the story was in their local history books but they all thought it was baloney. Then , a friend of this fellow needed gravel for his driveway for his new house, went down to said creek with a backhoe. As he was digging some objects fell outta the creek bank. I was told they were gold bars dating back to when the area was occupied by the French, circa 1700's . Unfortunately, he would not tell me the creek name.
One time long ago, I tried Positive Affirmations as a Treasure Aid. It only worked that 1 time but it was a doozy. I stood in front of my bathroom mirror and told myself I would find a treasure, did this every day for less than 2 weeks . One Thursday, I just knew the treasure was about to fall into my lap, didn't have any idea how? But I was at work that next evening and always check my change for silver but never found any, UNTIL that Friday night. I got a silver quarter from the change machine, figgered it was just a fluke. Put in another buck, 2 more silver quarters. I ended up with 300 silver quarters before I went home that night.
Now, if I could just make that work again and regain my self confidence to boot?
-Tom