A pendulum is a thought-form that lives on your attention. News. A couple fight. A career identity. It does not care if you love it or hate it. Charge is food.
Vadim Zeland’s move is not to smash it. Smashing is more charge. The move is to see the hook, reduce importance, and step sideways.
Outer intention is not wishing. It is alignment plus action without the drama of “this must happen or I die.”
If a practice makes you smaller and more obsessed, it is a pendulum wearing spiritual clothes.