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Book

The face reader : discover anyone's personality, compatibility, talents, and challenges through Chinese face reading

Call Number

  • 138 M4772 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Dutton, c2007.

Physical Description

x, 237 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • How Mien Shiang can help you in your every day life
  • The origin of Mien Shiang
  • How I came to learn and love Mien Shiang
  • Mien Shiang : a holistic practice for mind, body, spirit
  • How to use this book
  • The elements of Mien Shiang
  • What is a face?
  • Recognition
  • Communication
  • The five taoist principles of Mien Shiang
  • The principle of harmony
  • The principle of entirety
  • The principle of QI
  • The principle of Yin and Yang
  • Using Yin and Yang to read the face
  • The principle of the five elements
  • Using the five elements and their associations
  • To read the face
  • What determines our five element constitutional type
  • Element balancing act
  • Personality tests
  • Characteristics and traits of the five element personalities
  • Element emotional traits
  • The defining emotion
  • The gifts and challenges of the emotions
  • The QI for each of the five element body types
  • The wood personality
  • The fire personality
  • The earth personality
  • The metal personality
  • The water personality
  • How we read faces
  • What do we read on the face?
  • Each feature has its own identifiable characteristics
  • Interpreting the features characteristics
  • Face shapes
  • The eight common face shapes
  • Inherited and acquired facial traits
  • Our inherited facial traits
  • Our acquired facial markings
  • How to interpret the gifts and challenges of the traits
  • Using your gifts and challenges
  • The specific age areas of the face
  • Gender and the age areas of the face
  • The early-age markings are on the ears
  • The two sides of the face
  • Un-matching sides
  • Determining the Yin and Yang sides of the face
  • Some exceptions
  • Reading the individual features
  • Analyzing each feature for specific traits
  • Determining the size of the features.

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