The Face Reader: Discover Anyone's Personality, Compatibility, Talents and Challenges through Chinese Face ReadingMien Shiang is a 3000-year-old Taoist practice that means literally face (mien) reading (shiang). It was first used in China as a diagnostic tool for the practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who could detect signs of existing ailments as well as predispositions to illness of mind, body and spirit, simply by studying one's face. Soon the Taoist monks developed the art of Mien Shiang to help them evaluate the personal integrity and honesty of those doing business with the courts and officials. Mien Shiang is not about reading facial expressions or telltale tics or shifty eyes but rather face shapes, facial features, positions and sizes and shapes of each feature, lines, shadows, moles and other facial markings. They are foolproof signs, if you know how to read them, you know the art of Mien Shiang. And no one is inscrutable any more! Knowing Mien Shiang can help you to answer two perennial questions: Who Am I and Who Are You. 'Patrician McCarthy is the most dynamic, brilliant, innovative, and empathetic consultant my teams have worked with over the years.' - Ivy Ross, Executive Vice President of Design and Development, Old Navy/Gap Inc. 'I will do anything Patrician McCarthy tells me to do. She makes not just my work better, but my entire life.' - Michael Edelstein, Executive Producer, Desperate Housewives '[Patrician McCarthy] always has interesting insights on how to market to the different types of people who will be interested in our products. We can't wait for her to come back, again and again.' - David Kuehler , Vice President, Procter + Gamble |
Contents
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THE ELEMENTS OF MIEN SHIANG | 11 |
HOW WE READ FACES | 81 |
READING THE INDIVIDUAL FEATURES | 109 |
Afterword | 233 |
Acknowledgments | 235 |
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Page 2 - ... to us. The artist looks only from without. He sees us, too, with a hundred aspects on our faces we are never likely to see. No genuine expression can be studied by the subject of it in the looking-glass. More than this ; he sees us in a way in which many of our friends or acquaintances never see us. Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Page 28 - Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
Page 24 - Emperor of [the Mandate of] Heaven and in accordance with the Movements [Five Agents]". The cosmology of the Five Agents The Five Agents theory depicts the rotation of the Agents in both a generating and a conquering cycle. In the generating or mutually producing cycle, Wood generates Fire; Fire generates Earth; Earth generates Metal; Metal generates Water; Water generates Wood. Here, the logical sequence is taken from ordinary observation of nature. Wood fuels a fire. Fire creates ashes and so forms...
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Page 89 - Certain facial traits are inherited from our parents and our ancestors, while others are acquired from our own life experiences.
Page 2 - ... tell the truth. They are foolproof signs, if you know how to read them.
Page 25 - Fire controls Metal, Metal controls Wood, Wood controls Earth, Earth controls Water, and Water controls Fire.