Yijing (I-Ching) theory is the foundation of Daoism and Chinese medicine, and this book explores the deep roots that they both share. Daoism and Chinese medicine both view the human body as a microcosm of the universe around us; what is happening outside affects us inside. Medical qigong is based on the premise that we can energetically affect something outside based on our intention inside. Much of medical qigong, one of the main branches of Chinese medicine, originates from the practices of Daoist shamanic healers. This book introduces a Chinese medicine healing system based on the principles of the Yijing that serve as the foundation of medical qigong and Daoist spiritual practices. The Yijing Medical Qigong System is a compilation of self-healing exercises and qi emission therapeutic treatment techniques based on Daoist medical qigong and Yijing theories. This system’s approach is unique in that it focuses on the meanings of the trigrams rather than the hexagrams of the Yijing. The eight trigrams are used in innovative ways for healing the body, mind, and spirit. The Yijing Medical Qigong System is based on the premise that the Yijing theory that infuses Chinese medicine and Daoism is just as relevant today for healing and spiritual guidance it was three thousand years ago.

Yijing (I-Ching) theory is the foundation of Daoism and Chinese medicine, and this book explores the deep roots that they both share. Daoism and Chinese medicine both view the human body as a microcosm of the universe around us; what is happening outside affects us inside. Medical qigong is based on the premise that we can energetically affect something outside based on our intention inside. Much of medical qigong, one of the main branches of Chinese medicine, originates from the practices of Daoist shamanic healers. This book introduces a Chinese medicine healing system based on the principles of the Yijing that serve as the foundation of medical qigong and Daoist spiritual practices. The Yijing Medical Qigong System is a compilation of self-healing exercises and qi emission therapeutic treatment techniques based on Daoist medical qigong and Yijing theories. This system’s approach is unique in that it focuses on the meanings of the trigrams rather than the hexagrams of the Yijing. The eight trigrams are used in innovative ways for healing the body, mind, and spirit. The Yijing Medical Qigong System is based on the premise that the Yijing theory that infuses Chinese medicine and Daoism is just as relevant today for healing and spiritual guidance it was three thousand years ago.

IC is a bladder disease afflicting more than a million people in the U.S. alone. It is characterized by debilitating pain, bladder spasms, urinary frequency, urgency, painful sex and a myriad of other life changing disorders including fibromyalgia, IBS, Sjogren’s syndrome, vulvodynia and chronic fatigue. The relationship of underlying health issues as both a cause of IC and a factor in the accompanying diseases is often overlooked. If you have tried everything presently available for IC, suspect you may have IC, have any of the other disorders or especially if you treat IC, this book is essential for you.

IC is a bladder disease afflicting more than a million people in the U.S. alone. It is characterized by debilitating pain, bladder spasms, urinary frequency, urgency, painful sex and a myriad of other life changing disorders including fibromyalgia, IBS, Sjogren’s syndrome, vulvodynia and chronic fatigue. The relationship of underlying health issues as both a cause of IC and a factor in the accompanying diseases is often overlooked. If you have tried everything presently available for IC, suspect you may have IC, have any of the other disorders or especially if you treat IC, this book is essential for you.

When life and loss push us to the limits of “us.” We don’t survive despite challenge or loss; we flourish because of them. We don’t build resilience by focusing merely on “now,” but rather by honoring and integrating all experience—past, present, and future—into the fullness of life, and into the fullness of our being. Resilience is something we all fundamentally desire: it speaks directly to our intrinsic longing to live fully, love deeply, and endure...everyday, come what may. With poignant wisdom and refreshing insight, Michele DeMarco Wilkie tackles a subject that has captivated human hearts and minds throughout time and across culture, and a question that every great wisdom tradition has pondered: how do we find hope and healing in the midst of pain and suffering? How do we keep our spirit strong and flourish when forced to confront the here-and-now, sometimes painful realities of life? In Stirred Not Shaken, today’s leading Spirit Wellness teacher provides new inspiration into the nature of adversity, suffering, and loss, and offers a beautiful new landscape for building resilience. Through a breakthrough new framework, powerful exercises and meditations, and personal stories, she explodes traditional myths of resilience. Michele DeMarco Wilkie shows us how to build a sustainable spirit for any and all of life’s challenges.

Lose weight eating anything you want and keep it off for life!  No diet, no pills, even no exercise needed.  This is the only natural way to lose an average of 10 to 20 lbs. a month!  Gain better health while losing all excess fat.  Learn the cause of obesity and avoid it.

Become free of diseases and pain in natural ways.  Use herbs and foods to overcome or prevent pain, diseases, allergies, and the effects of aging.  Learn how to avoid senility and Alzheimer’s disease.  Find out how to stay free of common ailments like the flu and colds.  

Slow the aging process.  Things your doctor is not likely to tell you about even if he or she knows of them.  Like a vaccine that can give life-long immunity to cancer!  Or a simple non-invasive test for cancer that is far better and safer than a biopsy, which some noted doctors say are right only half the time!

Quit the smoking habit or any drug in 3 to 10 days!  Stop the craving for a cigarette, for life!  The only natural and very easy way to quit.  Now there is NO excuse!  Avoid lung cancer!

Let’s start at the beginning…

And God said: "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat." (Genesis 1:29)

No matter how one views religion, the above is typical of what is found in virtually all the numerous differing beliefs in the world.  The very great value of herbal foods has been stressed since ancient times.  The basic reasons as to WHY is now something modern Man has for the most part either forgotten or ignored.  The result has been swift growth of what are termed "Modern Diseases”.  Over a hundred forms of inflammatory diseases collectively called 'arthritis', as well as heart disease, strokes, and cancer strike an ever-growing number of people all over the world, but especially in America.  Many who escape these major killers fall victim to high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, emphysema, Alzheimer's disease, or any of a host of others.  NONE of these need to happen if we know something about avoiding them or treating them if we fail.  To assist in doing that is the full purpose of this book.

To introduce the importance of proper nutrition, to achieve such disease-free health, and to emphasize the wisdom of using herbs to help us do that, a short preview seems appropriate.  To do this properly, we should single out a particular disease that strikes many people.  We can then make some comparisons that will shed light on the prevention and cure of it.  Cancer is the one that immediately comes to mind.  

This modern day scourge, in one form or another, seems to be more prevalent between the ages of 44 and 65.  Skin cancers are common, but relatively few are potentially life threatening.  However, other types of life-threatening cancers  seem to be increasing.  

Unfortunately, the true picture of how many die from cancer itself is very hard to determine.  Often death is not directly attributable to cancer but to a secondary infection, such as pneumonia, and it is this that is listed by doctors and hospitals as the cause of death.  This makes both of them look a little better, but does skew the cancer statistics so much they are of little value.  It is apparent, though, that the incidence of life-threatening cancer is climbing.  If we compare it to the rapid rise in the past half century, it may keep rising until deaths from it double or triple in not very many years.

Obviously, it is highly important for everyone to know how to prevent cancer from starting, or cure it if it does.  Both are covered in this book.  Following the guidelines laid out in it will also result in achieving a strong, effective immune system which can free one from virtually ALL diseases.  And NEVER for an instant forget that it IS the immune system which does this.  

No doctor and no medication can do as much for preventing or curing ANY disease as YOUR immune system.  Guard it, care for it, and live a long, happy life free of disease and pain.  This is a well-known fact and numerous studies have shown it to be true.

For example, there is Abkhasia in the Caucasus mountains on the north-east side of the Black Sea.  It has long been noted for the fine health and longevity of its people.  Especially notable has been the lack of cancer among them.  Their food, like that of so many primitive groups of people still eating much the same food as their ancient ancestors, is low in carbohydrates, but high in vegetable proteins.  It is rich in vitamins and minerals.

There is one common thread that seems to run through the diets of all such widely separated primitive groups throughout the world.  All eat foods rather high in nitrilosides.  This component, found in most of the edible plants of the world, occurs primarily in the seeds, nuts, and particularly the kernel of the pits of apricots, plums, nectarines, cherries, peaches, and the bitter almond (there is a little in the common sweet almond).  

Nitrilosides, also called amygdalin, contain a form of cyanide.  Compounds containing this cyanide are referred to as cyanosides.  Cyan denotes this in the prefix.  For example, vitamin B12 is cyanocobalamin. One form of nitriloside is a substance Dr. Krebs named Laetrile, which is often referred to as vitamin B17.  A molecule of it consists of two units of glucose (sugar), one of benzaldehyde, and one of cyanide tightly locked together inside it.  The enzyme, beta-glucosidase will, in the presence of water, release the benzaldehyde and cyanide. This enzyme is not found in any quantity except at a cancer cell, thus these two potent poisons are released at the exact site of the cancer.  Another enzyme called rhodenase is present in large quantities throughout the body and can instantly convert cyanosides into products beneficial, and even essential, to good health, thus neutralizing their otherwise poisonous effects.  It is called the protective enzyme for this reason.  It is totally absent in cancer cells.  This distribution means healthy tissue is protected, while cancerous tissue is vulnerable to attack from the cyanide and benzaldehyde.  While the cyanide in the presence of healthy cells is being converted by the enzyme rhodanase and sulphur into a harmless thiocyanate, it is believed that benzoic acid will bathe cancer cells (relieving pain) and the benzaldehyde that remains will attack them because their lack of oxygen is ideal for its action.

A Nobel prize was awarded Dr. Otto Warburg for proving that cancer cells obtain nourishment through the fermentation of sugar, NOT from oxygen, as do normal cells.  The benzaldehyde interferes with this process and it is presumed all the cancer cells will begin to die off.  This is why it is believed by many that eating apricot pit kernels daily will continue this process and prevent or treat cancer.  Amygdalin is thus always available to continue the attack on cancerous cells.  And many scientists think we are at risk every day of developing new cancer cells.  Thus eating a few apricot pit kernels every day seems logical for preventing the start of cancer.

There are other things relating to cancer we need to know.  For example, the lack of sufficient B-complex vitamins has been linked to cancer formation.  So also has vitamin A been shown to be very valuable to block lung cancer.  Thus supplying these through proper diet is a very important step to either prevent or cure cancer.

Also, it is important to know vaccination with the Bacillus Calmette Guerin can be obtained.  This confers life-long immunity to cancer!  Although disc

Lose weight eating anything you want and keep it off for life!  No diet, no pills, even no exercise needed.  This is the only natural way to lose an average of 10 to 20 lbs. a month!  Gain better health while losing all excess fat.  Learn the cause of obesity and avoid it.

Become free of diseases and pain in natural ways.  Use herbs and foods to overcome or prevent pain, diseases, allergies, and the effects of aging.  Learn how to avoid senility and Alzheimer’s disease.  Find out how to stay free of common ailments like the flu and colds.  

Slow the aging process.  Things your doctor is not likely to tell you about even if he or she knows of them.  Like a vaccine that can give life-long immunity to cancer!  Or a simple non-invasive test for cancer that is far better and safer than a biopsy, which some noted doctors say are right only half the time!

Quit the smoking habit or any drug in 3 to 10 days!  Stop the craving for a cigarette, for life!  The only natural and very easy way to quit.  Now there is NO excuse!  Avoid lung cancer!

Let’s start at the beginning…

And God said: "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat." (Genesis 1:29)

No matter how one views religion, the above is typical of what is found in virtually all the numerous differing beliefs in the world.  The very great value of herbal foods has been stressed since ancient times.  The basic reasons as to WHY is now something modern Man has for the most part either forgotten or ignored.  The result has been swift growth of what are termed "Modern Diseases”.  Over a hundred forms of inflammatory diseases collectively called 'arthritis', as well as heart disease, strokes, and cancer strike an ever-growing number of people all over the world, but especially in America.  Many who escape these major killers fall victim to high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, emphysema, Alzheimer's disease, or any of a host of others.  NONE of these need to happen if we know something about avoiding them or treating them if we fail.  To assist in doing that is the full purpose of this book.

To introduce the importance of proper nutrition, to achieve such disease-free health, and to emphasize the wisdom of using herbs to help us do that, a short preview seems appropriate.  To do this properly, we should single out a particular disease that strikes many people.  We can then make some comparisons that will shed light on the prevention and cure of it.  Cancer is the one that immediately comes to mind.  

This modern day scourge, in one form or another, seems to be more prevalent between the ages of 44 and 65.  Skin cancers are common, but relatively few are potentially life threatening.  However, other types of life-threatening cancers  seem to be increasing.  

Unfortunately, the true picture of how many die from cancer itself is very hard to determine.  Often death is not directly attributable to cancer but to a secondary infection, such as pneumonia, and it is this that is listed by doctors and hospitals as the cause of death.  This makes both of them look a little better, but does skew the cancer statistics so much they are of little value.  It is apparent, though, that the incidence of life-threatening cancer is climbing.  If we compare it to the rapid rise in the past half century, it may keep rising until deaths from it double or triple in not very many years.

Obviously, it is highly important for everyone to know how to prevent cancer from starting, or cure it if it does.  Both are covered in this book.  Following the guidelines laid out in it will also result in achieving a strong, effective immune system which can free one from virtually ALL diseases.  And NEVER for an instant forget that it IS the immune system which does this.  

No doctor and no medication can do as much for preventing or curing ANY disease as YOUR immune system.  Guard it, care for it, and live a long, happy life free of disease and pain.  This is a well-known fact and numerous studies have shown it to be true.

For example, there is Abkhasia in the Caucasus mountains on the north-east side of the Black Sea.  It has long been noted for the fine health and longevity of its people.  Especially notable has been the lack of cancer among them.  Their food, like that of so many primitive groups of people still eating much the same food as their ancient ancestors, is low in carbohydrates, but high in vegetable proteins.  It is rich in vitamins and minerals.

There is one common thread that seems to run through the diets of all such widely separated primitive groups throughout the world.  All eat foods rather high in nitrilosides.  This component, found in most of the edible plants of the world, occurs primarily in the seeds, nuts, and particularly the kernel of the pits of apricots, plums, nectarines, cherries, peaches, and the bitter almond (there is a little in the common sweet almond).  

Nitrilosides, also called amygdalin, contain a form of cyanide.  Compounds containing this cyanide are referred to as cyanosides.  Cyan denotes this in the prefix.  For example, vitamin B12 is cyanocobalamin. One form of nitriloside is a substance Dr. Krebs named Laetrile, which is often referred to as vitamin B17.  A molecule of it consists of two units of glucose (sugar), one of benzaldehyde, and one of cyanide tightly locked together inside it.  The enzyme, beta-glucosidase will, in the presence of water, release the benzaldehyde and cyanide. This enzyme is not found in any quantity except at a cancer cell, thus these two potent poisons are released at the exact site of the cancer.  Another enzyme called rhodenase is present in large quantities throughout the body and can instantly convert cyanosides into products beneficial, and even essential, to good health, thus neutralizing their otherwise poisonous effects.  It is called the protective enzyme for this reason.  It is totally absent in cancer cells.  This distribution means healthy tissue is protected, while cancerous tissue is vulnerable to attack from the cyanide and benzaldehyde.  While the cyanide in the presence of healthy cells is being converted by the enzyme rhodanase and sulphur into a harmless thiocyanate, it is believed that benzoic acid will bathe cancer cells (relieving pain) and the benzaldehyde that remains will attack them because their lack of oxygen is ideal for its action.

A Nobel prize was awarded Dr. Otto Warburg for proving that cancer cells obtain nourishment through the fermentation of sugar, NOT from oxygen, as do normal cells.  The benzaldehyde interferes with this process and it is presumed all the cancer cells will begin to die off.  This is why it is believed by many that eating apricot pit kernels daily will continue this process and prevent or treat cancer.  Amygdalin is thus always available to continue the attack on cancerous cells.  And many scientists think we are at risk every day of developing new cancer cells.  Thus eating a few apricot pit kernels every day seems logical for preventing the start of cancer.

There are other things relating to cancer we need to know.  For example, the lack of sufficient B-complex vitamins has been linked to cancer formation.  So also has vitamin A been shown to be very valuable to block lung cancer.  Thus supplying these through proper diet is a very important step to either prevent or cure cancer.

Also, it is important to know vaccination with the Bacillus Calmette Guerin can be obtained.  This confers life-long immunity to cancer!  Although disc

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times This book takes a radical look at why wealthiest society in history is producing a culture where degenerative disease, emotional stress and social discord are the norm. It explores how our modern enchantment with technology and unlimited economic growth creates a gap between our everyday actions and our true human potential. By focusing on the relationships between Humanity to Nature and Health to Culture, Food to Health and Health to Emotion Mr. Tara presents a vision of how daily actions can create a world that works for everyone. Natural Body / Natural Mind challenges the values of science, religion and the marketplace with a passionate appeal to compassion, common sense and the wisdom of the heart.

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times This book takes a radical look at why wealthiest society in history is producing a culture where degenerative disease, emotional stress and social discord are the norm. It explores how our modern enchantment with technology and unlimited economic growth creates a gap between our everyday actions and our true human potential. By focusing on the relationships between Humanity to Nature and Health to Culture, Food to Health and Health to Emotion Mr. Tara presents a vision of how daily actions can create a world that works for everyone. Natural Body / Natural Mind challenges the values of science, religion and the marketplace with a passionate appeal to compassion, common sense and the wisdom of the heart.

Reiki, pronounced “ray-key,” means Universal Life Force. This energy is all around us and we can channel it. The Reiki method of hands-on healing is an ancient one, rediscovered by Mikao Usui in early 20th Century Japan. John Harvey Gray was the third of the original twenty-two Reiki Master Instructors created to carry on the Reiki Tradition by Hawayo Takata, a Japanese-American woman who first brought Reiki to the West. Mrs. Takata was trained in Japan by Chujiro Hayashi, a direct disciple of Usui. John Harvey Gray received his entire training from Mrs. Takata. He is considered to be the longest-practicing Reiki Master Instructor in the West. John and his wife Lourdes offer the authentic Reiki method as Takata taught it, along with a wealth of information distilled from their combined experience teaching over 750 workshops and treating thousands of clients. Discover the history of Reiki, how it works and how attitudes that create dis-ease in the mind and emotions affect the physical body. Learn specific techniques including body-scanning procedures to discover areas of reduced vitality flow, hand positioning to maximize the effects of a Reiki treatment, self-treatment and emergency procedures. John and Lourdes tell their personal stories and discuss the meaning of Reiki mastership. Hand to Hand offers both beginner and experienced master a rich and solid foundation for the practice of this popular method of energy healing.

Reiki, pronounced “ray-key,” means Universal Life Force. This energy is all around us and we can channel it. The Reiki method of hands-on healing is an ancient one, rediscovered by Mikao Usui in early 20th Century Japan. John Harvey Gray was the third of the original twenty-two Reiki Master Instructors created to carry on the Reiki Tradition by Hawayo Takata, a Japanese-American woman who first brought Reiki to the West. Mrs. Takata was trained in Japan by Chujiro Hayashi, a direct disciple of Usui. John Harvey Gray received his entire training from Mrs. Takata. He is considered to be the longest-practicing Reiki Master Instructor in the West. John and his wife Lourdes offer the authentic Reiki method as Takata taught it, along with a wealth of information distilled from their combined experience teaching over 750 workshops and treating thousands of clients. Discover the history of Reiki, how it works and how attitudes that create dis-ease in the mind and emotions affect the physical body. Learn specific techniques including body-scanning procedures to discover areas of reduced vitality flow, hand positioning to maximize the effects of a Reiki treatment, self-treatment and emergency procedures. John and Lourdes tell their personal stories and discuss the meaning of Reiki mastership. Hand to Hand offers both beginner and experienced master a rich and solid foundation for the practice of this popular method of energy healing.

Healing In China is a record of Irv Givot’s two journeys(1993,96) to study Chi Gong in China. It is at once a description of a most extraordinary clinical workshop, training, and teacher; a collection of stories of remarkable healings, an essay into the nature of subtle energy; and a snapshot of life in China for a group of Americans in the mid 1990’s. The central theme however, is the authors’ unfolding discovery of Chi Gong with its mysterious power to cure disease, and his evolving ability to integrate it both into his treatment of patients and his own quest for health.