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Recommended reading
Healing Your Emotions, by Angela Hicks and John Hicks (Thorsons, £12.99; ISBN 0-7225-3728-X). This book explains the five personality types in five-element acupuncture, and includes a questionnaire to help you discover which one you are. It also shows you how to work through, express and heal your emotions – and it suggests Qi Gong exercises to help you achieve health and wellbeing.
The Illustrated I Ching, by R L Wing (The Aquarian Press, ISBN 0-85030-573-X). A great beginners' guide to the I Ching. Invaluable when you need help in knowing how to make the right decision in difficult situations, or what your blindspots are. A straightforward translation and interpretation of a complex book, with inspiring illustrations.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, the Richard Wilhelm translation, rendered into English by Cary F Baynes
Love, an Inner Connection, by Carol K Anthony (Anthony Publishing; ISBN 1-890764-01-9). My bible on relationships. Essential reading if you want to navigate relationships with minimal pain and confusion. You won't need any other book on this subject. But only if you're prepared to be very honest with yourself, and look at separating your ego voices of doubt and fear from your inner truth.
Recipes for Self-Healing, by Daverick Leggett (Meridian Press, £16.95; ISBN 0-9524640-2-0). Really useful if you take an interest in what you eat and how you can improve your health through diet. Leggett explains the energetics of food in terms of Chinese Medicine in clear, easy language, so that you can make more informed decisions about what foods suit you best as an individual. He also suggests recipes for different types of constitutions.
These books on personality types in five-element acupuncture, the energetics of food, negotiating relationships
and the I Ching reveal different aspects of Taoist principles, and further us in our quest for self-knowledge
Recommended links
The Lotus Tree: for Qi Gong classes, including Nei Gong (meditational work), and also for Chi Nei Tsang treatments (Chinese massage) in northwest London and Fareham, Hampshire, with Nilima Raichoudhury.
The Lotus Institute: run by Lillian Bridges, the internationally recognised and respected Professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and
MY RESOURCES
These books are all based on Taoist five-element principles, and are my bibles when it comes to negotiating health and diet, decision-making, life questions