The Key to Qi…How Energy-based Healing Systems Work
So many people have asked me to explain the basics of Chinese Medicine and other energy based healing systems in a way that’s understandable to the Western mind, that I’d like to share with you what I’ve been privileged to learn about it. Qi is the name the Chinese use to express universal energy – [ Read More ]
Qi… The Power of the Invisible
It isn’t easy to quantify Qi for the Western mind, but inasmuch as so many now experience it in Alternative Healing modalities like Acupuncture and Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Martial Arts, Yoga and Body Work, I’d like to offer a little crib sheet that might help you wend your way through the many subdivisions of Qi. The [ Read More ]
Like Cures Like…Exploring Homeopathy
“The Law of Similars: That which can make you ill can also cure you.” – Dr. Samuel Hahnemann When I was 21 or so I met a famous fashion photographer named Edgar de Evia. He was sophisticated, worldly, creative and simply fabulous. I’d never met anyone remotely like him. His grandfather had been President of [ Read More ]
Bathing Shopportunities!
I didn’t expect the response I’ve gotten to my Cathy Takes to the Tub blog! Oodles of emails have asked for more info and where to find the goodies that go into the tub to heal, soothe, excite, delight, whatever! The following list will give you general information about where to find Essential Oils and [ Read More ]
Cathy Takes to the Tub
At the top of my list of accessible help for much of life’s dis-ease, are healing baths. And I confess they head the list because they’re not only therapeutic, they’re really pleasurable. It’s part aromatherapy, part herbalism, part homeopathy, and all it takes to have these beautiful baths at your fingertips is to keep on [ Read More ]
Healing Hands
Mudras are hand positions that connect up certain circuitry in our systems for specific purposes. You might call it Yoga or Tai Qi for your hands. In a way, it’s like using our extremities as antennas to pick up specific universal energy wavelengths and conduct them into your system. Mudras are used throughout Indian, Japanese [ Read More ]
Loving Love Poetry
You can’t grow up to be a writer of love stories, if you aren’t an incurable romantic. Despite my own history of picking lemons in the Garden of Love – and oxytocin notwithstanding – I’ve found that I need to believe in true love. I have seen it – not often – but enough to [ Read More ]
Biology in the Bedroom
Ever wonder why women have sex and think they’ve fallen in love, while men have sex and think they’ve just had sex? I may have stumbled onto an answer worth passing along. I’m not sure I can affect anything in the interaction of the genders by making this information public, but if it could simply [ Read More ]
The Easiest Way to Stay Healthy
“What if I told you, you could stay healthy and live longer, simply by doing 10 minutes of easy Chinese energy exercises a day? Would you do it?” [ Read More ]
Life Outside the Box
As you already know about me, I was born with a caul, so it wasn’t considered odd in an Irish family that I could see force fields around people, plants, things – not in color most of the time — but rather as some kind of exquisite electrical emanations. The whole world of matter seemed [ Read More ]