The Tao of Piercing: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Health And Pleasure

by Jeanne Elizabeth Blum

CONSCIOUS BODY PIERCING Energy is a commodity these days. If you are a person who has had your body pierced or are thinking of getting your body pierced, this book has solid and timely advice on how to enhance your body energy rather than deplete it. The Tao of Piercing teaches ancient methods based on acupuncture points of how to use the 'art of conscious piercing' to overcome various energy problems such as PMS, headaches, anxiety, etc. You will discover which metals to use in which places and how these metals act as antennas that generate 'points of light' in your body. Key energy points that enhance and shift your body energy and how to get a piercing that will amplify life energy and overcome stagnant energy are described, complete with detailed charts and graphs. Acupressure expert Jeanne Blum, author of Woman Heal Thyself , began investigating the history of piercing in the early 1990s and discovered that piercing has had medicinal and historical roots in cultures ranging from the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and Romans, to Pacific Islanders and Mayans.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Jeanne Elizabeth Blum was born in Bermuda and has lived all over the world.

From 1989 to 1995, Jeanne owned the Healing Light Therapies Centre in Bermuda, and then Haikuleana Sanctuary from 1996-2005 in Hawaii.

She holds degrees in Massage Therapy and Oriental Massage Therapy from San Francisco School of Massage and the Heartwood Institute in northern California, having studied Swedish-Esalen Massage and Jin Shin Do Acupressure and Auricular Therapy. She is also an Intuitive Medical Diagnostic tested and trained by Norman Shealy, MD., a neurosurgeon at Duke and the founder of both the American Holistic Medical Association and the Pain Rehabilitation Center at the Shealy Institute in Missouri; and his partner Caroline Myss, Ph.D., also an Intuitive Medical Diagnostic and author of numerous books.

Her book, Woman Heal Thyself, was published in 1995 by Charles A. Tuttle in Boston; Element Books in England, Australia and New Zealand in 1996; Selector in Mexico and Central America in 1997 and 1998 in Spanish; and by Falken in Germany in 1998 and again in Germany in 2003 by Luchow.

A significant article on Blum's auricular therapy success curing migraine headaches, written by Patricia Bosworth, appeared in the February 1996 issue of Self magazine.