The Mien Shiang Institute
Patrician McCarthy
, founder
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SKYPE / iCHAT Face Readings by Patrician McCarthy 
FACE READING 101 : Introduction to Discovering Your Taoist Five Element Personality $119 for 45 minute reading
- learn what each of your facial features reveal about your personality, character and behaviors
- discover your Five Element Personalty Type based on the Taoist Elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water
- downloads of Mien Shiang 101 and Five Elements 101 WorkBooks
FINDING BALANCE : FACE READING $199 for 60 minute reading
- learn what each of your facial features reveal about your personality, character and behaviors
- discover your Five Element Personalty Type based on the Taoist Elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water
- Patrician’s personal prescriptions for you to optimally balance your life by adding or reducing the qi (energy) of the Taoist Elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water to your behaviors and environments
- downloads of Mien Shiang 101 and Five Elements 101 WorkBooks
- download of The Mien Shiang Institute’s online Face Reading Guide for Finding Balance
What We Do : What makes Patrician’s Mien Shiang : Taoist Face Readings unique is that she gives you reasons and solutions.
Patrician does not give you generalizations such as, ‘I can see you are very kind … you are a real giver … sensitive … you need alone time … you need to move forward,’ and so on. She gives you specific insights about your personality including your natural gifts and inherent challenges; and she tells you where on your face she sees these revelations, and how she interprets them according to Taoist Chinese Medicine and the Five Elements.
For example, if she sees that you have concerns regarding boundaries, she will tell you where on your face she sees this; whether it is a Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water boundary issue (and they are each different and unique); and what she recommends you do to effect your behavior and your environments to have a healthier approach to how you relate to boundaries.
Please note that Patrician does not do Medical Facial Diagnosis via Skype / iChat. Our Skype / iChat readings are for Taoist Five Element personality and behavior interpretation.
A note from Patrician regarding Skype / iChat readings: ‘Frequently I get an e-mail from someone I don’t know asking me to read their face from a photograph. And I always have to decline. I know from much experience that a photograph does not always reveal a ‘true’ likeness; lighting and angles can completely change your features from one shot to the next.
It may be the most realistic, most revealing picture possible, but I don’t know that. I couldn’t possibly take such a chance. (I do, however, consult photographs as follow ups to clients whose faces I have previously read when they ask me about a change on their face – on a face I already know well.)
However, with new technologies like Skype and iChat, I can now correctly see the size, shape, and placement of facial features and the markings on them, as well as communicate directly with my client. I am excited to be able to give the opportunity to more clients who have thus far been unable to experience an in-person reading.’
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