Eva Shaw

Exit at 2%.
Acknowledgements are at the beginning.
Fifty percent of the profits are going to an organization that "advances menstrual equity...and opportunity for all". What the actual hell? "Transform periods into pathways" and "shatter the stigma of menstruation".
Seriously? It's this kind of thinking that twists up young girls' minds. There is no more stigma to cycles than there is to burps, farts, or sneezes. And equity and opportunity? What does that even mean? Y'all have life to easy if these are the things you're worried about.
Jumping of this train… (altro)

Though several earlier books on shiatzu have appeared in English, this compact volume is distinguished by its do-it-yourself, quick-results approach. Shiatzu (often called 'acupressure') is the ancent Japanese practice of applying presure and simple massage along the body's energy meridians to energize muscles, conquer tension, erase pain, and bring about relaxation.

Under Shaw's easy-to-follow guidance, readers of 60-Second Shiatzu learn how to apply these techniques in the midst of traffic jams, college examinations, board meetings, family quarrels, office hassles-whenever and wherever tension closes in. Illustrations at the beginning of each chapter locate the relevant pressure points.

Eva Show ghostwrites an internationally-syndicated physical fitness column, and has been a frequent contributor to such periodicals as Weight Watcher's Magazine, Feeling Great, Total Fitness, Sunset, Your Health, and Sports Parade. She serves as beauty editor of Forever Young.

Requiring no oils, equipment, mystical movements, or complicated procedures, shiatzu is a safe and natural method of pain relief that can be practiced whenever and wherever needed. This ancient healing art can used for fast relief from a multitude of physical and psychological discomforts, to calm fatigued muscles, alleviate pains and pressures associated with menstruation, and more.

* This book is a nice pressure-point & self-health reference, something that I need as both an athlete and martial artist. I think it is especially important to martial artists, who are often under the delusion that pressure-points offer some magical instant solution to all opponents, when the reality is that the most successful pressure point applications may involve a full sequence of points. This book emphasizes those sequences, instead of individual points, as any good pressure-point or acu-pressure manual would.
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Police studies in 7 nations over a course of 20 years revealed that pressure point tactics fail in over 70% of violent alternation cases, with alcohol, dugs or pure rage/ adrenaline decreasing the effectiveness of such moves. Therefore, the myth of the pressure point fighter is potentially hazardous to people in real need of self-defense. Instead, we should be focusing on pressure-point apps for self-healing.
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This book presents pressure-point sequences for a large variety of common issues, from helping yourself wake up in the morning or settle down for bed at night to pumping up for a daily workout or recovering from the strains of too much work. Even women, suffering migraines or PMS, will find helpful sequences in this little book.
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It is simple and easy to read, complete with pictures of every point and sequence. You need not know anything at all about pressure points or Chinese medicine, since this book does not bog you down in useless terms and numbers and meridians and such. It's just simple and practical info that you can apply for your everyday life and beyond.-John Carlos Johnson

Contents

Introduction-Health enhanement at your fingertips
1 As you begin
Guidelines for instant results
Suggestions to make the energy flow in your body and brain
Suggestions for getting the most from this self-help guide
2 Head and neck
Remove the pain and stiffness
Moves for crushing headaches
Moves for headache and eyestrain
Moves for tension headaches
Stop that migraine techniques
3 Abdominal area
For stomach stress
Imroving digestion
To help relieve nausea
Hiccough solutions
4 Shoulders and that deep ache inside
Relieving pain, tenderness and tightness that extends right up your spine
Relaxing the shoudlers, upper back and neck
5 Lower intestinal arches
Moves to relieve excess gas, allergic reactions to foods, symptoms of the flu, and over-indulgence
Relief from constipation
Stress reducer for hemorrhoids
6 Menstural pains and PMS
Reducing that too anxious feeling
Fighting PMS with your touch
Relief from bloating
7 Insomnia
Getting raedy for a great night's sleep
All the right moves to relax you
Drug-free sleep through shiatzu
8 Loosening that tight jaw
Five techniques for reducing jaw tension
9 Backache begone
Moves to make backache pain a bad memory
10 Relieving depression
Getting back on track with 60-second shiatzu
Moves to cope with the corporate junge
11 Shiatzu for sniffles
Minimizing cold symptoms
What to do if the cold slips through
12 Relaxing moves
Presure point massage for jet lag, high-tech tension, overwork and overplay
13 Shiatzu for sports
Remedies for tennis elbow, calf pain, weekend athlete aches, aerobic dancers' woes
Super three-part massage for serious athletes and those who take fitness seriously
14 Super energizers
Combination moves to enhance, revitalize, and energize you, anytime and anywhere
15 Total body shape up
Getting every day off to a good start
Shiatzu for diet and weight control
16 Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
A little shiatzu history
Directions for the future
17 Shiatzu-A safe and sane alternative
How conventional medicine is using shiatzu
18 Locating a shiatzu therapist
What to look for, questions to ask
Glossary of shiatzu terms
Recommended reading (bibliography)… (altro)

Beatrix is as the book is titled, The Seer- one who sees all. She is good at what she does and some believe her facade and that she really is a seer and others tote that she is a fraud and only out to take people’s money by using their emotions and grief. She has become good at seeing what most cannot see, and tucking away that information for later, mostly it is knowing how to read people. But Beatrix knows that at times what she does, does help people so can what she does really be wrong?

Dr. Thomas Ling is fearful of his life- fear has spread like mass hysteria across the United States and anyone who is deemed to look Japanese is being accused of being a traitor and being put into camps. They don’t care who you are really, if you look how they think you look then you don’t really have a say in anything anymore and everything you worked for is getting ripped out from under you. Completing an errand, he is in the midst of the police being on a man hunt and potentially fitting the description- he ducks into shop- not sure why but he did and finds himself face to face with Beatrix.

The two size each other up, and each has a quick assumption about the other and the two quickly work together to keep Dr. Ling safe from the manhunt happening. Beatrix has a feeling that he might have vital information, and Dr. Ling realizes Beatrix talent and her connections as well. With the fear of Nazi’s trying to get boots on the ground in the US, especially New Orleans- there’s all sorts of ports- the two find they need to work together and can the US Government take her word about Dr. Ling and put aside his looks? Will she have the answers they are needing to keep the country safe.

This was a fun action read for WWII. I really had never even thought of the fear of the potential for there to be Nazi’s that wanted to target the US on our own soil. So this was an interesting look to that side of the war and how it was not just fighting the war over seas and at Pearl Harbor, but keeping the enemy out was also top of mind. Thank you to Suzy Approved Book Tours for the invite and Eva Shaw for the free book. I enjoyed this different read about WWII.… (altro)