Modern Western medicine holds an anatomical view of the human being, reducing them to their bodily component alone, in which the treatment of ailments is essentially symptomatic.

In the Chinese medical tradition, the human being — one and indivisible — is the result of the combination of three elements: the soul, the mind and the body, united by the energy or Qi, the source of every form of life on Earth and in the Universe. From this it follows that harmony between the Qi of a human being and the Qi of their environment is a fundamental notion for a life of harmony and prosperity; when not respected, it becomes the origin of bodily complaints and illnesses. Knowing the cause of an imbalance and treating it makes it possible to restore the earlier state of balance, and thus of health.

By synthesising Western knowledge with that of Chinese energetics to develop her own hands-on care technique, Anne Ducasse arrived at the view that the body, the energy that animates it and the mind are three states of a single energy defined by three levels of different density, interwoven with one another in such a way that they constantly communicate, sustaining the life of the human being.

Addressed to all those who wish to restore harmony between body and mind, Anne Ducasse's book helps us understand that many things exist which are invisible to the eye but which belong to a subtler dimension of the human being — one that the Chinese tradition allows us to grasp today.