Comments on: Ways to involve the I Ching in decision making

By: Q

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:20:43 +0000

I agree, so much needs to be left to intuition, but somewhere along the way we learn to make logical decisions or ask others and consider how it worked out for them only to findout it just doesn’t feel right sometimes…then you are left with a decision on how to get out of the first decision that just isn’t right for you and it is typically 10 times more complex then if you just would have made the best decision to suit yourself to begin with. Cleaning up a mess takes a lot more effort then not making a mess in the first place.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:31:43 +0000

Four questions… wow. It makes perfect sense, and sounds like a great strategy for overwhelming the reasoning mind, persuading it it’s doing something really useful, and getting it out of the way so the greater intuitive mind can come up with the answer.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:17:53 +0000

Hilary – Something else to try. To cover all the bases you can ask seperately 4 questions something along the lines of (i)what will happen if I do X, (ii) what won’t happen if I do X, (iii)what will happen if I DON’T do X and (iv)what won’t happen if I DON’T do X. Wallow in all the possibilities, soak it all up, then forget about it, sleep on it and hey presto next day you’ll have an answer. What is good to bear in mind is that whatever you decide is the right thing for you at that moment.

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Decision Making - Personal Development for Smart People Forums — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:18:53 +0000

[...] an interesting article, thank you. I was thinking recently on ways people use the I Ching in decision making, and this provided good food for thought. The default approach is to ask about external factors: [...]