Your comments resonated for me (Or did they mirror mine???) in that I am thinking that the Yi as a mirror of what IS and one’s openness to looking directly at that reflection (and being able to “understand” what one is seeing in the reflection (aka interpretation may be the path of the transformation.

And this not only in the Yi, but in my own neurofeedback work (except there the brain sees and learns about itself, our consciousness can take a back seat), in successful word-therapy, in many other forms of healing and personal change work.