The quality necessary for us to heal the mind is sincerity toward ourselves. In order to heal ourselves from it, we must challenge this model of our world and replace it with a more harmonious and organic model. These beliefs form our model of reality, of the world.
Those opinions that we cultivate like ours, without ever asking ourselves where they come from and where we learn to believe that reality behaves that way. The worst sickness of the mind are beliefs.
How to transform this feeling? The hexagram and the drawn lines will show us where these desires and attachments are hidden and what we must do to transform them. In order to cure ourselves of this disease we should ask a simple question to the I Ching. The quality needed to heal our emotional is the courage to challenge our desires and preferences. Hidden behind our unhappiness, our problems with life and people we will always find some attachment. The worst sickness of the soul is attachment, our desires and the will to possess only for us: things, people, riches and states of soul. Let us then learn to use this wonderful book as preventive medicine or as a healer.
From the point of view of Chinese medicine any disease, even the serious or terminal illnesses can be cured and the only thing necessary for this cure to occur is the will to understand the natural processes and the patient’s return to them to the flow of change. Even diseases like cancer happen for these same reasons, although in these more serious cases blockade and separation reach really alarming levels, almost always leading to death. To heal is to re-establish a flow of this primordial Chi energy, is to restore again a harmony with nature, is to return to life. All psychological, emotional, and all bodily diseases are framed in this same primal cause. The severity of this disease depends on the depth with which this separation affects each of us.
Within this view the modern man so separated from the natural processes is a man sick at all three levels, mental, bodily and emotional. To be sick is to be with the flow of the corporeal, mental and emotional energies blocked. It is to resist the interrupted flow of the changes that generate this same life. Many people who already know and use the book for consultations ignore the healing power that it provides, this article intends to present to these, a simple and efficient way to use I Ching as a healing tool for self healing.įor the philosophy of Chinese to be sick is to be dissociated from the harmonious organic patterns that create life, nature, and man.
What differs from the I Ching of any other map is that it warns us, points out solutions, teaches ways, broadens our conception of the world, teaches us the paths of wisdom, of the harmony of living a full life with nature, of heaven, earth and man. Everything that happens and lives on earth and heaven can be understood by reading this simple and perfect map of the dichotomy between life and death. They continue to combine, and we have the total of 64 hexagrams or 64 possible combinations generated by the movement and resting of these two raw lines. These lines merging into a perfect mathematical progression generate a hexagram, six lines.
They observed the movement of the sun, the moon, the course of the seasons, the birth and death of living beings and thus created this binary graphic language composed of two lines one Yin open to another Yang closed, one in motion and the other at rest. Nature has these fixed laws that regulate life, observing the standard of these laws the sages of antiquity built the I Ching. Change creates and destroys lives, events, stars, planets, and everything else under heaven and earth. Life is change, there is no change, there is only change. How far from this childish and primary vision of Chinese Wisdom lies the treasures that this book contains! His deep and comprehensive philosophy deals with the language of nature, the primordial model of organic patterns that act as laws that generate life and change. Some laymen believe to be the I Ching one of these books that teach “to guess the future”. The book of Mutations – I Ching is one of the oldest in the world.