Using the Yijing (I-Ching) Mind-map to Understand your Personal Crisis

A personal crisis is a normal regular life-changing event. It often upsets your comfort level and creates unhappiness, anger, sorrow, depression, helplessness and sometimes inflicts great emotional pain. Anxieties and the fear of uncertainty drive everyone to reach outwards, sometimes upwards, for solutions and wrong answers to obtain the strength to move into the dark and mysterious future.

In a possible future, Mary approaches me to advise on a personal situation. She thinks that she would lose her job after the coronavirus pandemic, and worried about financial security because she may not be able to secure another job at a similar salary level since she is in her late 30’s. She has been working in her company for the past 18 years as a Customer Service Manager. She is also emotionally attracted to Tom, a married but younger colleague who is a Senior Division Manager. He asked a few times and she has agreed to go on a date with him, finally. She contacted me for an unconventional solution approach because she had heard my Talk on the ancient Chinese problem-solving and decision-making methods of Yijing or I-Ching.

This is her case story.

I reminded her that the Yijing (I-Ching) is a personal and relational tool. It has no religious or ideological roots and…