One of the benefits of the I Ching is the way it allows you to let go of your old perspective that wasn't working ("A problem can never be solved at the level where it appears") and to see your situation from a different perspective that allows you to then see how to get yourself around whatever seemed to be blocking you. So to be able to see our situation from a different point of view is one of the great needs in the human psyche. It may be it is the very reason why we were created - God wanted to see himself from a different perspective! Yet, we recognize that asking questions about other people's perspectives - How does he see me? Does she love me? - is not on just invasive of another's privacy but also it often doesn't work, we are still unable to see things from their perspective. So today, thinking about this wondering if there were away to phrase a question so one could somehow get a reading about how another person views the world, what another person is thinking, feeling. I occurred to me that what we are trying to do is to enter another person's body/mind and look at the world through their eyes, to walk in their shoes. So we are not asking, "What does he think of me?" we are asking, "What would I think of me if I were viewing myself from his perspective?" I have gotten some meaningful results with this approach.
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