To help skeptical students (curiously, there aren't very many) take the exercise more seriously, I point out a few interesting facts about the I Ching. It's a very NON-WESTERN approach to self understanding and change. Sounds very mystical, illogical, and non-scientific?. The hexagram will help clarify your current situation and state of mind, predict the future outcome, as well as offer advice. After posing a question about an issue or situation in your life, you toss coins or "randomly" sort short sticks, with the resulting configuration pointing you to the corresponding hexagram in the I Ching. You consult the I Ching as if it were a wise advisor and oracle. It consists of 64 "hexagrams," each hexagram being an image/symbol that applies to a specific but complex social, psychological, and/or spiritual situation. To help my students appreciate the big picture of self-insight and change, I let them experiment with the I Ching, or "Book of Changes." The I Ching is one of the cornerstone texts of Chinese Taoism. As a matter fact, the business of knowing and healing thyself has been around several thousand years before anyone joined together the words "psyche" and "therapy" - long before there was even the science of psychology or western science itself. Some psychologists think that powerful self-insights and transformations of the psyche require psychotherapy and a psychotherapist.
Teaching Clinical Psychology - I Ching - I Ching.
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