why have I been so lazy lately? 42.3.5 - 22

[danadanadana]

I asked the I Ching: why have I been so lazy lately? For some time I have not had any desire to do my work and this is unusual. This is new for me as I have always enjoyed my work. I am baffled by the reading, so any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Sarah_]

With 42 being increase and 22 sometimes more ephemeral / visionary / non physical even.. do you think you might be incubating some ideas in your unconscious or something like that? Work is being done, but not yet in physical form?

 

[Trojina]

I asked the I Ching: why have I been so lazy lately? For some time I have not had any desire to do my work and this is unusual. This is new for me as I have always enjoyed my work. I am baffled by the reading, so any help is greatly appreciated.

To me this looks something like a picture of preoccupation. Something else charming your mind away from the everyday somewhat. This isn't a bad thing although it can look like laziness.

It isn't laziness...indeed someone once said laziness doesn't really exist it's always a name for something else which of course fits with the 22, you are calling it laziness that doesn't mean that that is what it is.

I see the charming away in 22 too towards perhaps a greater blessing of some kind (42) or even a preoccupation with someone else's welfare. Line 3 can show blessing in the midst of trouble. Line 5 is generally a reassurance of entitlement of blessing.

What if there was some change/increase/benefit for you somewhere that caused you to ruminate and fantasize a great deal (22ish)but some kind of shame or misgiving prevents you from fully having it? That would be because of guilt from line 3. The cast suggests you don't need to feel bad about thinking about whatever is preoccupying you. You aren't lay then but half preoccupied....

Change patterns, showing the central tension in coming to the question, are yang 39 yin 38. Hard to be precise about these but there's a sense of hardship in 39 or obstacle and 38 as a way of passing through this could be to allow yourself to imagine things you never normally would in your usual way of thinking. You see if you are lazy it means your mind is leaking energy into something else because that something else is calling. If one disallows that and says to one's mind 'No we aren't going to think about that today' it will anyway it will just go undercover and think about it anyway in drifting abstracted thought that can feel like laziness.

So it could be you need a conversation with yourself about what is going in the undercurrents of your thoughts right now ? What is taking up the battery life ? What background brain apps have you got running ? Now if you opened the brain app and looked at it you might see where that thought energy is going that brings the symptom called 'laziness'.