What is your wellness goal? How does it feel to be asked this? What’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe it’s your chronic low back pain which seems to be worse in winter. Or the headaches you wake up to almost every morning. Perhaps you’d like to feel better digestively, have more energy to exercise, or figure out why you’re just. not. sleeping. How long has anxiety been nagging in your chest? When did that knot set up residence in your shoulder? What tightens up when (fill in the blank) is mentioned? 

Emotions are created around experience. They are natural, energetic responses to stimuli. When flowing freely, we can move through events and stresses with more fluidity. We can actually use feelings as tools to grow and learn about the world around us. To combine knowledge with our experiences creates wisdom. But it's not always easy to ride the wave of human emotion. When we have a positive experience, we can feel elated and joyous and want to stay there forever. When we have a negative experience, we can feel unpleasant and want to rush through it to escape the discomfort. Both are normal and are meant to be an ongoing ebb and flow of energy within and around us.