What would your "All Fine Place" say to you?

If my “All Fine Place” could talk, it would say that it flows like water and as I get closer to being to the place where I feel calm or even when my body knows I will be close to the beginning of the calm moment, the feeling of excitement gets brighter and bigger. During this journey as I’m in the midst of my all fine place, the feeling begins to mature as the leaves and calmness comes. My “All Fine Place” does not want to dwindle down in the shape of an inverted triangle and stop, but instead transform into water and flow into a slow river to follow me through my days until I am able to visit again.

My body feels the bright orange as a form of a tingle, goosebumps, smiling cheeks and excitement in my brain. The next feelings of calmness surround this orange during the calmness and turns to water shaping my entire body. It allows me to feel the waves of emotions, my mind is open to what matters most in life and hear things such as owls, birds, the leaves swaying and the rain as it falls.

The visions and feelings of these shapes, sounds and movements is the pause that I revert back to as I smile during hardships or difficult times of anxiety and growing into tough situations that would normally break me.

I truly love this exercise. First you remove all of your worries and draw what you would do with them. I decided to burn them in a bonfire and use them to keep me warm. Next, you draw your "All Fine Place" and allow it to talk to you as you only use colors, shapes or lines. After this, you draw the feelings within your body while in your "All Fine Place". Finally you write down what your "All Fine Place" says to you. This process may take the entire time while you're at the beach, on vacation or in your glory, but it helps you understand more about yourself and why you enjoy being in this place. One more step in the world of Focus-Oriented Self-Therapy using Expressive Arts.