A medicine wheel is made up of four different sections. In life we have four needs that must be met so that we can keep balance in our lives: mental, physical, spiritual and emotional needs. When working with feelings and making life choices the medicine wheel is a helpful tool for many Aboriginal people. When making a choice, look at the medicine wheel and see if your choice will meet all your needs. If it doesn’t then it’s important to think again so that all your needs are met.

As a symbol, the medicine wheel shows that each of our needs are joined and in order to heal one we must heal all of them.