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This week, since it's that time of year where maybe we've got some vacations, we're away from home and we're with different groups of people. I thought I'd talk about sharing our stories. I hope you've discovered how fun and easy it is to start and have a good, meaningful conversation with someone. Everyone has something to share. Everyone has a story to tell to facilitate connecting and sharing our stories.

This week, I want to talk about dreams. Do you dream? I love my dreams to the point where I started a dream journal. I do my best every morning to write down whatever I can remember when I get a very vivid dream on a specific person. To me, it's usually a signal that I need to connect with them.

This week, I want to talk about dreams. Do you dream? I love my dreams to the point where I started a dream journal. I do my best every morning to write down whatever I can remember when I get a very vivid dream on a specific person. To me, it's usually a signal that I need to connect with them.

This week, I want to talk about our tools for life. I want to talk about tapping. No, not tap dancing. Tapping. Stay tuned. I'm going to show you. There are so many more demands on us every day with technology and I it can be so easy to lose the essence of our self.

This week I want to talk about smile. A smile costs nothing yet It has amazing influence on those around us. It has a wonderful benefit to our state of mind. A smile costs less than electricity, but it gives much light.

Did you know that April is Stress Awareness Month? That is wonderful. NIH has devoted the month to focusing on stress. This is our disease of the 21st century. Life is getting faster and more demanding, and stress just feels like we're treading water to get through our day.

This week, let's go back and talk a little bit more about self-care. Why is it that maybe we don't put enough of it into our day? I was thinking if we broke it down into micro moments in our day, maybe we could find a little bit more time for self-care. So the micro moments are the moments in between, the moments in between a meeting or maybe a meal, or maybe you're driving somewhere.

This week I just want to share something I absolutely love. I want to share Wabi-sabi. No, not wasabi, the condiment we eat with our sushi. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese philosophy that acknowledges three simple beliefs. Nothing lasts. Nothing’s finished. And nothing is perfect. Thank you, sign me up!

This week, I want to talk about our view on life, realizing that a small shift in our thinking can bring great insight and maybe reduce some of our daily stress. Instead of seeing life happening to us and shifting to seeing our life as happening for us, this is when we can begin to embrace the moments as opportunities to grow.

This week I want to talk about less is more. I feel like there is a great myth in life that connects our worth – our personal internal worth – to our productivity. We, in our busy life, tend to ignore our hunger, how tired we are. We work through sickness. We push our bladders to the brink because there’s always something more to do. There’s always something that needs to get done.

This week, I want to talk about our organs, our emotions, and the time of day. My recent visit to the hospital in early January made me very aware of my lungs. The threat of not being able to breathe was very real and a very big learning moment for me. But once I knew I was okay, I started to think about – I know I’m weird, I started to think about my traditional Chinese medicine and the miracle of our body and how it works.

Finally, we’re seeing a little shift in the weather. This is the time that we know as spring. It means we renew and new beginnings and we talk about spring cleaning and opening the windows, decluttering, cleaning out, freshening up in traditional Chinese medicine. And if you remember, I’ve spoken about this in the past that each season has organs that are related to it.

This week I want to talk about three glass jars. It is extremely difficult to see a higher learning when we’re in the middle of a health scare. The stay in early January that I had at the hospital set me on such a journey to look for the greater learning in a pretty traumatic moment in my life. So what was the greater learning?

This week I want to talk about napping. How many of us are not getting the rest that we need? And we do need to reset and replenish ourselves and as I am still doing – recover and recuperate. And this is what I’m learning after my recent health event, listening to our bodies when it tells us it’s tired. It’s very, very important to rest.

This week, I want to remind all of us that we are never alone. Asthma, that’s pretty scary stuff. As I started my New Year, an asthma episode that turned into bronchitis put me in the hospital for five days. Never in my life have I had such a flare up. And there was a moment when I realized I couldn’t breathe. But then I just kind of surrendered. But I had my team. We are never alone.

This week, my title of my little talk is It Will Get Better – Teachers in Our Life. Teachers in our life can be people or events. This past January, I had a tremendous teaching moment when I landed in the hospital with viral bronchitis. As I was watching the EMT and the air docs and the nurses swirl around me, I surrendered and trusted I was in good hands.

This week, I wish to talk about me – if you will indulge me for a few minutes to share with you how it was that I came to spend five days in the hospital in early January. As I was experiencing this health event, I was holding what is it that I need to learn?

Recently, Ric and I found Turner Movie Classics (TMC). They were playing 24 Hours of Cary Grant. Wow. So much fun. We recorded all of them. And so when I went back, there was this movie I’d never seen before. It was called Houseboat. I’m going to play a short clip of the movie for you. I was so moved by this one scene.

This week I want to talk about staying warm. Well, I’m not sure where you are, but it’s winter here and all I can remember is when I was a young girl, my mom telling me to put my hat and scarf on and mittens. Well, you know what? It did sink in. And nowadays, whenever I see somebody out in the cold weather without a hat, scarf and gloves, I’m like, oh, I hear my mom’s voice in the back of my head.

This week I have my buddy here, Hoshi. So, she’s going to be with us today. Today I want to talk about journaling. I’ve talked about it many times, but did you know or are you familiar with all the various types of journals? I thought we could talk about it today, and then it would be fun to see what resonates with us each day, and then we could have some fun with it.

Jean Edelman: Hi, I’m Jean Edelman. Welcome to my podcast. Each week we’ll explore a word that I hope gives us perspective and provides an opportunity to pause and check in with ourselves. For decades, I’ve been a student of the healing arts, Reiki, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, plant-based cooking and macrobiotic lifestyle. Join me on this journey and hear my word of the week.