Shar's Rebel Recess November 26, 2024

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Good evening and welcome back to Charles rebel recess. It has been a little while since you guys have heard from me. I hope you know that I am very excited to be back. I appreciate you coming. I appreciate you listening and sharing and you know, just kind of supporting me and what I'm trying to do, which is hopefully provide you with some ways to decompress. Now, I know you guys here, was going on to have like a little mint in my mouth because my mouth was dry when I got in here. I don't know what it is. Is it? I mean, we are in the desert for sure, and with dust roaming around outside, but it's kind of like overcast today, so I thought that maybe I can skip the two to three bottles of water that I try to get in at the beginning of my day to kind of keep me hydrated. But I guess not. So please bear with me as I sit here and kind of suck on a mint in your in your ear, I'm so sorry, but it must be done Anywho. With that being said, I am happy to be back with you guys. I am. I've been thinking about you. So the last time that you guys heard from me, I was on the air with Christine kunzemka, and she talked about some really great things. She talked about how she decompresses. She talked about the great work that she does out here in the Nevada area. So she she's not confined just to Southern Nevada, you know, the Las Vegas Metro, but she also provides assistance at the State Bar level in working with the Nevada Supreme Court as a settlement judge so she can she goes over the entire state, right from south to north, east to west, anyway. So she has a pretty far reach. And I know that you had to have been inspired about by the work that she does, and also about, you know, how she she kind of, I'm losing my words. I don't like dead air, and I don't want to keep saying um in your ear, but she has been affecting change in a real way, and embracing the tenants of mental health. And she's kind of like the the poster attorney slash judge for making sure that we are engaging in a holistic way, in a productive way. And so, yeah, I'm down for that. And also she's great with riding motorcycles. So I was so excited about that in her hiking prowess. And anyway, I hope you guys really enjoyed that segment and everything that she brought to the table. Now there was another segment that you guys were supposed to be getting that was with Justice sherry. And we did. We had a really great conversation. And unfortunately, the way of the world, right? It's there is an issue. There was an issue with the recording, and the system decided to eat that one. So unfortunately, you guys missed out on a really good conversation and some really great experience. So hopefully in the future, I can convince justice cherry to come back on. He's such a busy guy. He is an active judge. He is a senior judge, and he helped to bring that program to the state, and he also gets active in a lot of other charitable endeavors, and he's very well known in the community, just like justice Douglas, and in that he also set two terms on the Nevada State Supreme. Court as the Chief Justice. He was on there for he sat on that Supreme Court for, gosh, a little bit over a decade. So definitely had a lot of great experience. I learned a lot about him and his family and his current relationships. He spoke a lot about his son. He talked about, you know, his grandkids. And, you know, I really, I really wish that you guys could have benefited from the expertise that he has, being the master of disaster and working through the the claims here. So it wasn't just the one case. It wasn't just that fire incident with between, I believe it was MDM and the insurers and all that it that entailed. But apparently he became the go to person for in his earlier days practicing law out here to handle these huge actions that required a lot of detail. So as I was saying to him, you know, that had to be very stressful, you know, to have to account for so many different claimants, or for such a large breadth of work with ever whichever the case may be, with the action that he was working on at the time, and to have your peers say, hey, reach out to justice. Cherry. I mean, you know, at the time, he wasn't justice cherry, you know, but reach out to Attorney cherry, because he has the experience. He has the eye for detail, and he can, you know, safely take the ball past the what do we want to call that? Do we want to make that reference to football and say, you know, take the ball, the ball into the end zone. Or are we going to say, you know, he can really slam dunk it, or he can really hit a home run on it, whichever ball that works for you, for your analogy, however you want to term it, he got the job done in a real way, and he was very beneficial. And he has been a mentor to so many people in this valley. So I was really disappointed to not have the opportunity to share him with you guys in his experience, because, again, it was fantastic to listen to all of the details and to learn that there are different other ways, you know, quite a few ways to decompress, and some of that can be in the bosom of your family, and also with sports. You know, because he is a sports guy. With that being said, I would like to again, thank you guys for listening to me and listening to my guests here on show us ripple recess. I'm going to remind you that we are on Instagram. So if you want to go and follow us over there at shards, ripple recess, or if you want to go and check us out on transistor, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify. There's quite a few, pretty much anywhere where you can find a podcast, you'll find Charles rubber recess. You can always send us an email with your comments and your suggestions, and maybe you have someone that you know that is tied to the legal profession, to the judiciary, that might want to be on the show and share some of the great wisdom here about how they're able to maintain in the face of a career that has such high stakes, because we're often talking about the functionality of our everyday life, and we're impacting our community resiliency in such a real way when we decide to don our white caps and get into the judiciary. So anywho, as I go on, I just want to let you guys know that we've had a lot of stuff happen over the past month that could impact our ability to kind of keep things at a good balance and even keel. Because, you know, we're always thinking about our whatever our endeavor is, whether we are currently in school or we are in the workforce and we and we, we could be sitting on the bench right. We can be doing quite a few things that require us to be our best at any given moment, and that can be very anxiety inducing. Thing. It can also be, you know, overwhelming. Allow us to be or force us to be over stimulated in a lot of different ways. And so it is important, it is imperative, that we take the time to breathe, that we take the time to

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kind of keep ourselves grounded and rooted, rooted in, um, what is the core of who we are, what our foundations are. And sometimes we have to take the take the time to be mindful. As Christine told us, you know, kind of just sit or, uh, plant our feet on the ground, and be mindful of our surroundings, what we're doing, be mindful of what it feels like to be planted and rooted in the ground. Now, some years ago, that reminds me. I went on a wellness retreat. It was in upstate New York. I really enjoyed it in Monroe. New York is where it was hosted at an ashram. And it was the first time it had ever been to an ashram. And if you guys have don't under know what an ashram in is. An ashram is a community of people who practice yoga. And at this Ashram, it was completely vegan. The stay was for it was over the weekend. I feel like from like Friday to Monday, it was definitely freezing. It was during, probably early in the year. I want to say it was in one January, anywho. It was snowing out that way, and so I landed in New Jersey, and I take in the public transportation to the to the place that I needed to go, some kind. It was a train, a subway or something like that. But anyway, it wasn't underground, it was top side. So I got to see, like, the picturesque views of the the New York area headed that way, and it was all of these nice towns that kind of reminds me of the mining towns out west here, you know, and so as so I definitely knew I could see the history, because they were older buildings, and I could see and think of the people who were hustling and bustling at some point in time in our collective histories, but anywho so at the ashram, we all got there because life was or we came there because our lives were so harried and hectic. And at the time I was going, I was at the beginning stages of my medical issue, and I wasn't really sure what it was, but I knew that I needed to take a break. I needed to step back. And when I was told about this particular retreat and I trusted the person that was putting it on at Nona for quite a few years, I went on in with an open mind. It was it was just me, right? So I didn't have like, a retreat buddy with me, but it was okay, because I got to know some really great women who were there for the same reason, and we all connected in a real way, and we've kept in touch over the years so Anywho. So as we're there, we were I for the first time. That was my first time doing a real meditation, right? A meditation that was, it was done in the main ashram with, there was a lot of smoke happening and but it was incense, right? So they were doing it indoors, so that would account for all of the smoke. And it was kind of I remember thinking like, I don't know that I'm doing this the right way, because my throat is feeling a bit scratchy, and I can't quite get out the sounds that I'm supposed to be making. But once I got my mind to calm down, because I feel like meditation in that type of environment, it takes a long time for your mind and your body and eventually your soul and spirit, if you believe in that, to kind of calm down and connect and get in a place where you're not distracted, where your body hasn't gone in the auto mode of let's talk about this. Let's think about that. Because I'm the type of person that I'll be if I don't take any sleeping pills at night, my mind will start thinking about the oddest things at 3am in the morning. It could be thinking about an episode of fame that I saw back in the day. You. Yes, I'm dating myself again. I used to love that show, but anywho. So we were there, and the one of the things that they provided us was on one day, we had half a day or half a session with a psychotherapist who gave us some real life? I mean, there were individual appointments, but we all walked away from there feeling like we received a lot of insightful information regarding how we our mind works and thinks, and how it can better cope with all of the stresses in our life and to bring some balance in that way. And then we had a session with a Reiki healer, I don't know, and I might not even be pronouncing it correctly, but Reiki, I think it is R, I, E, k, i, and this healer. It was the first time I'd seen one. What this person does is they kind of and employees, I hope keep an open mind, because that's what that's what I had to do, was keep an open mind. Because, you know, sometimes we are whatever circle we're in can can color how we view the world. And my cultural background was not one, and when I say culture, I don't it has nothing to do with my race or ethnicity, but more that more the neighborhood that I grew up in and the people that I have met along the way. And it's like when you think of something like a Reiki healer, you're thinking like, you know what kind of Hocus Pocus is this? Because you can't quantify it, right? It's like, I can't quantify what you're doing. I can't say for certain that this is what's helping me or harming me. Or there's nothing for me to really touch on. There isn't anything for me to touch on. You're you say that you're reading my aura, and then you're going to cleanse my aura. But how do I know that it's really been cleansed? Because I can't see my aura. I can't see it, but anywho it, it. It was a good time. So when I went through the process again, it was an individual session. I did the Reiki first, and then I did the psychotherapist last. But I can tell you that I did feel more relaxed, more in tune. I felt seen, really, because she began to there was no conversation. I didn't say anything. She didn't know me prior. I didn't know this lady from the man and the moon, right? So I'm there, and she is doing what she does, and at no point does she, you know, touch your person, your physical body. And so as she's going through my aura, and she's having these conversations with me or asking me questions, not really asking me questions, but telling me things about what she can see in my aura and what the color of my aura was and and so some of the these things were definitely right On. She kind of had my personality assessed. She the things that she talked about regarding some of my innermost concerns, maybe some exact points of anxiety. She spoke really well to it. So at the time, it was I, I'm like, Okay, wow, this is something that I can embrace, right? This is something it, if it doesn't harm me, right, then it's then it's good for me. It does me. It does better for me. And so we had this session, and she was talking about the different points regarding my personality and the way that I think through things. And then when she finally got me to a place where my body stopped fighting the process. So I talked a little bit earlier about how our our body and our mind can go on autopilot, and it can just it just can. It learns behaviors, and even though you have the intention to stop that behavior, and your mind says, Okay, enough, right now. I need to go down that path. Your body can keep going. It can keep the tension in it, like, you know some people, they talk about where you hold tension, like sometimes you're sitting there and your tongue is at the roof of your mouth. That's tension, or your shoulders remain up and not relax. They're tight. They're tense. That's tension, whatever state that you're in. There's some little way where your body holds the tension, and it takes a little while for it to go ahead and relax. Once you kind of sent the signal from your brain to your body to say, Hey, you. To relax right now.

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You know, it's not one of those emergency stop buttons. It doesn't just immediately do what you tell it to do. It just it keeps doing whatever it was doing until it it feels like it's in a good space, at a good time on its own, to stop doing what it was doing. So anyway, that's what, that's what was happening during the Reiki session. And as she's going, one of the ways that she got my body to relax was to talk to me and say, Hey, and I know now that it was a mindfulness exercise. She said, consider yourself as a tree, a really big tree. Think about your feet as the roots. Imagine the roots that are your feet. It's going into the ground, and it's rooted. It's in the dirt. It's holding on. It is your foundation. And so as I'm lying there on my back, I'm thinking, okay, I can see that. I can see the roots of the tree. I can see this huge whether it's an oak tree or a pine tree or whatever tree, a redwood tree, you can see and visualize in yourself, as you if you want to go through a mindfulness exercise, and it's about putting your feet on the ground. Maybe you think of something that you believe that's anchored and rooted and cannot be moved. So you think of your feet as those roots in the ground and the soil, or the earth beneath you. And then she said, now think of the body, how strong it is and how it reaches up to the sky, up to the heavens go along that watch your body as it grows and it stretches, and then your arms, your extremities, as they lift up to the sky, and they turn into branches, right? They're so thick. And then you have the leaves, and it's stretching from the earth to the sky, so your body is kind of pulling and in that way, I tell you that my body released all of its tension. By the time I got out of that session, it was a one hour session. By the time I was done, I was so relaxed I felt that weight just remove itself from my body, and I felt like I could feel the air around me, like I was lighter than that air. So that air felt like I could touch it, like it was What's What's the word for it went like it was solid, right? And so I left there, not again, not having that experience previously. But I walked away and said, Okay, I believe that there is some value to this. There is some value to the service that she provided that helped me in a real way, it allowed me to consider myself, and then in considering myself, I consider the connection that I have with the world around me, the connection that I have not only with the earth and nature, but the connection that I have to other people, that we are rooted and we are connected towards resiliency and wherever we go, whether we are staying where we were born and raised, or if we go out and we move to another city or state, we're connected to humans. We're connected in our humanness, and in that connection, we also become connected with the environment, with the animals, with the plants, with the water, with the sky. We're connected with all of that. And in that connection, there is a balance. There's a balance somewhere. So when we are pulling on the stress, and we're pulling and we're taking in all of those things that may be chaotic in our lives, we can reach out to the balance for someone else that could be somewhere, far on the other side of the world that is in a peaceful moment, they're in the eye of their storm, and everything around them is calm in that way, there's a balance, because we're connected to that energy, and the energy is moving from area to area, and it ebbs and it flows in a way that can keep us together and on point. And I want you guys to try to think about that right? If you're in a moment where you're feeling chaotic and stressed, I want you to tap into your connectedness with one another, connectedness to your environment, connectedness to your community, and that can be a way to de stress. And I'm sure once you're sitting there and you're thinking about it, and you find. That thing that represents foundation and anchor, something sure your home, if it will, you know, if you are and think about that thing that you find to be the most connected for you. It can be something like, you know, a community center. It could be the sun. It could be the gravity that we know that exists in this world. Think about it, and think about yourself connected to that, and see if it will work. See what it will allow you to de stress a little bit easier, you know in whatever moment that you're in, and again, I want to thank you so much for joining me this evening. I look forward to talking with you on my next on the next episode of shars Rebel recess. We are definitely glad to have you here. Please share comment like this broadcast in this episode, if, definitely, if it helped you, or you believe that it'll help someone else, you can send us an email at shars Rebel recess with any comments or suggestions. You can also follow us on Instagram. You can check us out on X, formerly known as Twitter, at rebel recess. You can also go and subscribe to our YouTube channel, but I look forward again to being with you guys on the next Tuesday at 6pm Take care and enjoy the rest of your day. You

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