Shocking South Africa Story of Carjacking at Gunpoint
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2023
- Today, I'm sharing a consciousness conversation with my mate, Cody Pizer. Cody talks about getting carjacked at gunpoint in South Africa, going with the flow, and why the universe loves you.
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Become A Mediation Coach:www.bodhiyoga.info/become-a-coach-new-2023
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inspiring and great quality podcast 👍 looking forward for more 🎉
Thankyou
You're very welcome x
Thanks Cody, you are such a beautiful soul! Brett loving the podcasts, the vibe is ❤
Thanks so much!! Xx
Another great podcast many thanks xx
Soo welcome 😊
Half way through enjoying another podcast. I get lit up when I hear people talking about the “why” questions when we were kids, and adults kind of fluff us off. I actually just wrote a brief recovery story where I talk about this a little. I’ll put it here in case it helps someone. Looking forward to more episodes ! 🙏🏼
There are many ways up the mountain, but this is my experience and what worked for me.
When I was young I remember always having burning existential questions and was never quite satisfied with any answers I heard going around. Life was quite mundane to me. A discontent. A burden. I went on to experience alcohol and drugs. It seemed I found some sort of answer. Alcohol helped liberate my mind from these burning questions and anxiety. I didn’t ever want the regular old sober state of mind. I always wanted to somehow escape the perceived mundane reality around me. Fast forward through decades of drinking and drugging, or you might say- *medicating my condition*, I blundered through life wreaking havoc. I Upset loved ones, hurt them, made them worry. At the time it seemed I was wasting life. I remember dealing with constant shame thinking I was a complete screw up. What will I do with myself? What is my purpose? And at extreme lows and depression, I questioned whether or not I was living in actual hell.
When I got to a point where I did not want to drink anymore, but also didn’t want to be sober, facing my second DUI and the shame that came with it, having blown over at a rate that “the judge had never seen before”, I was on my knees, willing to take whatever help anyone could give. I was at a dead end. Alcohol wasn’t serving me anymore. This is after trying many many times on my own to quit, and denying endlessly that there was even an issue, because that would mean weakness as far as I was concerned, and it would also mean the end of my relationship with the only salvation I had found in this life- alcohol.
I found myself at the doors of AA. I didn’t know what to expect. But I was given the big book, and hardly put it down until it was finished. For the first time I had heard people share the same reality as me. That in itself was a huge weight off my shoulders. I wasn’t alone anymore. They spoke of a “spiritual malady” in AA. At 8 years sober, looking back on AA, the work I’ve done, having addressed my resentments, making amends, diving in to Buddhist teachings and the tools that go with it, I have a new perspective on things.
When I was younger I was searching for connection, answers, or what I’ve later learned to be possibly known as “unity”, and dissolving of the illusion of *separateness*. Left to our own devices without spiritual direction, some of us end up medicating our spiritual malady with toxic substances, and many forms of addiction. But given the right tools, we can have true liberation and freedom from our perceived ego and the false psychological drama that comes with it. I’ve learned that my essential nature is not limited by or confined to my personality structure or the body I’m inhabiting.
I still live with the emotional rollercoaster, but there’s not so many extreme ups and downs and I no longer need to ride on it and drink when it’s unbearable. There’s an analogy that our thoughts are like the waves on the surface of the ocean, but underneath the ocean is a stillness and peace in all of us. Our true nature. We can connect to that, and stay rooted in it like a tree while the wind blows our branch’s left and right, but we don’t have to react to those thoughts/branches and become them. They come and go like clouds in the sky.
Today I live a life I didn’t know was possible. . I no longer look at that part of my life with regret, or as “wasted time.” I see it as part of my journey that has made me who I am today, and wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve learned how to go straight in to my suffering and fears instead of running from them, because that is what makes us stronger. There is nothing mundane about this life, and I don’t need to escape it any more. I am fully comfortable and ok with not having all the answers, and not knowing exactly where I should be going. I can only do my best in this moment, with the tools I have and sticking firmly in my integrity with my values that come from a deep knowing within. I don’t need a false sense of being responsible by dwelling on the past, or feeling anxious about the future. I know that the past is done with and holds lessons that can be Brought with me, and doing my best in the present will take care of my future. I’ve learned to not be so judgmental and hard on myself as I’m only human, but to also take responsibility for all my actions and accept responsibility for the outcome of those actions. I remind myself to be proud of how far I’ve come, and I look forward to continuous growth. Compassion, service to others, daily disciplines and personal inventory are crucial, and keep me in line. I used to take life far too seriously, at my detriment. I’m a little less rigid, and a little more flexible. Everything is impermanent.
I once couldn’t imagine a life without drinking, and now I live a life I could have never imagined. I’ve learned that our suffering can be our greatest gift so look out for the lessons, and accept help from others who have been there.
Deep! thanks for sharing x