Kai Story

Namaste friends..! Hello..! Zdravstvuyte..! If someone is watching from Russia. My name is.. “Kai”.

I want to share my story.. a little bit here..

Slide – “How Spirituality.. and Meditation.. along with Yoga.. impacted in my life.. in a huge way”

I come from the region in the Russia called Caucasus so it’s basically near Chechnya, Azerbaijan my place is called Dagestan.

We are just in front of Caspian Sea and Mountains. I grew up.. by seeing people drinking a lot of alcohol. My father used to drink.. and he was quite violent.. I’ve grown up seeing him that way.. and after sometime we separated the ways. Nevertheless.. I used to see people drinking.. doing a lot of drugs.. and all.

Somehow.. subconsciously I had that.. and when I was around sixteen years old.. I started doing exactly that.. alcohol and drugs. At the age of nineteen.. I got a major overdose.. my mother and my stepfather they saved me.. literally on the verge of death.. they pulled me out.

After discharging from the hospital.. I have lost some part of my memory.. and I really wanted to be a doctor.. and of course, I could not study. Some part of me was damaged.. it took me some time to recover.

In a while.. after that.. my life took me somewhere else. Again I was into drugs and alcohol. Basically twelve years of my life.. I never stopped.. I was always on drugs and alcohol.. and I had a lot of problems.. I got a lot of diseases. Again I was about to have.. another major overdose.. which could end my life. But,

Slide – Through the “Willpower..” I survived.. without the hospitals.

I decided to withdraw myself.. from all of it. Because, I had a lot of problems with my health. I heard at my work that.. the girls were talking about “Yoga..” (TH)and one of my friends told me.. there is a thing called “Yoga..” and it can help you.. it can basically.. save you from hospitals.. and doctors.

Just practice.. half an hour.. twenty minutes a day.. and your health will be good. I believed her.. and I grabbed that idea.. I just ran into the store.. I bought the yoga series.. I traded on.. and I started.. practicing yoga daily.

At that moment.. I didn’t know about “Meditation”. I was a little far.. because I was stew in alcohol and drugs.. and it was like.. one side was alcohol and drugs.. the other side was yoga.. which I was just diving into.(Alcohol & drugs image one side and yoga image the other side in a slide)

After practicing one month of yoga.. I basically came back to my normal blood pressure.. which was shooting very high.. and without injection.. I could not go sometimes.. to drop my blood pressure. So, that was a major problem for me.

Apart from that.. I had a lot of health problems. One day, I literally fell down.. in my room.. and I got paralyzed for thirty minutes. I was alone.. I could not breath.. my chest.. everything was paralyzed.. and I thought I was dying.

At that moment.. I realised that.. “Life has much more to offer.. than just all of these..” and “What I did..?” I dived more into “Yoga” and after a while.. I started practicing “Meditation” also.(Yoga & Meditation pics in a slide)

I started calculating the days.. when I’m just meditating and practicing yoga.. and the days when I have alcohol consumption and the substance abuse.. which one is better. Because the second one.. would shatter me for days.. for at least one week.. I would be recovering my health.. after major intake.. and

Slide – After one session of “Yoga..” and “Meditation..” I would come back to my soul entirely.. I would feel completely different.. and healthy.

I made a major decision.. to drop all the substance abuse.. without the Rehab. I could not allow myself.. to go to Rehab.. I could not allow this thing.. to be known at that moment.

Nobody knows that.. I’m going through.. major depressions because of this. Anyway, I decided.. it’s ok.. I can do this on my own. So, I dropped it.. and of course I have to say that.. three years it was a nightmare.

Because, you cannot drop the things.. just like that. They will be hunting the mind.. and everyday I wanted to go.. and do something.. I want to go and drink so much.. I would do yoga.

So, every time I want to take substance.. I would do yoga.. and I felt the difference. I felt how much I was in pain when I did.. what hurts my health.. and how much I am happy.. when I did Yoga.. Spirituality.. and Meditation.(TH’s)

At that point.. I realised that.. I should pursue this.. and that’s what I did. After three years of constant battle.. and not giving up.. I overcame the addictions.

Today I am free. But, it’s been a long way.. long path. “Meditation..” grew with me.. over the years. Over the years.. it developed. I was into different styles of meditation. But, nevertheless..

Slide – “Meditation is the king of everything.. among all the other practices”

Today I have to say that.. I am a much happier person.. a much healthier person.. a much whole.. and of course.. I am seeing myself going higher and higher.. and this is because of “Meditation”.(TH)

On the other hand.. “Yoga”(TH) is also very important.

Slide – “Yoga..” and “Meditation..” is just.. the one whole thing.. absolutely beautiful for mind.. body.. soul. (Yoga & Meditation pics side by)

One more thing.. I want to say here is.. all my practices were good. But, at that time.. I was non vegetarian. Since, 6 years now.. 6 or little more.. I am a complete vegetarian.. and that was another thing to drop me.. because outside of India.. the entire world eats meat. From childhood.. we basically fed meat.. and dropping the meat.. and becoming a vegetarian.. in a place where.. 90% of people are non-vegetarian.. it’s a big deal.

That is another beautiful thing about.. “Spirituality” (TH)again.

Slide- After dropping meat.. eggs.. and everything. I literally felt..

• I am less aggressive..

• less angry.. less unhappy..

• less frustrated.. much lighter.

and the one thing..(only audio)

Slide – I can suggest along with.. “Meditation..” and “Yoga..” is that.. “World.. really go Vegetarian”.

That’s my whole story.. wrapped in a few minutes. Thank you so much.. for listening.

God Bless You..!