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Driving to the Rez - With Inelia Benz and Larry Buzzell

Driving to the Rez - With Inelia Benz and Larry Buzzell

By: Inelia Benz
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 A spiritual road trip with your two coolest, most insightful friends. Larry and Inelia dive into deep, no-nonsense conversations about leveling up your life, understanding the mysteries of the universe, and navigating those WTF moments we all face. They tackle metaphysics, consciousness, and practical wisdom with a side of humor and personal stories. It's the perfect mix of mind-blowing insights and laughs to keep you entertained and enlightened on your commute or workout. Buckle up, bro – it’s a ride you won’t want to miss!

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  • [Free 1st Part] When Pain Wraps Your Timeline - Second Chapter

    [Free 1st Part] When Pain Wraps Your Timeline - Second Chapter
    Jan 28 2026

    This article accompanies Part Two of our podcast conversation.

    In this episode, Larry, the Wisdom Keepers and I continue the exploration that opened last week, allowing the implications around pain, authority, and long-range decision-making to unfold more fully. The conversation is spacious, candid, and goes into places that are difficult to capture in writing alone.

    You can listen to Part Two of the podcast here:

    https://www.drivingtotherez.com/p/when-pain-wraps-your-timeline-second

    Part Two: Authority, Scale, and Long-Range Perception

    Once we stop treating discomfort as a verdict, a different question appears.

    Not How do I feel right now?But What actually is my long term purpose if it’s not simply body comfort or pleasure?

    This is where the conversation deepens.

    Because the issue isn’t pain itself. Pain is information. The issue is what happens when pain is given authority over time.

    How Timelines Quietly Collapse

    Timelines rarely collapse through dramatic failure. More often, they compress through a series of reasonable, well-justified choices that prioritize immediate relief. And sometimes by making one huge life changing decision that concentrates on body comfort instead of a broader awareness and information around the results.

    How do we know when we went for short term pleasure, over long term plans? The future becomes shorter. Options thin. Movement slows. Not because something went wrong, but because our future plans were never consulted.

    This is what timeline distortion looks like in real life. Not chaos, but a contraction between what we say our long term plans are, and our choice for short term pleasure.

    The Difference Between Sensitivity and Authority

    Sensitivity is not the problem. Being a sensitive person is not the issue here. In fact, it’s a strength.

    The problem arises when sensitivity is mistaken for leadership. When our discomfort and pain, or the pursuit of pleasure are allowed to lead us. Whether they are emotional, physical, mental or egoic relief or pleasure that is being sought.

    The body reacts to change, uncertainty, and unfamiliarity as potential threats. That reaction is honest. It is also incomplete. The body cannot see context. It cannot weigh the consequences across years. It cannot perceive trajectory. That is something it depends on you, the soul, to do for it.

    Yes, your Body depends on your Soul for context, for long term trajectory, for information and choice outside immediate comfort and pain.

    When bodily signals are obeyed rather than interpreted, authority quietly shifts from awareness to reaction. Being reactive is something we want to overcome because reactions always choose now over later. And being reactive never served us.

    Why Discomfort Often Appears at the Threshold

    Discomfort frequently arises at moments of expansion, not because something is wrong, but because something is unfamiliar.

    New environments, new roles, new responsibilities, and new ways of being all disrupt established patterns. The nervous system registers this disruption as stress, even when the direction itself is coherent.

    If discomfort is treated as a stop sign instead of a signal, growth stalls.

    Scale Changes Everything

    Soul wisdom operates at scale.

    It considers not only sensation, but timing. Not only emotion, but consequence. Not only relief, but direction. Scale allows discomfort to be placed inside a larger frame, where it can be understood without being automatically obeyed. I am not saying here to invalidate your pain and discomfort, but to see it in the larger context of your long term plans and desires.

    When scale is restored, the future becomes clear and your plans take precedence.

    I will stop now and let you get onto Part Two of the podcast. I hope you enjoy our continued conversation this week, it certainly has been very expansive to record.

    Inelia

    The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.



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  • [Free 1st Part] When Pain Warps Your Timeline

    [Free 1st Part] When Pain Warps Your Timeline
    Jan 21 2026
    When Feeling Good Becomes the Goal Instead of the CompassHave you ever heard someone, maybe yourself, say “I checked, and my body said no.” When it comes to making an important decision?Larry and I were talking on our drive home after the Looking at 2026 call about a pattern we’ve seen again and again, not just in others, but in ourselves. When faced with decisions, even important ones, people often choose based on pain avoidance. The deciding factor isn’t what’s best long-term, but whether something feels comfortable or uncomfortable in the body. That choice feels reasonable. It’s also quietly costly. This will often evolve into a Catch-22 situation, always feeding itself into unending circles that have us spinning on our wheels and not getting anywhere. An example of these spinning wheels when we fall for the body decision making by avoiding pain is when the “higher” self will place us in super painful situations in order to shift us to do something else. Like poverty and bad credit ratings, for example, used to stop us from a shopping addiction. Left field! I know.The Body Is Brilliant — and Not in ChargeI’ve spoken at length about why body-based resonance and dissonance are not enough to “truth” something even though our body is excellent at finding what is true and what is not. Sensations and emotions can be influenced by unconscious programs, fear responses, or the body’s own agenda. However, even though the body is excellent at seeking comfort and relief and we can use that tendency to find what is true from what is false, the body is not designed to evaluate long-term outcomes that include life changes. The body is designed for the here and now comfort cue, illustrated sometimes by the saying, short term pain for long term gain used to push through discomfort in order to achieve, perhaps, better physical fitness. Body says NO, but WE know better.Another dramatic example is substance addiction: the body prioritizes numbness or pleasure despite the soul knowing the long-term consequences can be catastrophic. The body will tell the person that the truth is that if they have a few drinks, their pleasure and comfort will increase. Yup, it’s true! A short term pleasure for a long term pain, again an instance where the body doesn’t see long term results as relevant.A quieter example is turning down a better job because being the new person feels uncomfortable, even though staying put limits the person’s growth. The body is telling the truth when saying that staying with what is familiar is less stressful (in the short term - the body can’t see long term).In both cases, comfort wins. Wisdom loses.Why Feeling Good Was Never Meant to Make Life DecisionsI use bodily sensation as a guidance system in very limited ways. It helps me find lost objects or navigate while driving without an address. For that, it’s precise and useful.But it does not work for life decisions. Change is uncomfortable. Growth disrupts equilibrium. New directions activate fear and uncertainty in the body. If comfort were the deciding factor, no meaningful transformation would ever occur.Short-Term Comfort Is Not the Same as Long-Term WisdomThe phrase “the path of least resistance” often gets misused. What people actually follow is the path of least discomfort. Because change triggers resistance in the body, the mind, and even our co-creators, choosing comfort often results in staying still. The familiar feels safer than the unknown, even when it leads nowhere.“I wanted to move to a high-frequency community, but it rains there all the time and my body can’t stand the rain.”Basing the entire decision of where to live on their body comfort, disregards the entirety of their experience and relationship with their community. Figuring out when it’s fear of pain, or rain, making the decision, or an intuitive guiding system is a fine line. Let’s learn how to discern what is what when it comes to body discomfort.How the Nervous System Prioritizes ReliefThe body is wired to reduce pain and avoid stress. Discomfort signals danger. The instruction is simple: stop, withdraw, avoid. This system is essential for survival. It is not designed for strategic decision-making. When the body leads, long-term considerations disappear.In our present society, we are taught and wired for instant gratification and endorphin hits. Breaking through the discomfort of change is not something that is encouraged or taught in school. And even the places that teach it, like boot camp in the armed forces, it is done in ways that also include brain washing and following orders that push us past our humaneness. Or cramming for final exams, harsh and hard and uncomfortable, but teaches short term memory of useless data over long term wisdom or discernment.In other words, our society does not teach us any high-frequency reason or way to push past discomfort in order to see a clear long term road ahead.Wisdom Sees Further Than...
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  • [Free 1st Part] STAND (Part 2): What It Takes to Hold Your Position in 2026

    [Free 1st Part] STAND (Part 2): What It Takes to Hold Your Position in 2026
    Jan 14 2026

    Part 2 of the Podcast Conversation

    If Part 1 is about realizing where you stand,Part 2 is about what it takes to stay there and not get pulled into the dark.

    There are only two ways forward

    even when the world pretends there’s more

    I will stand inside the rising

    I won’t fracture anymore

    I won’t carry every choosing

    I won’t wear another’s fear

    I let the light within me rise

    and become what’s real from here

    This is where the song becomes less poetic and a real tool we can use— not in a “do this” way, but in a lived, embodied way. This conversation continues, giving you more information about what we see in 2026, and what this song embodies for all of us. And how to use it throughout 2026.

    Because standing isn’t a moment.

    It’s a relationship with yourself and the reality you are co-creating moment to moment. And how you affect the entire world.

    Your Mantra. Say it out loud when you catch yourself indulging in negativity, victim aggressor, blame, fear, all the dark frequencies.

    “The light within rises and takes form - through me”

    (Disclaimer: no Fairies were harmed or killed in the making of this podcast! - listen to the end of the Wisdom Keeper hour to understand this joke - or not a joke… maybe it’s real?)

    Podcast Part 2: Staying Steady Without Hardening

    In Part 2, we talk about:

    * Why doing without alignment to your true self becomes exhausting this year

    * Why 2026 exposes reality in a non-linear fashion.

    * What we do when we think we failed. Tools that take us out of negative indulgence instantly.

    * What does Lemuria have to do with it?

    This episode tends to land differently depending on when you listen to it — and I actually love that. It tells me the conversation is interacting with timing, not belief.

    Wisdom Keeper Hour (Subscriber Conversation)

    In the Wisdom Keeper Hour for Part 2, we move into territory I don’t usually speak about publicly:

    * Longer-range implications that became visible during the December 31st live stream

    * How the STAND frequency carries beyond what we think is “real”

    * Why some paths close cleanly, while others simply fade away

    * What holding your position actually requires — energetically, emotionally, relationally and practically

    This isn’t instruction.It’s confirmation. Well, maybe it is instruction. Or even orders. Marching orders.

    For many individuals, families and communities, this part puts words to decisions they’ve already made — or truths they’ve been quietly circling. It’s a remembrance, really. Remember. Stay in the light.

    A Note From Me to You

    STAND isn’t about defiance.It’s about presence and who you truly are and why you are here. It acknowledges the struggle we will be facing when we can’t influence those we love to choose the light. When they refuse to release power over others, victimhood, aggressor or savior energies. When they get sick and refuse to heal.

    These two podcast episodes — and the Wisdom Keeper Hour conversations that follow them — are an invitation to listen beneath the lyrics, beneath the year ahead, and beneath the noise, to that place where choice becomes obvious and self-betrayal and fracturing becomes unnecessary. The place where your truth resides and remembrance is yours to hold.

    2026 responds quickly.

    Where you stand matters.

    I KNOW you’ve already chosen. I see you.

    Inelia

    The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.



    This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe
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