before you start telling yourself a
little my travel stories they are
a little low res I told you
now we’re going to do a little exercise
and I asked you to do
trust because we’re all gonna be you
asked to close their eyes and
follow a little what I’m going to you
ask to make go I make sure
everyone closed their eyes
everyone closes their eyes perfect not
cheats
so what am I going to ask you to
to actually do is to breathe during
5 seconds
we’ll do them 5 we’re going
breathe in a pretty
we are going to breathe
deep or not or by mouth or
by the nose will put all our
will in the inspiration and the
breathing and exhalation it’s going to be
a letting go
we will do it continuously without
stop for five times so followed a
little potentially the pace of my
breathing
go go let’s do all together in
union please
perfect it’s 5
thank you very much I was well done
relax a little it is no longer obliged
to wait for something that is going to
to pass in fact we are what we did in
end of these just to put themselves all
together in the present moment we have
tried 505 breathing is not
potentially not enough but
this is a beginning it allowed us
also to be on the same level on
everything will be conducted in a
only experience is what I’m going
also try to do through this
presentation that I named a trip
around care and I used this
quote from alan watts who says to be from
passage is to live in fact I’m going to
miss because the following means
finally the continuation of staying there and
to maintain is to die but as
I had already talked about the speed of
death so I removed that part
knowing that I have not seen his presentation
so that’s the idea of this trip
I had undertaken is pretty
almost two and a half to three years
it was in June 2014 had come from a
of an intuition will actually say I’m going
talk about the power of the decision a little
from this travel story how does that
started one day while I was
always employed in a
multinational engineer
computer project manager rejected
ready and to control I’m in
train to drive this to get home
me and then suddenly an idea a
intuition that passes but really a
voice in my head that tells me you’re going
go around the world and there I was
on the road I park so much
of ideas been so lightning so
it was powerful
I park and then I say to myself but what is
what happens I go down the
mirror I look in my eyes
and I ask the question is what are you
serious and the answer I see
in my own eyes were been yes
and it started from this point
that was in September 2013
two weeks later I had
will file my year application
sabbatical with my job nothing
predestined to actually travel I you
would lie if I told you this is a
thing a kid’s dream I wanted
always do that I always go
to discover the world
absolutely not I was completely
in ambition I wanted to succeed my
life but really professional it’s
everything that brings is life for me
professional social I wanted to be
rich to see but my apartment my car
etc., etc
and then this thought so much
powerful that happen at once and I
take it simply as being
a personal decision something
what happened in my head
at that moment they’re me
I decided actually it’s not a voice
it’s not a revelation
I made that decision but are
potentially have brought him back to my
consciousness until that moment where he
has emerged naturally and
from that moment on all of them and
all started in a way
completely natural i was doing my
sabbatical year request
we said yes to work so for
give me a year altogether what
is a rare fact in Morocco we will
to say and I did not rank but all
these facts in a completely
natural my father who is in the sai
told me no, but you’re crazy
just been a little barge for for
have these kind of ideas and then by the
also after two months and
r’way super go on I ‘ll go with
you and that’s it it’s done after
nine months I was on the start I
left I left in June 2014
from nicaragua why
nicaragua got a little and yeah then
why nicaragua but it’s still a
story of a little bit a barge at the same
time then while I was preparing this
trip there a year a year
really excellent and it’s getting ready
at length I had done several
super excel file options
detailed it was my job actually
I was doing that excel files
to make projects and his lands
so I did potentially 15
really ride options with the
weather it takes the budget etc etc
for a while I thought
but wait a minute you want to take a
year outside of time a year to
seeker of your life so you will do
something that completely in
outside the zone of trust forgets the
project management forget about control
we will do something
completely different will go on
a full bones
and the name full full actually it was
very simple I simply
delete all the excel files and
I would have opened google maps I was watching
the first country I knew I wanted
to leave I wanted to start the mecca
from the south and I looked at the first country
it was nicaragua and that’s where
that I started
but at the same time in this
reflection of I do not want to leave with
a lead I want to leave completely in
outside my comfort zone I took
time to think about my people
my goal why I want
to undertake a year of traveling why
I really want to leave it’s in
this adventure and I had
discovery makes it a passion of
moment when makes dance months of
preparation which is she on the harmonica
gh1 harmonica I was in the process of
blow in all the time in the process of
create noise
until I understood ah no
in fact it was not the breaking harmony
the harmony that I was in the process of
search and so precisely all my
trip was looking for
harmony bring back some harmony
in my life and ultimately when I did
the trick I understood that bring back this
harmony is not an active search
in itself it’s really just to stop
to do things really just
embraced the natural harmony of the world
of the nature of human relations etc
the membracides in a way
completely natural stop putting
blockages myself to be able to everything
simply regain that harmony at
everyday everyday but first
before arriving at that moment where
I understood what it was
harmony for me I needed
go through several stages in this
trip there is one of the first
steps it was to start to see and
to listen with the heart it was necessary
stop seeing with the datas needed
stop that I that I analyze that
I try to understand everything from
schedule things so I got myself
launched in this adventure completely
blind where I wanted that to give of
love and receive it so I try
to see everything with the heart and one of
first experiences that had me
completely put down by actually
relationship to this story to see with
the heart was when arriving in
Colombia after two months of travel
Colombia a country that is on paper
super dangerous not very recommended
for a
a woman to travel alone in this
country in the end I stayed two months
and a half and a certain moment I was
I decided to go to a corner
which is called tanio crisis thales the
river or five colors is the most
beautiful river romande it is a
really river with plants that
have in different colors etc
so we can see when you actually
you see red but red is
it’s the color of the plant and this
place one is the place most
dangerous yet long
it was a red or green zone for
tourists since just 4 4
learn before before that time
allais is completely controlled by
the army the farc is the
narcotrafiquants brief it was the brothel
Absolutely I’m still coming
a plane ticket without any plan
I landed it’s a track
landing and no airport in
receives without a bag really in the street the
street no tar and no car
just motorcycles and horses but I
will still sense all the assumptions
all I had on the media etc
I say to myself ok I will not see that there is
something calling me in this corner
there and I will go look through the
heart and so when I go out a lady
approach me and ask me the question
do you know where to sleep I tell him
no mehdi ben listen I offer you a
room at home at 10 dollars a night
we will say yes I agree of course
two hours later I was behind
his son doing motocross
in the in the hills of the region
so the great adventure
I spent six days at this family
tired he had become a few by my
family the whole village had become my
elderly family today I had written
an article at the time and today
people from around the world who write to me
to ask me questions about
to comb to christ at ease because
independent travelers who live there
and there are not masses
if you search at new christs go
on lyme internet find first
is actually starting from this bled there
I cried I cried at the airport
when the family accompanied me
I cried like when I cried
the day I left my family here at
Morocco knowing that I was not going to
see for a year and in fact I am
grateful to this intuition had
this desire to see right with the heart
to give completely just with with
pure feelings of love for others
without seeming a priori about how
issenlor culture etc
a certain moment all this all
disappears the fact that they were talking
Spanish and that I started at
hardly did I understand just a few
month does not mean does not mean
absolutely nothing and a merger that has
does because what comes from the heart by
directly to the heart it does not need
really different language but
then the sphere makes it go away with
this voice of the heart is also to do
trust is to trust
the universe in humans but especially in
oneself and trust is
especially be completely vulnerable
completely at the mercy of others
really euros we could not believe it
also as easily fun but I
will put me all alone somewhere
far from home away from my landmarks
but being completely vulnerable
it’s really what can save you
it’s really reassuring or
ensure your safety
I put here a picture of them that I had
taken on one of the rivers of amazonia
in brazil and I had done several
weeks in amazon boat
traditional small boats you
see there and these boats there he had
no schedules so they were coming
in ports enough for one it’s
they really fear very late
in the night and every time I
of course left without a plan without any
idea where do I go to sleep what
what am I going to do next
it was a bit my way of
to travel every time there was
someone who presented himself so a
times for example I arrived in the state
where there is the mazagan village and
I arrived at 3 in the morning and he
is just a girl who were in the
boat that shows up and who asks me
the question is do you know where is
what are you gonna say to him no but
next do not even talk to me in because
that she spoke French by the
English and it was a girl of this
state there he tells me do not talk to me
because the others they should not
hear us speak in another
language
we’re going to get out together is really
the forehead by the hand we traveled in
a taxi during
half an hour to really get to
first habitable village and this is where
she will negotiate the hotel
where I’m going to sleep and make sure I’ve done
my immediate registration everything is going
well I say yes everything is fine she does
very well beautiful deny goodbye I do not
do not know his name I do not know
absolutely nothing of it
this girl there really took me by the
hand is what really existed
time I ask myself the question
and I had stories but full
like that a lot of people or at the moment
where I am completely vulnerable
really at the mercy of the first
nobody come because I ‘m doing
trust in me even in the universe he
always presents himself a human who is going
take my hand and lead me
really in the right place but this
trust there of course and comes with a
sense of responsibility
it means that it does not happen
always very well there have been moments
where I really feared for my life and
it happened for example I ‘m going
tell a story that happened
in the Bolivian desert in the depths
finally it’s a desert the altiplano of
south lipez who is at 4000
meters of altitude is super cold
there is not a tree on the horizon and only one
tree called the rock tree
in fact that you see on the picture is
in this desert one I cross the
border that come to go to the
Chilean border between the two there
ya 70 km / ha no-man’s land which belongs
to anyone in the Chilean border
we live in caen visa has expired we are going
duty to bring back to the border
Bolivian in the afternoon
I repeat miscevic I fear for my
life if you send me back the abm 18 years and
I am listened to what there is no way
that I sleep here the night that the
next day I do not sleep that I sleep
before the border and I’m leaving
the next day Muslims in Cairo send
me in argentine
no good ok last resort data –
phone to call the embassy
Moroccan to Chile to inform them and
tell them I was the person
knew where I was there was not
internet there was no communication
my family my friends nobody knew
where I was but otherwise we will be
sent to the Bolivian desert and the
Bolivian desert is a desert the
known for disappearances and at
makes very last moment where last no
when I am told no for for the trouble
I
awaits something weird that
is happening there it does not want to be true
can not be nice to be a
reality actually it’s it’s too much
names for that be true I’m trying
probably to create my own
experience and that’s where I
understood the power that we really have in
creating sounds from his experience
of life in general and I realized
account that I did everything to be
really there right now for
to be in this situation there and the
situation go getting worse and me
I was going to tell myself by taking the
responsibility for everything that
passed I went back to the border
Bolivian and I survived a
rape attempt there was the guy who
had tried and then I took my
bag and I left I left
quickly good short I survived
all these experiences there but
always precisely by taking the
responsibility then but all that
comes with b the indepa full of small
things I tried to do during
this trip I tried to offer myself
the present live in the present a maximum
do not think this experience is
arrived and I forgot I left
behind me I said ok I
am learning I’ll
live all the time in the present i have here
also to embrace freedom the
true freedom for me I have it
discovered in cuba where it was just
acceptance stop wanting to create
things stop wanting to go to
beyond my limits
not just accept my reality
that she is accepting it in the
compassion first and love for me
same and then a certain moment he me
had to stop and I got
arrested for eight months in a
temple in brazil finally at the end of a
year of travel stopped me
for eight months to finally be able to
stop traveling in the physical this
that I traveled in time
my time has become really the moment
present and very reduced I continue to
traveling in the physical then a certain
years – I had to stop everything I
wanted to stop traveling in the
time and in the
in space to be able to travel in
your dimensions who are me who
is inside of me and and
in this experience I had some
mystical experiences quite enough
interesting that have somewhere to
boudy time and space
then on returning to Morocco there are five
month
I left to make the path of
compostelle in a burst of gratitude
for the universe for everything he has me
given
but also gratitude for myself and
that’s what saves me today it’s
what keeps me going
a happy state of mind despite all
the speaking situations by which I
going on I go through pretty situations
difficult now
but this gratitude to myself
towards the world that’s what allows me
in fact to continue and then
potentially I discovered a little
what it was that care the care of
other than a different perception of
world
I stopped being really small
care myself oudin to try to
come across experiences
met the love I have for them
other
something much bigger
who does not depend on any more
thing that is even bigger which is
the universe that is this relationship that we have
had that moment that we had at
beginning of this meeting
this moment of breathing we meet
all in one action in one
only will
and then to finish what you see there
this photo is the picture of Madame
that’s the flag of Morocco in front of the
village cemetery of matador very
far in the Amazon jungle and at
does that which is interesting in this
trip there I ask the question is waiting
really need to travel
I mean no because I am
very long party to find some
share this attachment I had for
my sources
for my city of el jadida because I
left being I wanted a little
of air I wanted to breathe air from the
freedom then I went very far
to find someone in front of me who
in the
the ancestors to equip this city there
over 200 years ago who was watching me with
eyes of emotion of ten years that you
know el-jadida I told them he was me
said but tell us about this city
I went to speak living gods
but really very very very far and
but my answer also to this question
is yes you must travel must
to travel in oneself one does not need
to do the physical trip you have to
really do as much as we can
journey inside oneself and
so everyone here is in his place
perfectly in place
as long as we can transcend
it’s all the blockages that we have
relation to time compared to the past
in the future what we wanted and
c is what stops a moment to breathe
grab ok I take 5 seconds to
to take a little trip but really to
inside of myself is discovered
and find out who I really am
thank you
[Applause]
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