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Un voyage autour de soi | Houda Chaloun | TEDxElJadida


but influential
Before you start telling a
bit my travel stories are
a little low resale I told you
Now we’ll do a little exercise
and I asked you to make me
confidence because we will all I you
asked to close their eyes and
follow a few that I will
ask to go I make sure
everyone turned a blind eye
everyone shut eyes not perfect
cheats
then I’ll ask you to
actually do is breathe during
5 seconds
we will do the 5 breathing we will
breathe a fairly
particular we will breathe
deep or not or by mouth or
the nose will put all our
will in the inspiration and
breathing and expiration it will be
letting go
we will do continuously without
stop for five times thus followed a
some potentially rhythm of my
breathing
will go all together we will make
union please
it makes perfect 5
thank you very much I was well done
relax a little that it is no longer required
waiting for something that will
in fact spend it is what we did in
end of these just to put all
set in the present moment was
505 tried breathing is
but potentially not enough
Here is a start it allowed us
as being on the same level we
started all be conducted in a
Experience alone is what I will
also try to do through this
presentation I appointed a trip
around care and I used this
alan watts quote that says be
way is to live in fact I’m going
fail because the result means
Finally, after staying there and
keep it to die but as
I had already spoken to speed
death so I removed that part
knowing that I have not seen her presentation
So here the idea made this trip
I had undertaken is pretty
nearly two and a half three years
It was in June 2014 came a
an intuition will say that I will
talk about the power of the decision a little
this travel story how it
started one day when I was
still used in
Multinational Engineer
IT project manager rejected
loans and monitor I’m
currently driving it back home
me and then suddenly an idea a
intuition that happens but really
voices in my head telling me you’re going
go around the world and there I was
on the road so I park
ideas was so overwhelming
was powerful
I park and then I say but what
what happens I get off the
mirror I look in your eyes
and I ask the question is what you are
serious and the answer that I see
in my own eyes was yes
and it started from there
then it was September 2013
two weeks after I had I
tabling my year request
sabbatical from my job nothing
predestined to travel I made you
lying if I told you it’s a
thing a childhood dream I wanted
always do that I will always
exploring the world
absolutely I was completely
in ambition I wanted my success
but life is really professional
anything that brings life for me
I wanted to be professional social
rich to see my apartment but my car
etc., etc
and then this thought so
powerful coming of a sudden and I
the simply take as
a personal decision something
what happened in my head
at the time they are it is I who
I decided actually it’s not a voice
this is not a revelation
I had made this decision but are
potentially bringing him back to my
consciousness until that moment where
has naturally imposed and
From that moment and in fact all
all started in a way
I made my completely natural
request for sabbatical
we said yes to the job so
outright grant me a year, which
is quite rare in Morocco we will
and say I had no rank but all
these facts in a way completely
natural father who is in the sai
I was told no but you’re crazy all
just been a little barge for
have this kind of ideas and then by
result also after two months
r’way super c’mon I will go with
you and that’s that’s done after
nine months I was on the start I
went I went in June 2014
from the why Nicaragua
Nicaragua has a little bit and then yeah
why Nicaragua but it is still a
story of a little a little barge same
time then when I was preparing this
trip there one year one year
really excellent and it is preparing
I had several long
options super excel files
Detailed fact it was my job
I did it excel files
to do projects and land
so I made potentially 15
trip options really with the
weather it be the budget etc. etc.
for some time I thought
but wait a minute you want to take a
year outside of time one year
applicant of your life so you gonna do
something completely
outside the zone of confidence forget
forget project management control
we will do something
is completely different from on
a full solid bone
and full full name actually was
simple I simply
delete all the files and Excel
I would open Google maps I looked
the first country I knew I wanted
I wanted to start from Mecca
South and I watched the first country
it was Nicaragua, and it is from here
I started
but at the same time in this
thinking I do not want to go with
I want a lead from completely
outside my comfort zone I took
time to think about my people
my goal why I want
to undertake a year of trips why
I really want to leave it in
this adventure and I had
discovery makes it a passion
when danced month
preparation which is in harmonica
gh1 harmonica I was just
blow all the time being
create noise
until I realized oh no
in fact it was not harmony break
the harmony that I was being
So just look and all my
Travel was looking for
harmony bring some harmony
in my life and in the end when I made
round I realized this back
Harmony is not an active search
Either it’s really just to stop
do things really just
embraced the natural harmony of the world
the nature of human relations etc.
treehoppers a manner
completely natural stop putting
blockages myself for power while
just find this harmony
daily everyday but first
before reaching that point where
I understood what it was like
harmony for me I needed
through several stages in this
Travel here is one of the first
step was to begin to see and
to listen with the heart needed
stop seeing with datas needed
I stop I analysis
I try to understand everything
schedule things so I
launched this adventure completely
blind where I wanted to give that
love and receive so I try
see everything with the heart and one of
early experience that had me
completely up ground by actually
relative to this story do with
the heart was arriving in
colombia after two months of travel
Colombia is a country that on paper
super dangerous not highly recommended
for a
a woman to travel alone in this
countries in the end I stayed two months
and a half and one time I was
I had decided to go in a corner
called the Thales tanio crisis
river or five colors it is the most
beautiful river Romande is a
River really with plants
have different colors etc.
so we can see when you actually
you see red but red is
it is the color of the plant and this
one place is the safest place
Hazardous still long
it was a red or green area
tourists for just 4 April
learns before before that time where j
going completely controlled
the army is the FARC
brief drug traffickers was a mess
I can absolutely still I take
an airline ticket with no plan
I landed this is a track
landing and no airport
receives bagless really in the street
Street no tar and no car
just bikes and horses but I
will still feel all the a priori
everything I had on the media etc.
I say ok I will not see that’s it
something that calls me in this corner
there and I’m going to get through the
heart and so when I go out a lady
approaches me and asks me
is that you know where to sleep I say
Mehdi ben not listening I offer you a one
bedroom home at 10 dollars a night
I will say yes of course agree
two hours after I was behind
his son doing motocross
in the hills of the region
So the big adventure
I spent six days in this family
weary he had become some of my
family whole village had become my
Family-old I had written
an article at the time and today
people around the world who write to me
to ask me over
comb to Christ at ease because
independent travelers who live there
and there is none of the masses
If you look at New Christs go
lyme find on the internet first
is made starting from this hole there
I cried I cried at the airport
when the family accompanied me
I cried when I cried as
the day I left my family here in
Morocco knowing I was not going the
see for a year and in fact I am
grateful to have had this intuition
this desire to just see with the heart
give completely just with with
Pure love feelings for others
without seeming a priori how
issenlor Culture etc.
some point all all
disappears fact that they spoke
Spanish and I began to me
pain I understand just a few
months does not mean not mean
absolutely nothing and a merger that has
it because it comes from the heart by
directly in the heart does not need
really different language but
then the sphere actually starting with
the voice of the heart is also making
Trust is trust
the universe in humans but especially
oneself and trust is
especially be completely vulnerable
completely at the other thank you
euro really could not believe
also as easily pleased but I
I’ll put myself somewhere
far from home far from my bearings
but being completely vulnerable
this is really what you can save
it’s really there or reassures
ensures your safety
I put here a picture of them that I
taking on one of the rivers of Amazonian
in brazil and had made several
weeks in the Amazon by boat
Traditional small boats you
see here and there the vessels he had
no schedules so they came
in ports enough for it
they really fear very late
in the night and each time I
was off course without any plan without
idea where I’ll sleep what
what I will do next
it was just my way I
travel whenever there was
So someone who had a
Once such I arrived in the state
where there is the village and mazagan
I arrived at 3 am and he
is just a girl who were in the
boat that comes and asks me
the question is do you know where
are you going I told him no but
Next do not even talk to me because
she spoke French by
English and it was a girl this
state there he told me not talking to me
because the other they should not
hear us speak in another
language
we will pull together is really
the front by hand we traveled
a taxi for
half an hour to really get to
first village habitable and is c
downright she will negotiate the hotel
I go to sleep and make sure I did
My immediate check everything is
well I say yes so good it makes
very nice review I deny
not know his first name I do not know
absolutely nothing of it
This girl here really took me by
hand is what he really existed
Sometimes I ask myself
and I have been stories but full
like that a lot of people or when
I am completely vulnerable
really to thank you from the first
person came because I
trust me even the universe there
always has a human will
take me by the hand and led me
really the right place but this
confidence there of course and comes with a
sense of responsibility
that means it will not pass
always very well there were times
I really feared for my life and
it happened for example I
tell a story that happened
in the Bolivian desert in the depths
Finally it is the altiplano desert
South Lipez who is 4000
meters is super cold
there’s not a tree on the horizon and one
tree called the rock shaft
in fact you see in the picture is
in this desert one I cross the
border who come to go to the
Chilean border between there
is 70 km / h no-man’s land that belongs
anyone in the Chilean border
one lives in caen visa expired we will
duty to bring to the border
Bolivian in the afternoon
I repeat Miscevic I fear for my
life if you send me the abm 18 years
I listened to it there’s no way
I sleep here at night than
Next day I not sleep I sleep
before the border and me to leave
Muslims in Cairo the next day send
me argentina
not ok last resort data –
phone to call the embassy
Moroccan chili to inform and
tell them that I was nobody
knew where I was there was not
Internet there was no communication
my family my friends nobody knew
I was but otherwise we will be
sent into the Bolivian desert and
Bolivian desert is a desert the
best known for the disappearances and
did everything last time last non
when one says no to me for punishment
I
he expects something weird that
happens then it will not be true that
can not be nice to be a
actually doing is it’s too much
names for it is true I am
likely to create my own
experience and this is where I
including the power we really have in
creating sound experience
of life in general and I went
realize that I did everything to be
really there at that time to
be in this situation there and the
position going to get worse and I
I was telling myself taking the
responsible for everything
I am going back to the border
Bolivian and g I survived a
attempted rape there was the guy who
tried and then I took my
bag and I left I left
quickly good short I survived
all these experiences there but
always just taking the
responsibility but then it all
b comes with lots of little INDEPA
things I’ve tried to do for
this trip there I tried to offer me
this living in the present maximum
do not think that experience is
happened and I forgot I left
behind me I thought ok I
am learning I’ll
live all the time to this I have here
also embrace the freedom
true freedom for me I aï
discovered in Cuba, where it was just
want to stop accepting create
things stop wanting to go
beyond my limits
not just accept my reality as
it is to accept the
First compassion and love for me
and even then some point it myself
had to stop myself and I
stopped for eight months in a
temple in Brazil finally after one
year of travel I stopped
for eight months to finally
stop traveling in the physical that
I traveled back in time
my time is now really the time
This very small and I still
travel in physical then some
years – you had to stop everything I
wanted to stop traveling in the
time and in
in space to be able to travel
your dimensions are myself that
is within myself and and
in this experiment where I had
mystical experiences quite enough
interesting that somewhere
boudy time and space
then returning to Morocco there are five
month
I went to the road
Compostela in a surge of gratitude
for the universe to all that I
given
but also gratitude for myself and
that’s what saves me today is
what goes me to keep me in
a happy state of mind despite
situations by which I speak
I pass through situations rather
currently difficult
but this gratitude to myself
for the world is what allows me
actually continue and then
Potentially I discovered a little
what it was that the task of caring
other than a different perception of
world
I stopped being really small
oudin care myself to try
come through experiments
met the love I have for
other
something much bigger
which no longer depends on any pudding
something that is even more that is
the universe is this relationship that we
who had that moment we had to
beginning of the meeting
this time we joined breathing
all in one action in a
one will
and then finally you see here
this picture here is the photo of Mrs.
this is the flag of Morocco before the
village cemetery matador very
far in the Amazon jungle and
fact that what is interesting about this
trip there I ask waits
really need to travel
I mean, not because I am
long party to regain some
share this attachment I had for
my sources
for my city of El Jadida because I
I left being I wanted some
I wanted to breathe the air of the air
freedom then I went very far
to find someone before me who
in the
ancestors to equip this city
are more than 200 years that looked at me
Ten years of emotion eye you
El Jadida know I told them it myself
said but tell us about this city
I went to speak living gods
but very very far away and
but also my answer to this question
yes it is absolutely necessary to travel
travel in itself is not needed
to make the physical journey must
really make it as far as can
Travel within oneself and
So everyone here is in its place
perfectly in place
As we can transcend somewhere
is any blockages that has
respect to time from the past
the future what we wanted and we
c is what stops a moment to breathe
enter ok I take 5 seconds to
take a short trip but really
Inside myself is discovered
and find out who I really am
thank you
[Applause]
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