Listen to your heart
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thanks a lot for being here for the
opportunity sharing a bit
what happened in my life and
i will guide you a bit through
quite intense moments because i think
life is the quality of how intense you
can live your life
and that’s kurt cobin said please
entertain me so when i was very young
with 15 years old i loved to entertain
people i made events i made shows
gradually became bigger and bigger
later on in
zurich and early 90s everything was
quite closed i flew to new york i flew
to
london to bring all those artists the
musicians the bands the djs to zurich
opened the club used to run restaurants
and bars it was quite a high time much
much fun because i really loved pulling
the strings spring people on stage
organizing huge events 300 500 at the
end the biggest event i was part of was
about 50 000 people for
an an open-air festival so i really love
this i love to be in power i love to
rock the stages and i love to be so
close to people to help them to be on
stage what i learned in those days is
all of these people on stage have an
incredible energy they have incredible
power incredible passion they are born
for stages as soon as someone is on
stage you really feel it if he or she
has the authenticity to really bring to
inspire to rock whatever sense you mean
so these were the high times mostly of
the time of the weekends i started
thursday friday nighting run running my
clubs sometime sunday morning early
three o’clock i took my roles drove to
khan had a few great days came back next
wednesday so these were early 80s close
to williams then we did techno events we
went to moscow we were talking with the
mayor of moscow bringing street parade
those days the love parade to moscow
unfortunately didn’t work out judah was
quite constant um complex constellation
of who wants to have the money from whom
and so it went on and over the years i
worked in 72 countries and made events
and what i learned was there sometimes
you arrive at the place you think you
are clear you’re very well prepared but
then life happens there are different
cultures especially africa especially in
asia when you come as a little swiss guy
and you have your id you want to bring
you want to realize your dreams and then
you have your plans and then how
what happens comes on stage is really
defined in a
together it’s on the we base there are
the locals who have their knowledge
their v with our ideas and we have to
merge this in the event business it’s a
zero fault business because if you’re on
stage you can’t
change something it’s a momentum it’s
energy which goes through which goes
through the audience which is not the
same in movie movie you can cut it but
it’s real life so the show has to be
sharp at eight o’clock so in a high
pressure environment i learned so much i
learned so much to give and i really
love to empower people on stage and i
dedicated all my life to really
create great momentum great environments
in those days my balance was i did sport
i
wake up in the morning i
did some sports i was quite
fit probably i would say but i wasn’t
healthy but i was quite fit and so i did
everything most in every city i had my
bicycles even in new york had my bike
stored so as soon as i went to new york
i took my bike and drove through the sea
because that was my level of energy so i
could feel the city i should all see all
the nuances and then bring it back
purity differently adapted to the
european environment
so
i always
had
some little pressure on my chest but i
didn’t take it serious because if you do
sports you you know how to go to through
pain and so one day
i was intensive period in my life i was
biking up a hill
going to meet a client
and it was a great sunny day i just went
up i thought i was very fit
and the next i remember
is being
laying on a bed in emergency room
so this was the same light this bright
light
so all of a sudden all the sun had gone
i was an emergency room
and this really
horrible scenario because you’re bound
to to the bed i was full of all
the medicine they gave me i couldn’t
think clearly and the school in the
emergency area is quite
noisy because you have this eight
curtains
around you
this bright light and the radio is
always on
so you hear what’s happening city you
hear all the pain of all those who are
in the similar situations they bring up
to the emergency so i was laying there
really aware that i don’t have any power
i was used to be smart i was used to be
fit but i was totally depending on
others
this was quite a tough experience so for
four days i was laying there
in the hospital
my father came up because he wasn’t sure
if i can make it
and
this step by step helped me realizing
what i’m doing
but i was totally blocked with myself
so i was
awake all the days and all the nights or
i thought at least
and one night around three o’clock a
night nurse joined me came to me did
some
applications and then she told me hey
listen to your heart listen to my heart
what does she mean
but i didn’t take it seriously and she
left and
interestingly not it started to nagging
me when i went home so i left the
hospital i was i had no energy
i was out of my power
i couldn’t go back to my business
i was at home
those days i lived in the old part of
the city i had my apartment had a little
balcony but i was totally blocked and
isolated
at my space
my whole world fell apart
so the person was always on stage or
loved to be on stage supporting everyone
to come on stage i was totally blocked i
couldn’t do anything
this was a quite tough experience i even
a phone call
stressed me
and all those friends or those thoughts
friend
i couldn’t engage them with anymore so i
the more and more my circle of
friends or cliques reduced
and sometimes in that moment where
you’re totally lost someone really
knocks at your door or rings in my case
it was a caterer i used to dine around
in all over city with all those chefs
and
one of them realized for three weeks i
didn’t show up
so one day he came to my door and rang
and asked how are you
and you’ve seen me my devastated
conditions and he started to bring me
food so every day
around six o’clock someone was raining
and brought me food so this was
at least three or three months
and i tried to go back to my power to my
body but my body was powerless
and a friend showed me and told me hey
go to monastery
me going to monastery the contradiction
of
of intensity so i trusted him and i went
for a 10-day
retreat in silence
in the french part of switzerland
i arrived there i remember quite well it
was november it was quite foggy
and probably the whole environment that
whole landscape mirrored my situation in
my soul
everything was quite foggy everything
was quite flirt blurred and i went to
this monastery and you have your room
where everything is quite reduced but
very selected all everything what is in
the monastery
there is had been much thought about
what is the material
i started up in at morning five o’clock
did my yoga did with our meditation or
at least those that had tried to
and the first three four days were very
tough because you lay there
in in this embedded in this environment
and you walk around but
i wasn’t in my soul i wasn’t in my heart
i just was like
walking through but no connection to
myself and every day all the past all
the burden all
what i had in my soul which wasn’t
cleared out came up and opened up i
couldn’t handle it i couldn’t even park
it it totally took over my emotions so
the first three or four nights were
quite intense quite horrifying
step by step
if you start to work with your body if
you do yoga or whatever you do your body
helps you to root yourself
it looks different than i did before
before i did intense sport with yoga or
tai chi or other asian techniques you
find more a balanced way
finding
approach having a new awareness
awareness to your body
and i started to loving this so after
fifth sixth day i really felt better a
little felt at ease i wasn’t back to my
power i used to but i felt very
supported very cocooned
very
there was a very helpful environment
caring about my soul everything was done
there was really about care
and i took this and after 10 days i left
the monastery
and i was at ease with myself i feel
quite protected in this little little
cloud of
feeling well and fine
unfortunately the night when i came back
i used to
made an event
so i came from the silence from the
stillness from the solitude
back to the stage and i couldn’t handle
it
me who loved always to engage with
people i couldn’t stand people
so it was a very shocking experience so
i really
found myself a little rerude to myself
and then i went back on stage and i
couldn’t stand it
so i went back to my house and i stayed
there for another time and it took me so
long to combine both worlds so the
stillness the solitude this
focusing on your own this new level of
awareness but how could i combine this
with
my old knowledge with my knowledge to
support people to my dedication to bring
out the best in people on stage
and
suddenly with meditation and with yoga
and i did a yoga teacher
education
a new world opened up
sometimes in life and everything seems
blocked
nothing works
and i was used to train with my mind my
mind always told me what to do
my my the mind is a very great counselor
but it’s not the captain
and with having
new
access to new spaces through meditation
and with my new alignment and new
average with my body
other spaces opened up in my soul
and it down to me that i could combine
this having see the intensity and now
there’s a more stillness a more
rootedness and more connectivity
and if you talk about your heart there’s
deeper knowledge in our heart
as blessed possible told
the heart has it reasons
which the reasons can’t even find
so it means we have a deeper
connectiveness a deeper understanding of
where we do come from and what we do
and the more and more you trust to start
this feeling the more and more the world
opens up
but the mind is first very rebellious
the mind fights against it because it
lose it loses the dominance the mind’s
always
can be very helpful for our mind because
he protects us from many things
on the other side if the mind is too
strong we
there is
a big danger that we just lift this
small tiny perfect organized life
insecurity
if we can connect it with our heart with
our soul if we can combine it with it’s
a dance between the mind and the soul
and the heart and totally all the world
opens up a world there is much more
vitality it’s not power it’s more
connected to the force to the inner
force of the universe
and listening to that
is an incredible challenge because
we in this overspeeded world we it’s a
challenge to reroute ourselves to find
our base to
to come into our balance so i can really
invite you every day take out
few minutes
try to relax
and find your space
and how can you do this so i would like
to to make a little experiment with me a
little exercise so bring your hands to
your chest
close your eyes
and just inhale and exhale
and now just imagine
just imagine
that you are protected that there is a
very safe environment whatever you do
you secure
so in that environment what would you do
who would you like to meet
who would you like to be with
what would you do in the world
where would you like to travel
what’s the contribution
to the world
and slowly come back
and hopefully a few of you
just had a feeling just have seen
pictures images what they could be
and that is the connection to our heart
sometimes this little distance of
30 20 centimeters from our mind to our
heart is the longest distance we have to
go to find what we want to do
so i really invite you to step back
find a different perspective
become an observer of yourself
that we don’t are driven by our emotions
of fear anxiety and sorrows
and reroute ourselves to our heart level
to this enormous basis this enormous
wisdom the mind has knowledge and the
heart has wisdom
and
please find your stage where you bring
your soul on stage in a very safe and
protected environment
through more conscious life
thank you
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