Mr. Robbins, why did you make us walk on fire?
"The firewalk has fascinated the media to the point I fear its message is getting lost. The point is not to walk on fire. I think it's fair to assume there's not great economic or social benefit to be gained from a blissful stroll across a bed of hot coals. Instead, the firewalk is an experience in personal power and a metaphor for possibilities, an opportunty for people to produce results they previously had thought impossible.
People have been doing some version of firewalking for thousand of years. In some parts of the world, it's a religious test of faith. When I conduct a firewalk, it's not part of any relgious belief. It teaches people in the most visceral sense that they can do things they never thought possible, that their greatest fears and limitation are self-imposed.
The only difference between whether you can walk on fire or not is your ability to communicate to yourself in a way that causes you to take action, in spite of all your past fear programming about what should happen to you. The lesson is that people can do virtually anything as long as they muster the resources to believe they can and to take effective actions." (Source: Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins)
Amen!! Thank you, Tony. I am a proud firewalker*!!
*See http://kerijam.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-walked-on-fire-and-burneth-not.html for more details
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