It’s Friday night in Dallas, Texas.
5:00 p.m. Tony Robbins steps on stage and does some of his mojo stuff.
7:00 p.m. After lots of mojo, we go outside and see the wood stack up…
8:30 p.m. We participate in lighting the wood and it starts burning… (I’m already starting to freak out and wonder why I’m here).
10:00 p.m. We just completed an exercise where we wrote down on paper our biggest fear. The fire is red hot coals now and I threw the paper into the fire which consumed my written fear (I think that is a metaphor).
11:30 p.m. Just as we’re about to go outside to walk on hot coals, Tony says, “Everyone is ready except…” He then points out 2 people that weren’t ready for the walk. I’m thinking “Holy crap, I’m glad he didn’t pick me.” Then I’m thinking “Holy crap, I wish he’d picked me, I’m about to step on some really hot coals.”
11:45 p.m. We’re outside and they are beating out this crazy beat on bongo drums. We line up in two lines of about 75 people each. Heart pounding so hard it’s hard to hear anything.
11:55 p.m. Tony walks on the coals, on a path of about 10 feet long, 20 inches wide. (What the heck was I thinking?)
Then they put fresh coals on both paths. (Thanks!)
12:00 midnight and they say “Go!” The first two go, then the next two, then the next two, then the next two…
12:08 a.m. It’s my turn… GO! I take a step onto the coals, saying “Cool Moss, Cool Moss, Cool Moss…” about 4 steps and I’m done and they are spraying water on my feet. I made it! I walked on fire! I celebrated…
For me, that was just the beginning…
My rational mind went to work to try and figure this out… and frankly I couldn’t.
Then the REVELATION! And this is what made it all worthwhile.
I’ll talk about that in the next post.
Tell me below about an experience you had where you had to conquer your fear and what you saw when you did.
