Role of the Mind & Heart in Experiencing True Personal Freedom
One recent Saturday evening I was invited to attend a fire walk. Each person attending could choose to walk across a bed of hot coals in totally bare feet, without receiving any burns! To make it more interesting, a television network was there to capture the event.
Perhaps some of you, like me, have heard of these fire walks before. A few friends had attended a Tony Robbins fire walk a number of years back, so I admit that I thought walking on fire was possible. Yet I had no idea what to expect or how it could be done.
The evening began with the facilitator performing a blessing of the wood and area where the fire would be made. Then she invited us to participate in building and lighting the fire. We were instructed to locate logs for the fire, place each log close to our hearts, and transmit to the log a fear we were desiring to release or a goodness we would like to come into our life.
I decided to release a deep fear I had been struggling with. We began transmitting our fears or desires, log by log, until we built a cylinder approximately 4 feet high and 4 feet in diameter. Then we lit the fire.
Sitting under the stars with the fresh night air, watching this beautiful fire blaze in front of me, I began to imagine being one with the fire in the way the facilitator had indicated previously. Soon she announced the fire was ready and invited us to fire walk.
The fire was ready. But was I?
One person walked over the hot coals. The next person and the next one walked on the fire! How was it possible they did not burn their feet?
Then I saw one person, a drummer, who did get burned. Why was that?
My mind told me it was not possible to walk on the fire, yet people were walking on the fire and not getting burnt. Realizing my mind was not helping me; I began to look deep into my heart for insight, guidance, and wisdom.
The first inspiration was to invite my mind to be quiet, to step aside. With a gesture of my hand on my forehead, I invited my mind to "sit on the sidelines." Eyes closed, I asked, "Is this for real?" Immediately I experienced the fear I wanted to release with the log. I fully acknowledged, accepted, and thanked the fear instead of pushing it away, hoping it would disappear.
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