I Never Looked at Fear the Same After That First Time I Walked Across Fire

And it was Pretty Freaking Amazing

Some people have wild and crazy stories that involve naked dancing on tables, joy rides, sky diving, or really clever pranks.

I don’t have any of those stories.

But, I have walked across fire 5 times.

Actually, even though they call it a fire walk, you walk across hot coals, not flames.

I want to tell you about the first time.

There were only about 30 of us there, which made for a friggin’ amazing experience compared to what you see at a Tony Robbins event.

I was practicing as a chiropractor at the time, and I hung out with a bunch of other chiropractors.

You’re right, chiropractors are a weird bunch. But I love them. They do things like host a private fire walk.

Some of my friends were hosting a fire walk at their home.

How cool! I didn’t hesitate to sign up.

Not because I have some super abundance of courage, but because some very common every day things scare the crap out of me.

Walking over hot coals, no problem. Riding in the back seat of a car, nope. Won’t do it.

The big day arrived. All I knew was I was going to be there several hours, and by the end of the night I may or may not walk over hot coals.

I was super curious and up for the challenge.

It turns out that attending a fire walk is a lot more detailed than I realized.

We started outside where the logs had already been set up. It was a circular chimney shape structure of logs about 3 feet across and about 4 feet high.

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