I am continually seeking new information, researching facts, improving my knowledge to add to my portfolio of training skills, to pass on, incorporate into my trainings.
I try to read as much as possible, especially items or articles on the human mind, and how we interact with the world about us, and how we can improve ourselves.
There are one or two good magazines that I love to read.
The New Scientist, contains lots of research papers from leading thinkers, scientists, doctors, professors, people like you or me, giving new theories, ideas. It is easy to read , and covers a wide spectrum of science.
FOCUS is a BBC publication, very similar to The New Scientist, perhaps less articles per issue, not so academic, but again covering a wide spectrum of knowledge.
This months issue of FOCUS (175 April 2007 page 52), has an article by Len Fisher in answer to the question “Why do fire walkers not get burned?”
Some NLP courses, and Tony Robins courses, etc, offer the participants the chance to walk the fire, or break the board. These courses offer these amazing feats as evidence of the power that has taken place, but at the end of the course, that is all you can do, walk the fire or break a piece of wood.
I offer the same but more, the knowledge, the change, the power will be in you, and you will know how you did it, and how you can in the future use your own power, confidence, will power and more in any situation.
Lets look at the Board Break. On close inspection of the wood, it will be found that the wood is a soft wood, not oak or mahogany, the grain or wood fibers are not dense or tightly bound. Also, as you look at the grain of the wood, it will be in the vertical plane. So the way the board is held by the facilitator and the way the participant strikes he board, it will naturally split.
Fisher states that the fire walk is a matter of simple physics. He says the key ingredient is that the burning material, it should be a good thermal insulator, a hardwood, and that the fire should have burned for a long time to form a layer of insulating ash before the walk is attempted. The feet should be in contact with the hot coals for as little as possible, about a second over a 4 meter (13 foot) brisk walk.
I demonstrate with the help of a cigarette lighter, with the flame passing over my hand, that it does not hurt, it does not burn me.
I would love to be at a fire walk, with the trainer demonstrating the walk, and I would use the NLP Pattern Interrupt half way down their walk, and shout “STOP”, then watch as they stop, burning and disappearing into the fire, becoming ash.
Learn the NLP behind achieving excellence, make the changes yourself and know why.
Joan of Arc eat your heart out.