Everyone who came into the hall on Day 2 of Unleash Your Power Within (UPW) was filled with an extra boost of excitement and anticipation, and I only learnt later that it was because we were going to walk on FIRE, literally later in the day.
My heart was my in my mouth.
That whole day, nothing seem to go in deep because I was building stories and worst case scenarios in my mind of what could go wrong during the fire walk.
And what I did?
I went down the rabbit hole of googling "UPW Fire Walk What Went Wrong" and 70,000+ results came up with videos on Youtube and CNN on past participants getting injured.
My heart sank.
At that point in time, I told my sister that I needed to attend to a call, and ran out of the hall to get a long breather. I was ready to abandon my sister, and the weekend, and leave and when I was about to, this thought came into my mind:
"How long more are you going to escape?"
Escaping wasn't my first rodeo, I had abandoned my family when it was all too much to handle on a holiday trip for a few hours, I had escape to food and drugs in my life not wanting to face my deepest emotions, and I had escape from relationships without proper closure bringing that baggage along with me to the next.
So, I told myself, I am fearful, but I choose to break my old pattern and not escape for the first time.
I turned back, headed back in, showed up, played full out and was taught the ways of training my Focus to unleash my inner strength and energy.
And Me and my Sister walked through FIRE... TWICE!
But If you thought Day 2 was unbelieveable, trust me, I made and action and decision on Day 3 that was the biggest breakthrough of the whole event.