I have met in recurring times, stories about walk on fire or dancing on hot coals or on stones turned red by the warm of a fire, which impressed me much. The first was in the “Vaillant” French magazine for children and teenagers, when I was 14, from a subscription made with big efforts, as I lived in a country behind the Iron Curtain, by my parents who knew that it will be essential for my education, that I will read the cartoons and the little novels from it and learn French by doing so. In a edition, I kept even today somewhere the page cut out, it was the story of natives from  a Polynesian Pacific island which used to walk on a stone alley warmed to red by a previous fire, barefoot, of course, a 8 long meters walk, without burning their feet, in a religious ceremony. Next, in a modern Bulgarian novel is told about folks from this part of the Europe, which, mainly in Middle age were doing the same notable action to show to the Ottoman conquerors their moral superiority. Mrs. M.M. a lady living near me, when she was young, at a evening camp fire near the highway in the former Czechoslovakia, saw some Bulgarian tourists dancing for fun on fire too. In a magazine for tourists I discovered a Christian denomination from Modern Greece, Anastenarides, “those who sigh", named so because at some religious holidays, they dance on fire while emitting some yells like a sigh. They are firmly persuaded that the Christian saints they worship, help them to do it, this taking place in a small village near Thessalonica in Greece, every year at 21 of May , the celebration day of the saints of Constantine and Helen, if I remember well...I saw inside pictures of foreign students from the West measuring the temperature of the sparkling burned coals, with a platinum - rhodium thermocouple and it was 1200 Celsius, for edification I remember you that the tin is liquefied at 400 grades Celsius, and another picture in which another researcher was checking the sole of a dancer to see if any hardened skin or scar, could help him to endure the ordeal, and another testing a dancer with a Rorschach psychological test, and the dancer was shaking by a laugh burst...In the legendary Jewish antiquity, the Book of Daniel of the Bible, tells about three Israelites, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who were " cast in the fiery burning furnace ", as punishment for civil disobedience, as they refused to worship a golden statue as a image of a god set up by the king Nebuchadnezzar, and they were seen " walking in the midst of the fire ", and " nor was an hair of their singed ", even if the king " commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated ". All those quoted here could be called professionals and do it most regularly in religious or lay rituals in celebrations and holidays. But the performance is also accessible to ordinary people as was taught by a book of education for business. The author was trained by a master in a single New Year night of 1995 and related all his achievement in the book. The training made by the master, a possible version of it, is thought and related here by me in my words and understanding.

1. If you do not know what do you want, 100 %, you have little chances to succeed. To establish the goal, to see clearly the objective, to see a definite result, with a precise term, bearing a personal meaning and direction which you want to attain that all makes the difference. To see the objective, the vision is a mental tool which can be educated. To see with your mental own eyes the work to be done by you, what has to be achieved, to be reached. It has to be your wish, to reach something for you and through you, not imposed or just suggested by others, to strive to be one with your objective, to identify with it, to be the bow, the arrow and the target altogether. Even if you have another daily duties, who force you to think and to concentrate to something else, find your free time to thing and rear your idea. Your idea is your child, if you do not feed it, your neighbor will not do it for you. By doing so, your idea grows up, and become dominant for you. You have to want this achievement, this objective 100 %.

The synthesis of the first step on the fire path is that:

TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, 100 %.

2. Do not hesitate about your idea. To not think...will it come out...will it not...The vacillation, the faltering  brought about by yourself, are criminal, will kill your baby, your idea. Do not bring yourself sticks in the wheels of your car. If you feel unsure, analyze first if you really want it, and why, your own reasons to do it. Think yourself as a hungry animal, in a site unknown to him. He will find food or starve to die. He will make all possible to find food. Probably for that, a fasting time is good for a human being too, to bring clearness in the ideas and to mobilize the mental and physiological resources which would remain idle either.  The lack of determination or lack of importance of the objective for the life of the person generates the feelings of not being sure. If the objective is vital, as important as the food for a starving animal, it becomes sure. It it only a distractive fantasy, than doubt and uncertainty comes out and prevail. The synthesis of the second step on the fire path is:

TO BE SURE 100 % FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE.

3. You might think that the step 3 can be done directly on sparking coals. It is premature without an ingredient. If you speed up by now, and skip the stages, you might take back the foot from the fire, or you might undergo severe third degree burnings. To look on what you did until now. Not yet a motion of your body forward, you stood up on the limit of the fire, until your face was red from the heat, you began to sweat and you set up for yourself, yes, that is what you want to do, to enter in the fire and to step through it and to come off at the next end at a three meters distance. You may think by now if it worth to take the risk, if it is not yet too dangerous, who guaranties you that you will come unharmed from it, who assures you, that what operated for others will function for you too, maybe you will let others to try it first, and you will perhaps do it later when you will be more capable, in a better shape and proper mood, more decided. And you stay on the limit of the fire and, that it is, you are undecided. Though you want to be decided and you are sure that you want it, but not yet decided to try it, you ponder again, to start or not to start. You do not need a special warm measuring device, you may feel with your face the hell of fire but you think what to do in order to be more decided. The first two steps were mental steps; the next step is with your foot in the fire. Now your mind, or the intellect or the trainer cannot help you, you have to find somewhere else the solution, how becomes somebody decided facing a task which seems impossible. How to become decided, the decision meaning now, action? The secret of overcoming this stage in no more in your mind, not on the edge of the fire, it is only inside. To become decided you must put your foot inside. To be decided you must now walk into. Until you remain on the margin, you will remain undecided. The decision as just a thought, without action, the action without decision, has no value now. The decision itself, the action and the fire have to be one and the same thing. The synthesis of step 3 is:

STEP WITH DECISION, ACT WITH DECISION

4...and you raised your foot in the air to step ahead and nothing happened, it remained suspended in the air and you even feel fine to keep it suspended, what you usually do not, and you do not feel the need to put it down forward, because if you do it, it might become burn ham. You are not quite so sure about the outcome. You have heard or read or seen that some ones have stepped before you and achieved not to burn IF THEY WANTED TO. Why have you stopped even if you wanted to move inside? You are scared. It is nothing to blame about it. You cannot even be accused of cowardice. The decision to stop is not of your mind, it is from the muscles and the cells of your foot. The cells of the body of your ancestors have met with the fire millions of times and many went to smoke, until they learned to avoid it. The cells of your body reason so "fire is death, if we move inside we will die". And every cells of the body is right about it and they are millions, the fire takes the water out of the cells and decomposes them to carbon dioxide and other oxygenated products. The foot without protection undergoes third degree burnings at 1200 Celsius without protection. It is a solution for this. To reckon that another people has done it. Everybody did it from his way and world view. Some trusted or relied on their god or on the saints. "If we believe, and that means, strongly believe without any bit of doubt in them, in their power, and that they will care for us, and help to overcome death by fire" .It comes to think as the saints could command the fire:" We have some people here, we want for them a special treat from you, fire, you may burn anything and everybody but not them" . And the first reasoning is, if they achieved to escape unburned, by what ever means, they had first to overcome their fear. By overcoming the fear, they performed their first step into. And you might think that the fear is a component part of the venture. And the next thought with which you have to deal is: Does the fire make a difference between the afraid and the valiant? Of course not, the fire has anything to do with my feelings about it; if I would stick a thermocouple on my sole to test the heat it would measure the same temperature. Fire would be no more fire if it would not remain itself. My fear or the lack of it does not change the world, or the fire. Fear is information, in-formation, data plus interpretation. Fear tells that "if you go inside you will die, millions before you died to learn that and are transmitting this message to you ". But you know that some ones refused to trust it and passed through the fire and went off unharmed, how did they? I am a physicist and as fire did not changed, the difference must be somewhere inside those people. Referring to saints or to another powerful authority, they become convinced that they will not undergo the common fate. They do not have to fear. The reasoning is so. If I WANT it, if the saints or my ancestors or god, or master, or some thing in which I trust helps me, my soles become incombustible, and I do not have to fear any more. Therefore I am not afraid. I cannot prescribe to the fire to obey me, as it is too powerful, with too much energy involved. But if I overcome my fear, I may order to my body to become fire proof. Logically or unconsciously it is that what they do. They are convinced that they are invulnerable in that special moments and they are indeed, in spite of their fear. In order to preserve the integrity of their body, they act against the known law, of physics and of the common experience that tell that the unprotected human chair go to smoke exposed to high temperature. They ignore the fire and its consequences. The fire who melts the tin and the lead cannot reach me, if I WANT THAT, and I have no fear. An army officer who passed by a similar situation told me that " I did it thinking that it is equal to me if I die after thousand years or in the next minutes". In other words,without fear.

The synthesis of the step 4 is.

TO ACT AGAINST THE FEAR, IN SPITE OF THE FEAR, IN SPITE OF ANY INTERDICTION, OF ANY OBSTACLE, OF ANY KNOWN LAW OF PHYSICS OR NATURE , WITH 100 % CONVICTION THAT YOU WILL SUCCEED.

Step 5 is your first step inside the fire.

That is the story in my words. The person who inspired me is real, his name is Peter Lange, and he made 6 successive walks , 3 meters long, barefoot, over a fire path, on burning coals, in the New Year celebration night in 1995 , without being a professional fire dancer, with the only preparation of that night, a truly motivational outdoor training indeed.

Is your business or life matter more difficult than a walk on fire...no...? But...oh...you said...but...it seems to me that it is not something really important to you and for that, do not worry too much about it, take it easy...let us chat about...by the way...take a sip of coke...relax…

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I am very indebted for the idea here presented to the authors:  Howard Bronson , Peter Lange - " Great Idea,  Now what", 1995 ,copyright of the authors.