Walking on fire

On Saturday evening, I took part in a firewalk at Godfrey's Garden Centre in aid of the Sheffield Children's Hospital Make It Better Campaign. I didn't volunteer to do the firewalk as such, I was more volunteered by someone but I'm so glad they did now!

It was a long day with much excitement in Molly's cafe at the garden centre. Jo and I were ridiculously excited all day much to the confusion of many other people who wondered why! We then had 2 hours of training before the walk. Being a bit of whimp about it, I hadn't looked up anything online to do with firewalking so had no idea what really happened.

I walked into the training very excited and a little nervous. The nerves instantly disappeared as the laughing began. There is no hypnosis or brainwashing. I wouldn't even go as far as saying it was mind over matter. That does come in to it to an extent and the exercises we did really helped. I think the excitement of the walk got us through it. The exercises I learnt will start being used with clients to show them how powerful your thoughts are on your actions.

We actually saw the fire being lit and paced out the walk. It's 20ft long which sounds a lot but was about 6-8 strides for most people. The key was to walk quickly over the embers which still glowed red at around 1200 Farenheit.

What did I learn from it? I learnt that actually you can do anything you want if you have the confidence. Since the firewalk my confidence has grown massively. Suddenly, everything comes down to "Of course I can do that, I walked on fire". If you're looking for a challenge to do, I would definitely recommend it but make sure you use a reputable company. Ours was organised with Blaze who have been established for years and do firewalks on an almost weekly basis.

If you would like to sponsor me as part of the Mistress Cutlers Challenge, it's not too late to sponsor the team http://www.justgiving.com/Mistresscutlerschallenge2013 Molly's tea room is at Junction 31 of the M1 in Godfrey's Garden Centre.