The Power of Negative Thinking
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The Power of Negative Thinking
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#2What the article unfortunately missed is in-depth explanation of why firewalking works in most cases:
http://www.skepdic.com/firewalk.html
Tony Robbins may be using it for psychological conditioning, but it can be explained from the purely rational / scientific perspective.
Re: The Power of Negative Thinking
#3What the article unfortunately missed is in-depth explanation of why firewalking works in most cases: http://www.skepdic.com/firewalk.html Tony Robbins may be using it for psychological conditioning, but it can be explained from the purely rational / scientific perspective.
What I find wonderfully ironic is that the "positive thinking" that was supposed to protect them from the fire probably increased the harm. As your link points out, the sweat on the bottom of the feet protects the firewalker from the hot coals. But, where does that sweat come from? In large part, it comes from being nervous. The positive thinking that Mr. Robbins encouraged could very well have reduced that nervousness, eroding the protection that his students had on their feet.
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#4What the article unfortunately missed is in-depth explanation of why firewalking works in most cases: http://www.skepdic.com/firewalk.html Tony Robbins may be using it for psychological conditioning, but it can be explained from the purely rational / scientific perspective.
The author explained it very briefly in the first paragraph.
No, it wasn't an in-depth explanation, but it was only a 10 paragraph article.
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#5What the article unfortunately missed is in-depth explanation of why firewalking works in most cases: http://www.skepdic.com/firewalk.html Tony Robbins may be using it for psychological conditioning, but it can be explained from the purely rational / scientific perspective.
What I find wonderfully ironic is that the "positive thinking" that was supposed to protect them from the fire probably increased the harm. As your link points out, the sweat on the bottom of the feet protects the firewalker from the hot coals. But, where does that sweat come from? In large part, it comes from being nervous. The positive thinking that Mr. Robbins encouraged could very well have reduced that nervousne…
Theres an even more ironic possibility - similar to what the article mentions about positive affirmations, the positive thinking served only to remind them of their fears rather than alleviate them in any way, making them even more nervous than they would have been otherwise.
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#6Like with most things, anything to an extreme is dangerous -including possibly positive thinking. People just need to learn moderation.
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#7Like with most things, anything to an extreme is dangerous -including possibly positive thinking. People just need to learn moderation.
Even moderation is dangerous if the moderates let the extremists take over society (rise of Nazi Germany). The converse is also true (inaction of France/England on the rise of Nazi Germany).
Everything is dangerous.
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#8Negative thinking is okay (I do it all the time LoL) but negative thinking that's charged with emotion, especially about someone else, is not okay.
Emotion is what embeds thoughts into the mind. Emotion creates physical grooves in the brain. If your going to be negative, be careful not to charge it with emotional energy. Charge positive thoughts with happy emotions.
Re: The Power of Negative Thinking
#9Like with most things, anything to an extreme is dangerous -including possibly positive thinking. People just need to learn moderation.
Even moderation is dangerous if the moderates let the extremists take over society (rise of Nazi Germany). The converse is also true (inaction of France/England on the rise of Nazi Germany). Everything is dangerous.
That was extreme moderation.. also bad. :p
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#10Search google for nestinari - and you would find an old bulgarian tradition of fire-walking. How they do it? I guess there is some trick - maybe not allowing any air between the leg and the fire, or quickly walking - or the feet have something on them... I dunno.