Unleashing the Power Within at Anthony Robbins's Event

Here I am with my friends Caio and Lee at the event. Yay for new friends!!

I have just returned from the Unleash the Power Within experience held in San Jose, California this past weekend.  I will tell you without hesitation, I am a changed woman, even if I am exhausted.  This for me equals an enormous transformational shift and that is a good thing because I needed it.  Working on your body is one thing but working on your emotional and psychological !@# is another.  Today my body feels as if it has been through one of Coach Rita’s brutal training sessions times one hundred!

I am happy to say however, that I made it!!  I walked on fire!  Yes!  On Friday evening after a long day of seminars, the 6000 attendees and myself walked in complete darkness to a park where 12, 12-foot long fire pits were laid out on the grass.  Just managing the walk in that crowd was an achievement for me as I am claustrophobic, and not just a little bit.  I don’t even like wearing hats for that reason.  But I got myself into “peak state” as Tony would call it and survived.  In a matter of minutes I found myself standing in front of a fire pit where I would test myself against the glowing, hot (anywhere from 1200 to 2000 degrees F) coals.  In peak state with eyes up and chanting “Cool Moss” repeatedly until the end, I made it!  I was not one of the 45 people who got burned nor was I one of the 5 who sustained 3rd degree burns.  My feet were a bit tingly but nothing more and I couldn’t have cared less because I was so ecstatic about my accomplishment.  And by the way, being ecstatic and having a grand old celebration with a bunch of strangers is exactly what you are supposed to do.  Wahoo!!

After a modest 4 hours of sleep I got up and pushed through another two 14-hour days.  These are marathon sessions, no kidding!  Never was I happier to be well prepared with my Eat-Clean Diet cooler full of Clean fare.  What a godsend! It gave me pure confidence to be able to reach into my bag for something Clean and nourishing that would sustain me.  While I ate HBE's, raw veggies, apples and nuts others had to stand in hour-long lineups for their less appetizing and unclean fare.  The coconut water and water laced with Cell Food drops served me well.  I shared the drops with newly made friends around me as people curiously asked what I was adding to my water.  At an event of that magnitude requiring so much physical and emotional output it is all too easy to become dehydrated.

In summary I thoroughly enjoyed my experience.  I have a new mantra now and am ready to take on the world, one hot coal at a time!