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    Dozens burned on hot coals at Tony Robbins seminar

    -The seminar is called “Unleash the Power Within.” The multi-day event with world-renowned motivational speaker Tony Robbins is “designed to help you unlock and unleash the forces inside that can help you break through any limit and create the quality of life you desire,” according to promotional materials.

    “Overcome the unconscious fears that are holding you back,” Robbins’s site proclaims. “Storm across a bed of hot coals.

    “Once you start doing what you thought was impossible, you’ll conquer the other fires of your life with ease.”

    But Thursday night’s coal walk in Dallas didn’t go so well for dozens of seminar attendees: Five people were taken to the hospital and about 30 to 40 were evaluated after sustaining “burn injuries to their feet and lower extremities” after attempting to walk across hot coals in front of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, said Dallas Fire and Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said.

    Multiple rescue units were sent, and a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus held the 30 to 40 patients who were being evaluated, according to officials.

    “The severity of the injuries were unknown, but most people elected not to be taken to the hospital,” Evans said.

    A total of 7,000 people participated in the fire walk “which has been a celebrated part of this event for 35 years,” Jennifer Connelly, a spokeswoman for Robbins, said in a statement.

    “Someone unfamiliar with the process of the fire walk called 911 reporting the need for emergency services vehicles to be dispatched,” she said...

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    Facing one's fear is a good thing. Fear entraps us. Also facing our fears can reveal sub issues that fear only enables...based on how these events are not new and this is the first time there has been a problem apparently.

    I read somewhere that people are instructed to move quickly over the coals and yet people will stop and pose for selfies, ect...odiously this was not the case at this event as there is an admission of a prep failure..

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    agony of defeet?

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    agony of defeet?

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