> Yes, in this case I deny that the mind is doing anything remarkable at all.

Really!

> The basic point that you're missing is that fire walking doesn't actually hurt.

You cannot generalize that since the threshold of pain is not the same for everyone! Being hit on the head with a 2 X 4 doesn't hurt either since you will immediately pass-out and lose consciousness. It is when you wake up that you will have a big head acke!!!

> It goes against what we would expect (a fact exploited by holy men, new age gurus and
> management team builders) but, once you know that it won't hurt, anyone can firewalk.

Not exactly! Some people will always be afraid of certain things. Maybe you should reserach more about phobias, etc, and how the mind works...

> It's all down to the speed of walking and the conductivity of the soles of the feet.

Well, some people also have a very hard time walking on hot sand!

> The hypnosis, I suggest, doesn't help with pain - it helps with the fear that the walk
> will hurt - and that's a very different thing.

Wrong! Hypnosis and self-hypnosis is a very important alternative for pain management, among other things!

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