The Creative Powers of Thought

 

Thought creates the world. Thought brings things into existence. Thoughts can develop desires and excite the passions. Opposite thoughts of those desires and passions will counteract the idea of satisfying those desires. So, when a person understands this, they will create an opposite thought to help destroy desires and passions. Think of a person as a good friend of yours and that thought will create itself as a reality. Think of that person as your foe, then also the mind perfects that thought into an actuality. Neutralize the hostile forces or antagonistic currents with positive thought. A person who knows the workings of the mind, and controls it by practice, is happy. ~ From the book Thought Power by Swami Sivananda

SAAL Steps/ DEVIL STEPS

Saal Mountain, also known as Jabal Khoneh is a mountain in the village of Saal located in the outskirts of Muscat.

And this is famously known as Sa'al steps or the Devils steps. As the name says, yes, it is the most challenging trek ever experienced so far in and around Muscat in Oman.

Here is the google link to reach there -  

https://goo.gl/maps/oNvfqc9jjF6m9aR4A

We started our trek at 5 AM in the morning. And it took us around one and half hour to two hours to reach the summit. 

Total distance walked is 1.8 km and elevation gain are 355 metres. One needs good physical stamina to complete this trek as 95% of the trek is climbing stairs. 

                                        My Team-Happy feet Oman!

Beautiful sunrise, mesmerizing mountains and picturesque natural terrains everything was captured by our eyes in our memories. What a great start of the day!

We had wonderful memories and many lessons learned in the process - reaching the summit as a team, LOL's, pain, not leaving any of the teammate behind and at the end enjoying the taste of successful reach to summit.

                                            Happy hiking!

This famous quote of Edmund Hillary reminds us to overcome our inner fears before conquering the world.

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves”.

RAINBOW OF HOPE

 A beautiful poem written by Nigel on the occasion of International Women's Day!

It was published in Oman Observer daily. 

#omanobserver #womensday #hope #faith #inspiration #motivation

https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1133757/features/books/poem-rainbow-of-hope

In the night all alone locked inside a room in fear

She tried to sleep but, she couldn’t
When she heard the rain pelting down on the window, her heart went pitter patter in distraught.

The window pane slid open in blowy wind.
Far across the meadows, she could listen to
the birds chirping
Wondering why the birds were awake at this time ,she heard the scary howling winds.

She trembled.. just then a deep voice from within said, i carry your heart don’t you worry and sleep peacefully.

Hours passed by, and the rain settled down
Hearing the chirping of birds and seeing at the window , She rose from her bed and saw the clear sky
She enjoyed the gush of fresh air on her body
Sun seemed to have occupied the silver sky in a tilted golden bowl.

Everything seems to be alright with the world
No trace of rain, no trace of pain
Previous night experience taught her it’s ok to be scared in life for few things but overcoming that fear makes you strong which brings a rainbow of hope to start anew

She bid adieu to her haunting bad memories, and decided to move on….

                                                                                                         written by 

                                                                                        Nigel George Raphael