A December in Rio de Janeiro – Part I

Rio de Janeiro is one of the few places in the world that offers interesting things to do every single month. With this article we will put aside the beaches, nightlife, beautiful women and we will concentrate upon the most important events in December this month.

The Christmas Festival is the largest contemporary street art event in the world, where visual designers, architects, creation artists, fashion designers, carnival professionals gather together in order to present the 50 best natural size nativity scenes which will be exhibited at shopping centers, public squares, airports and other popular locations in the city.

The National Samba Day was born at the closing of the I National Congress, which took place between November 28 and December 2, 1962 when Samba Day was initiated. It was created by a decree and it is considered a tribute to artists and all other people that turned the Carnival in one of the magnificent public manifestations in the entire world.

The International Humor Festival of Rio de Janeiro will be held throughout the entire month and this year it has reached the second edition. It will cast the lights upon graphic humor and contemporary theater through exciting drawing and sketches contests, theatrical performances as well as unique exhibitions.

The Vale Open Air is a festival that will gather movies, music as well as several attractions in one public space. It will include showcases of Moo and Dancing Cheetah parties and also Whitest Boy Alive and Lucas Santtana. Food will be served to the large public in the form of pizzas, Japanese and Mexican cooking and ice cream.

The 2010 Carnival will start actually in 2009 with the pre-carnival events that are filled with parties, live rehearsals of groups and bands, samba shows at Terreir

How Does Addiction Begin? (Part Two -of The Cycle of Addiction)

Is a person genetically or bio-chemically predisposed to addiction or alcoholism?

Various postulates along such lines have been put forward over the years and debated within the scientific and chemical dependency communities. That this has produced no truly effective solution to drug addiction, VERY poor recovery rates and a WORSENING drugs epidemic tells us the aforementioned communities may have been barking up a very wrong tree.

Another school of thought and another wrong tree, advocates the “disease concept” of drug addiction, which postulates that addiction is an inherited disease and the individual is permanently ill at a genetic level.

In other words, “nothing can be done about it”

Better Than Psychiatric Drugs, Part Three: The Right Tree.

A person who is “mentally disturbed” will be found to have hidden underlying physical problems that prevent their recovery.

Broken bones, pinched nerves, and suppressed pain ? all can affect the person’s mental outlook. Modern advances in medicine and nutrition have revelealed just how big an adverse effect on the mind can be exerted by nutritional and vitamin deficiencies, poor diet, allergies, food additives and chemical toxins in the fatty tissues of the body.

Physical discomforts, deficiences and exhaustion have a detrimental effect on mood. The person is medically ill or injured, not “insane.” He may have a disease but he does not, short of a tumour, have a diseased or malfunctioning brain, nor is he locked into a mental condition by the fickle pre-programming of his genes.

Fix the medical problem, allergy or nutitional deficiency and the person will experience resurgence.

The correct first action on a seriously mentally disturbed person therefore is a full searching clinical examination by a competent medical doctor.The correct second action is find and fix the cause.

There follows below a by no mens exhaustive list of things that can affect quite seriously a person’s mental state and behaviour. Just to give you an idea, let me start with the example of Lyme Disease.

Lyme Disese is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks. Early manifestations of infection may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans. Left untreated, late manifestations involving the joints, heart, and nervous system can occur. In most cases, the infection and its symptoms are eliminated with antibiotics, especially if diagnosis and treatment occur early.

You will notice that two of the symptoms noted here are depression and fatigue. Imagine someone with the early stages if Lyme disease but does not know he has the disease. He feels worn out and depressed. He goes to his doctor or psychiatrist, describes his depression, is not given a thorough physical examination so the presence of the Lymes infection is missed,

The psychiatrist,without checking for any one of a long list of ailments that can cause a person to feel depressed, diagnosed “depression” and wrote out a prescription for anti depressants. The physical cause is neglected so the illness gets worse. The psychotropic medication, supposed to treat a mental disorder that does not exist, causes physical and mental complications and the person gets worse.

In fact, Dr. Paul Fink, past president of the American Psychiatric Association, has admitted that every disorder in Psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) can be caused by Lyme Disease. Yet Psychiatrists when diagnosing, steadfastly ignore the spectrum of possible causes of an emotional condition and will

10 Laws Of Success (Part 2)

1. Master your emotions. I love this quote from Og Mandino from his book “The greatest salesman in the world”. He says: “Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.” Master your emotions when you feel depressed, sad, ill, afraid, inferior, uncertain, incompetent. Remember to replace those emotions with singing, laughter, productivity, thoughts of past successes, etc. Also don’t overdo it. Overindulging, overconfidence are examples of things that will push people away. Master your emotions and never feel shame for trying anything and failing, because the only people that never fail are those who have never tried anything.

As A Palm Tree In The Desert Part One

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As A Palm Tree In The Desert Part One