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How Naturally High Are You?

We believe it is possible to be high – firing on all cylinders, inspired, enthusiastic, happy, calm, and alert – much of the time. Our Natural High Program shows you how to sustain the right biochemical, physical, and psychological conditions. There are four steps to being naturally high:
  1. Achieve optimum brain nutrition.
    A good diet and the right supplements provide you with the necessary building blocks for brain cells and neurotransmitters, which are the mood, mind, and memory molecules. You will also be able to balance your blood sugar, which acts as brain and body fuel. This helps you to break your dependency on substances that interfere with normal brain chemistry and deplete your energy.

  2. Keep yourself "fine-tuned" with natural highs.
    The reality of day-to-day life is that you will likely become stressed out or otherwise unbalanced. You will learn how to use natural substances to help bring yourself back into balance.

  3. Think positively.
    Chemistry isn't the whole story when it comes to natural highs. It's also about how we think. Ironically, while fear and anxiety seem to come easily, we often have to work harder to achieve happiness. Fortunately, you can replace negative patterns with a more positive and uplifting frame of mind.

  4. Adopt a naturally high lifestyle.
    There are many ways to improve how you feel, specific lifestyle changes in the form of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual exercises.
The Natural High Program is designed to help you make and maintain the step-by-step changes in your life that will allow you to be naturally and consistently high.

Before leaping headfirst into the mass of information that follows, check out the following Natural High Questionnaires, which will help you to develop your personal natural high strategy.



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From NATURAL HIGHS: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind/Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good by Hyla Cass and Patrick Holford. Copyright © Hyla Cass, M.D., and Patrick Holford. Used by arrangement with Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

To order this book visit www.penguin.com. Get a 15% discount with the coupon code FENPARENT.


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