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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.

The Natural High Questionnaires

Each of us is unique – an amalgam of genetic inheritance and a lifetime of experience. We may have inherited certain tendencies, for example, toward depression or anxiety. These tendencies, together with what we have learned in childhood, and indulged in as adults, have programmed our body chemistry. This is turn affects our behavior. We may find ourselves, for instance, with a nonstop need for stimulation or a seemingly built-in inability to relax.

The good news is that none of this is set in stone. You can change.

The Natural High Questionnaires will help you to figure out what you need to work on. In each of the following questionnaires, mark "yes" if the question applies more than half of the time. Score one point for each "yes" answer.


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