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Natural Highs: Increase Your Energy, Sharpen Your Mind, Improve Your Mood, Relax and Beat Stress with Legal, Natural and Healthy Mind-altering Substances (Hardcover)

by Patrick Holford (Author), Hyla Cass (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Piatkus Books (27 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749921331
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749921330
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 194,953 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In this groundbreaking book you will discover how to stay happy, relaxed and 'high' using safe, natural and non-addictive substances. World-renowned psychologist and nutritionist Patrick Holford has teamed up with psychiatrist Dr Hyla Cass, expert in nutrition and mental health. Together they reveal ways to improve the quality of your life and help you feel on top of the world without resorting to artificial substances. You'll learn how to increase your energy, sharpen your mind, improve your mood, relax and beat stress, and feel connected - with herbs, nutritional supplements and simple lifestyle changes. You'll discover: - Natural blues busters such as St John's Wort and 5HTP to help you reduce depression and anxiety - Non-addictive ways to get an energy boost without resorting to caffeine or nicotine - How to reduce stress and anxiety naturally with relaxants such as Kava - Safe and effective alternatives to prescription drugs such as Prozac and Valium - Natural and legal alternatives to recreational drugs such as Ecstasy - Natural remedies and techniques to help you to reach a state of inner peace - And much more

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Natural Highs is a breakthrough. For me, it is the culmination of 22 years of research. I started out as a psychologist, searching for whatever was the greatest we can be. It led me into nutrition, for the past twenty years, exploring 'optimum nutrition' and what we need to consume to be in the best possible condition. I founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 1984 to explore this concept. My interest in brain chemistry led me to team up with Dr Hyla Cass, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine in LA. She's very swtiched on and was described by the New York Times as 'the most progressive and informed psychiatrist in America today."

Together we set off on a mission - to find out what would allow us to be naturally high. We explored what happens in the brain in states of stimulation, relaxation, happiness, mental alertness and connection. We discovered that the brain makes its own natural highs - neurotransmitters. We then explored which safe, natural, healthy and legal substances, and techniques, encourage the brain to be and stay naturally high.

What we have discovered truly works. The effects of the combinations of nutrients, herbs and exercises work for (almost) everybody. (The effects feel so natural, so self-generated, that some people don't notice them immediately.) We offer them to you as a way to build yourself a lifestyle in this crazy 21st century that helps you stay in a good state.

We also offer you a website where you can post your own experiences, good or bad, and read others, from trying our recommendations in the book. They're really interesting.The website is full of fascinating features from leaders in this field. Some of these were a bit controversial for the book. We hope, through your and our combined feedback and experience, to be able to keep giving you ways and means to be naturally high.

As Sting says in the forward to the book "if there's one thing that needs to be altered in this troubled world it is the human mind, and if nature can offer us sound, safe, legal antidotes to the poisoning of the human spirit, then there can be no more improtant work in the 21st century than researching and exploring these resources." We're on the case! Patrick Holford

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5.0 out of 5 stars Self-empowering and dependancy breaking inspiration, 13 May 2002
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A revelation about the stimulant dependant society that we have become and an easy to relate to guide for how to step out of this catch 22. I feel more aware of all aspects in life that can make me feel healthier and happier and which foods and supplements to take to support me in this process. Inspirational and empowering!
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5.0 out of 5 stars "Meditation is one of the best natural highs of all", 17 Mar 2004
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This book can help you increase energy, help you feel much better and give effective ideas for relaxation and to reduce stress. And all in a natural way.

I like Patrick Holford's ideas on colour and lighting, for instance. It may seem obvious to some but to others they may not have realised that colour influences your mood.

Yellow is a favourite in classrooms for stimulating learning but blue has been shown to calm down hyperactive children. Patrick Holford does not say it in the book but blue and yellow together are psychologically well-balanced. One could be the main colour and the other the supporting colour. Both colours need to be light and clear. A light cream, for instance, is a good colour for walls in a classroom or any room where too strong a yellow would be overpowering.

Everyone knows that music is generally good to listen to but not all realise that you can use music to consciously alter your state. Different types of music - listed by Holford in groups - can act as natural stimulants, relaxants and mood boosters. According to Holford you can actually increase your productivity and creativity, while simultaneously maintaining your energy and uplifting your sense of overall well-being by correct use of music. I use music myself to effectively change my mood.

Also according to Holford, "Meditation is one of the best natural highs of all". Research shows that meditators have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. He says that meditation for him has been like dipping into a well of rejuvenating tranquility. As a 7 year meditator myself I totally agree with what he says.

Holford says that meditation balances the brain - true. He also say that to reach a deeper level of expertise in meditation eg reach theta waves - deep relaxation (as opposed to beta waves, normal busy mind, and alpha waves, relaxed mind) that you need to follow the instruction of a meditation master.

In an ideal world yes, but for those unable to follow instructions from a meditation master then simply being aware of their breath and noticing the air going into and out of their noses and lungs whilst sitting quietly alone with eyes closed twice per day for about 20 minutes each time is a good breathing meditation and will have good results. Thoughts will come and go when doing this meditation but always return to being aware of the breath when you realise that your mind has wandered.

I like this book by Patrick Holford. His diagrams are simple and easy-to-follow and the text is suitable for your average layman.

There is everything here from Omega-3 fatty acids to EPA and DHA to 5-HTP and St John's wort.

If you are interested in improving your health and mood naturally then this book could be useful to you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enlivening approach to taking charge of my state, 13 May 2002
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Here's a book that proves that you can take charge of your state and enhance your life experience by simply manipulating diet and boosting with supplements and herbals. I was shocked to realise just how dependant we've become on stimulants to get us through our everyday life. What a liberating and empowering concept taking charge of both my physical and mental health is. I've enjoyed putting some of the ideas into practice and am feeling naturally high!
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