Getting High without Drugs

Table of Contents
About this book	6
Why get high?	7
Getting high is a valid life purpose	7
An age old desire	7
Getting high to change state	8
Euphoria - getting high to feel good	8
Getting high to be at one with the universe	8
Getting high for self-healing	8
Getting high for self-reintegration	9
Variation is healthy	9
Altered states are normal	10
Transcending drug conflicts	10
We'll show you how	10
A better way of being high	12
Get high voluntarily	12
Enjoy the intensity you crave	12
When and for as long as you want	13
Your altered state should sustain itself	13
Be the way that's right for you	14
Select the way you want your mind to work	14
Feeling better	14
Enhance the way you are	14
Pleasure	14
Self-reinforcing	15
Presence	16
What presence is	16
What presence does	17
An emotional holiday	17
Ah! Here we are.	17
It's the only time we actually have	18
How to do it	18
The Smiling Breath (Sukhabhati)	21
It's easy	21
You can't fail	21
You're free to improve it	21
Sensualizations	22
Simplicity	22
Technique	22
Mood	23
Effects of doing the smiling breath	23
It's self-reinforcing	23
It becomes more powerful with practice	24
It helps you get along with others	24
It can make you more attractive	24
Don't impose this on depressed people	24
Be subtle	25
Breathing	26
Yoga	26
Breathing and time	26
Timing patterns	27
Styles of breathing	30
The complete breath	30
Alternate nostril breathing	31
The force of the breath	32
Bandhas	32
The root lock	32
The neck lock	33
Diaphragmatic lock	33
The psychic direction of the breath	33
Breathwalking	34
Holotropic breathing	35
Psychedelic intensity	35
Mild euphoria	35
The renewal breath	36
Complete relaxation	37
Continuous breathing	37
Awareness of every feeling	37
Acceptance	38
Intention	38
Using your mind	40
Set and setting	40
Controlling your environment	41
Focus on inspiring and positive things	42
Having a high quality mental diet	42
Stay away from negativity	43
Spend your time on things you can affect	44
Altered kinesthetic states	44
Controlling intensity and duration	47
Designer highs: not designer drugs	48
Scanning for the good	50
Review and identify what's good - every day	51
Hypnosis	52
The placebo effect	52
The Schachter effect	54
The Milton model	55
Changing your experience of things	57
Meditation	58
The habit of return	59
Celebration	61
Telling yourself a story – the power of inner ritual	61
Emotional Alchemy	64
Escape!	64
Ways of coping	65
Using whatever life brings	65
Seeing things differently	66
The transmutation of energy	67
Time distortion	69
How we tell the time	69
Remaking time	70
Mind machines	74
Brain waves	75
Beta	75
Alpha	75
Theta	76
Delta	76
Entrainment	76
Kinds of machines	78
Stimuli	78
Phase and kind of stimulation	80
Programming	81
Ramps	82
Ramp and return	82
Sweeps	82
Alternation	83
Tonal ranges	83
Physical techniques	84
Face	84
Lips	84
The tongue	85
The eyes	85
The hand	86
Brain Gym	86
Autogenic training	89
Begin with a body scan	89
Always end by 'canceling'	90
The heaviness exercise	90
The warmth exercise	92
Calm and regular heartbeat	93
It breathes me	94
Abdominal warmth	95
Cool forehead	95
Confidence	96
Advanced autogenic training	97
Stillness	98

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