Tables of Contents for Highs!

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Introduction: Why High?

Serenity Highs

All Stressed Up and No Place to Go: Serenity Highs

Sources of Stress

Effects of Stress

Handling Stress

How Stress-Resistant Are You? A Quiz

Increase Your Stress Resistance

Lessen the Stress in Your Life

Be Optimistic

Get Support for Yourself

How to Be an Airhead: Breathing Highs

Breathing from Your Diaphragm

Know Your Breathing

Check for Stress

Breathe Your Stress Away

Really Deeeeep Breathing

Tension Prevention

Sigh High

SWAT Breathing

Get Nosy

Breathe Out Loud

Refresh Your Brain

The Laughing Cure

Zen Power Yell

Seeing the Light: Meditation Highs

When to Meditate

Where to Meditate

How to Meditate

Progressive Relaxation

Mind Over Muscle

Breath Meditation

Up Your Nose

In and Out

Sound Meditation

Oomm Ahh Huunng

Aural Fixation

Meditating on Objects

It's Polite to Stare

Dealing with the Wandering Mind

Mindfulness Meditation

Bubble, Bubble, toil and Trouble

Visualization

Your Special Place

Say Good-bye to Sadness (and Other Feelings)

Dope on a Rope

Now Playing at the Cinema of Your Mind: A Visualization Script

Self-Hypnosis

The Power of the Mind

Feel Yourself Becoming Calm...Calm and Relaxed... Deeper and Deeper

Be Your Own Hypnotist

Countdown

T'ai Chi Chuan

Horse Around

Yoga

Out-of-Body Experiences

Physical and Sensuous Highs

Pumping Adrenaline: Sports, Exercise, and X-treme Highs

Sports Highs

Exercise Highs

Warm Up

Cool Down

Relaxation Exercises

Head and Shoulders

Save Face

Alex's Fabulous Finger Lifts

Thrill-Seeking and X-treme Sports

Cheap Thrills

Upside-Down Uppers

Seesaws and Swings

Jump for Joy

Spin Cycle

Roller Coasters

Going to X-tremes

Air Highs

Land Highs

Water Highs

Food for Thought: Healthy Eating Highs

The High of Clear Thinking

Start the Day with Breakfast

Eat Lighter, More Frequent Meals

Take Your Vitamins

Eat a Crowbar

Slow Down on Fast Foods

Stop Pumping Gas

The Scoop on Caffeine

Be a Quitter

Sugar Shock

102

Are You Eating Too Much Sugar?

103

Cut Back on Sweets

104

A Good Night's Sleep

105

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

106

The Eyes Have It: Visual Highs

108

The Power of Perception

108

Look for Something New

109

Look for Patterns

109

Then and Now

110

Topsy-Turvy

110

Fingers in the Eyes

110

Stare-Way to Heaven

111

Feel the Beat

112

Fun with Strobe Lights

112

Find Your Blind Spot

113

Binocular Vision

114

Wag the Dog

115

Three Thumbs Up

115

The Language of Color

116

Color Your World

117

Mandalas

118

Mandala Meditation

118

When Seeing Isn't Believing: Visual Illusions

120

Fascinating Fractals

125

Visual Music

125

Help for Tired Eyes

126

Lazy Eights

127

Lighten Up

128

Coming to Your Senses: Sensuous Highs

130

Cats Know Where It's At

131

The Cat's Meow

131

Sensory Deprivation

132

The Power of Touch

132

Kissing Palms

133

Here's the Rub: Massage

134

Give a Back Massage

136

Treat Your Feet

138

Get Rolfed

138

Taste

139

Go S-l-o-w

139

Quiet Diet

140

Let's Sweat

140

Steam Room vs. Sauna

141

Aromatherapy

142

Get Incensed

143

Pamper Yourself

143

Give Yourself a Facial

143

A Hair-Raising Experience

144

Get Naked

145

Social, Spiritual, and Creative Highs

Blue Skies, Cow Pies: Nature Highs

146

Why Nature?

147

Stop and Smell the Roses

147

Take a Hike

149

Sleep Under the Stars

150

Go Camping

150

A Garden of Earthly Delights

152

Grow Your Own

152

Tree Highs

153

Build a Tree House

154

Get Wet

155

Water Ways

155

Ride the Waves

156

Take a Bath

157

Fire Highs

157

Build a Bonfire

158

Thunder and Lightning

160

Storm Safety

160

Armchair Adventures

161

Altered States: Out-of-the-Ordinary Highs

163

Change Your Habits

164

Just for One Day

165

Just for One Week

165

Deprivation Highs

166

Get Tanked

167

Go Into the Closet

168

Fasting

168

Being Alone

170

Go Out with Yourself

170

Quiet Highs

171

Shhhhhhhh

171

Seek Silence

173

Turn Off the Music

174

No News Is Good News

174

Take a News Break

175

Travel

176

Low-Cost Travel

177

Roleplaying Games

181

Alter Your Altitude

184

High Highs

185

Space Out

186

Messing with Your Mind: Creative and Intellectual Highs

188

Writing

189

Keep a Journal

190

Write Poetry

191

Different Strokes for Different Folks

194

Storytelling

195

Once Upon a Time

195

Collecting

196

Be a Collector

197

Explore the Arts

197

Draw and/or Paint

198

Visit a Museum or Gallery

199

Dance

201

Music

203

Whistle While You Work

205

Highbrow Highs

205

Zen Koans

206

Higher Math

207

Science

210

Philosophy

211

Performing Highs

212

Sing for Your Supper

213

Follow Your Muse: Four Steps to Success

213

Friends, Family, and Heavy Petting: Connecting Highs

215

Connect with Your Family

217

Talk to Your Parents

217

Have Family Meetings

218

Maintain and Invent Family Traditions

219

Eat Dinner Together

220

Do Service Work Together

220

Stay in Touch with Relatives

221

Connect with Friends

222

See Your Friends Regularly

223

Broaden Your Friendships

223

Make Cyber-Friends

224

Love and Sex

225

Connect with Your School

226

Connect with Other Adults and Mentors

227

Find a Mentor

227

Be a Mentor

228

Connect by Giving

229

Make the Small Gesture

230

Practice Kindness

230

Volunteer

232

Create a Web Site

232

Connect with Animals

233

Heavy Petting

233

Connect with Your Past

234

Learn About Your Family History

234

Learn About Your Cultural and National History

234

Connect with Groups and Other Organizations

235

Join Together

235

Support Yourself

236

Connect at Work

236

Spiritual Connecting

237

Pray

238