How to Get High Naturally: Build a Life That Fulfills You
What if getting “high” wasn’t only about drugs or substances?
Human beings experience natural highs all the time. You can feel it when you work hard and are properly compensated, make an investment and receive a return, help someone and see the impact, discover money, compete, create, learn, or accomplish something meaningful.
The question is: How many natural sources of fulfillment have you built into your life?
Your Natural High
The body has biological systems involved in bonding, reward, and positive experiences. Oxytocin, for example, is associated with bonding and connection. The larger lesson is that our experiences can reinforce our behavior: when something feels rewarding, we naturally want to experience it again.
Work hard and receive a meaningful reward, and you may want to work again.
Invest and receive a return, and you may become more interested in investing.
Give to someone and see how much it helps them, and generosity can become rewarding.
Create music, play sports, write, build, or learn something, and the activity itself can become fulfilling.
These are natural sources of motivation.
When Hard Work Isn’t Properly Rewarded
One of the problems is working extremely hard without feeling properly compensated.
You can work forty hours or more every week, receive your check, and still think:
“This isn’t adding up.”
When your effort and reward feel disconnected, you can become frustrated and discouraged.
Compensation doesn’t only have to mean money. It can be progress, recognition, mastery, health, creativity, freedom, or seeing the results of your work.
The important thing is experiencing some meaningful return from the energy you put into life.
Create Multiple Sources of Fulfillment
Don’t depend on one thing to make you feel alive.
Have several outlets.
Work.
Business.
Investing.
Sports.
Music.
Writing.
Creativity.
Relationships.
Helping people.
Learning.
Competition.
Giving.
The goal is to have four, five, or six healthy ways to experience fulfillment so that you aren’t constantly searching for an artificial substitute.
Your life should contain enough meaningful activity that you don’t have to constantly escape from it.
Entrepreneurship Can Create a Powerful Feedback Loop
Entrepreneurship is important because it can connect your effort directly to the value you create.
You work hard.
You solve a problem.
Someone benefits.
You get compensated.
You improve.
You create more value.
That cycle can become extremely motivating.
You don’t have to start with a million-dollar company. Start with a skill, an idea, a service, a product, or something you know how to do that can help another person.
Create value, and learn how to receive value in return.
Giving Is Another Natural High
Receiving isn’t the only way to feel good.
Giving can be powerful too.
When you help someone financially, socially, emotionally, spiritually, or mentally and see that your contribution made their life better, there is a different kind of satisfaction that comes from knowing you had an impact.
You don’t always need to receive something immediately.
Sometimes knowing that you helped somebody is the reward.
Competition, Sports, and Creativity
Competition can also be a natural source of fulfillment.
Play basketball. Run. Train. Compete.
Winning feels good, but even losing can be valuable when you know you gave your best effort and are becoming healthier and more capable.
Creativity works the same way.
You might make music because you love music. You might write because writing gives you something to express. You might create something before you ever know how you’re going to monetize it.
There is nothing wrong with pursuing financial success.
But don’t overlook the fact that the creative process itself can be rewarding.
Gratitude Changes the Experience
Don’t wait until everything is perfect before appreciating your life.
Be grateful for the air you’re breathing.
The food you’re eating.
The people around you.
The opportunity to participate in existence.
Practice gratitude while you’re on the way—not only when you arrive.
A constant awareness of what you already have can help keep temporary negativity from controlling your entire outlook.
Protect Your Mental Environment
What you repeatedly consume matters.
If your attention is constantly surrounded by negativity, conflict, comparison, and discouragement, you can begin operating from that state.
Instead, become intentional about what you consume, what you discuss, and what you allow to occupy your mind.
Don’t feed negativity all day and then wonder why you feel negative.
Words matter too.
Your language can influence how you interpret your circumstances.
Instead of constantly saying:
“I can’t.”
“I’m stuck.”
“Everything is going wrong.”
Ask:
“What’s the next move?”
“What can I learn?”
“What can I create from this?”
Words don’t magically fix problems, but they can influence the mindset you bring to solving them. The original message emphasizes using words that elevate rather than reinforce negativity.
Health Is Part of Wealth
Your body and mind are part of your ability to create.
Your energy is an asset.
Your health is an asset.
Your ability to think, move, work, create, and connect with people is an asset.
Take care of it.
The source expresses this idea as “wealth is health”—a reminder that having resources means little if you don’t have the health and capacity to experience and use them.
Become Someone Who Adds Value
One of the simplest principles to take from all of this is:
Add value.
When you meet someone, ask yourself:
“What can I contribute?”
Maybe you can teach them something.
Maybe you can connect them with someone.
Maybe you can encourage them.
Maybe you can help financially.
Maybe you can give them an opportunity.
Maybe you can simply make their day better.
The goal is to become someone who leaves people with more than they had before they encountered you.
That value can be monetary, social, emotional, spiritual, or mental.
Build Your Own Natural-High Portfolio
Think about your life like an investment portfolio.
Don’t put everything into one source of fulfillment.
Build several:
Work — Create and be properly rewarded.
Business — Solve problems and create value.
Creativity — Make things.
Health — Move, train, and take care of your body.
Relationships — Build meaningful connections.
Giving — Help other people.
Learning — Keep expanding your ability.
Gratitude — Appreciate what is already happening.
When you have several healthy sources of fulfillment, you become less dependent on one thing to make you feel good.
Build a Life You Don’t Need to Escape From
The ultimate lesson is simple:
Build a life that naturally gives you reasons to feel alive.
Work hard.
Create.
Invest.
Give.
Compete.
Learn.
Take care of yourself.
Help people.
Practice gratitude.
Build something of your own.
Don’t make artificial stimulation your only escape from an unfulfilling life.
Instead, create enough meaningful experiences that your everyday life begins producing its own rewards.
Your work can fulfill you.
Your creativity can fulfill you.
Your relationships can fulfill you.
Your generosity can fulfill you.
Your health can fulfill you.
Your progress can fulfill you.
Your purpose can fulfill you.
The goal isn’t simply to find a way to get high.
The goal is to build a life that naturally gives you something to feel good about.
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