Reading Books

Feeding our minds every day is the duty of every one of us, because we are the only responsible for ourselves as improving ourselves is a part of taking care of it. Feeding one’s mind means do the accurate things to take our thoughts as well as our mind to the next level. We can feed it by reading, meditating, and learning every single day something new that contributes to improving our level in any side we want to get improved. Reading books has a lot of benefits for our mind in addition to our wellbeing, as researchers said reading books allows us to extend imagination, acquire new vocabularies besides to get rid of stress as when we read we involve ourselves in between lines and forget about the outside world just focusing on the book and its story, this leads us to active the button of focus in which it is an essential element to relax. Moreover, many research has proven that people who read books especially fiction ones are more likely to understand others, this is due to the fact that they used to feel character’s emotions and feelings in that lead them to be more comprehensive to other’s facial expressions, emotions and thinking. “At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, psychologist Diana Tamir has demonstrated that people who often read fiction have better social cognition. In other words, they’re more skilled at working out what other people are thinking and feeling. Using brain scans, she has found that while reading fiction, there is more activity in parts of the default mode network of the brain that are involved in simulating what other people are thinking”. (BBC FUTURE 2020). That is to say, persons who read fiction book can easily understand other. Reading books is a magical habit that helps us be in the mood and strengthen our brain.

Reference:

BBC FUTURE (2020). https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190523-does-reading-fiction-make-us-better-people