http://www.selfhelpzone.com/stress-management/reading-the-pleasurable-escape-from-stress/ A Place for Self Help, Self Improvement and Personal Growth Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.selfhelpzone.com/stress-management/reading-the-pleasurable-escape-from-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-24063 Douglas Woods Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:25:34 +0000 http://www.selfhelpzone.com/stress-management/reading-the-pleasurable-escape-from-stress/#comment-24063 This is a very useful article, thanks. Reading is a great activity, one of the things I like about reading is that you can choose what type of material you want to read;- self help, inspirational, fiction, factual or picture book. You can also read for as long as you want, stop at any point and come back to it later. It also seems to me that reading often uses more parts of the brain. As you read, your mind may be visualising what you are reading, you may also be debating inside your head the pros and cons of what you have just read, you may also be trying to decipher what you think is going to happen next or maybe trying to reason why something has happened. You can also try to visualise yourself in a role or situation presented in a book. In this way, I feel reading is possibly more beneficial than, say, TV watching which tends to be more passive, less engaging and something that may be difficult to stop and return to at any point. This is a very useful article, thanks. Reading is a great activity, one of the things I like about reading is that you can choose what type of material you want to read;- self help, inspirational, fiction, factual or picture book. You can also read for as long as you want, stop at any point and come back to it later.
It also seems to me that reading often uses more parts of the brain. As you read, your mind may be visualising what you are reading, you may also be debating inside your head the pros and cons of what you have just read, you may also be trying to decipher what you think is going to happen next or maybe trying to reason why something has happened. You can also try to visualise yourself in a role or situation presented in a book.
In this way, I feel reading is possibly more beneficial than, say, TV watching which tends to be more passive, less engaging and something that may be difficult to stop and return to at any point.

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