By simply reading this sentence makes you a champion. Because reading is a gift. And by reading this post about the 5 Fabulous Benefits for Reading will only make you want to read more!
We all love…
Binge-watching a good TV series.
But is it doing us any good?
Especially when we’ve finished one good show and are left scrolling through all the other shows on offer that, sadly, don’t get you excited. So, you’re looking at watching a rerun from a streaming service you’re paying for, as there’s nothing new to watch.
Instead, you could pick up a book that has a bookstack full of benefits, starting with …
A book is brain food!!
Unlike some alien brain-munching monster from Mars, a fiction book is food for the brain all wrapped up in a pretty package. It’s exercise for the brain.
Lemme explain…
Did you know that the act of reading a collective group of letters that create words into a sentence triggers a greater mental effort than watching TV or listening to an audiobook?
The actual art of reading is causing your magnificent brain to perform full-on brain exercises better than any gyrating-gym-junkie with a love for spandex (that we all avoid making eye contact with) while remaining still like a meditating monk. True story!
Plus, did you know that you burn calories while reading?! I know, right.
And that’s because your beautiful brain imagines those scenes and characters through the power of words which has a lot more benefits than bingeing re-runs.
So, in case you were going to ask…
The top 5 benefits of reading a book:
According to the gurus of various medical studies, their results have proven that reading a book:
1.Helps improve focus.
2.Improves your memory.
3.Increases your vocabulary.
4.It sharpens your writing skills.
5.And it also increases your ability to empathise with your book hero/ines.
Wait, we’re not done yet …
5 awesome health benefits to reading you have to know:
Picking up a book is the most affordable piece of self-care you can give yourself today.
Reading is like entering a meditative state, the flow state, giving your brain a break from the daily constant challenges of being distracted by the TV and social media, etc, etc.
So here are 5 awesome health benefits to reading you have to know:
1.A regular reading habit is a great tool in fighting depression symptoms.
2.Reading regularly helps you to destress. Destress. Destressssssss.
3.Which helps lower your heart rate (unless it’s a scary holding-onto-your-seat thriller you’re reading).
4.Aids in helping you fall asleep (unless you’re reading a horror book that’ll make you sleep with the lights on for a week).
5.And you’ll live longer!!
That’s right. You’ll Live Longer! By becoming a regular reader.
No, I’m serious. They say (from more studies) that regular readers live almost two years longer than non-readers, just by reading a minimum of 15-30 minutes per day! That’s it.
And you can do that without breaking a sweat.
Reading expands your mind in so many ways that the topics and situations inside a story will be limitless, whereas something as simple as picking up a book allows your amazing imagination to Escape to Happily Ever After.
If it’s been a while, join this FREE fabulous five-day Rural Romance Reading Challenge…
What’s stopping you from being a regular reader?
Time:
According to a recent reader’s survey, finding time to read is the number one challenge for most readers.
We’ve all got family commitments, work commitments, never-ending household chores and the constant repeated requests for the teenager to take out the rubbish!
5 cheater’s tips for stealing time to read:
Become a master thief by stealing some time so you can read that book on fake dates, or that adventure on how that hot cowboy saves his family, with the following suggestions:
1. Take the book with you whenever you leave the house.
You see them everywhere, readers reading at airports, bus stops, and coffee shops oblivious to the bus being late or that it’s a miserable rainy day (perfect for reading) as they eagerly flip through the pages of a good book.
2. Switch off the TV ten minutes earlier.
Or catch yourself from tapping to play the next episode in that series you’ve been watching. Or create a time limit for scrolling on social media down to 10-20 minutes. I know it’s tough, but you can do it.
3. Lock yourself in.
Lock the bathroom door with a big sign that says: aliens have kidnapped me (or potential new book boyfriend has whisked me away) on the door. Preferably with a big glass of red wine, bath bombs, candles, and noise-reduction earbuds to ignore your partner who can’t find the keys to the car for the gazillionth time!
4. Sneak Away
Just sneak away quietly into a cozy corner of your garden, or take your dog to the local park where you can let the dog roam free chasing birds and annoying every other dog owner in the park, while you keep reading. Hey, at least the dog will be blissfully happy.
5. Pick a time for me-time.
This isn’t being selfish. This is about you. And it can be a simple ten minutes in the morning, that ten-minute smoko break in the stairwell at work. You can read during your lunch break so you can avoid talking to everyone in the staff room. How about the time for picking up the children from school, by leaving ten to twenty minutes earlier you’ll not only score a great spot, but you’ll also have privacy to read.
Remember Yoda’s famous words: Time is on your side, and you are the master of your destiny, you get to choose how you use it. (*Okay, so I totally made that up. But you get the idea.)
So, make some time and start a healthy habit for yourself with this FREE 5-day reading challenge to help you get started:
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