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Benefits of Reading
Strengthens Your Brain
Reading involves a complex network of circuits and signals in the brain. As your reading ability matures, those networks also get stronger and more sophisticated.
Relaxation
Just 30 minutes of reading can lower blood pressure, heart rate, and feelings of psychological distress, just as effectively as yoga and humor.
Sleep
Reading helps put your consciousness on another plane, which will induce sleep. Dr. David Lewis, a psychologist, says a book is “more than merely a distraction, but an active engaging of the imagination,” one that “causes you to enter an altered state of consciousness.”