People who read books know the feeling we’ll face later. Reading a book goes far beyond reading, acquires the dimension of another world, a walk through another era. You forget everything around you, you dive into another reality. The anxiety of reading to the end grows, and when that end comes, you feel a little sadness and fullness at the same time.
Why is reading so important, does it affect our brains?
Let’s find out!
“Some stories in the books leave traces in our lives and, in some cases, help define us.
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When we read a book, the brain is stimulated. The visual attention, the imagination, the emotions it provokes us, all this provokes a positive mental exercise that enriches our minds.
However, this only happens with good books or good writing, which are actually the same. In fact, the authors of Metaphors We Live By (Metaphors of Everyday Life) such as George Lakoff and Mark Johnson have examined the power of metaphors in their minds. individuals have the power to activate different areas of our consciousness because of their meaning.
No one imagines the same thing, and that’s a very important and interesting fact. The content of the same book read by two people can be viewed or imagined very differently.
What does it depend on? The personality, the person himself, his character, but above all because it is very difficult for everyone to imagine in the same way, I will not see this character as you have seen it, just because our mind works differently.
How often do we put ourselves in the place of the character we find in a book ?, besides being able to visualize them in a certain way and create an idea about them, we were able to empathize with them. He usually feels what the character feels like.
Through this we manage to improve our intuition and knowledge of our environment, which allows us to better understand the emotional signals of others, we must remember that these are fictional characters, that do not exist, but in our minds we make them real, we shape them, both for them and for the places described.
Then we feel a sense of sadness and emptiness when we finish a book, because we make the characters in the books our friends, follow each of them in their stories and feel the same as them.
Reading helps us understand the world and also see other points of view. Obviously this is fiction, but there are many hidden teachings in the books with which we can learn.
In addition to developing our empathy, books manage to make us more understanding and more able to understand others, that is, we learn to face certain situations through what we read.
As we have seen, books help us better understand the world and others, they influence us in a positive way, which benefits our daily lives.
We have available the paper book, the e-book?In addition to several topics that may be more or less interesting depending on what we are or what we are looking for or need. I remember the testimony of a colleague who said how a Sad Thematic Book had helped her at a bad time in her life.
How is that possible? Maybe he identified himself and realized that he wasn’t so bad, that there were worse situations and moments. Reading the misfortunes of others helped him, it was positive.
Why, when you’re sad, you see a movie that makes you cry, so that the pain flows and we can somehow. The same goes for books, but with an additional gain: they allow you to imagine and create.