Want a natural way to reduce stress by 68 percent? Read. To improve anxiety, turn a page of a real book or magazine. This tactile movement is meditative. It not only improves cognition and development but also stimulates creativity and calm. Turning a page of a book stimulates the nerve ending in fingertips igniting touch receptor organs. Our receptor organs directly link to our spinal cord and neurological brain patterning. Reading a book makes us smarter but also empathetic humans. A 2009 study by the University of Sussex researchers found reading for as few as six minutes reduced stress by as much as 68 percent. The researchers also found that reading reduced stress better and more quickly than other methods like listening to music (at a 61 percent reduction), drinking tea or coffee (a 54 percent reduction), or going for a walk (a 42 percent reduction). It was founded the concentration taken in reading a good book helps distract the brain away from anxious and stressful thinking, which reduces heart rate and muscle tension caused by stress. Reading also engages the imagination and stimulates creativity, which engage the brain’s prefrontal cortex areas that house the “anxiety brake,” an
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