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Read to reduce stress: Study
London: Listening to music has been known to be one of the best stressbusters.
But a new study has now claimed that reading works better and
faster when it comes to calming frazzled nerves.
Researchers have carried out the study and found that reading is
the best way to relax and even six minutes could be enough to reduce
the stress levels by more than two-thirds, The Daily Telegraph
reported.
According to the researchers, this is because the human mind has
to concentrate on reading and the distraction of being taken into a
literary world eases the tensions in muscles and the heart. Lead
researcher Dr David Lewis said: "Losing yourself in a book is the
ultimate relaxation. This is particularly poignant in uncertain
economic times when we are all craving a certain amount of escapism."
"It really doesn't matter what book you read, by losing yourself
in a thoroughly engrossing book you can escape from the worries and
stresses of the everyday world and spend a while exploring the domain
of the author's imagination.
"This is more than merely a distraction but an active engaging of
the imagination as the words on the printed page stimulate your
creativity and cause you to enter what is essentially an altered state
of consciousness." AGENCIES
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