The therapeutic power of reading aloud

Why we should read aloud?

According to scientists there are many physical and mental benefits to be gained from read aloud.It could even help you to live longer and healthy and for that all you need is a book,a voice and a bit of your precious time.So here is some benefits of reading out loud.

Keeps people connected to each other:-

Loneliness causes stress,and long-term or chronic stress leads to more elevations of a key stress hormone,cortisol,which is link to inflammation in the body.This leads to increased risks of heart disease,depression,diabetes,joint disease,obesity and death.

In a survey of elderly adults who joined a weekly reading group got better concentration,become less agitated and were good in socialising. 

 Ditch your smartphone:-

Where screen and technology divide people even when they are at the same place,sitting with a book in a physically proximity brings benefits.When someone reads aloud and someone else listens,their brains synchronize so in this condition reader and listener both are experiencing the same brain activity and release neurochemicals. This process is known as neural coupling,which is shown by an american scientist using FMRI scanners at Princeton and explain that why reading with others can create a sense of unity and closeness.In an age where loneliness and anxiety are endemic,this discovery is more fascinating than ever. 

Get the right way to use it:-

Language is like muscle.It wastes away if you are not using it.Reading aloud with others adults,helps to keep everyone's brain active and unstressed.

In Japan,which has many elderly people,clinician are exploring how daily reading can sharpen cognitive skills that have been dulled by age and lack of use.

Know the start point:-

As you all know that every journey starts with a small step, so just like that start reading aloud with where you are and do it today,you don't need to read aloud for an hour,or a year,or forever.Just begin, pick up a book or a magazine or even series of your favorite comic and start reading to someone you love.

In this way your reading stamina will be increase day by day.Reading aloud is much similar to doing meditation, like as you meditate for increase your concentration level and reading aloud will also increase your concentration level.

  You will be enjoy it:-

Reading aloud is not suppose to be boring just read whatever you want to read and let the words cast their spell. May be you feel shy about read out loud but it is not a big issue many people do. Just try to stick with it.If your listeners want to get up and move around,let them.Some people focus better when their hands are busy.There is no specific or correct way to read aloud,there is only one way to do it and that way is your own way in which you are reading from a long time.

   

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