07/11/2019
It sounds exciting: reduce stress by 68% after minutes of reading a book.
Why is this happening and how does it work?
My regular clients are aware of this abbreviation - DBS (default brain system). DBS is a few sections of the brain that are included when we are immersed in ourselves, thinking.
Evolutionarily, this aggregate of nerve centers provided animals with the ability to understand the relations with each other in the members of their pack, group, and then in humans — the tribe.
The ability to grasp these relationships between people develops the intellect — our ability to “see the invisible,” to conceptualize the connections between various elements of the social situation.
It was DBS that taught us to invent stories - from the plots of rock paintings, fairy tales and myths to the mental chewing gum, which we constantly scroll through in our head.
Unfortunately, its content is so-so, consisting mainly of “scandals, intrigues, and investigations.” Which, of course, not the best way affects our emotional state and introduces stress.
Now imagine that you pick up a book and start reading ...
Yes, your DBS is populated not by the usual stressors that you habitually carry in your head (who told you what, why he did it, that now you must do this, etc.), but by the book’s heroes or scientific facts, for example, if you read something from non-fiction.
That is, the DBS before this turned your stress, your feelings, your problems, and now - once, and all this “good” is being forced out of it: the heroes of the narration begin to act in DBS, scientific theories unfold. You switch from unpleasant to something exciting.
Inside the DBS, something like a substitution of players takes place - those that are injured go to the substitute bench and those that interest you begin to use the power of your brain so that you can “see” inside yourself those stories that are able to carry you and give you pleasure.
Here are a simple neurophysiological life hack and some good news: reading books is good for your health.
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