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The Impact of Reading On Your Mind

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The Impact of Reading On Your Mind Last evening, we at Shabd were discussing books. books like Pride and Prejudice, To Kill A mocking Bird, Gone Girl, Harry Potter, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Autobiographies, even Twiligh t, and also authors like Haruki Murakami, Ruskin Bond , both in the format of printed books and eBooks, in bookstores , or Kindle Unlimited or pdf drives , basically all classics, books and authors, and just the discussion on the same was so soothing, and reading one of them on a lazy summer afternoon in the verandah sounds like bliss.      "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." - Chinese Proverb  Just like our body needs exercising, our mind too needs to exercise , to meditate, to read. When we read a book, our mind is activated, it tries to read and comprehend the words and the meaning of the text. It makes us ponder about things we don't know, questions our beliefs and, impacts our brain and thought processes.   Reading gives us new knowledge and