If you're like me, you never imagined that you would be dealing with the disabling effects of chronic pains such as fibromyalgia, sciatica, arthritis, migraines, neuropathy, RSD, chronic neck, back and lumbar pains or any of the other pains that have many of us battling each day for the lives we once knew. We still want to be a part of the mainstream. We still have a lot to offer and bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the table. We find ourselves sitting on the fringes and losing our productivity agonizingly and painfully slow.
We don't want to let pain take away everything from us but we spend so much time fighting thru the flareups and the doctor visits and therapy that we have little time left to keep our minds as sharp and bright as they once were. We have to make a fully focused effort to avoid losing the gains we have made and the knowledge we have acquired. Reading is one sure way to help avoid any loses in our intellectual prowess.
The benefits of reading have been touted for hundreds of years. You can live vicariously in another town, country and even time. You can learn about cultures, climates and scientific discoveries. Business acumen, teaching skills, painting skills and writing skills can be studied from reading in books. The power that a book has to engage our minds is awesome.
Books also have the power to help us temporarily tolerate our pains better as well. We when get immersed in a book full of the experience that we are seeking, the body benefits. Our mind gets a chance to do something other than work on receiving the millions of pain signals that flood it daily. Our minds relish the moments that we are engaged in pleasant, non painful activities and reading is one that we can easily take advantage of. Good books are easy to find.
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