When we read – we travel. We borrow the minds of others and see through eyes other than our own. And of course we learn and become inspired. Yet it seems that fewer and fewer of us read regularly.
Of course, there are many time demands in modern life and finding the time to read a book can feel daunting. At the same time we may lose thousands of hours watching ‘mindless’ TV or aimlessly surfing the internet.
Books enable us to travel to other times, other lands, and inside other lives, all from the comfort of an armchair.
The writer Edward Percy Whipple once said “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time”. And these lighthouses are the work of some of the finest minds to have ever lived, communicating their intelligence and creativity across continents and across the centuries. All you have to do is pick up a book.
Reading more books and taking time out
We talk about ‘getting information’ as if we need to greedily consume ideas, facts and news as fast as possible. Taking plenty of time to read a good book means we can gradually digest ideas, information and ways of seeing. This puts us in touch with the meditative and non-hurried part of ourselves.
I’m really hoping that the new hypnotic download session Read more books produced for hypnosisdownloads.com is going to encourage more people to get back into the reading habit.
Mark
