Poetry

I've been reading too much literature nowadays that sometimes it gets too hard to switch my brain back to "Medicine Mode".

But the reverse is true actually. Reading poetry and serious literature helps boost your brain function :)

This link is a great read about how reading classics, literature with unfamiliar words, and poetry, ignites sparks in your brain that would last longer than reading self help books.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9797617/Shakespeare-and-Wordsworth-boost-the-brain-new-research-reveals.html

Quoting some of the text;

"The research also found that reading poetry, in particular, increases activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, an area concerned with “autobiographical memory”, helping the reader to reflect on and reappraise their own experiences in light of what they have read. The academics said this meant the classics were more useful than self-help books.

Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study with the university’s magnetic resonance centre, will tell a conference this week: “Serious literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain."

Let's read more seriously than ever! Probably my last moments of freedom and being able to read at my leisure before starting my job inshaAllah.