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FEED THE MIND, FREE THE BODY! Rediscovering the Benefits of Reading Daily!

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Do you like reading? If you haven’t done so much of it lately, do give it a try! For every page read - that amazing computer we all possess - our brain - makes new connections over and over again! Then all this new information is stored away for future recall! When we close our eyes and take some time out to reflect on past and upcoming events, our brain motions into action just like the computers we do our networking on. Linking images, memories of smells, sound and emotions to keywords that have carefully been stored away in their own associated categories and visa versa. Amazing eh? And whilst all this is going on this marvel, your fantastic brain, makes thousands of new connections that help manufacture and provide the right fertile conditions to supply new protein matter. Keeping the mind strong and from growing stale. Don’t they say ‘use it, or lose it?’ The most single important element which is a special and unique protein, preserves the cushioning protective layer that incubates and stores all our memory banks!

Of those lucky people that read regularly and often, a large percentage are less prone to that dreaded dysfunction called, dementia, or Altzheimer’s disease. Another term for the progressive mental deterioration and retardation that has been found to occur in middle or old age! However, studies now reveal that this can even occur in younger people, which can ultimately lead prematurely to this awfully debilitating handicap. It has the corrosive means to steal and rob us of our most precious commodity - our faculties, personalities and identities.

It can make for stressful and anxiety laden associations with our loved ones - as one of a very surreal experience on a daily basis. As the victim looks from the inside out through an impenetrable wall of, as some have described it, cotton wool, it hinders them from making the proper intimate contact they once found so natural and easy! In its interim stages cognizance on the patient’s part is one of acute awareness initially, that they have been getting in the bad habit of forgetting things more often than usual, or what could be considered as a normal and acceptable degree of ‘forgetfulness’. Panic begins to set in and a new dilemma overtakes. Suddenly this forgetfulness begins to presents as a more alarming condition that seems to increase in intensity as each attack follows after another in a given period of time. Most will automatically go into a rigid stage of 'denial' as pride comes into play! Then an encroaching and fearful, crippling journey ultimately leads the victim towards ‘no-man’s land' and a world of utter confusion, chaos and disorientation, as they begin to live with their ghosts. An inevitable fate over which the victim remains completely helpless and powerless and which can't be retarded from its certain progression to total annihilation of the ‘real’ person and his/her material world to which they once belonged. The past becomes their present, and the present no longer seems real to them. From day to day they may recognize their loved ones, and on another day their loved ones have become as total strangers to the victim. To me it sounds just like an utter nightmare from you will never wake up!

We all dwell on this awful prospect with a degree of dread from time to time, and understandably we all loathe the whole concept of it. But as human nature goes we quickly dispel it from our own minds in the somewhat smug, if not misguided, secure knowledge that it after all only happens to others! In the interim stages for a victim of dementia, these bizarre and unsettling attacks may begin to manifest at irregular intervals with some tenacity and when they are least expected. Sometimes in a more severe degree than the one experienced before that. Or it may come in a moderately subtle and more insidious way. Which may be misleading the victim into thinking that, the previous experience of forgetfulness was just a simple bout of temporary forgetfulness. To family or friends the victim may explain their uncharacteristic behavior away as perhaps their having entered a period of undue stress or fatigue! Due to financial pressures or other work related issues that are going on at the time.

We all suffer from this mental lethargy periodically at acceptable levels from time to time, and it's merely a way for the brain to put itself ‘on hold’ as a precautionary measure. It is nature's own wonderful mechanism towards the prevention of 'overloading', which in itself could lead to further more serious damage through increased levels of anxiety if not addressed and taken in hand swiftly. Which in turn could ultimately lead to serious and more dibilitating systemic psychological damage such as a ‘nervous breakdown’ for example. Where the victim/s loses complete touch with their 'real world'.

In the case of dementia, however, loved ones can only but stand by and watch powerlessly, as the victim changes into a kind of confused out of control Robot gradually! Who can no longer be reasoned with sensibly and rationally, nor can be medicated back to health or re-programmed to its former unique identity, despite all the medical advancement of this 21st century that is now available to us. The victim becomes increasingly frustrated in turn, duly afraid, introverted and sometimes violent with the only option open to them, in seeking refuge by retracting back into their safe shell from a now seemingly threatening outside world! They themselves become a posing threat and danger not only to themselves but also to their immediate surrounds, and the people they share their lives with!

Brrr! What a tragic and grim prospect indeed! The fact however remains that, all of us are potentially prone to this horrendous condition. We are all quite imperfect creatures programmed according to our inherited DNA, that could be likened to a genetic road map. Some of us are more predisposed to genetic weaknesses than others depending on one's lifestyle management. Therefore, we need to do what we can to provide a dose of regular stimulation to keep that unique computer within our heads running at optimum efficiency! Providing it with not only ongoing nutritional value and external as well as internal stimulation, but also with a spiritual nurturing. It is quite common knowledge and it has been shown experimentally that one can preserve the mind, through nourishing the soil of our memory banks by using top-quality fertilizer. In fact, it is accessible to most of us and oftentimes can be had completely for free! There is an information overload on the internet going on and simply going to waste! So why not take advantage of this amazing food which is provided to us by the 'golden' revenue of the 'written word'. Even if you were to read four pages daily, that will prove sufficient stimuli to reap the benefits to remain staying alert, awake and motivated! Also don't overlook good sound nutritional factors that so many are missing out on in this modern busy society and falling into the bad habits of turning to convenient time-saving fast-food service. Instead of growing/preparing their own fresh foods straight from their ovens onto their their plates.

I would like to invite you to visit my website now and do a quick recce. Maybe you will be urged to download an exciting e-Novel by PDF download, completed gratis! FREE of charge! I guarantee that, once you’ve read the first one of this amazing set of stories in the Hawkspurr Action Adventure Series, you will want to read the lot!

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Emerancia
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