Want to Reduce Stress? Read!

A recent scientific study confirmed what I have long suspected -- reading can help reduce stress and lower blood pressure. As an author, I can't tell you how much that thrills me. It's nice to know every time somebody picks up a Chloe Files book Chloe is not only protecting the town of New Salem from ghosts and demons, but the reader from future heart problems!

Reading, according to the survey, forces you to focus and shut out worry and outside stresses. As I have said in this blog in the past, reading helps you escape everyday life concerns for a few hours, eases tension. The study reported that reading did indeed reduce muscle tension and slowed the heart rate.

Listening to music came in second, incidentally, so if you are one of those folks who likes to read with music playing in the background, you may no longer need those life insurance premiums.

So I wonder, does that make us authors fitness gurus? It would be nice to be a guru of some kind. It sounds cool being a guru. Yep, a new term -- Ocular Cognitive Guru. Or something.

Of course I recommend you pick up a Chloe Files or Nightmare Club book to start feeling better right this moment, but lots of wonderful authors out there need your support and you actually get a very positive health benefit back. Reading may not be quite as good as sex, but on the other hand you won't have to worry about BTDs...Book Transmitted Diseases. It's win-win, right?

Will you believe?
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Welcome to New Salem...The Dead are waiting...
THE CHLOE FILES #1: Ashes to Ashes by Howard Hopkins
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