There’s something so soothing about sitting down with a good book. It gives you a feeling of being both stimulated and relaxed at the same time. This is so different from just passively watching TV or surfing the internet.
While no one has completely explained why it is so, it has been established that reading is good for your mental health. Watching TV, on the other hand, could actually lower your IQ and it definitely lowers your ability to focus your mind. Videos are a step up, since you can choose educational material. Surfing the net may be the worst option for relaxation and intellectual stimulation.
When you read or look at photographs, your mind becomes fully focused on what you’re doing. When you read, your mind goes at its own pace, becoming more active and focused the more involved you get in your reading. This is a completely different experience from the one you get when you’re multi-tasking online.
The kind of focus you get when you watch television is a kind of blank hypnotic trance. This feels relaxing, but it is not really a healthy kind of relaxation. Reading puts you into another trancelike state, but it is a stimulating one, because your imagination as well as your intellect is engaged, so both the left and right sides of your brain are working in unison.
The same kind of thing applies to looking at still photos instead of videos. Videos take you from one scene to the next, while photos inspire your mind to imagine what would come next.
Don’t think that this is limited to intellectual types of books and photographs. When you look at pictures of gorgeous girls in bikinis, it stimulates your erogenous zones in a much healthier way than erotic videos do. Taylor Timms’ recent release of Bikini Photographs is nothing but a collection of stunning models in bikinis, but it beats adult videos hands-down. As erotica goes, you can’t be this book. Check it out.