When reading, you feel upset, unable to concentrate, unable to understand the meaning of the text, unable to remember, anxious, anxious, etc., which means you have stepped on the pit of wrong reading.
The above symptoms are actually mild anxiety. We call it reading anxiety here. Reading anxiety is not a disease or a terrible one. It will appear as long as you read, but it seriously destroys our interest in reading and reduces reading efficiency.
Reading is originally relaxed and pleasant, but why does reading make us feel anxious? How to solve anxiety? The following are the practical information summarized after personal experience, which you can collect and pass on to each other.
First, after not reading for too long, I suddenly found a relatively difficult book to read.
If a person who has not exercised physically for too long and suddenly undergoes a lot of high-intensity training, it will inevitably cause muscle soreness and swelling. Similarly, reading is the same. When you don’t read for too long and suddenly read difficult content, your brain will send you a signal: "This book is too difficult, I can’t do it!" And we often ignore this signal and continue to read in a way that moves ourselves, so the brain begins to resist - creating anxiety.
My suggestion is: first read some simple, interesting, and short articles or poems to "warm up" the brain, gradually cultivate interest in reading, step by step, and get to the best.
Second, long-term reading causes brain fatigue, and the brain begins to resist reading.
The brain starts to resist reading and will also cause anxiety. The longer the reading time, the more anxiety accumulates. The solution is to avoid long-term reading. When long-term reading cannot be avoided, you can use the method of reading in time segments.
For example: Use your mobile phone to set a countdown alarm clock for 50 minutes (can be adjusted according to your personal tolerance). During these 50 minutes, do not drink water and try not to go to the toilet, just like in school. When the countdown is over, the alarm clock will stop reading and set a countdown alarm clock of 10-15 minutes (can be adjusted according to the individual). In these 10 minutes, you can make a cup of tea, go to the bathroom, and do some housework. This not only does not waste time, but also rests the brain and improves learning efficiency.
It is important to emphasize here that you should not watch short videos when you take a break or start a game. First: Short videos and games will make us ignore the passage of time; second: intense picture stimulation and a lot of spam cannot let the brain rest; third: When we return to reading, our brain needs to adapt to the text again, so short videos and opening games will not achieve the purpose of relaxing the brain.
3. The expectations are too high to achieve reading goals, resulting in stress and tension.
expectations are too high and worried that they will not achieve it. They always keep staring at the goal and reading desperately, but they put too much pressure on themselves. It seems that I have read a lot, but in the end I remember nothing, which is time-consuming and laborious. You must have a normal mind when reading, and you will not be able to eat too much. Appropriately lower your expectations, focus on the contents of the book, and maintain a slow and playful attitude, and don’t blame yourself too much even if you don’t achieve your goal. When reading
, don’t think about how many pages you see, but sink into the text and think carefully. You must gain something after reading it and do not be a slave to words. Reading is like lifting weights, and the weight is added bit by bit.
Fourth, the inability to concentrate to force oneself to concentrate leads to anxiety, and the inability to remember is inconsistent with forced memory and anxiety.
I put these two together because attention and memory can cooperate with each other and they have a certain connection with the brain.
If you improve your attention, you will remember more. If you have a short-term memory, it will be easier to improve your attention.
Give an example to explain short-term memory: For example, when we copy books, some people copy one word at a time, and some people copy one paragraph at a time. The former has poor short-term memory ability, while the latter has strong short-term memory.
People with strong short-term memory can look at ten lines at a glance. They do not need to read the previous content repeatedly while reading, easily connect the context and think deeply, so that their attention will be improved. This is a virtuous cycle, it is easy to enter the flow mode, and the efficiency will naturally be improved.
Let’s talk about flow mode (English Mental flow) : If you do one thing firmly, continuously and focus without being disturbed by other things, you will be full at this time and feel full, and then you will unknowingly enter a state of mind. At this time, you will feel extremely excited and your efficiency will be doubled.
If you want to improve your attention and short-term memory at the same time, you must maintain our brains well.
To maintain the brain, you must ensure sufficient sleep and allow the brain to have sufficient rest and recovery. Secondly, do not get out of bed immediately after waking up in the morning, wash, look at your phone or do other things. Just like when the computer is turned on, wait until the system is fully turned on before running the program. Don’t play games or look at your phone before going to bed at night, so that your brain has sufficient buffering time before going to bed.
Memory secret: Don’t do anything else after reading the book at night, especially don’t play with your phone, and go to bed after emptied, so that your brain will help you secretly remember what you have read when you fall asleep. Students can try it, and go to sleep while memorizing the text silently.
Try not to let the brain have a mount program. For example, when you wake up in the morning and receive a call from your leader, he asks you to do something at night, but you are not in a state this day. You will not breathe a sigh of relief until you finish the tasks assigned by your leader in the evening. The tasks given to you by your leader early in the morning are put into the brain memory, so that the brain memory will be occupied, and there will be insufficient memory when handling other transactions. You are always thinking about the tasks assigned by the leader. If you want to avoid the overflow of brain memory, we can record certain things on your mobile phone to reduce the burden on the brain by useless programs, because the things that the brain always cares about will definitely affect our reading quality.
The benefits of reading are too many: First, it can increase knowledge and improve literacy; second, it can broaden your horizons and distinguish right from wrong; third, it can cure mental emptiness; fourth, it can improve people's cultivation and realm... Therefore, there are words such as "the abdomen is beautiful when you have poetry and books", "the book has its own beauty, and the book has its own golden house", so that we can read more and summarize our own reading methods in the process of reading.
