Reading is Thinking Too

My mother thought reading was important. Still does. She is 79 years old and probably the most prolific reader in our 50 member family. When I was a kid Mother would visit the library to make sure the "Bookmobile" was going to come by our house during the summer months. Reading has always been part of my life, and is largely responsible for the way I Think.

When you are reading, you are thinking the words you are reading AND you are having thoughts about the words you are reading. You are thinking these words;the words on this page. Read these sentences out loud. "My thinking determines how I feel and what I do. My thinking is my reality. I think every moment of every day. I can learn to think thoughts that make my life truly happy and content." You read those words, you said those words and you thought those words.

You have read words that caused you to feel comforted, or humored or angry or whatever. Your thoughts were directed by the words you were reading. Reading is thinking. If you are trying to get a direction for your thinking, trying to "slow your thinking" or trying to learn how to think a certain way, I suggest you read/read/read/read. If you "hate to read" and therefore do not, I suggest you get out of your self-imposed limitation and prison of your own narcissism by picking up something worthwhile to read.

Reading thoughts that have been written is thinking too. Go ahead and do some classical thinking by reading a classic.