{"id":31,"date":"2020-03-19T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discover2learn.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:41:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:41:46","slug":"reading-can-help-reduce-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/read\/reading-can-help-reduce-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#8216;can help reduce stress&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds, according to new research.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Psychologists believe this is because the human mind has to concentrate on reading and the distraction of being taken into a literary world eases the tensions in muscles and the heart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read full post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/5070874\/Reading-can-help-reduce-stress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>, 30 March 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two thirds, according to new research. &#8220;Psychologists believe this is because the human mind has to concentrate on reading and the distraction of being taken into a literary world eases the tensions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}