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CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

How reading fiction makes you smarter & happier

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I talk about the many brain benefits of reading fiction! This is a replay of a Neurolive webinar I did on my app. For the full webinar AD-free, please see neurocycle.app.


Did you know that reading fantasy fiction is a great way to direct the neuroplasticity of your brain (or the brain’s ability to change) in a healthy direction? It can not only increase your creativity and emotional intelligence, but also your actual intelligence!





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0:00.0

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0:38.8

Hi, I'm your host Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mess.

0:39.8

Before I begin today's podcast, I just want to share with you that I just spend a few days with my wonderful little granddaughter Daphne who's now seven months old and one of the things that she absolutely loves is lying on the back drinking a bottle while I read to her and she just gets so

0:55.2

absorbed and just seeing her little eyes flashing and the smiles on her faces and the

0:59.4

giggle and it just made me want to share this podcast with you on a really quick way of

1:07.1

instantly improving your mental health, which is through reading fiction.

1:10.9

Reading fiction is an amazing way of helping us get our psycho neurobiology

1:16.2

into the right kind of frame where we can really focus on managing on mental health and on helping us to actually move forward through

1:24.8

the day and through the challenges of life. So I'd love you to join me in today's

1:28.8

episode as I share one of my recent dual lives that I did in my neurocycle app and I dive deeply into the

1:36.0

importance of reading fiction and how this can help you with your mental health and

1:39.7

if you are hearing this you're currently not in the Neurocycle app, and you'll only be hearing the first half of this conversation.

1:46.3

And in order to hear the full episode, you'll need to subscribe to the Neurocycle App,

1:50.5

where you can listen to the full episode in the New Year Life section.

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