HEALTH TIPS: WHAT PLAYING GAMES WILL DO TO YOUR HEALTH

Generally each and everyday  of a Man's life is packed with a lot of activities, and each has one basic effect or  the other.  Playing games and engaging one's self in one activity or the other that brings pleasure and fun has a lot to do with one's health.  There is a general saying that " All work and no play makes Jack a dull Boy" You’ve probably heard every time you play a game for more than 3 hours that you’re just wasting your time as you are getting nothing from it. Playing games must have some benefits, right? I mean there can be a lot of useful and educational information in it. Also, there are puzzles in games that encourage your brain to think differently to solve the puzzle and unlock the door or whatever the objective in the game it is. So let’s see what benefits you can gain from playing games .

Below are what Playing Games will do to your Health...

1.) Playing games Relive stress: playing games is fun and can trigger the release of hormones known as ENDORPHINS, known as the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. This helps to promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pains.

2.) It improves Brain function: playing games like chess, completing puzzles and other fun activities like the Table tennis that challenge the brain can help prevent memory problems and improve brain function.

3.) Playing games stimulates the mind and boost creativity: young children often learn best and faster when they are playing and that principle applies to adults as well. Playing games can also stimulate your imagination, helping you to adapt to any condition and it also helps to build a problem solving mind.

4.) Playing games improves relationships and connection to others: sharing laughter and fun can foster empathy, compassion, trust and intimacy with others.

5.) Playing games keeps you young and energetic: George Bernard shaw an English man said “we don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” Playing games can boost your energy and vitality and can improve your resistance to diseases, helping you feel on top and at your best.

6.) Playing games helps to develop and improve social skills: social skills are learned in the give and take of playing games such as verbal communication, body language, boundaries, cooperation and teamwork

7.) Play also helps to boost productivity and innovation at work: success at work doesn’t depend on the amount of time you work; it depends upon the quality of your work. And the quality of your work is highly dependent on your well being aided  by playing (GAMES)

8.)Improves your sight: Despite people saying that games can ruin your sight and make you blind, researchers found that playing games actually helps you see better. This happens because usually in games you have to focus on something that is far away and things that are in front of your face. Also, you need to pay attention to many details in order to prevail. This way the muscles that help the iris expand and shrink gets stronger. It’s like going to a gym for eyeball muscles to put it in simpler terms. So go ahead, play games all you want especially if you have problems with your vision, your sight can only get better and better with each hour of the game played.

9.)Learn History: Many games has accurate historical information, especially point and click and games that don’t focus on a simple arcade or hack and slash. So if you like to learn about ancient Greece or any other country you should play games that have their mythology or something about their history in it. You can learn all sorts of stuff, and you’ll be surprised by the amount of seemingly unimportant information these games contain. Try out different genres and find out which one is the most educational. Then just stick to that genre. The importance of the small things matters, because although you might not learn all you can about Greece by playing Age of Mythology, you will get a pretty good idea what their deities were all about and how their inhabitants behaved.

10.) Learn or Upgrade your Language skills: Every modern game and plenty of oldies have an option to change the language. This is extremely useful if you want to learn the language or even increase your knowledge of it. Motivation was always the key in the learning process. And what better motivation do you need than playing a game. To do what the game asks of you, you need to understand the objective. And to get the objective right you need to figure out what they tried to say. And as you progress in whatever language you can advance to more difficult games with more challenging puzzles. So learning a language is definitely one of the possible benefits that we mentioned earlier.

Now that you have even more reason to play video games you can dive into the dark corner of your room and play your favorite game.