Reading receptively

Thrush

They say that if you want to write you must read as much as you can.I found reading Seamus Heaney useful.But there is more than one kind of reading.The kind I find best is to read as if you are looking at a picture.To open your mind and let  the sentences flow in like water.I don’t find  reading in a critical way helpful.If I read  in this open way them my mind will choose what to remember,what matters.When I ws young I read a novel every day.Almost.But reading some fiction one is always rushing ahead looking for the answer if it’s a thriller.
One might say that reading the way I describe is “feminine” that is it is receptive like a woman is to her man.Maybe you don’t like that way of  describing it.After all men are receptive to ideas, in conversation etc.And mystics are receptive towards God