PhotoReading and Belief
Sep 08
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It’s difficult to succeed when you don’t believe that you can.This same challenge applies to succeeding with PhotoReading. If you think it’s something magical. Something that only mystic with special abilities can do then you will hinder your success with the PhotoReading system.
Let me tell you the secret of PhotoReading.
It’s not mystical, It’s not magic. The system as a whole uses skills you naturally use everyday. If you are reading this you have the most important skill for PhotoReading mastery. You already know how to read. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow you naturally read it’s your ability to understand this at whatever your current speed of reading is.
PhotoReading is the next step in reading. The skills that you should have been taught when you entered high school. What you learned in Elementary or Primary school is what you needed to know to master the first stage of reading. Getting the basics. The PhotoReading system takes you to the next level.
When you learn PhotoReading in a live seminar, home study course or even the book you will notice that you are taught some additional reading skills. Skills that help set your focus for reading. You could easily double your reading speed by applying these basic skills.
The PhotoReading step also uses some of your natural skills. If you drive a car you use this skill more than you realise to get you to your destination. Brain research also shows more and more that there is more perceptual powers in the networks of your non-conscious mind than your conscious mind can access. To say we use only 1% of our mind when talking about the conscious mind is an over estimate. If you ever consider the art of reading you might notice that it involves a lot of non-conscious processes.
Do you ever go back to re-read a sentence because, you didn’t understand it? Who told you you didn’t understand it? Your non-conscious processes of course.
Do you ever re-read something because you realised you missed a word or read it wrong? Again, who told you? You’re no longer reading to your primary school teacher or tutor. So it was a non-conscious part of your mind that is monitoring this. You have a non-conscious part of your mind watching over you as you read.
With the PhotoReading step you give your non-conscious mind a mental snap shot of the text you wish to read. Don’t worry about your mind being able to handle this non-consciously. It can. As you have proved to yourself if you’ve ever re-read words or sentences of a book. The non-conscious mind is already working for you.
The challenge is realising that the PhotoReading step is not done consciously and it requires trusting that part of you that you trust for so many other experiences. You know when you need to go to the bathroom don’t you?
One of the misunderstandings about the PhotoReading system is “reading at 25,000 words a minute”. It isn’t reading at 25,000 words a minute it’s PhotoReading at 25,000 to 100,000 words a minute. One is conscious the other is not.
Reading is done consciously and cannot comfortably exceed 1000 words a minute. Faster than that you have to start skimming. If you take the figure that the conscious mind can only handle 7 plus or minus 2 bits of information a second and allow that one word is one bit. The maximum reading speed is 560 words a minute. The average reading speed is 190 words a minute.
PhotoReading is done with the non-conscious mind and isn’t satisfying to the conscious mind because it isn’t reading as we know it. The non-conscious mind takes in 2 million bits of information a second. Therefore non-consciously 25,000 to 100,000 is a leisurely pace. PhotoReading is like pre-reading.
Since PhotoReading is not done with conscious mind we run into a couple of other stumbling blocks that hinder belief that the PhotoReading system works. I will continue on the subject in my next post.
© Alex K Viefhaus
