The PhotoReading, is a unique method of processing printed information whereby you obtain a divergent gaze with your eyes and ‘Photo Read’ at approximately a page per second, allowing your subconscious mind to take in information off the printed page for an entire book in 5 minutes or less. Sounds like a pretty substantial claim, and some have even tried to toss PR (PhotoReading) out the window, dismissing it as a hoax, scam, and not worthy of your time.
With PhotoReading, you subconsciously take in the printed information out of a book, and then consciously ‘activate’ that information upon going back through the material in a number of short passes. How does this work? Well, it works in five very simple steps,
Step 1: Prepare – In the first step of this system, u walks through entering a brainwave frequency state deemed the ‘accelerative learning state,’ or more commonly known as the alpha state. The accelerative learning state is a condition of relaxed alertness where you are loose, free to act, and yet paying attention well and highly proactive in your actions. With this first step, you develop a mindset and attitude of plowing through material without worry, and also developing a purpose for what information you want out of whatever it is you’re reading.
Step 2: Preview – In the preview step, you slide through the information, gathering subtitles, keywords, and trigger words which determine the core content of the book. An interesting fact about many books is that only about 9%-14% of the book is the actual important material for most given purposes in going through them; the rest is much of the time only ‘filler’ material. But no matter what the material is that you’re going through: only a limited portion of the text is necessary for understanding, and this is important to have. Essentially in these first two steps, you’re determining what the book has to offer you, your purpose for going through the book, and also the gist of what the book is all about.
Step 3: PhotoRead – The actual ‘PhotoRead’ step is a lot of fun, for some, and for others this entire thing can be a bit tricky. Through an even focus in the eyes, or a ‘divergent gaze’ you flip through every single page of the book. In putting all the text into an even focus, you’re bypassing any conscious interference that your mind may have in processing the material. Given the concept that the subconscious is virtually infinite in its ability to process information over the conscious mind, this is an important component to the system as a whole. This gaze is essentially the same gaze you give to that of the ‘Magic Eye’ books, or stereogram images.
Step 4: Activate – In ‘Activation,’ you finally go into something that more clearly resembles what the majority of us know to be normal reading. You open the book back up, and through a number of techniques such as Super Reading, dipping, and other terms you’re going through the center columns of the pages, and picking out portions of the material that are important to your purpose and important to what you need to know out of the book. Activation is essentially getting involved and interacting with the material; this is the most active kind of interaction you can take part in out of anything else you’ll see, Activation is all about bringing the book to life, until the book as a whole ‘gels.’
Step 5: Rapid Read -The thing that differentiates rapid reading from normal reading, however, is the fact that this step takes place after the first four steps, and is completely optional. Rapid
Reading is going through the book, reading it, from start to finish when you’ve decided that there’s more you may want from the material than what you’ve already gotten, but you’re just not quite sure what it is you’re looking for.
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