Hi, Nerokis
Try out a little experiment, friend.
First go to ye library. Hunt among the kinds of books you customarily enjoy. Find a title that is new to you but that somehow "calls out" to you.
Take the book and go to a table.
Ask yourself what kind of stuff you might look for in this book. If it's nonfiction, casually look in the table of contents till you see a topic or three that feels "nice" to you. If it's fiction, look at the different characters or locations to find some that feel "interesting" to you, just casually looking quickly through the book.
Then do the serious stuff. Imagine there's a nice big X covering the whole page. Each page. Now imagine there's a big camera hidden back of your eyes, that is taking in the whole X and, incidentally, everything else on the page. Go through each page of the book imagining the X's and having the camera "click" on each page.
Don't hassle it when your fingers cover up part of the page in order to hold the book or to turn the page. Have some faith that the Higher Self, your internal high-speed computer, will make sense out of the page anyways.
Make up a chant of your own that is very simple, in order to aid your mind to be on track. It can be fun, like "I love X."
Or you can try Scheele's chants.
Allow yourself a time of no more than 2 seconds for each page. That will feel like "work" I assure you. If you should choose in the future to get a more indepth photoreading of 7 seconds/page, it will feel like "hard work"!!
Afterwards, rest a half hour and return to the book. This time you will try out his "rapid reading" which is fun! If you feel you need an indepth reading, do the rapid read process, covering *each* page of the book.
After you master the main acts of photoreading, do try out the questions Scheele poses to aid in integrative reading. They really work!
And good luck!
best wishes,
Mike
moochy_hope@yahoo.com
