Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Photoread Once - Never Able to Again

About 4 years ago I bought the Photoreading book. I read through the description and steps to photoread. I came to a part in the book that encouraged you to try it out in a portion of the book that wasn't read yet. I flipped to a part and tried it out. It was like the contents of the pages were immediately sucked into my mind and I was quite amazed. Since that time I have tried many times to photoread again and have gotten nowhere. Zero retention. When I try the method, I feel like I am going cross-eyed. Has anyone experienced this issue?

Nadine

Are you looking for that experience again when you PhotoRead or are you letting go and PhotoReading?

Trying too hard often pushes it away from us. Relax and take a playful approach.

As for feeling cross-eyed. You probably are crossing your eyes. In that case I suggest you forget about the blip page for now and use the imaginary X-Technique while PhotoReading.

Remember also to work on the activation part. With out that you mind will not bother to absorb the information because you're not doing anything with it anyway.

Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited February 05, 2005).]

I agreed with AlexK., But I don't understand the 'inaginary T-Technique'.
I only know the imaginary x-technique.

-Harris

I have been though the PhotoReading course twice the last time over twenty years ago. During the first course I had an experience like yours where I suddenly had this brillance of recall. The experience was startling. Like you nothing like that happened again. Paul was the instructor then and said we could take the course again any time if we wanted. So I took him up on his offer.

Still nothing happened to match that first experience so I shelved the photoreading process or so I thought. Since then I have this feeling and can recite things I have glanced at if I just slow down for a second and think about what I saw. Its pretty amazing to people. Was to me too for awhile Now its like feeling my left ear, never occurs to me until someone mentions it.

I also score in the nineties on reading comprehension tests when the average college student rarely gets into the 30...40 range. Does photoreading work? Don't know for sure, I can just do reading things that are pretty amazing to me.

I think I understand the issue now - when my I had my experience the very first time I tried photoreading, I thought that was supposed to happen every time and if it didn't - then it wasn't working. I don't know what facilitated that occurance - maybe my state of mind and lack of expectation - who knows. I currently have been photoreading again and believe it is producing results.

Maybe that time you were relaxed and u used the tangerine technqiqe (in a hurry - sorry for the spelling but i hope u understand.)

Haha...maybe there's too many steps to remember. If you understand what's going on, you'll feel more confident in the system and on tweaking the system to make it more comfortable for oneself.

I experience these problems too. I think it's because I seek the experience again. We are so excited that we did it once, and try to hard to bring that same experience back, but every experience is different.

It's very tempting for me to try to absorb the words consciously, which probably helps to some degree, but I have trouble letting go. But in either case, the result of photoreading makes my mind clearer for some reason. I find myself much more creative, and spontaneous, especially in conversations.