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Follow the activation techniques to learn the materials consciously. That stuff will be easily remembered as time goes on.

For more spontaneous activation PhotoRead 3-10 books a day for a month to three months and you will find it happening regularly.

I got the book not that long ago and I wonder something after reading this.

Does it actually help to photoread? Or do the steps of activation do enough to cover the material consciously, that the photoreading step is unneccessary?

As you said yourself....just keep activating. But activating requires going over it consciously. So what's the point of the subconscious step?

Activation is all about building new connections to all the patterns of text you absorbed during the PhotoReading step, "the subconscious part."

Each time you activate, you "burn in" new connections between your conscious mind and your inner mind. This is how you are able to get through and comprehend three times faster than regular old reading.

Try it out! Do the 5-day test on page 76.

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Originally posted by sbbqb7n16:
I got the book not that long ago and I wonder something after reading this.

Does it actually help to photoread? Or do the steps of activation do enough to cover the material consciously, that the photoreading step is unneccessary?

As you said yourself....just keep activating. But activating requires going over it consciously. So what's the point of the subconscious step?

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In the PR of 3-10 books a day do you activate all of these books the next day or is just the Photo Reading of the books enough to get yourself to spontaneous activation after a while. Also, is some of the books I am going to need to be reading and activating are as much as 700 - 1200 pages, one of these could be the same amount of material as 3 - 10 200 page books.

You only need to be activating one of the books. It is suggested you PR 5 books and activate one book completely a week. This would work out to only one 20 minute activation session a day. Less as you move one.

I would say activate one book at a time. If you have the book gel in 5 days or 3 days then start activating another.

I've always assumed that 3 to 10 books meant 600 to 2000 pages. I think it would be fine to PR a single large book. However, I think you should keep to shorter and non-fiction books for the activation. This isn't to say you can't work on activating a chapter at a time in that big text book. The smaller non-fiction books are just probably easy to see success. Having said that, I think that if you have high confidence in your natural ability to exploit the PWMS and you are highly motivated to own the material in the text then you could have great success in PR a big text.

I just don't like to see people turning to PR at exam time to save them. They put a lot of pressure on themselves, and negative emotions (fear) and lack of sleep can block the process. I think that some people can do it and master the system very well, under these conditions, but most will be setting themselves up for failure.

I hate when I get negative. AlexK would have just said DO IT, and Play With It, and See how it works for you. He is right. It can work for you. However, I can help think of all the people I've known scrambling for a life-line when the deadline is charging at them. They are not the people I would say are in the correct state for the PWMS. However, they are the people that have the most to benefit from such a system.

Sorry, I started rambling.

Good luck,

Iam2

I totally agree with the above statement... when I purchased the Photoreading course, I only really attempted the PRWMS at exam time. I put a lot of pressure on myself (and the credibility of the system!) to do well, right away. And when it didn't work out, I got discouraged.

Now that I am graduated from university, I finally have the time to explore a wide range of material that I couldn't look at before due to time constraints. I decided to give the PRWMS a try again, no pressure. If the system didn't work, it wouldn't matter.

People have done the same thing here, time and time again, and I was no exception. It worked for me. After relaxing, and not really worrying if my technique was perfect (eg, wondering the whole time if I was in alpha, if I was scanning correctly, etc.), things just started to gel.

Believe, relax, and don't pressure yourself. My results aren't an epiphany, but definitely good enough to convince me that the system works and encourage me to keep using it.

My favourite "trick" I used on myself so far was to "direct learn" 6 books on NLP. I figured that if the PRWMS had some of its roots in NLP, then this might help. It certainly has. I've been using NLP tactics, using my submodalities, and other simple tricks with complicated names, to increase my success. 80% - 90% success rate with the Dictionary Game, these days.

Ok, enough of my blabbering. I'm excited if you can't already tell.

[This message has been edited by Phaertes (edited March 13, 2003).]