Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer learning photoreading from the BOOK alone

has anyone any good experiences of this as I am clearly not suceeding!

thanks in advance for all replies

lespaulsarecool (very!)

Hi Les

I learned entirely from the book. The biggest thing I've noticed is that there is no one to guide you and hold your hand when you learn from the book. It is much more important, I think, to play with the system and pay close attention to intuition.

The biggest thing I've found is don't set your expectations too high. This is a system which requires practice. You are literally reorganizing the way your brain accesses it's information and that type of cognitive change does _not_ happen over night.

You also must be extremely clear and precise in the purpose you set before you start the photoreading step. I find that the more precise I am, the better the results, and if I can pair the words of my purpose with a visualization of my purpose, it is much more powerful.

For example, when I enter the flow state, I use 3 affirmations before I start photoreading, and they each have associated visualizations:

1) "When I photoread, my concentration is absolute."

For this, I visualize a "cone of silence" around me - I literally see the air shimmering and words and sounds bouncing off of it.

2) "Everything I photoread is deeply and completely absorbed and integrated by my inner mind."

Here, I visualize myself photoreading and the knowledge rushing into my head much like water which is absorbed by my brain much like a sponge.

3) "I'm photoreading this book _____ for the purpose of _____."

This one is specific to the purpose I have for that session. Usually the visualization is something like seeing myself doing the activity I'm studying (programming, schoolwork/tests, etc.) and I see the knowledge "bubbling up" from my inner mind. When the bubbles "reach the top" I can see the information they contain and can then use it for my activity.

The most important thing is to play with the system. Make it your own. Find what works for you by engaging the creative resources you have. Before you go to sleep, ask your unconscious mind to dream about the books you've photoread. Use mind mapping to engage your creativity.

Remember, the knowledge and information is in there - your mission, should you choose to accept it - is to figure out how to gain access to the info.

Have Fun!!
Mike

I learned entirely from the book. The only thing I didn't like about learning from the book, was that it took me about 7 months to learn the whole thing. Maybe I was doing something wrong. I don't know. All I know is that I did eventually learn it, and it was very exciting when I did. If you don't have much money to spend (like me), and you don't mind playing around and figuring things out on your own, the book is the way to go.

All I have is the book right now and I'm learning alot from it and making up my own exercises and using all the steps on 1 book a day in addition to photoreading 5 books before going to bed. For some reason this helps me sleep alot- I've had trouble sleeping my whole life- and the possibility of dreaming about these books actually makes me interested in seeing what I dream about.

I could say this book has changed my life but it hasn't really changed my outward life at all but it has changed alot of things inwardly. I've always slow read alot of books and was always in the habit of trying to read to GET THINGS and now I read to see what will come to me.

I have a whole wall full of books I have never had the time to get to and I'm cranking thru them. I'm comming up with some strange opening and closing affirmations and sometimes I'm even asking questions to the books before I open them: "What do you have that I need right now?" My normal habit of reading every word of everything I read is GONE and I now when I read a magazine automatically do the steps and find myself subvocalizing very few sentences and getting to the useful information very quickly.

At work last week the managers came out with a new employee handbook and at the meeting I photoread the whole thing in about 30 seconds and before all of them were even passed out to everyone I said "short term disability pay is 60% but you didn't say for how many weeks that would last" and everyone just stared at me. Then everyone flipped to the page and I was right and I didn't focus on anything and only did the photoreading step. I THINK I picked that up because I knew a coworker was going to have hip surgery in a month and she had asked me if I knew about that weeks before. So, something is clicking in my mind and maybe when we photoread we answer questions we don't consciously know we have at the moment.

I'm impressed, needless to say and I'm saving for the home study course and will probably go to the seminar when it comes near me.

thanks for the ideas MIKE but we can all quote the book!!

Hi LESPAULSARECOOOL,

Actually I didn't know I was quoting the book. I haven't had the book in my possession for over three months - I lent it to a friend. I was pulling all of that from my unconscious and from my own experience.

Sorry for wasting your time with my attempt to help .

Mike

Hello,

I read Mike's posting above, and I have a question for you. He said that the most important thing was to have a clear and precise purpose before you start PRing. I am right now reading Rousseau's Social Contract. My purpose is to learn about that topic, of which I have limited knowledge. How can I create a clear purpose with that topic? In other words, would a broad purpose like "I want to learn about the Social Contract" be enough?

I have had several activation sessions with the book and it doesn't seem to be gelling. What should I do..continue doing more activation sessions or rapid read it or what?

Joe

Hi Joe,

This question was hard for me to answer too, and I'm still learning. Perhaps a different question will help: Why are you reading this book? A test? Personal interest? Work?

If its for a test, my purpose would be, "To get an A on the test over this material on Thursday." If its personal interest I would say something like, "To extract the information which is interesting and useful to me." For work: "To extract the information which will be useful in my day-to-day work."

I've also found that since I'm a highly visual person, adding a visualization to that purpose is extremely powerful. I explained that pretty well above but if you need more info or some ideas let me know.

Mike