Mike,
No offense taken. The confusion arose because i answered your first post. Somehow i intuited that you were unsuccessful w/ PhRing and were using the CRI product, but it was not stated by you.
Here's the thing about h/s. Say you were a very uptight person. When you first listen to h/s, you will experience great relief from this uptightness. It will feel like a blessing. This is often the time when people estatically write to CRI. So many of their testimonials are: I've been using AP for 2..3..4..weeks & WOW 
Where did the uptightness go? NOWHERE
It'll come back in a about 6-8 weeks. It could be physical sickness or irritation or over eating. The body/mind/spirit will process it and you will have to release it in order to experience the real freedom h/s is capable of bringing.
There's just no way to fully explain it to people b/c it's your process. However, i've read so many posts and testimonials that there is a pattern and it is the pattern i'm presently speaking to. Your process may be entirely different.
Now that you have explained more about your situation, i can say that Silva techniques, especially their programming, would be of great benefit to you. Please NEVER settle for speed reading It's a disservice to your brain
Hang in there and in your most playful manner of total carelessness do the PhRing course again.
Because i'm old and had no pressure on me to learn PhRing yesterday, i learned it easily. But, it opened up to me my total lack of trust in my intuition or my other-than-conscious mind. Intuition training has helped me greatly & i've done that by reading books...and practice... Took the car to the mechanic and he kept saying this and that was wrong. Practice... i guessed the bill would be %62.80. The bill was $61.99. For me this was success
Fine tuning.
There is NO high like a PhRing high. Please don't settle for speed reading when you have untapped abilities waiting to aid you in every aspect of your life.
I can't recommend GC yet, but i can recommend Silva...just get that little blue book for $7.99 by him. And, yes, h/s may very well help you w/ activation skills, but it's a little risky. Something tells me that anyone who quit on PhRing and was in a PhD program has issues of some kind. Striving for the higher academic levels in one's field and quitting on a product that is so easy to use that even 12, 13 yr. old kids are blasting away at successfully says something.
It opened me up to my vulnerablities. I was instantly successful w/ PhRing and activation and i felt so threatened by it all that i was too embarassed to even tell Dana. Our genius can be very scary when it actually shows up.