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I'd like to offer some pointers on the photoreading steps... since it is quite possible you are ready to put the method aside just on the verge of a break through.

1. I hope you mean accelerative learning state, when you state your affirmations. Tanderine technique. Photofocus is for photoreading. Getting relaxed and ready for learning is the first step.

Re your affirmations. Short and to the main point is better... the more rules you apply the greater the danger of imposing blocks. Let me expain using your examples. The first 2 I think state your true purpose exactly... you're photoreading the book for a test and your are looking for specific details for that test. Enough said. The next affirmation imposes limits... the inner mind is very literal however it also knows for a fact that no *one* book will give you excellent grades alone and no *one* book will win you a scholarship... it knows more is required do... so now it thinks your joking or perhaps decides it wants to teach you a lesson about your expectations.

Back to my point. When stating affirmations the shorter and to the point the better. Make sure when stating affirmations in relation to studying it meets the rules of being in the now and for your current purpose when studying. You are basiclly affirming... Why you are reading this? - for a test. What do you want out of it? - information that will apply to the test... How are you going to do this? - with absolute focus on the book in front of me right now... When are you going to do this? - now... Why are you going to do this? - to obtain *my best* possible passing grade... (** for readers of this forum; if you're confident you can achieve As great, but if it is a subject where you usually have Cs it takes a leap of faith to impose As so always aim for *your best*... you never know it could be As ) Where are you going to do this? - right here.

2.If you are PRing a book for study trigger words are a must. It is nice when they give you a list, add some more of your own it will help you dig deeper into the subject. We all think differently and as they say 'there are many paths that lead to Rome'. By looking for you own trigger words you provide your own links in harmony with the way you prefer to think.

4. That a good place to restate your purpose just before you go into photofocus.

5. I trust you have already photoread the whole book. And are applying the 2 chapters before and 2 chapters after idea when photoreading specific sections of the text book. By including the 4 extra chapters you are giving your inner mind the additional information that allows it to make more sense of the 4 required chapters. The inner mind tends to ignore presenting information that to it makes no sense. Remember the inner mind functions differently to the conscious mind... it likes to handle as much information as it can get... consciously you only need to activate the 4 chapters required for the test.

8. Ask specific questions. It is harder to ask questions from trigger words in a broad subject... having read them and plonked them at random on a sheet of paper (so you can add branches when info comes up in relation to them while activating. Plonking them on paper is called making a start. In all probability you will throw it out once you've revised your notes.)... got to the first chapter... turn the heading into a question... put who, what, why, when, where, how or which in front of heading and subheads... one of them will turn it into a meaningful question. Then SR and dip that section for the answer. If you want more dept out of that section ask another question... you might repeat this 3 times in one section answering who what and why... thats a bit to add to a mind map . Remember to activate in 20 to 30 minute session. and take breaks between each. I found SR & dipping for 20 minutes then adding to my mind map for 5 minutes and 5 minute break. (I allow 10 minutes for mind mapping yet usually find I'm done in 5). After a 5 minute break I repeat SR & dipping Mind map and then take a 10 to 15 minute break and repeat or call it quits.

The seperate mind maps for colonies idea for a sounds good to me. Once you got them seperately sorted you can combine them onto on biggie. Make a master mind map for making the seperate one, One covering all the points you want to include in each of the smaller ones... so you can refer to when preparing the others. It's purpose becomes telling you what information you want on each, E.g. place, location, people, key event, dates, etc. Pretty hard to explain in detail. Perhaps you already understand what I mean? Since this post is long enough already I'll leave it at that.

Alex