Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer New learner's problem

Thanks guys... feel soo much better now. (DON'T PR THAT ONE, I meant that you tried to kill my comments w/o giving me any credit for being a noobie to PR. Unlike AlexK, you freaking attacked my comments.)

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You're most welcome.

Hmmmm, my fault for posting a advice since I'm still new to all this. Pardon my ignorance.

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As far as activation goes, I spend at least 25 minutes every day activating. "Successful activation" feels like different things, depending on what happens. For example, I was using "The Tinitus Handbook" as "a book" for my PhotoReading 5-7 books a day (to spur spontanious activation). When I actually got around to doing a Preview for it, I noticed I was super-reading and getting everything from it while I was looking for bold text. I stopped doing the "preview" and went right into manual activation. Other books, I get a "I know what he was thinking" experience with the author, where you get the higher-level thought the author was putting into a book, because he had to explain his wordless thoughts with words. Mindmapping helps activation the most, because it "locks in" what you know into another form. Also, you know you have had a successful activation if you can answer your mind-probe questions. For example, with the Tinitus handbook, I put the book down, went to the kitchen, turned on the faucet and put my ear next to it. This action let me know "Will a masker work for me?"

As far as knowing if an activation session is going to be successful, one of the clues I have is understanding the book's structure and layout on an intuitive level. Previewing helps, of course. For example, "Turn to chapter 10," you can open a book and be pretty close to the start of chapter 10.

For spontanious activation, it helps sometimes to just B.S. Yes, actually say things that you have absolutely no support or evidence for. Whenever I do this with a book I haven't had the time to manually activate, I can usually turn to the right page in the book to support what I'm saying. I wouldn't recommend this for exams, though.

Thank you for those replied...
I did learn a lot.
When i try to activate the book i 've read, I still can't activate it successfully. Sometimes, I can read fast sometime..but sometimes not.
I am not sure about what the problem is. I think may be I haven't got the "relax" state when i was photoreading. Is is a crtical factor?

astronomy11, I don't think anything is critical to the system (I'll take flack for that ). Most of these things come in degrees. It's not I'm relaxed enough or I'm not relaxed enough. It's the more I don't worry about it and the more mentally and physically relaxed I am the better it is. Stress and fear create physical barriers to you thought pattern. You are striving for you optimal brain use. If you are running and try to run your fastest, you may not run you fastest for many reasons including trying too hard. However, you are still running.

Same with all the steps of the program. Paul tries to lead us to place were we can achieve our personal best. If we don't quite get everything right, we don't do our personal best.... be just do the best we can at that moment. Playing with it is important, because by using it you will discouver your how to create the fluid and efficient results. It's natural to figure out how to do it.

You've got to watch out for you negative thoughts and doubts. Those are the almost invisible barriers that can stop you from achieving your goals. With what Paul has given us, it's only us that can bring it to fruition or kill it.

I better stop now before Yoda starts piping in.

Iam2