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Originally posted by solarus:
Your comments are well taken, but I am not refering about your mind wandering into another areas of photoreading the book, but instead like you are trying to Photoread and your inner mind goes like: "hey I forgot to wet the plants" or " Gee I wonder what my cousin's neighbor is doing right now".I mean off subject thinking that is not related to PRing.
For example what good is to say "Relax" and "see the page" etc. if your concentration is one that one phone call you forgot to do, or the task you need to do tomorrow, if you cannot concentrate in what you are doing RIGHT NOW, then you wont be efficient.
That the one point I agree with the web-site Reading Genious when he says one of the major problems is that people don't concentrate in what they are doing RIGHT NOW but let the mind wander.
Like I said, take it as you will.
The mind tends to wonder more when it is not interested in what it is doing. People have more focus on certain activities than others. Some can become totally absorbed in stamp collecting, others in gardening, some in painting or building. This is more due to their natual intelligences. The school system concentrates on the linguistic and logical mathematical Intelligences. These ironically, are not everyones dominant capabilities. There are 6 others often overlooked (for the list see page 129 of the 3rd edition of the PhotoReading book by Paul R Scheele).
One of the reason why the mind will wonder during the 'Photoreading' stage of the process is because it isn't required. We don't want the conscious mind to be active or take an active role during the photoreading stage. Since the conscious mind doesn't switch off easily during our waking states we need to give it something to do.
What can we give it do do? Something that will help us to keep the appropriate photoreading state, see the page in photofocus and maintain the steady page turning rhythm. Hence the chant. To keep the conscious mind occupied. Thinking about 'other stuff' during the photoreading phase really only has the danger of pulling you out of the photoreading state without you noticing that you've allowed beta brainwave activity to overtake the photoreading brainwave activity. So we keep returning to the chant.
The priority of the photoreading is to maintain photofocus and turn the pages at a steady rhythm so that our brains are in the most productive state. To help maintain the state we say the chant.
Alex
