It might help to use self-hypnosis, imagestreaming, or Paraliminals. After working with trance for a while getting into the accelerated learning state should come naturally. For an article on how to imagestream go to:
www.winwenger.com .
Since you say your eyes strain you might be trying to see the word on the pages. When Photoreading, just relax when you Photofocus and trust your unconscious to absorb all the information you Photoread.
