I've had the Photoreading Personal Learning Course for about 4 years. I've never had success with it, and I've developed some questions.
In the course, there's an exercise where you basically superread a two page short story in 45 seconds. I honestly don't understand how this is different than speed reading. Because I've read a book about speed reading that encourages using peripheral vision to pick up words, besides relaxation, how is this different?
What is the point of the tangerine technique? Why above and behind the head? It seems as if it would distract me more than anything. I've followed all of the steps and have had no working of activation. Pretty much, I have to read the text, and I still don't get much from it because the information isn't arising to the conscious mind, it's just entering the conscious mind as I read through. Do you think it's possible that I should maybe work with the feelings I get a lot more? Because when it comes to that, I'm a pretty heartless read, it's all information bound. That's probably why I don't read novels, because the lack of practical information doesn't interest me. Also, it leads me to believe that I'm doing the Photoreading step incorrectly. About trigger words. It seems like the examples Paul Sheele was giving, was simply verbs, and I didn't understand how the individual words carry the meaning.
The other day, I Photoread the Photoreading book to see what I'm doing wrong, and of course I tried activating the material, and no matter what, it felt like I was limited to the information was only coming into my conscious mind. Because I didn't get any feelings, or impressions to look here or there, it just felt like the way I read normally. Also, if I have a bunch of questions, what happens if all of the questions are answered. How can I be sure that all of the information I Photoread will be brought to conscious awareness? This is important because often I'm reading textbooks, because I'm still in highschool, and it's possible that information may be skipped if just the questions are answered and that's all there is to it. Because I have answered the questions before, but it was only because I had to seek and discover the text for myself by reading through, or looking for the bold headings. I've worked with the dictionary thing, and I haven't had much success with it at all. Are there any suggestions anyone can give, or answers to my questions that may help? Thanks,
~Adam
