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Hi!

I have a few questions about PhotoReading.

During the process of photofocusing are the words on the page supposed
to be blurred or all clear?

Im a little uncertain about the process of preparing and activating as well.
For example when reading a novel. I find it difficult so figure out what questions I am supposed to
ask myself to make the activating process later easier? What type of questions
are usually good enough?

Im extremely eager to learn PhotoReading and wont quit before I learn it, but
im not sure im doing all the things correctly...

Greatful for any answers and tips.

Calmcacil

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Isnt there anyone who can help me with these questions? Please!

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Hi!

I have a few questions about PhotoReading.

During the process of photofocusing are the words on the page supposed
to be blurred or all clear?

Im a little uncertain about the process of preparing and activating as well.
For example when reading a novel. I find it difficult so figure out what questions I am supposed to
ask myself to make the activating process later easier? What type of questions
are usually good enough?

Im extremely eager to learn PhotoReading and wont quit before I learn it, but
im not sure im doing all the things correctly...

Greatful for any answers and tips.

Calmcacil




Hi Calmcacil,

When your eyes are in PhotoFocus you will see things slightly blurred in the beginning. Once you have done a couple of PhotoFocus sessions on book(s), you will notice that your vision is getting clearer again, just like in the normal hard focussed state. So don't get too hung up on seeing words blurry or not, you just have to focus on the "ghost" part of the page in the middle of the book or on the imaginary "x" as described in the book.

In response to preparing, I usually postview rather than prepare. When you postview, you look through the book for things that are related to your purpose. Then you can ask yourself questions about the things you encounter, like "how does this work? what are the details of..? and why is that the case?". Those type of questions usually do the trick for me.

Greetings,

Tom.

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Blurred when photoreading is fine for most people it should be blurred when photoreading. You are not reading when photoreading the whole idea or concept is you are exposing the book to the other than conscious mind when photoreading you don't want to be consciously reading the book when photoreading. Again you are exposing the book to the other than conscious mind.

Based on the information you gave me you were photoreading correctly.

Too many people focus & worry about the blip. When photoreading look at the 4 corners of the book & notice the whiteness of the pages.You will be getting the full benefits of photoreading by doing that.

As far as questions go your questions should be directly related to your purpose. Purpose is key. The whole thing revolves around your purpose so be real clear on what your purpose is. So what is your purpose for photoreading & activating this novel? What do you want from this novel? How are you going to use or apply this information from this novel once you obtain it? Have a very strong real clear purpose & you should have no problems producing mind-probing questions.

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Calmcacil,

Novels do not require all the steps of the system unless you're studying them for literary purposes. The instructor will have guided you then discuss a certain aspect of the novel, plot, moral theme etc. Otherwise a novel is for pleasure reading and even PhotoReaders like to enjoy the time spent on that and we do like to give it a little more time.

So for learning PhotoReading use a non-fiction book to help you learn all the steps of the system. Most often a novel you just give a short preview, PhotoRead and activate using rapid reading.

However if you want to increase your rapid reading speed of a novel you will want to use all the steps of the system a few times and the best books for that are non-fiction books.

As said the test will appear blurred in the beginning and later may take on a clarity. As explained on page 47 of the PhotoReading book 3rd edition.

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How long, in average, one can master the photofocus? The first assignment from the tape is PRing dictionary provided. With small prints and blur effect I could not even grab a single letter. Or, shouldn't I worried about what my mind accepted while photofocusing?

Thank you for the help.

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Seeing the blip page? Depends on the individual and their natural vision. Some people will never see the blip page especially if they are blind in one eye.

Photofocus is merely seeing both pages with a soft gaze. Anyone who can read can manage that straight away.

It takes at least 21 days to create a habit.

Alex


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