i had heard many way to concentrate and relax,but when i was photoreading,how can i focus on so many thing?i need to focus on my deeply breath,i need to focus on the word i was saying in my mind,i need to focus on the white boarders and white space of the page,i need to focus on the blip...im so busy,Could some tell me how to deal with it?please!

If you were to put conscious attention to all of those things throughout the process PhotoReading a whole book, I can see how you'd feel too "busy!" But with PhotoReading, remember, conscious effort and attention is not always the most important part.

You need to be aware -- aim to stay calm, relaxed, breathing deeply, and keep your eyes in the PhotoFocus state. The tangerine technique is one way to cue subconscious to perform all the steps automatically, and it works with a bit of practice. At this point you you'll just have to "get into the state" and diverge your eyes when you start, and practice will have taught your mind to unconsciously and effortlessly maintain that without without such noticable effort as you seem to be torturing yourself with now.

The PhotoReading book only says that you ought to say relax, 1, 2, 3 if it helps you to do so, and in your case it sounds like it's making you nervous and making relaxed concentration much more difficult than it needs to be. If you take a few shallow breaths or your attention wanders for a second, it won't kill you -- just make sure you get in the habit of correcting yourself gently when you notice yourself wandering.

Maintain the state and flip the pages. That's all you really need. Practice makes perfect, and that's what I'm working on right now after all! I've only PhotoRead a few times, but the focus at least now comes natural to me, probably helped my a Silva-style mind relaxation technique. Hope that's somewhat helpful to you! PhotoRead the world away!

-Cameron

The only thing you really need to concentrate on is the chant and keeping a steady rhythm whenpage turning. Everything else you just notice. It's good to have things to notice so that when your mind wanders you just bring it back and notice the patterns of the white. If you feel tense then you just notice how you're breathing and lightly change that.

Like riding a bike you prepare yourself, climb onto the set, point it in the direction you want to go and then just peddle to your destination, from time to time you check your breathing (too hard slow down relax some too relaxed up the effort a bit). So with photoreading it's much the same thing. You forget about it while you're doing it but check in from time to time that it's still there.

Alex

Use the Poodle Technique. It will aid greatly in focusing your attention.

Kaiden,what is Poodle Technique,how to use it?sorry,i had never heared that,are you making joke?

Yes that is a joke. He relates it to the tangerine technique.

Alex

Alex, i find kaiden is making rough joke,like her reply in the topic "Can a blip page get too big ?!"

Yes (he) Kaiden is making a joke there too.

Alex

It seems like a lot, but most of it you just do it and move on.

Alexk is right. The systems says to do the chant. Everything else is just happening.

I've been teaching my daughter four things she needs to do to get into state. Lately I've been trying to teach her to notice when she is out of state, and which of the four things she needs to return to. The same applies with PRing (okay, I've taken the ideas from the LSC material).

You just stay in Photo-Focus (or notice the white pattern both pages), relax, and don't let your mind wander too much.

When I started, I would put "relax" in my chant. The first few times I'd say it I could feel muscles relaxing. This is from someone that almost falls asleep when listening to Paul get you into the relaxed state.

One thing a fair number of beginners seem to think, is that you have to be aware of the tangerine all the time. NO. Just spend a few seconds experiencing it up there, then move on. If you feel the need to use it again, then go ahead. I've put the tangerine back up there while flipping, I only takes a second or two. I don't stop, I don't worry about it, I just do it because the idea came to me. It doesn't happen very often.

The idea is that you get into state using all those things of which you think you have to be conscious. Once you get there, then you use the system. Photo-focus and rhymthic page turning and you'll stay there. Rhymthmic page turning isn't so key as relaxed page turning. I get stumble on page turning sometimes, but I just go with it, and so stay in state.

You are perfection.
Iam2

I thought you were supposed to flip, not turn, Iam2...

CameronJ, are you talking about the poodle technique?

Turn pages, flip pages. There is a slight difference. PRWMS has a page turning technique, it also has something call Photo-flipping. This is much faster than the PR stage. I believe it's a method for previewing and finding keywords. I've never used it.

In the above post, regardless of which term I may have used I meant page turning. That page a second, or two pages every two second, easy mellow travel through the book.

You are perfection.
Iam2

Photoflipping if another method of phtoreading. Useful for small softcovered books that seem to want a weight to stay open.

Flipping or perhaps flicking through the pages at random so that you look at every 5th to 20th page or so is a suitable method for a quick preview and pulling out trigger words.

Alex

i saw photorade4me said"i would encourage you to do multiple photoreadings of the same book.photoread the same book for 6 days take 1 day off then photoread the same book for another 6 days. i think if you do that you will be very happy and pleased with what happens. sincerely, photoread4me."
please give me some advice about this!and when i photoreading the same book,dose i need to active it everyday?

Is the 5 day test in the chinese version of the book? That explains how you go about activating a book over 5 day or longer if required.

Alex

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thanks,i get it!there is 5 day test in the chinese version of the book,just now,i just think the "5 day test " is some different from "multiple photoreadings of the same book"

In the test you photoread the book each time. DOing the 5 day test a number of times helps you get the system fastest.

Alex

"i had heard many way to concentrate and relax,but when i was photoreading,how can i focus on so many thing?i need to focus on my deeply breath,i need to focus on the word i was saying in my mind,i need to focus on the white boarders and white space of the page,i need to focus on the blip...im so busy,Could some tell me how to deal with it?please!"

The more you focus on these things the less you consious mind is going to try to read, and you other than consious mind will take over. Its not exactly relaxation, but it is anouther way to get results.

It is like a marching band. They (we) have to focus on good marching style, good music style, where we are supposed to go, what we are supposed to be playing, is there anything we changed at practice today that I have to remember(?) ... after the first few seconds of that in a performance, you sort of black out into an active meditative state. That is the best example I can think of

Mastermind

Is it ideal to do the 5 day test with one book at a time, or several books is ok?
And what about speeding up so that a couple days mold into one?

One of the ideas with the 5 day test is to allow some incubation time. Another is to reduce expectations of instanteous results. You just follow the process and notice what happens.

The 5 day test has lots of other benefits. Like keeping your energy directed on the PR objective. And committing you to actually using it. We're talking PRing 1000 pages everyday, and only one 20 minute activation on one of the 200 page books. Most people learn the system to fully understand it, but don't use it. You can read and understand everything about swimming, but you're going to do a lot of splashing the first time you actually swim. You get better with more experience.

Dang, I've got to jump in the pool some more. Just because I swam a lap my on my first time in the water, doesn't mean I'll make the olympic team.

You are perfection.
Iam2

If you can devote the time for more than one book then sure, Give yourself a break between books. Stagger them if you want (you can do the 2nd day on one book and skip it for the other) Do the second day on the 2nd book the following day.

Just apply the test as given on each book for 5 days... they don't have to be consecutive days if it's not possible.

Alex