my mind is blocked
Jacques
Sorry, suddenly noticed this part of your message. If you are thinking "My mind is blocked" as you try to activate your book, or even simply in connection with PhotoReading, then that is what will happen.
You need to change this affirmation to something more positive that will tell your inner mind what you want it to do. Something that I picked up from the LSC blog (see
http://www.learningstrategies.com/blog/index.php/archives/98 for the entry) might be useful for you. Paul Scheele posted something that I found really useful and have since started using my version as an affirmation prior to PhotoReading. This is what Paul says:
“Say to yourself that you can read with full concentration, recognize key information, and achieve high comprehension quickly to accomplish your needs. Believe you can, and you will.
This may simply sound like “positive mental attitude.” Yet if you do not purposefully affirm the positive, you may be shutting off your true capacities with subtle anxieties about the task.”
So you also need to reframe your approach to PhotoReading by adopting a new affirmation based on the above, something like:
“As I PhotoRead, my concentration is total and my inner mind recognizes the essential information I need to achieve my purpose of ………”
Does that help?
Kind regards to all
Cheryl-Anne