If you haven't read this article, you might give it a try:
http://www.learningstrategies.com/Index.cfm?R=Y&prod=pr&sub=mainarticle&AF=31 Then, start practicing your peripheral vision. This is the soft focus. Pay more attention to what is happening at the edges of you vision, rather than what is happening in front of you. Open books and look at the outer edges. Try to see the white space. Focus on that rather than the text. Notice how the appearance of the text changes. You might see a double line (the blip page).
Accept that PhotoReading is an entire system for reading and the PhotoReading step itself is only one element. Accept that you will feel uneasy at first when you seem to be getting nothing out of the books you PhotoRead. Prepare yourself that you'll be much more successful if you focus on having fun with the system and don't push yourself for results. A change of mindset is necessary and for me it was a difficult one. I love to read.
When you get the book, follow all the steps, just as they are described. Once you're comfortable with the process and getting results, you can start playing with the elements.
Does that help at all?
