How to triple your reading speed permanently
Our eyes automatically (instinctively) follow a moving object
1. Baby step:
a) To triple your reading speed and double your memory (and comprehension), permanently, the first step is to create the habit of wearing a pacemaker while reading.
b) A pacemaker is one of three types: a handheld laser beam (RasterMaster),
a pencil, and a computer cursor, produced with your mouse.
c) The goal in using any of the three Pacers is to underline the words of the
sentences while reading. When using your pen as a pacemaker, retract the point or underline the pen half an inch above the paper.
d) You will notice that the Pacer (RasterMaster, Pen or Cursor), always moves
faster than your visual reading speed. Set the pace to speed up your reading.
e) Has been reading one word at a time since 3rd grade, reinforced daily
for many years. The Pacer leads you to read two to three words at a time instead of
your usual word at a time. Notice how your eyes automatically try to catch up with the Pacer (the moving object). It is an instinct of your eyes and your brain.
f) You are creating a new habit of moving your eyes with a soft focus instead of a narrow hard focus. You are learning to read using your wide-focus Peripheral Vision, rather than the narrow Foveal Vision you learned in 3rd grade.
g) Your eyes focus on the upper halves of the words, not on the movement
of the Pacer you are using. Your eyes pick up the highlight of the pacemaker movement using your natural peripheral vision.
h) It has two basic reading systems: one is Foveal-Vision: reading a word
at a time (6 letters wide). You’ve been fove reading since 3rd grade and
it’s slow, around 200 words per minute.
The second is Peripheral-Vision: it is 36 letters wide and allows you to read up to six words at a time. The word – peripheral – means off-center – see the left and right sides in addition to the center, and what appears above and below
the center.
i.) Soft focus consists of relaxing the eyes and widening the field of view to see two or more
more words simultaneously. The opposite of soft focus is a narrowing of your
field of view, and called Tunnel-Vision hard focus. A horse with blinders
go with Foveal-Vision and Hard-Focus.
Hard-Focus is how you see when you use your computer, type in a word processor, watch a movie, play a video game, or have a conversation while looking into the other person’s eyes.
We focus on the page, screen, or person, narrowing our eye focus to give our full attention to behavior (reading, surfing the web, and watching television).
Using a harsh approach while reading causes us to drop because we can only see a single multi-syllable word at a time. It limits us to up to 200 words per minute.
Deep Fact: We spend up to 80% of our waking hours using hard focus, squinting, and narrowing our field of vision. It is the basic cause of chronic stress and dry eye.
The solution is not to stop using the computer or television, but to exercise your peripheral vision for sixty seconds every thirty minutes. Look away from the screen, page, or person to the horizon and widen your field of vision.
Reading means focusing gently and reading two to three words at a time.
2. a) Choose a page with text and circle each multi-syllable word in a sentence. Notice how slow and boring it is to read that way. There are ten words in the average sentence, and you mentally read and listen to all the ten-syllable words.
Their eyes linger on each word, listen to it, and then move on to the next.
Each stop is called an eye fixation pause.
b) Take another page of text and circle each group of two words in the sentence.
If there are ten words, you will have five circles of two words each.
Notice that you can easily look at the circle containing two words and see
both words simultaneously. If you can see them, you are using soft focus and expanding your field of view.
Your eyes can see up to six words at a time and transfer them to your brain for understanding.
If you read two words simultaneously, you double your reading speed
and you can reduce your reading time by 50% or read and understand two books,
articles and reports, instead of one. Guess what happens when you read three
words at once?
3. Draw a line on the left side of a new page of text and indent it approximately two words wide; do the same: indent by drawing a line on the page
right side of text page – about two words wide.
Now use your Pacer to underline the middle section of the text using soft focus. Your peripheral vision will pick up and understand the words within the two indented areas (left side and right side), and even above and below the center of your reading focus.
Practice reading a page of text that has bled to improve your soft focus (widening your field of vision) and to expand your range of peripheral vision.
Final words
Practice improving your soft focus and peripheral vision until they become
clothing. Use your Pacer to move your eyes faster, and in 21 days of practicing just 15 minutes a day, you’ll double or triple your current initial reading speed with equal or better comprehension.
Yes, it will be frustrating at first because you have been programmed
from 3rd grade to read one word at a time and stop to hear it in their mind.
You are creating a new habit of broadening your focus and reading two or more
more words at once. Requires daily practice for three weeks, and then
register on autopilot. Once they are habits, you stop thinking about them and add them to your mental programming.
Once you make soft focus and peripheral vision a habit, you can easily
triple your reading speed and improve your long-term comprehension
memory.
The secret tool is always to use a pacemaker to activate the instinct of your eyes and brain.
to follow a moving object. His hand holding the Pacer – the RasterMaster, Pen,
o Cursor: always moves faster than your reading speed. Your brain
start playing – Catch-Up – and your reading and comprehension speed doubles
and triple that of using a single word at a time.
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