| Speed reading and the activation of peripheral | | | | Foveal-vision - what we use up to 95% of our |
| vision is one-and-the-same. | | | | waking hours - arouses our |
| It is Clark Kent morphing into Superman. | | | | Sympathetic Nervous System, which is connected |
| Peripheral - refers to the area outside of the | | | | to activity, adrenaline and chronicstress. |
| center, the boundary. In vision it isperceived at | | | | Peripheral vision is linked to our Parasympathetic |
| the outer edges of the retina. We call it lateral-left | | | | Nervous System, associatedwith rest, relaxation, |
| and lateral-right,and is your side-view. | | | | calmness and healing. When you are using |
| In daily beta consciousness we use Foveal Vision - | | | | Peripheral-Vision,anxiety, nervousness, and stress |
| a narrow-concentration ona single point in front of | | | | are road blocked from your mind. |
| us. Reading a page, surfing-the web, typing on | | | | Another name for adrenaline is epinephrine |
| your word-processor, and holding a personal | | | | (fight-or-flight), while your parasympathetic |
| conversation - all require foveal-vision. | | | | nervous system produces acetylcholine - the |
| When we activate our foveal vision, we filter-out | | | | relaxation and feardispelling neurotransmitter. |
| what is located lateral-left andlateral-right. When | | | | Examples of How to Relax |
| you write a letter or play a video-game, you | | | | 1. Look at the wall or space in front of you and |
| eyes and brain aretriggered-and-sustained by | | | | fixate a few degrees or inchesabove your |
| narrow foveal-vision. | | | | eye-level. Staring at the horizon or at the stars |
| Speed reading consists of both foveal (acute, | | | | uses peripheral visionand will relax your mind and |
| sharp), and peripheral vision -seeing lateral | | | | body within sixty-seconds. |
| left-and-right, and above and below the center | | | | Broaden you field-of-vision by noticing what is |
| point. We have the option of a hard (narrow), | | | | lateral left-and-right of the center. |
| focus or a soft (wide) focus by activating | | | | In ten-seconds you activate peripheral-vision and |
| one-or-more of the six-muscles in each eye - | | | | begin to see out of the corners ofeach eye; that |
| four Rectus and two Oblique. | | | | is soft-focus. |
| Width | | | | 2. When you find your attention wandering or you |
| Foveal vision is about 6-letters wide, the size of a | | | | are distracted, focus yourattention on your |
| standard word, while peripheralvision is up to 36 | | | | breathing. Do not try to change your rate of |
| letters wide, or six-average-words. When we read | | | | breathing, justbecome aware of it and it begins to |
| linearly, foveal-vision is dominant, and when we | | | | respond and get in-sync with your desire to relax. |
| learn to read vertically and visually, we excite | | | | If you have tension in a part of your body - |
| peripheral-vision. | | | | neck, shoulders and back arethe most common - |
| Western civilization trains students to read using | | | | do not laugh - but imagine breathing through the |
| foveal, (sharp, focused narrow),vision. It limits us | | | | area thatis generating pain. |
| to reading one multi-syllable word at-a-time, about | | | | Within sixty-seconds (without aspirin), of mentally |
| 200 wordsper minute. Speed reading requires | | | | visualizing the pain disintegrating through each |
| adding peripheral-vision to the standardfoveal | | | | breath - it will disappear and not return. You are |
| vision - permitted speeds of up to 1,200 words | | | | combining both left and right brain skills to relax |
| per minute. | | | | and produce endorphins tosooth the tension and |
| The faster you read the better your | | | | stress in your body. |
| comprehension because you gain the benefit | | | | It is a fact that where you focus your attention |
| ofconcentrated-attention and context. The slower | | | | (for healing), while mentallyvisualizing a relaxation, |
| you read, the worse your comprehension. It is a | | | | produces a flood of neuropeptides of health. |
| scientific fact verified over the past 50 years of | | | | Endwords |
| research. | | | | Consider that your purpose in life requires a |
| Physiology | | | | search, a treasure-hunt, and is not readily |
| Our eyes are the portals through which the | | | | apparent like a bolt of lightning. |
| electro-magnetic radiation from our environment | | | | The more useful you are to other people, the |
| reaches our visual system. Our retina contains | | | | better you feel about yourself. |
| photoreceptors - conesand rods - and receives | | | | When we ignore the search for money and hunt |
| these light images. Rods create peripheral-vision, | | | | instead for the purpose of ourexistence, money |
| and conesour foveal vision. | | | | appears to attract itself to our endeavors. |
| Vision takes place mainly in the brain; it begins in | | | | Let us not get crazy - we live in a competitive |
| the retina, which codes the information for the | | | | world, and it is fun because thegreater our |
| Optic Nerves and our Occipital Cortex (behind the | | | | usefulness to the greatest number of folks, the |
| ears). | | | | larger our personalsuccess. There is no age-limit to |
| Once images are received in the brain structures, | | | | discovering our life purpose. |
| they are formatted and processedfor further | | | | We have known retirees who through their own |
| action. Peripheral-vision uses different | | | | efforts created fortunes becausethey were |
| neural-pathways and photoreceptors than our | | | | unconcerned about wealth, and very excited |
| narrow foveal-vision. | | | | about providing solutionsto problems that affected |
| Remember - essentially our eyes are | | | | others. |
| Motion-Detectors. Use a Pacer and youreyes and | | | | Speed reading may be your competitive-edge and |
| brain speed-up to double and triple your present | | | | super-charge you to thefast-track. Would |
| snailing speed. | | | | reading-and-remembering three books, articles and |
| Changes | | | | reportsin the time your peers could hardly finish |
| When you activate peripheral-vision, viewing the | | | | one - help you succeed? |
| entire panorama in front, sides,and around you, | | | | We meet graduates ten years later who tell us |
| your body and brain react differently than using | | | | they study three-new-books weekly,and how it |
| the more commonfoveal vision.a) Your breathing | | | | has changed their life. Some talk of earning millions |
| changes from higher (shallow), to deeper | | | | as investors as aresult of their own research. |
| diaphragmatic breathing. It is healthier.b) You relax | | | | Many folks avoid Alzheimers because they use |
| your face and jaw muscles. It feels better.c) Your | | | | their cognitive skills as a Fire Wall. |
| hands-and-feet become warmer. It feels cozy.d) | | | | The healthiest hobby extent is learning, and speed |
| Stream-of-consciousness (self-talk) is reduced up | | | | reading makes you a masterof personal |
| to 65%. Your mind stills. | | | | discovery. |