Got Soft-Focus Yet?

How to Triple Your Reading Speed - Permanentlyhorizon, and widen your field-of-vision.
Our Eyes Automatically (instinctively), Follow aIn reading it means to soft-focus - and read
Moving Objecttwo-to-three words at-a-time.
1. Baby Step:a) To triple your reading speed, and2. a) Pick a page with text and circle each single
double your memory (and comprehension),multi-syllable word in a sentence. Notice how slow
permanently - the first step is to create a habitand boring it is to read that way. In the average
of using a Pacer while reading.b) A Pacer is one ofsentence there are ten-words, and you read and
three types: a handheld Laser Beammentally hear all ten-multi-syllable words.
(RasterMaster),a Pen - and a using a ComputerYou eyes stop at each word, you hear it, and
Cursor - produced with your Mouse.c) Thethen move to the next one.
objective when using any of the three Pacers isEach stop is called an Eye-Fixation-Pause.b) Take
to underline the words of thesentences as youanother page of text and circle each group of
read. When you use your pen as a Pacer -two-words in the sentence.
retract the point or underline with the PenIf there are ten-words you will have five-circles
one-half inch above the paper itself.d) You willof two-words each.
notice that the Pacer (RasterMaster, Pen orNotice that you can easily look at the circle
Cursor), always movesf-a-s-t-e-r than your visualcontaining two-words, and seeboth words
reading speed. It sets the pace for you to speedsimultaneously. If you can see them - you are
up your reading.e) You have been readingusing Soft-focus and widen your field of vision.
one-word at a time since 3rd grade, reinforcedYour eyes can see up to six-words at a time,
dailyfor many years. The Pacer drives you toand transfer them to your brain for
read two-to-three words at a time instead ofyourcomprehension.
usual one-word-at-a-time. Notice how your eyesIf you read two-words simultaneously - you
automatically try to catch-up with the Pacer (thedouble your reading speedand can cut your
moving object). It is a instinct of your eyes andreading time by 50% or read-and comprehend
brain.f) You are creating a new-habit of movingtwo books,articles, and reports - instead of one.
your eyes in a Soft-Focus instead of a narrowGuess what occurs when you read
Hard-Focus. You are learning to read using yourthree-words-at-a-time?
wide-focused Peripheral Vision - instead the3. Draw a line down the left-hand side of a new
narrow Foveal-Vision you learned in 3rd grade.g)page of text and indent about two-words in
Your eyes are focusing on the Top-Halves of thewidth; do the same - indent by drawing a line
words - not the movementof the Pacer you aredown the page on theright-side of the page of
using. Your eyes take in the underlining of thetext - about two-words wide.
Pacer's movement using your natural PeripheralNow use your Pacer to underline the
Vision.h) You own two-basic reading systems -Middle-Section of the text using a soft-focus. Your
one is Foveal-Vision: reading one-wordat a time (6Peripheral-Vision will pick up and comprehend the
letters wide). You have been reading foveallywords within the two indented areas - (lateral-left
since 3rd grade andit is s-l-o-w - about 200 wordsand lateral-right), and even above and below the
per minute.center of your reading focus.
The second is Peripheral-Vision: it is 36 lettersPractice reading a page of text you have
wide, and it permits you to read up to six-wordsindented to improve your soft-focus (widening
at-a-time. The word - peripheral - means outsideyour field-of-vision), and to widen your
of the center - seeing the left and right sides inPeripheral-Vision span.
addition to the center, and what appears aboveEndwords
and belowthe center.i.) Soft-focus is relaxing yourPractice improving your soft-focus and
eyes and widen your field-of-vision to see twoperipheral-vision until they becomeshabits. Use
ormore words simultaneously. The opposite ofyour Pacer to move your eyes faster, and in 21
soft-focus is a narrowing of yourfield-of-vision,days of practicing just 15 minutes daily - you will
and called hard-focus of Tunnel-Vision. A horsedouble or triple your present starting reading
wearing blinderssees with Foveal-Vision and aspeed with equal or better comprehension.
Hard-Focus.Yes, it will be frustrating in the beginning because
Hard-Focus is how you see when using youryou have been programmedsince 3rd grade to
computer, typing on the word-processor, viewingread one-word-at-a-time, and to stop to hear it in
a movie, playing a video game, or holding ayour mind.
conversation while looking at the other person'sYou are creating a new habit of widening your
eyes.focus and reading two-ormore words at-a-time. It
We concentrate on the page, screen or personrequires daily practice for three-weeks, and then
by narrowing our eye-focus to give the behaviorwillregister on auto-pilot. Once they are habits you
(reading, surfing the Net, and watching TV), ourstop thinking about them, and add them to your
full attention.mental programming.
Using a hard-focus while reading causes us to snailOnce you turn soft-focus and peripheral-vision into
because we can see only a single multi-syllablea habit, you will be able to easilytriple your reading
word at a time. It limits us to up to 200 wordsspeed and improve your comprehension and
per minute.long-termmemory.
Profound Fact: we spend up to 80% of ourThe secret tool is always using a Pacer to trigger
waking-hours using hard-focus, squinting andthe instinct of your eyes and brainto follow a
narrowing our field-of-vision. It is the basic causemoving object. Your hand holding the Pacer - the
of chronic-stress and dry-eye.RasterMaster, Pen,or Cursor - always moves
The solution is not to stop using the computer orfaster than your snailing reading speed. Your
TV, but to exercise your peripheral-vision forbrainbegins to play - Catch-Up - and your reading
sixty-seconds every thirty-minutes. Look awayspeed and comprehension doubleand triple
from the screen, page or person towards thecompared to snailing at only one word at-a-time.