| How to Triple Your Reading Speed - Permanently | | | | horizon, and widen your field-of-vision. |
| Our Eyes Automatically (instinctively), Follow a | | | | In reading it means to soft-focus - and read |
| Moving Object | | | | two-to-three words at-a-time. |
| 1. Baby Step:a) To triple your reading speed, and | | | | 2. 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 habit | | | | and boring it is to read that way. In the average |
| of using a Pacer while reading.b) A Pacer is one of | | | | sentence there are ten-words, and you read and |
| three types: a handheld Laser Beam | | | | mentally hear all ten-multi-syllable words. |
| (RasterMaster),a Pen - and a using a Computer | | | | You eyes stop at each word, you hear it, and |
| Cursor - produced with your Mouse.c) The | | | | then move to the next one. |
| objective when using any of the three Pacers is | | | | Each stop is called an Eye-Fixation-Pause.b) Take |
| to underline the words of thesentences as you | | | | another 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 Pen | | | | If there are ten-words you will have five-circles |
| one-half inch above the paper itself.d) You will | | | | of two-words each. |
| notice that the Pacer (RasterMaster, Pen or | | | | Notice that you can easily look at the circle |
| Cursor), always movesf-a-s-t-e-r than your visual | | | | containing two-words, and seeboth words |
| reading speed. It sets the pace for you to speed | | | | simultaneously. If you can see them - you are |
| up your reading.e) You have been reading | | | | using Soft-focus and widen your field of vision. |
| one-word at a time since 3rd grade, reinforced | | | | Your eyes can see up to six-words at a time, |
| dailyfor many years. The Pacer drives you to | | | | and transfer them to your brain for |
| read two-to-three words at a time instead ofyour | | | | comprehension. |
| usual one-word-at-a-time. Notice how your eyes | | | | If you read two-words simultaneously - you |
| automatically try to catch-up with the Pacer (the | | | | double your reading speedand can cut your |
| moving object). It is a instinct of your eyes and | | | | reading time by 50% or read-and comprehend |
| brain.f) You are creating a new-habit of moving | | | | two books,articles, and reports - instead of one. |
| your eyes in a Soft-Focus instead of a narrow | | | | Guess what occurs when you read |
| Hard-Focus. You are learning to read using your | | | | three-words-at-a-time? |
| wide-focused Peripheral Vision - instead the | | | | 3. 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 the | | | | width; do the same - indent by drawing a line |
| words - not the movementof the Pacer you are | | | | down the page on theright-side of the page of |
| using. Your eyes take in the underlining of the | | | | text - about two-words wide. |
| Pacer's movement using your natural Peripheral | | | | Now 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 (6 | | | | Peripheral-Vision will pick up and comprehend the |
| letters wide). You have been reading foveally | | | | words within the two indented areas - (lateral-left |
| since 3rd grade andit is s-l-o-w - about 200 words | | | | and lateral-right), and even above and below the |
| per minute. | | | | center of your reading focus. |
| The second is Peripheral-Vision: it is 36 letters | | | | Practice reading a page of text you have |
| wide, and it permits you to read up to six-words | | | | indented to improve your soft-focus (widening |
| at-a-time. The word - peripheral - means outside | | | | your field-of-vision), and to widen your |
| of the center - seeing the left and right sides in | | | | Peripheral-Vision span. |
| addition to the center, and what appears above | | | | Endwords |
| and belowthe center.i.) Soft-focus is relaxing your | | | | Practice improving your soft-focus and |
| eyes and widen your field-of-vision to see two | | | | peripheral-vision until they becomeshabits. Use |
| ormore words simultaneously. The opposite of | | | | your 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 horse | | | | double or triple your present starting reading |
| wearing blinderssees with Foveal-Vision and a | | | | speed with equal or better comprehension. |
| Hard-Focus. | | | | Yes, it will be frustrating in the beginning because |
| Hard-Focus is how you see when using your | | | | you have been programmedsince 3rd grade to |
| computer, typing on the word-processor, viewing | | | | read one-word-at-a-time, and to stop to hear it in |
| a movie, playing a video game, or holding a | | | | your mind. |
| conversation while looking at the other person's | | | | You 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 person | | | | requires daily practice for three-weeks, and then |
| by narrowing our eye-focus to give the behavior | | | | willregister on auto-pilot. Once they are habits you |
| (reading, surfing the Net, and watching TV), our | | | | stop thinking about them, and add them to your |
| full attention. | | | | mental programming. |
| Using a hard-focus while reading causes us to snail | | | | Once you turn soft-focus and peripheral-vision into |
| because we can see only a single multi-syllable | | | | a habit, you will be able to easilytriple your reading |
| word at a time. It limits us to up to 200 words | | | | speed and improve your comprehension and |
| per minute. | | | | long-termmemory. |
| Profound Fact: we spend up to 80% of our | | | | The secret tool is always using a Pacer to trigger |
| waking-hours using hard-focus, squinting and | | | | the instinct of your eyes and brainto follow a |
| narrowing our field-of-vision. It is the basic cause | | | | moving 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 or | | | | faster than your snailing reading speed. Your |
| TV, but to exercise your peripheral-vision for | | | | brainbegins to play - Catch-Up - and your reading |
| sixty-seconds every thirty-minutes. Look away | | | | speed and comprehension doubleand triple |
| from the screen, page or person towards the | | | | compared to snailing at only one word at-a-time. |