Speed

Reading

Course

Introduction

The Definition of Reading

The Eye and Its Movements

Test of Reading Speed

Are you a Left-Brain or a Right-Brain Reader ?

Visual Guides

Preliminary Exercises

Subvocalisation and the Thought-Stream

Maladaptive Scanning Patterns

Speed Perception

Pacing and Scanning Techniques

Pacing Exercise

In-Depth Reading Techniques

Key Word Noting

Taking Notes

Associative Networks

Mind Maps

Visual Reading Techniques

Defeating the Decay of Memories

Introduction

We all learn to read at school. But for most of us, this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain's focused attention combined with the right brain's peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is a pre-requisite for creative thinking and also a sense of well-being, where thoughts and feelings are integrated.

This course will teach you to read much faster and remember more of what you have read. These are obviously great advantages.

There is another major benefit. Most of us, as we read, 'speak' the words in our heads. It is this subvocalisation that holds back fast reading and it is unnecessary. It is possible to have an inner speech, a kind of 'thought awareness' that isn't linked to the tongue, mouth and vocal chord muscles and this is much faster and more fluent. Cutting out the identification of vocalisation and the stream of thought gives a surprising by-product. Many of us think that our constant subvocalised 'speaking voice' is who we are. Finding out that you can think and be aware without a vocal stream of words, opens up your consciousness to the usually unrecognized domain of intuition and spiritual awareness. You'll have a better sense of who you really are. Try it and see !