What Is the PhotoReading Method?
What Is the PhotoReading Method?
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PhotoReading Method Explained
The PhotoReading method is an approach to reading developed by Paul Scheele. It involves reading pages photographically quickly, taking in vast amounts of information using the subconscious mind.
You then sift through the content consciously, significantly improving your comprehension and memory of the material.
PhotoReading Youtube Video
What Are the Benefits of Photoreading?
PhotoReading has many benefits, not least that it is whole-brain reading and a relaxing approach to quickly taking in vast amounts of information. However, here is a list of more specific benefits of PhotoReading:
- Better comprehension
- Faster reading
- Increased neurological connection to the material
- Scan and dip into large books to find what is relevant to you
- Much better memory and retention of the information
Photoreading Training
PhotoReading training typically involves instructional steps and practical exercises to develop the necessary skills and techniques. PhotoReading is quick and easy to learn. While the precise details may vary depending on the specific program or instructor, here are some common components often included in PhotoReading tutorials:
1. Introduction
The training begins with an overview of the PhotoReading method, its underlying principles, and its benefits. This involves understanding the subconscious mind's role in assimilating information and the concept of expedited reading.
2. Preview Techniques
Trainees learn how to preview the contents of a book or document swiftly. They are instructed on methods to rapidly skim through pages and identify headings, subheadings, diagrams, and other visual cues that provide an overview of the material.
3. Mind Preparation
Participants are taught relaxation techniques to enter a focused and receptive state of mind. These techniques may involve controlled breathing, visualization, or meditation to cultivate mental tranquility and enhance openness to the information.
4. Photoreading Techniques
The crux of the training entails mastering the approach of "PhotoReading" text by quickly flipping through pages, allowing the eyes to briefly scan the content without fixating on individual words. Participants engage in the extensive practice of this technique to refine their speed and subconscious information absorption abilities.
5. Postview and Recall
Following the initial photoreading phase, participants learn strategies for postviewing the material. This involves revisiting the text at an accelerated pace, enabling the conscious mind to grasp and recollect key points. Techniques such as skimming, scanning, and highlighting may be taught to facilitate postviewing and consolidate comprehension.
What Is the Tangerine Technique PhotoReading?
The tangerine technique is widely used with step number 4 above in the PhotoReading method.
It involves imagining a tangerine sitting on the posterior of the top of your head :) while reading the pages photographically. The reason for doing this is to get into the alpha brainwave state required for PhotoReading to work.
Another way this can be done is to imagine looking down at the pages from above and behind yourself.
PhotoReading Tutorial For Step 4 Above
The most involved and unique step in PhotoReading training is the fourth one because it is the process of reading photographically.
Here's a short tutorial on how to do it:
1. Relax by taking some slow deep breaths
2. Repeat a positive affirmation about how good you are at this or that you can do this very well
3. Either imagine a tangerine on the top of your head in the posterior area or that you are looking down from above and behind yourself
4. Focus on the four corners of the pages and the white spaces between the text.
5. Start to flick the pages rhythmically in tandem with your breathing, photographing each one with the soft focus alpha brain state you have created.
Bingo, you will have photo read the material. Go do something else for 20 minutes or longer and then come back to scan, flick through, or fully read the book.
Photo Reading a Book, a Webpage Or an Ebook, Any Difference?
PhotoReading works very well with physical books, but we are often asked, 'Can I read materials in other formats like ebooks or photographs, etc.?
The answer is, of course, you can. In fact, ebooks can be photo read a lot quicker and easier than physical books since you just have to scroll using the bar on the right-hand side of the ebook or webpage.
Photo Reading Language Learning
Photo reading can help a lot with learning languages because you can photo read the translation dictionary, books on learning the language, workbooks, books in the language, etc.
This will then speed up the process of your subconscious mind putting the language form, words, and structure together significantly faster.
Photo Reading Photographic Memory
Does PhotoReading lead to a photographic memory?
Well, you are putting the information into the subconscious and activating it.
Over time as you continue reading in this way, the recall starts to increase, and some people report that they develop a photographic memory and a more visual way of thinking.
What Is the PhotoReading Experience?
I find the PhotoReading experience very rewarding and also relaxing.
The whole brain activation before and after feels like an artistic state of mind, like you are tapping into deeper brain states, which is exactly what we are doing.
Comprehension, memory, and connection with the material take a leap forward because there is a deeper neurological interaction with the information.
PhotoReading is one of the ten modules in my free Quantum Learning Program series. When combined with the other modules, the results are spectacular. It works particularly well with super note-taking, mind mapping, and memory mastery.
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FAQ
How Long Does It Take to Learn Photoreading?
It doesn't take long at all to learn how to photo read. Once you go through the steps above, you have done it! Then it's just about continuing to do it, and you will also accrue the longer-term benefits of using more of the brain.
It's not uncommon, for example, for people to develop a much better recall of the information, sometimes without even activating it consciously, after practicing PhotoReading for a long time.
Does PhotoReading Work?
Yes, it does work. Many students have learned to photo read and continue the practice for all the benefits they get from it.
It also becomes more and more effective over time as you continue to develop the neurons involved in photographing pages so you can comprehend and recall them better.
Can Adults Learn to Read Faster?
Yes, the brain remains malleable at all ages. Adults can learn to read faster, and one of the best methods we know of to do this is PhotoReading, which also gives far more benefits than simply reading at an expedited pace.
Are Faster Readers Smarter?
It would depend on what one determines to be smarter. Faster readers certainly would have more information at their fingertips.
However, being smarter involves using more of the brain, and one reading method that accomplishes this is PhotoReading. Getting into the alpha state and photographing the information connects it to one's greater consciousness and creates an experience of increasing knowledge rather than just reading faster.
If someone is interested in becoming smarter, then a comprehensive answer to this question, which includes the PhotoReading method, is contained in the free series of my Quantum Learning Program. If you click the banner below, you can get it right away:
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