![]() The last of these activities involves reviewing the material in several different ways. After PhotoReading®, there are two additional activities, “postview” and “activate,” that help make the information available to the conscious mind. There are two preliminary steps, “prepare” and “preview,” that are necessary to get into the right frame of mind and to the right state of relaxation. But that’s just one step of a 5-step process. I found the skill itself easy to acquire. At the rate of 1 to 2 seconds per page, our unconscious minds “read” a 300-page book in approximately 5 minutes. During the workshop, I and the other attendees learned to relax our eyes, flip the pages of a book at a steady pace, and keep our conscious minds from interfering. Taking in around 25,000 words per minute, this activity looks at the whole picture rather than focusing on details. PhotoReading® uses the creative right brain. ![]() At a rate of around 200 words per minute, we use the logical left brain, consciously following the sequence of the words and analyzing details. Traditional reading is a left-brain activity. Books can even be read backwards or upside-down. With the PhotoReading® system, the information on the page bypasses the conscious mind with its limited capacity and is delivered directly to the unconscious mind. But is it? In his book PhotoReading, Scheele claims the conscious mind has a bandwidth of 40 bits per second, while the unconscious mind can process 10,000,000 bits per second. ![]() Sounds hocus-pocus-y and perhaps a bit too good to be true. Just by exposing the text to the eyes, the information on the page is absorbed by the subconscious mind. The skill, I learned, is a multi-step process, and at its core is the photo part. If there was a way to make the information stick, I wanted to know. Every detail I read in the textbook seemed to enter my brain through my eyes then leak out some hidden drain in the back of my head, never to be recalled. Although everything on the exam was covered in the course, my aging brain had difficulty retaining the information. I had written a history exam the previous week, the results of which can only be described as dismal. This unique reading technique is described in Scheele’s book PhotoReading (2007.) Scheele of Learning Strategies Corporation. The workshop taught the PhotoReading® Whole Mind System, developed by Paul R. These questions and more rattled around in my mind when I attended a three-day workshop on the concept of PhotoReading®. Is it possible to read a book in five minutes? Can you read a book backwards? Upside-down? What if everything you knew about reading turned out to be only a small part of the picture? What if you could read faster and with greater comprehension?
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