Are you sure that your eye is moving correctly for speed reading?

If you were a slow reader, did I wrote-“were”. Yes! You were a slow reader. Now to increase your reading speed. To transform yourself from slow to an ultra-rapid reader,

First thing is to eliminate forever that habit of looking back again and again the material that you read. In this field it is called as Back-Skipping. So first just go for the forward reading always even if you feel like you didn’t get what was written. The point here is to develop a new reading habit which is Forward eye movement. Overtime it would increase your comprehension levels as well as the pleasure of reading.

Proper form can be to read a line of text in jumps of three. Each fixation can last from 0.25 seconds to 1.50 seconds. And during each fixation, please please please, recognize the words, let their meaning sink in your mind. You must not sub-vocalize them. Once you are doing this, you may find reading a book as if it is a scrap book. Cool! Right?

Next is blunders that people make with their eyes while reading a text.

               When someone read. He gets bored quickly. Why?

Because his or her eyes are not able to send signals to his or her brain to make those essential images that are necessary to understand the conceptual material at hand. Moreover, we get so caught up dream about our lovers or about that cartoon that we watched in the morning.

To stop this all, Blunders of normal patterns of reading must be avoided. Blunders include-

1)      Reading by talking to ourselves (Sub-vocalization).

            2)      Reading without fixating on words. Something that you’re eye cannot perceive clearly. It cannot make sense of that too. 

           

A good psychological practice is to affirm what you want to do with yourself over and over and you may find yourself behaving the way you were affirming.

               

    


  Affirmation= Words that you speak out + related (thoughts + feelings + images in your head)

      

         Here are some good affirmations for good eye movements.

1)      I fixate on 5 words for 1 second.

2)      I go for the meaning. Not for the words

3)      I like to read and I know I read well.

You must be a relaxed state before doing above three affirmations. So do take 3-4 Deep breathes with your eyes closed

It is hard to move your eyes linearly over text without any guide or pointer. Use a pen or pencil or your fingers. Fingers block most of your view. So it must be your last resort.

Practicing proper form of reading, recognizing words instead of sub vocalizing, doing affirmations and finally using pointers to guide your eyes to move smoothly along the page can make you a rapid efficient reader quickly.

Next post would put in your pocket the advanced reading techniques that can make you feel like flying on pages. It includes Motivation, Relativistic brain, Metronome method and many other working techniques.