Speed Read: Secret Warm-Ups For Geniuses

Speed Read: Got a Warm-Up For Reading?

Is there a sport without a warm-up? Baseball batters swing 2-3 bats with donut
weights, football players run up a sweat, and boxers and wrestlers beat themselves
up to prepare for the match.

Reading Prep

What if you knew how to seriously improve your reading speed, comprehension and
memory, and all it took was five-minutes?

We tested 1,000 school students and corporate executives using these three (3) warm-up exercises. They averaged a 75% increase in reading speed, and up to 50% to their long-term memory. One year later they were retested, and these reading and learning improvements continued.

Raise Your Vibrational Rate

Do have the right state-of-mind and point-of-view when you sit down to read and learn? We found 99% of students and executives immediately dive into the material
and have difficulty with complex, abstract ideas. Soon they get bored, anxious and
stressed, and blame the material.

Vibrational Exercise

Did you know your body is deeply involved in all learning? How? Sure your mind
is the dominant force in logic, reasoning and memory, but your body must be in
a higher vibrational rate to keep you in the Zone, in the Flow, and focused.

Exercise #1

Call it: Breathe, Stretch, Shake, and Let-it-Go!

a) Stand up, take a deep diaphragmatic breath (inhale), hold it for ten seconds,
and slowly exhale through your nose. Do it a second time, and a third.

b) Now, stretch out both your arms, and then your left, and your right leg.

c) Shake your body like a dog after a bath. Twist your neck and bend your
your back. Loosen up.

d) Finally, slap both hands against the sides of your body and shout, “Let-it-
Go!” to release all negative thoughts from your mind-body connection.
The exercise requires about 90 seconds.

Exercise #2

Peripheral Vision Focus

You have been using Foveal (hard focus) acute, sharp since kindergarten, and it
causes lousy reading skills. You read one-word-at-a-time, and hear the words of
each sentence in your mind (internal dialogue). It causes a snailing reading speed.

Speedlearning emphasizes a wide, broad (soft focus) called Peripheral vision.
The chief benefit of adding peripheral (side) vision, while keeping your Foveal vision, is reading, comprehending and remembering up to six-words at a time
instead of just one.

We speak to folks looking them in the eye (hard focus), watch tv, play video games, and surf the web and type, with the same acute foveal vision. So what? It is hard
on your retina and often causes Dry Eye, and reading fatigue.

We recommend adding your peripheral vision which is broad and easy on the retina, because it adds up to 75% to your reading and learning skills.

Lamniscate (Infinity Symbol)

a) sit down, focus on a specific point in front of you in-line with your eyes.
b) Using your dominant hand, draw a make-believe Sleeping-8 from your
far-left across to your far-right. It is the number eight inclined on its back.
We call it the Infinity Symbol.
c) Do not move your head nor your eyes, look straight ahead, but widen
your focus to see the left and right sides surrounding you. Next, add
taking in the areas Above and Below the specific point in front of you.
You are easily capable of seeing 165 degrees horizontally, and 130 degrees
vertically using your peripheral vision.
d) Spend about 90 seconds letting your eyes adjust to the infinity symbol by
using your peripheral vision eye muscles.

Exercise #3

Here is a 90 second chant to Relax your mind for active learning.

a) sit down, place your hands on the tops of your legs, eyes closed.
b) there are three separate sounds in this chant. They are not words
and have no meaning, but relax the mind for learning.
c) AH-OU-MING: AH lasts 10 seconds, OU takes 10 seconds, and MING
about 15 seconds. Chant aloud or silently, both are effective for relaxaton.
d) take a deep inhalation and slowly chant the sounds, Ah-Ou-Ming, one after
the other on exhalation. Repeat this Mantra (concentrated sound- vibration)
slowly about six-times. Feel the resonance in your nose and lips of the
sound, Ming. Remember, act as if it is one-word, not three separate ones.
Endwords

When we first started teaching these three warm-up exercises students considered
it a waste of time. “But I have been reading since first-grade without a warm-up,
and this seems stupid.” After using our three-exercise strategy for one-month, 95%
of the students and executives found it indispensable to learning new material.

What the secret?

You and I cannot do our optimal work unless we are in the right mood, state-of-mind, and have a positive intention to get new ideas. Are we always ready, willing and able to jump-into complex material and ace it?

The best students and executives need a short (5-minute) warm-up to integrate our mind-and-body for learning. It takes both Attention and Intention to do our best work. It is called a warm-up.

One requirement for successful learning and memory is being self-confident and optimistic. Motivation is having great strategies to make learning and remembering easy. Make these three warm-up exercises your ritual for gaining promotions and
success.

Wake up your Body, Focus your eyes peripherally, and chant (aloud or
silently) to relax your mind. The result will have your peers calling you a genius.

Speedlearning.org graduates read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time
it takes your competitors to finish one. They permanently double their long-term
memory.

Ask us how, and the answer to adding up to ten-years to your longevity
through stressbusting strategies. The secret words are “Speed Learn”.

See ya,

copyright © 2008
H. Bernard Wechsler
www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
1-877-567-2500 toll-free
www.speedread.tv
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