These two misunderstandings
These two misunderstandings and misconceptions prevent many people from trying to improve their reading skills. Others who have these misconceptions and begin to use the Alpha-Netics Rapid Reading Program, have a difficult time until they mentally accept the fact that their reading skills can be improved. It is because of the need to mentally accept this fact that there is much detail and repetition in the program.
A very important point that must be known and accepted by everyone desiring to increase their reading speed is that when beginning to increase the skill, it is necessary to temporarily lose understanding. When beginning to replace a primary skill habit, there is going to be a great conflict in the subconscious mind. The mind is being asked to do something it knows it cannot do. It hasn’t learned how. It has no information it can use to do what it is asked. In order to teach the mind, the program presents skill exercises that, if used and practiced, give the mind new knowledge and direction. In other words, a new skill is taught by the program and learned by the subconscious mind. Making a change in a skill habit that has been there longer than any skill, except perhaps walking and talking, is very difficult. In order to overcome the difficulty, the total reading and learning skill is taught step by step. Each individual step, or smaller skill, is not difficult to learn. To some, these individual skills seem totally unrelated to the final reading skill. However, learning these initial steps, one at a time, is necessary.
It is very important to know that when practicing begins, it is necessary to push faster than the normal reading speed. If this is not done, it is just reading and READING IS NOT PRACTICING!
If a person wants to learn to read fast, they must practice fast. At first, it is just learning faster movement. As movement is learned, understanding automatically will be lost, only to be regained, better than ever, when the movement skill is learned, and then mastered.
Taken From: THE ALPHA-NETICS
RAPID READING PROGRAM
