INSTRUCTIONS PART 3

PART 3. How to Put On Your Thinking Hat...You have heard it often: Put your thinking cap on... But how?The thinking cap is a real one – invented by a Priest - Dunns Scotus – to help children to concentrate.In order to read fast and understand well, we need to be in the ideal state for reading. – How to Enter the ideal state for reading.To read efficiently, your body has to be relaxed and the mind alert.If you maintain relaxed alertness, you are more able to comprehend, retails and recall what you read.It is the flow state, when you are totally absorbed in the reading task at hand.The reading environment often does not allow for concentration – phones, conversations, distractions.Ron Davis, a dyslexic, found that people with dyslexia, have a roving point of attention – one that wanders through space without coming to a fixed point. Skilled readers, on the other hand, have a fixed point of attention located just behind and above the top of the headBy training himself to redirect his attention, he raised his reading, writing and spelling skills from an elementary to a college level in fewer than three years.The book “Gift of Dyslexia “describes his method in detail. His sessions begin by training his clients to find the ideal point of attention, which he calls the “ visio – awareness epicentre. ”An adaptation of the Ron Davis technique is the Mandarin Technique – think of an imaginary mandarin floating just above and behind your head – about 15 cm up.Gently close your eyes and notice what happens to your physical and mental state as you do this ?Excerpt from: “Quantum Speed Reading Workbook” – click here to Order the book