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Speed Reading Introduction: Using your hands to increase reading speed (Part 2 of 3)

August 2, 2009

Part 2 of How to Increase Your Reading Speed

This is a written excerpt of Howard Berg’s DVD speed reading program, “Maximum Power Reading”.

Remember when your teacher told you not to use your hands while reading? Mine did too, but she can’t read 25,000 words per minute as I can now by using my hands. In this month’s column we will learn a simple hand motion that can increase your reading speed by 10-20% in just a few short minutes.

Your hand can help your brain overcome the need to hear a page while viewing text. Part of the reason for this working is related to how your eye and hand are wired into your brain. You eye is directly wired into your brain. In fact, the retina is actually an extrusion of brain matter that forms it. As a result you are emotionally affected by what you see. Viewing things can make you laugh or cry.

Your hand is not as hard wired into the brain, and it rarely feels emotion, unless you slam a car door on it. Then you get very emotional. Let’s learn a simple pattern for moving the eyes across the page with your hands. Here are a few techniques you can apply using the template that appears below:

* Move your hand on the lines from the left to the right margin
* Don’t stop if you miss a word
* Slow down if you are missing many words
* Your eyes can follow your hand as it goes across the line
* Move as quickly as you can read

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Now continue practicing this simple pattern while reading text with familiar words and content. Don’t practice on text containing new ideas that you are trying to learn or lots of words you haven’t seen before. You will soon notice that your reading speed is quickly accelerating with no loss of reading comprehension when you implement this simple skill.    Click here for part 3

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