Outsmart the Blip page
The way to beat the blip page without seeing it for PhotoReading.
I know many beginning PhotoReaders get stuck on the blip page. Without it they feel they are not PhotoReading.
The blip page is a nice way of knowing you are in photofocus but it doesn't make you a successful PhotoReader. So lets outsmart this step of the system
The blip page will show up with experience. You'll notice that those PhotoReaders you admire just did it as best they could. The pros didn't even know about the blip page when he started. They just noticed it after a time that it was there. My first spontaneous activation happened without ever seeing a blip page. Even now I don't bother looking for the blip page. If I notice it fine. yet PhotoReading works just as well without it.
The real secret is noticing (not seeing) noticing both pages at the same time. That's it in a nutshell. I'll give you some tips to refine that idea.
Have you ever looked at something and saw it without seeing it? Probably while you were daydreaming staring at the wall our out the window. You noticed what was in front of you but didn't actually see it. Not consciously. You just shifted your focus to see it consciously.
That's how you outsmart the blip page and get into photofocus. It can feel like you are daydreaming. You don't look at the words but you notice the page. You notice the pattern of white. To know that you are noticing both full pages imagine an X joining the opposing corners. Just an imaginary line that goes from the outer top left page corner to the outer bottom right page corner. And from the outer top right page corner to the outer bottom left page corner. It intersects in the middle of the book.
Those are the points you are noticing (not seeing) four outer corners and the middle of the book. Turn the pages as quickly as you comfortably can with a steady rhythm.
That's it. Outsmarting the blip page. What do you do when you notice the blip page? Keep turning the pages. It may stay it may go but you're still PhotoReading that book. Bring in the rest of the system and you'll become a proficient PhotoReader in no time.
Alex K Viefhaus © 10 July 2007
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