Optimize The Brain: for Business Success

Office of Dr. Jay Polmar, founder

www.speedread.org

info@speedread.org

Good Morning

Thanks for your support to www.speedread.org. We are a not-for-profit organization of specialized educational research in Accelerated Learning Techniques.

This unique program was developed from 1979 to 1993, and I taught it live in classes to thousands of students throughout the Western US and Hawaii. Now, due to my surgical accident the course, is only available on-line. In 1997 the program was modernized to one hour of self-taught, techniques implemented in a process-oriented program . This program has sold thousands of copies.

Our techniques are without equal. They make it easier so that all can double and triple their reading, with simply a few minutes of practice every day. The techniques of Speed Reading are applicable in all the languages.

A interesting story was told by a Nuclear Physicist, that took the program at the University of New Mexico, Adult Education div., at the Los Alamos Branch. He studied the technique the previous night, and was disillusioned that his improvement was only 158% after his first practices. Of course, he was reading a foreign language (English) newspaper. He had been born and educated in Israel learning Hebrew. Frustrated, he picked up his native newspaper from Tel Aviv, in the Hebrew language, his native tongue, and his new speed of reading was that he flew through the paper three to four times faster.

In order to speed read in a second language, like in ESL (English like a Second Language), you must be patient, practice in your native language first to develop the techniques. Use the audio program to mentally prepare yourself, and practice, practice and practice.

Good luck with your program. We are sure that you will be a speed reading success.

Sincerely,

founder, retired

www.speedread.org

Optimize

Your Brain For

Business Success

DAY 1 CLASS ONE

The Attitude Of Learning

Optimize Your Brain for Business Success

Optimizing your brain takes little time and effort when structured especially to suit your specific needs. Business people need to react, understand, synergize, and make wise decision to be as effective as they desire in their careers.

This book is part of a series that includes the concepts of managing stress, improving reading skills, developing Mind-Mapping skills, and enhancing the ability for all to be more powerful and success oriented team players. After learning and practicing the skills for speed reading, you will discover extensive enhancements in thinking, analyzing, process complex information, and synergizing a result that works.

If you are in a MBA program, segments in the speed reading instructions are aimed at you for creating of term paper/thesis and intuitive test-taking skills. You will find these great for your career also.

Later in Optimize Your Brain For Business Success, you will discover the MindSet necessary for Success. Simply games, tests, and self-discovery that will help you achieve the goals and create the personal wealth that you desire.

These two books in one – speed reading and business success are the beginning of the series of success.

You can find these are www.speedread.org/UPCEP1.html this course is highly recommended to personal and corporate success.

DAY ONE

TEST YOUR READING RATE

This is a reading test.

Have a watch handy, mark your starting time, and begin reading when you are ready to time yourself.

START

The OPTIMIZE YOUR BRAIN FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS method is designed for those who read large volumes of printed material. Sometimes they get frustrated when they can’t keep up with all the intriguing literature that is released. Authors around the world produce printed data and fiction, at a rate so phenomenal, that even the most avid of readers struggle to keep up. With our SPEED READING methods, you’ll easily be able to read twice to three times the amount you now read in the same time.

The human brain/mind is capable of comprehending and cataloging from 10,000 to 50,000 units of information every minute (one unit being equal to one word) and this is based upon old statistics. Based on new technology in education and strides in self-development, your brain/mind is capable of much more.

The human body is a vehicle that records various senses and transfer them to our brain/mind. The brain/mind acts like a computer. Perhaps the brain/mind is the body’s operational computer to make easier for us to learn.

We learn through information (data) which is transmitted in many ways. We receive data through our five physical senses, and our brain/mind makes decisions, choices and judgments from those factors.

We learn through our five senses plus conscious thought processing. The five senses, i.e. sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, are pre-programmed for automatic reaction. In a later example, we mention the affect of teenage aroma sensors when pizza is around. That’s somewhat similar to a Pavlovian dog experiment.

What has taken place is that the physical sense or senses, have sent a thought, perhaps subconscious (or automatic in nature) to the brain/mind.

The act of sensing our favorite food is mental in nature; the reaction of swallowing is physical. Therefore, brain/mind is where the action is...body is where the reaction is.

This course teaches techniques for becoming successful. We expect you, minimally, to become a speed reader who loves to read and improve the quality of your life. Maximally, we expect great, positive successes from our students. A beginning average reading speed for the average American high school graduate is about 250 words per minute. Those from the south read somewhat slower because of their drawl. Those who stutter also read slower.

An average college student reads approximately 300 w.p.m. No matter what your baseline reading speed is, it’s very different from your speed reading potential after learning all the techniques offered in this course.

Why? Because scientists who’ve researched the human brain/ mind concur that our potential is unlimited. OPTIMIZE YOUR BRAIN FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS guarantees to teach you how to achieve your greatest potential, become an avid speed reader and a success in life.

There is one restriction to consider. Our brain/mind functions as the result of (electrical) energy and operates continuously.

It is an always ON. It is a total awareness sensing device. i.e.: when you walk down the street and you sense someone behind you or watching you. Therein lies the cog in the otherwise perfect system, our one limitation. We have physical bodies to deal with, to house, to feed, to clothe, to protect, to maintain.

Some of us have been taught we possess bodies which are physically limited; thus, we receive messages saying that we cannot achieve beyond disabilities. Sometimes elders have said that we, individually, are less than perfect. You and I and everyone else have heard negative messages at one time or another that have inadvertently restricted our success.

It happens at school and home. I remember being told You can only do one thing at a time, and usually not too well. That type of language aimed at our self-esteem has undoubtedly had negative effects our success-potential.

Sometimes we hear negative words, including dumb, stupid, or idiot. Others aren’t always caring with their words. Emotional beings that we are, we feel hurt. This often results in self-limitation.

EARLY EDUCATION:

Back to reading education: our limitations in reading were programmed during childhood when we were first taught to read.

During our early years of schooling, we became acquainted with letters and their sounds, syllables and their sounds, and then, words and their sounds. Remember...Dick and Jane played with Spot the dog.

We were further taught to read sentences aloud. We carefully mouthed each syllable and each word slowly to the teacher, and she said: Very good, you got it right.

After several years, classroom reading procedures stopped. Yet, we were still mouthing each syllable and word as we read, both aloud to others and while reading silently to ourselves. We have been educated in school to read phonetically.

Due to this the average reading speed of a high school graduate is 250 words per minute.

Yet, brain/mind researchers have shown that through SPEED READING techniques, thousands have broken that pattern and increased speeds dramatically.

Your brain/mind has the capacity of reading any number of words per minute. In fact, you can actually program your brain/mind computer to improve reading speed and enhance comprehension.

There are many methods that you will learn to help you read faster. Since this course is brain/mind oriented, we will be using those techniques that develop SPEED READING as a function of the brain/mind.

The human brain/mind is an energy force. It operates on electrical energy. It travels quickly. When you look at Electro-Encephalograph (EEG) or Biofeedback apparatus, you’ll find that life speed of the brainwave pattern in Beta is 14 to 32 cycles per second.

THE FIRST BRAIN/MIND MEASUREMENT MACHINE DESIGNED BY BRAIN/MIND RESEARCHER, DR. HANS BERGER

Beta is the aware and awake state of mind, supposedly the conscious state. A cycle of a brainwave is somewhat similar to the RPM of a motor. Beta is a brain/mind state, usually consisting of continuously racing thoughts through the mind. It is what is considered a state of total conscious awareness. This is doubtful, because the beta state usually has 50,000 fleeting thoughts in an average day. How many of these thoughts do you remember from day-to-day?

Your Beta state of brain/mind actually (has a secondary inner babbling voice that) races on while you are trying to read. In addition, Babbler, (the internal negative dialogue or the Babbling Idiot voice within), is busy at work, disrupting you while you are trying to READ.

Sometimes The Babbler is reading to you from the book you are reading, and sometimes it babbles on telling you that you are not all that great a person. The Babbler is not necessarily the most positive voice.

Beta, however, can be a self-regulated level where you can achieve conscious self-control. When you learn to develop this self-control ability the speed of data input through reading will be phenomenal. Realistically, the speed of brain/mind processing... thinking... is unlimited.

You’ll be able to input data, through Speed Reading, at unbelievable speeds. Perhaps, several thousand words per minute. And daily practice will help you to achieve this.

Remember this important fact. You are unlearning bad reading habits and relearning the reading process. If you have had any serious problem at school or home regarding reading, (or even emotional trauma such as physical, emotional, or mental abuse) see a professional educational psychologist. Blocks that hinder reading and learning are easily removed by a specialist in that field.

STRESS-FREE SUCCESS with SPEED READING isn’t designed to remove blocks, only to help you remove restrictive reading habits developed from early reading instruction and learning new, more dynamic reading talents.

SPEED READING uses various brain/mind exercises and incorporates Evelyn Wood’s original technique. It uses positive, pro-active self-talk training for:

1. relaxation and stress management

2. visualization for memory enhancement

3. self-talk to enhance self-confidence and self-esteem

4. accelerated reading called... speed reading.

Your brain/mind has the ability to absorb thousands of bits of information per minute. Many years ago research indicated that 50,000 units per minute was about the maximum rate that the brain/mind can assimilate information.

Obviously, you are reading and comprehending at a much slower rate. Because you were taught to read by mentally and/or verbally mouthing each word from childhood, you must stop this old reading habit in order to accelerate reading speeds.

To accomplish this: Simply begin reading a book, magazine, or newspaper. Put an open hand gently over your throat and continue reading. If you feel any muscular contraction from your throat area, you are motor-reading. If you feel or notice your lips moving, you are motor-reading.

If you have been taught incorrectly to read during childhood, know now that your brain/mind has incredible power, and from this moment on, you can consider yourself a powerful human being. If you have confidence in yourself, you can achieve anything.

STOP READING HERE!

TOTAL NUMBER OF WORDS: 1429

TOTAL READING TIME: ___________________________

(FORMULA: DIVIDE NUMBER OF WORDS (1415) BY YOUR READING TIME AND YOU’LL GET:

YOUR STARTING WORDS PER MINUTE:

This is your Baseline Reading Speed ___________

COMPREHENSION TEST:

1 How many words per minute does the average high school graduate read? Answer:__________________

2 How many units of information can the brain process per minute? Answer:__________________________

3 Complete this sentence: "Brain/Mind is where the action is___ ____________________________is where the reaction is.

4 When were our limitation in reading was programmed? Answer:______________________________________

5 Describe the Babbler and its role? Answer: ______________________________________________

6 Beta level of consciousness relates to what brainwave speed?

A. 1/2 to 4 cycles per second

B. 4 to 7 cycles per second

C. 7 to 14 cycles per second

D. 14 to 32 cycles per second.

7. You can achieve anything if_______________________________

8. Muscular contraction from your throat while you are reading indicates what? Answer: _________________________________

NOTES

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EVALUATE YOUR BASELINE READING SPEED

So, no matter what your beginning speed is, there will be vast improvement after daily practice of the techniques and daily cybernetic (creative visualization) programming.

Additionally, if you are foreign-born or educated and English is your second language, please do your reading tests a second time in your Native tongue. In other words pick up a book or magazine in your native language for comparison testing.

Test your progress in English and your native language. You’ll be amazed at your progress.

There are two other facets which must be considered:

SPEED READING becomes a part of long-term memory. We believe this is caused by intense concentration. Intense concentration causes the altering of states of consciousness which, in turn, accesses long-term memory.

The other factor is eidetic (or photographic), or auditory (or tape-recorder) type memories. You have the potential to remember everything you have ever seen or heard, even if you weren’t paying attention to what was said. Your brain/ mind, like a computer, stores all memories.

TECHNIQUES & SKEPTICAL SCIENTISTS:

Science questions that desire, belief, and expectation for success is required for achievement when using the methods applied in SPEED READING, (i.e. Prigogine’s Theory of Dissipate Structures, Nobel Prize, Physics). However, desire seems to be a key to making the program work more effectively and faster. If you desire, believe and expect to be a Speed Reader, AND follow your own longing for fulfillment of your wishes ---you will absolutely become an avid speed reader.

If you can read these words, you can read them faster. You may have some doubts. You may think that this isn’t possible; that you can only read so fast and that is it. This is not true. It is now possible for every reader who practices these methods to triple his or her reading speed and improve comprehension.

IF YOU ARE A SLOW READER IT

IS BECAUSE YOU READ WORD BY

WORD, AND YOU SAY EVERY WORD

TO YOURSELF. INSTEAD WHAT YOU NEED

TO DO IS USE YOUR HAND AS A

PACER AND GO THROUGH THIS

PARAGRAPH SO FAST YOU DO NOT

HAVE TIME TO STOP AT EACH

WORD AND SAY IT TO YOURSELF.

WHAT YOU SEE INSTEAD ARE GROUPS

OF WORDS THAT CARRY THE MEANING

(WORDS BY THEMSELVES DO NOT), SO

YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MORE OF

ANYTHING YOU READ.

As you start to learn the various methods used in the STRESSFREE SPEED READING SUCCESS process you’ll notice some intentional redundancy, repetition! It is techniques repeated over and over, with visualization and various other added methods that will help you achieve the results you desire and be the best you can possibly be.

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but, if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

...Clay Bedford

Now place your index finger at the beginning of the following paragraph, and race it under each line at a comfortable speed.

IF YOU ARE A SLOW READER

IT IS BECAUSE

YOU READ WORD BY WORD,

AND YOU SAY EVERY WORD TO YOURSELF

INSTEAD WHAT YOU SHOULD DO,

IS USE YOUR HAND AS A PACER

AND GO THROUGH THIS PARAGRAPH SO FAST

YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME

TO STOP AT EACH WORD

AND SAY IT TO YOURSELF.

WHAT YOU SEE INSTEAD

ARE GROUPS OF WORDS

THAT CARRY THE MEANING

(WORDS BY THEMSELVES DO NOT),

SO YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MORE

OF ANYTHING YOU READ.

You read it faster. You understood it more. These are only a few gains you will make with this program. Lets look at more:

Writers get paid by the word in articles and by % of gross sales (royalties) in book publishing. Usually the thicker the book the higher the price and the higher the royalty. Writers are unnecessary verbose. Take a look at the paragraphs below and the bold words. This will illustrate my point.

See what I mean...what I have highlighted with bold type reads:

You...slow reader...because...read...by word, ...say every word to self. Use...hand as pacer ...go through paragraph... fast... do not stop at word. What you see are groups of words...that carry ... meaning...you...understand more."

Sure it sounds like Tonto from the Lone Ranger series but, you still got the message loud and clear. Got the general idea?

GENERAL IDEA

Read faster and understand more with Accelerated Reading techniques.

Ask yourself the following questions: who? what? when? why? and How? (Perhaps also, where?)

WHO?: YOU

WHAT?: ARE SLOW READER

WHEN?: NOW

WHY?: YOU DIDN’T LEARN THE METHOD YET

HOW?: READING WORD-BY-WORD

WHERE?: ???????

After you learn reading acceleration methods, the answers will change to:

Who?: You

What?: Read faster

When?: Immediately

Why?: Many benefits

How?: Pacing with your index finger.

Where?: Right at your own fingertips.

As a Speed Reader you will:

1. Read in just a fraction of the time it took you before.

2. Have an excellent level of comprehension.

3. Be able to use what you get from your reading.

4. Understand the information.

5. Improve your memory in the process.

6. Read and comprehend more effectively.

7. Get recognition and promotion at work.

8. Be better informed.

All of this will make you a better student, employee, communicator, and decision maker in your life. And only one of your benefits will be that you will cut reading time on reports, memos, correspondence, newspapers, novels, non-fiction, magazine, etc. You will save time, and the saying goes ...time is money.

THE COMPUTER-LIKE BRAIN

Computers are devices that are powered by electrical energy. Their operation is guided by operating systems (DOS, Windows, Linux, Mac O/S, IBM OS/2, etc.) and various types of programs detailing their function. As examples: WordPerfect, or Microsoft Word govern word processing. The computer uses memory in many forms to produce many functions including:

1. Store Data

2. Retrieve Data

3. Compute Data

4. Analyze Data

5. Reference Data

To be very specific, a computer can buy and sell stocks automatically. It can evaluate weather conditions and determine whether it is wise to carry an umbrella. The computer can send communication around the world in seconds for free. And, if properly programmed, a computer can make you rich while you sleep. Just a suggestion, purchase a computer and learn how you work inside.

PRACTICE READING USING PACING - TIME YOURSELF

The human brain is a computer in a physical body. It takes in forms of energy, oxygen (and food nourishment) energy elements, and transforms that energy for operations of your computer systems. The language that your brain operates on is known as many things including Cybernetics, Neuropsychological programming, NLP, Self-Hypnosis, Silva Mind Control, etc.

All of these are forms of directed CREATIVE THOUGHT with creative VISUALIZATION and include various forms of memory enhancement (short and long-term). For example, the brain is programmed to operate all bodily systems.

The brain makes sure that the respiratory system, which provides the oxygen for the body, is in proper order to supply the brain with energy for its operation. The brain also controls the endocrine system, digestive system, excretory system, etc. That would mean that your brain is the CPU (Central processing unit) of the body. Your brain (because it consumes 20% of all the oxygen the body ingests) varies your patterns of respiration and thus, alters states of consciousness. This process is called Oxygenation.

Oxygenation makes it possible for you to be programmed in a relaxed state and while you sleep at night. When you achieve an altered or relaxed state (i.e., during sleep at night), you can be easily trained or programmed.

Using the relaxed state, called Alpha, for pro-active, re-educational programming (i.e., self-programming, self-hypnosis, hypnosis, sleep-learning, or subliminal tapes,etc.) will help guarantee your success.

Or, perhaps the person you sleep next to can whisper sweet-nothings and mentally convince you to believe (program you) that you are more deeply loved! You are programmable during sleep!

These Theta and Delta brain/mind states are deep programming levels - deep meditative, deep thought, even perhaps, hypnotic in nature. The proper use of these levels can cause positive permanent change in your life when you program in highly positive messages.

The brain has 2 hemispheres. Left and Right hemisphere — each working independently from the other and offering different types of programs.

The Left brain is a Beta brainwave related area. It is the seat of logic and analytical functions. Scientific and mathematical calculations are functions of Beta brainwaves and the Left brain. The Left brain deals with the physical function of the right side of the body.

The Right brain is an Alpha/Theta brainwave related area. It is the seat of psychic and intuitive abilities. It is responsible for our philosophical and emotional concepts. The right side of the brain controls motor function on the left side of the body. (See diagrams in THE COURSE ON MONEY, covering brain/mind function.)

It is as if we are highly specialized machines/computers. The diagram that follows is an oversimplification of how the Left and Right brain work. Your left and right brain work independently, and also together, to direct the function of your body and your life. Your mind, the energy source of the brain and body, is literally in every cell of your body.

It surrounds your entire physical body. There are ten to twenty billion brain cells, with trillions of connections, far more brain cells than necessary for the operation of the human body.

Various brain chemistries exist for the biochemical balances including:

Serotonan, a neurotransmitter, is involved in behaviors and mood changes involving sleep, and insomnia; depression or manic behavior; hunger/appetite reduction occurs when serotonin levels are elevated. Violence, aggressive behavior, and suicide are associated with reduced serotonin levels.

The inability to sleep well is improved with use of Tryptophan, an amino acid the brain uses to produce serotonin. This suggests that serotonin may play a role in sleep induction. Grandma’s suggestion to drink a glass of warm milk before sleep may be indeed sound; milk is a good source of tryptophan.

Abundant Serotonan synapses (junction points between neurons across which nerve impulses pass) in the cerebral cortex makes it very probable that Serotonin is involved in the processes of perception in some way. Lack of Serotonin causes psychotic tendencies including schizophrenia.

A clue is that psychotic is similar to psychic — but totally out of control. Meditation and Alpha Brainwave Programs build Serotonan levels.

Endorphans -are natures pain killers. In 1975, Endorphins were discovered by Dr. John Hughes and Dr. Kosterlitz. It has been confirmed that Endorphins have both neurological and spinal effects. Twenty different types of Endorphins have been discovered in the nervous system.

The most effective, beta-endorphin which gives the most euphoric effect to the brain, has been found to be composed of 31 amino acids.

The word Endorphin is abbreviated from ‘endogenous morphine’ which means a morphine produced naturally in the body. Endorphins are renowned worldwide as anti-stress hormones that relieve pain naturally. They are secreted to remove stress or pain when you have pain or stress. In other words, they block the signal of pain to the nervous system. This being an effect that reduces the pain and causing an euphoric effect to occur.

Positive thinking, watching funny movies, laughing meditations, and having a humorous and happy attitude builds Endorphan levels.

So you can see your brain chemistry exist in proportion to your using meditation and various relaxation levels for biochemical balancing. So, de-stress, relax, smile, laugh and be happy. It’s good for your brain!

The brain/mind has a memory capacity that is limitless. Thoughts are stored in various areas of the body not only