Creativity

Creativity in and from reading can only occur once comprehension has reached a certain level of performance. Therefore, the best way initially to improve creativity is to improve comprehension. Please click on the Comprehension button and read this section. The best way to initially improve creativity is to go right through the steps listed to improve comprehension.

Once mastery of basic comprehension skills has occurred, there is much that can be done to further improve creativity from reading. The following section from our 16 page paper speaks to this issue:.

Achieving Theta

Reading silently in PR enables students to enter the Theta state. This state of mind helps students in a number of different ways:

1. Improving Visualization and Concentration. When students read silently between 240 and 420 words per minute they are reading 4 to 7 words per second. For fifty years it has been known that seeing 4-7 flashes of light per second entrains the brain in the Theta state (other states are Alpha, Beta and Delta). All the great meditation in the world has been checked to occur in the Theta state. This is the state of maximum concentration, maximum visualization and maximum creativity. In other words, just at the point where students are freed up from concentrating on forming words with their muscles, they are best able to visualize the words they are reading, maximize their focus on content, and think creatively about what they are reading. Viewing proportionalized text with level 5 at speed 7 or higher makes all this happen. PR enables students to reach, experience and reproduce this state.

2. Reducing Stress. The more you let go and open up, the more you relax and become receptive, the more you will be able to get out of your reading. Students realize this from their experience with PR. This kind of letting go of control is found in both prayer and meditation. It is just the opposite of stress. One basic discovery of PR is that you can not let go and be stressful at the same time. Students doing PR find over and over that they are able to forget their stress during their reading time. Teaching the modern young child how to escape stress for a few minutes each day is a necessary and wonderful accomplishment. People of all ages can master this technique.

3. Improving Creativity. When students read silently in PR they hear an inner voice. When they reach the Theta state of concentration and relaxation, their real self will start to have a conversation with the inner voice at certain times. The comments of the real self to the inner voice are insights of pure creativity. Students doing PR reading learn to achieve this creative environment and to experience and capture the flashes of creativity.

For Further Information

Please read our introduction to PR. This article is called "Improve Reading Quickly". Click on the link here, or access this article from the center of our home page. This article describes our progression of seven separate steps for creating good reading habits. This article describes how the program is used and each of the specific purposes. It explains briefly how our software provides help for almost every possible reading difficulty, and describes how two of the seven approaches provide different methods for anyone to immediately read text with increased speed and comprehension.

This Introductory article also explains how ideally this seven step, interactive program is combined with initial evaluation and periodic consultation. Our 16 page paper describes in depth why this should occur and spells out in detail the specific approach used by the PR trainer in the classroom, or with individual students or adults. A detailed description of the eight step initial evaluation process is also available. We offer a Free Demo DVD with free shipping anywhere in the USA.

The introductory article on PR also explains how immediate reading improvement can occur by using specialized hardware which holds book pages open. By freeing up the hands, this tool allows the reader to sit back in a relaxed and supported position and to type notes while reading. It also enables one to stop turning ones head from side to side while typing. For many people, this tool immediately improves reading comprehension and enjoyment as well as productivity.

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