Do the eye-movement exercise and you improve your concentration and eliminate anxiety and stress. The secret is using more of your peripheral (rods) vision by exercising your 12 rectus and oblique extraocular eye muscles.

In the first seven days of these two-minutes eye-widening exercises your ability to learn and concentrate will improve up to 43%.

Endwords

All of the above are based on neuroscientific research during 2006-7.

Smoking

The journal Science published research from the University of Iowa and USC in January, 2007 offering evidence that certain addictive habits are located in a brain structure called the Insula. This area in located in the center of the brain and under the frontal lobes.

Very little is known about the Insula other than it registers gut-reactions. We now know the absence (dormancy) of the Insula removes addictive behavior. A repression of this organ elimina

Sherri was a 13-year old 8th grader who was convinced her teachers were right about her. Her face drooped when she told us had a bad case of lack of attention and concentration.

I daydream about going to the mall, a Saturday night party, boys, everything but concentrating on reading the page. My friends do not hear teachers whispering about them. My homeroom teacher told my mother I might have a touch of autism.

We tested her learning skills and memory and found Sherri to be in the top 20%. She was a student capable of winning scholarships, but first she had to get out of her own way.

Sherri, your problem is you are too smart. That is exactly right; your brain is underutilized (bored) by what you are learning because you learn it too quickly. When our mind is unoccupied it must find something to do with the empty space so it goes into the Daydreaming mode. It is natural for highly intelligent kids and adults to fill in the dead time with imagining future activities like shopping, parties but many suffer feelings of anxiety at not paying attention.

Remember this, when you read slowly or listen to a teacher explaining a lesson, the information comes into your mind at about 150 words per minute. The problem is your brain has a comfort capacity of 600 words per minute. The difference (450 wpm) cranks out personal Daydreams and causes losing track of the lesson.

This does not happen to average kids (they are used to thinking about nothing) only the brilliant ones, so be happy.

The Solution

The eye-movement restructuring strategy is baby easy; students learn to control their concentration within five-minutes. In this two-minute exercise you balance your right and left brains and lower your brainwave cycles per second. The result is getting in-the-flow (the zone) and developing a powerful concentration.

The central nervous system controls your eye-movements and your breathing. However your conscious mind also has the capability to exercise your eyes-movements and breathing. You can adjust your breathing patterns (hold your breath) and voluntarily exercise your 12 extraocular eye-muscles for focus and attention.

Exercise

You have six extraocular muscles in each eye; they move upward left, upward right, lateral left and lateral right, and downward left and downward right. Please sit comfortably and focus directly ahead and then move just your eyeballs (not your head) as you do your six eye movement exercises.

a) Looking straight ahead move your eyeballs upward toward your left eyebrow and back to center. Do it slowly three-times.

b) Look directly forward and move your eyeballs upward toward your right

eyebrow. Repeat it slowly three-times.

c) Eyes ahead and move your eyeballs lateral left and back to center a total of three-times slowly.

d) Eyes forward and move your eyeballs laterally right and back to center three-times without rushing.

e) Looking ahead and centered, move your eyeballs downward toward your left-knee. Back to center and repeat a total of three-times slowly.

f) Eyes ahead, move your eyeballs downward toward your right-knee for a total of three-times slowly.

Habit

If you choose to exercise for two-minutes daily for 21 days, these eye-movements become a permanent habit and widen your horizontal and vertical focus. The benefits are a major reduction in chronic stress and better concentration for learning and long-term memory.

Average students begin to use more of their IQ and become motivated to excel.

Focus

Please remember: your eyes are capable of 180 degrees of vision horizontally, and 130 degrees vertically. So what? We live our lives using only 60 degrees of vision horizontally and about 60 degrees vertically. Homo sapiens utilize a small percentage of their available vision causing us to have a narrow (tunnel-vision) focus.

We reinforce this narrow focus daily because of 5 hours of watching TV, 2 hours on the computer, and communicating face-to-face (eyeball to eyeball) at home and at our employment.

A narrow focus induces chronic stress, even headaches and dry-eye. Our goal is to create a wide (soft-focus) vision that relaxes our eyes, sensory and motor systems.

Do the eye-movement exercise and you improve your concentration and eliminate anxiety and stress. The secret is using more of your peripheral (rods) vision by exercising your 12 rectus and oblique extraocular eye muscles.

In the first seven days of these two-minutes eye-widening exercises your ability to learn and concentrate will improve up to 43%.

Endwords

All of the above are based on neuroscientific research during 2006-7.

Smoking

The journal Science published research from the University of Iowa and USC in January, 2007 offering evidence that certain addictive habits are located in a brain structure called the Insula. This area in located in the center of the brain and under the frontal lobes.

Very little is known about the Insula other than it registers gut-reactions. We now know the absence (dormancy) of the Insula removes addictive behavior. A repression of this organ eliminat

Remember this, when you read slowly or listen to a teacher explaining a lesson, the information comes into your mind at about 150 words per minute. The problem is your brain has a comfort capacity of 600 words per minute. The difference (450 wpm) cranks out personal Daydreams and causes losing track of the lesson.

This does not happen to average kids (they are used to thinking about nothing) only the brilliant ones, so be happy.

The Solution

The eye-movement restructuring strategy is baby easy; students learn to control their concentration within five-minutes. In this two-minute exercise you balance your right and left brains and lower your brainwave cycles per second. The result is getting in-the-flow (the zone) and developing a powerful concentration.

The central nervous system controls your eye-movements and your breathing. However your conscious mind also has the capability to exercise your eyes-movements and breathing. You can adjust your breathing patterns (hold your breath) and voluntarily exercise your 12 extraocular eye-muscles for focus and attention.

Exercise

You have six extraocular muscles in each eye; they move upward left, upward right, lateral left and lateral right, and downward left and downward right. Please sit comfortably and focus directly ahead and then move just your eyeballs (not your head) as you do your six eye movement exercises.

a) Looking straight ahead move your eyeballs upward toward your left eyebrow and back to center. Do it slowly three-times.

b) Look directly forward and move your eyeballs upward toward your right

eyebrow. Repeat it slowly three-times.

c) Eyes ahead and move your eyeballs lateral left and back to center a total of three-times slowly.

d) Eyes forward and move your eyeballs laterally right and back to center three-times without rushing.

e) Looking ahead and centered, move your eyeballs downward toward your left-knee. Back to center and repeat a total of three-times slowly.

f) Eyes ahead, move your eyeballs downward toward your right-knee for a total of three-times slowly.

Habit

If you choose to exercise for two-minutes daily for 21 days, these eye-movements become a permanent habit and widen your horizontal and vertical focus. The benefits are a major reduction in chronic stress and better concentration for learning and long-term memory.

Average students begin to use more of their IQ and become motivated to excel.

Focus

Please remember: your eyes are capable of 180 degrees of vision horizontally, and 130 degrees vertically. So what? We live our lives using only 60 degrees of vision horizontally and about 60 degrees vertically. Homo sapiens utilize a small percentage of their available vision causing us to have a narrow (tunnel-vision) focus.

We reinforce this narrow focus daily because of 5 hours of watching TV, 2 hours on the computer, and communicating face-to-face (eyeball to eyeball) at home and at our employment.

A narrow focus induces chronic stress, even headaches and dry-eye. Our goal is to create a wide (soft-focus) vision that relaxes our eyes, sensory and motor systems.

Do the eye-movement exercise and you improve your concentration and eliminate anxiety and stress. The secret is using more of your peripheral (rods) vision by exercising your 12 rectus and oblique extraocular eye muscles.

In the first seven days of these two-minutes eye-widening exercises your ability to learn and concentrate will improve up to 43%.

Endwords

All of the above are based on neuroscientific research during 2006-7.

Smoking

The journal Science published research from the University of Iowa and USC in January, 2007 offering evidence that certain addictive habits are located in a brain structure called the Insula. This area in located in the center of the brain and under the frontal lobes.

Very little is known about the Insula other than it registers gut-reactions. We now know the absence (dormancy) of the Insula removes addictive behavior. A repression of this organ elimina

Exercise

You have six extraocular muscles in each eye; they move upward left, upward right, lateral left and lateral right, and downward left and downward right. Please sit comfortably and focus directly ahead and then move just your eyeballs (not your head) as you do your six eye movement exercises.

a) Looking straight ahead move your eyeballs upward toward your left eyebrow and back to center. Do it slowly three-times.

b) Look directly forward and move your eyeballs upward toward your right

eyebrow. Repeat it slowly three-times.

c) Eyes ahead and move your eyeballs lateral left and back to center a total of three-times slowly.

d) Eyes forward and move your eyeballs laterally right and back to center three-times without rushing.

e) Looking ahead and centered, move your eyeballs downward toward your left-knee. Back to center and repeat a total of three-times slowly.

f) Eyes ahead, move your eyeballs downward toward your right-knee for a total of three-times slowly.

Habit

If you choose to exercise for two-minutes daily for 21 days, these eye-movements become a permanent habit and widen your horizontal and vertical focus. The benefits are a major reduction in chronic stress and better concentration for learning and long-term memory.

Average students begin to use more of their IQ and become motivated to excel.

Focus

Please remember: your eyes are capable of 180 degrees of vision horizontally, and 130 degrees vertically. So what? We live our lives using only 60 degrees of vision horizontally and about 60 degrees vertically. Homo sapiens utilize a small percentage of their available vision causing us to have a narrow (tunnel-vision) focus.

We reinforce this narrow focus daily because of 5 hours of watching TV, 2 hours on the computer, and communicating face-to-face (eyeball to eyeball) at home and at our employment.

A narrow focus induces chronic stress, even headaches and dry-eye. Our goal is to create a wide (soft-focus) vision that relaxes our eyes, sensory and motor systems.

Do the eye-movement exercise and you improve your concentration and eliminate anxiety and stress. The secret is using more of your peripheral (rods) vision by exercising your 12 rectus and oblique extraocular eye muscles.

In the first seven days of these two-minutes eye-widening exercises your ability to learn and concentrate will improve up to 43%.

Endwords

All of the above are based on neuroscientific research during 2006-7.

Smoking

The journal Science published research from the University of Iowa and USC in January, 2007 offering evidence that certain addictive habits are located in a brain structure called the Insula. This area in located in the center of the brain and under the frontal lobes.

Very little is known about the Insula other than it registers gut-reactions. We now know the absence (dormancy) of the Insula removes addictive behavior. A repression of this organ elimina

Habit

If you choose to exercise for two-minutes daily for 21 days, these eye-movements become a permanent habit and widen your horizontal and vertical focus. The benefits are a major reduction in chronic stress and better concentration for learning and long-term memory.

Average students begin to use more of their IQ and become motivated to excel.

Focus

Please remember: your eyes are capable of 180 degrees of vision horizontally, and 130 degrees vertically. So what? We live our lives using only 60 degrees of vision horizontally and about 60 degrees vertically. Homo sapiens utilize a small percentage of their available vision causing us to have a narrow (tunnel-vision) focus.

We reinforce this narrow focus daily because of 5 hours of watching TV, 2 hours on the computer, and communicating face-to-face (eyeball to eyeball) at home and at our employment.

A narrow focus induces chronic stress, even headaches and dry-eye. Our goal is to create a wide (soft-focus) vision that relaxes our eyes, sensory and motor systems.

Do the eye-movement exercise and you improve your concentration and eliminate anxiety and stress. The secret is using more of your peripheral (rods) vision by exercising your 12 rectus and oblique extraocular eye muscles.

In the first seven days of these two-minutes eye-widening exercises your ability to learn and concentrate will improve up to 43%.

Endwords

All of the above are based on neuroscientific research during 2006-7.

Smoking

The journal Science published research from the University of Iowa and USC in January, 2007 offering evidence that certain addictive habits are located in a brain structure called the Insula. This area in located in the center of the brain and under the frontal lobes.

Very little is known about the Insula other than it registers gut-reactions. We now know the absence (dormancy) of the Insula removes addictive behavior. A repression of this organ elimina

Do the eye-movement exercise and you improve your concentration and eliminate anxiety and stress. The secret is using more of your peripheral (rods) vision by exercising your 12 rectus and oblique extraocular eye muscles.

In the first seven days of these two-minutes eye-widening exercises your ability to learn and concentrate will improve up to 43%.

Endwords

All of the above are based on neuroscientific research during 2006-7.

Smoking

The journal Science published research from the University of Iowa and USC in January, 2007 offering evidence that certain addictive habits are located in a brain structure called the Insula. This area in located in the center of the brain and under the frontal lobes.

Very little is known about the Insula other than it registers gut-reactions. We now know the absence (dormancy) of the Insula removes addictive behavior. A repression of this organ eliminates the urge to smoke.

How to turn off the neural signals to the insula from the larger neural network is the next step to ending the reign of tobacco over humanity.

Are other forms of addiction located there? Check back in 2008.

What we choose to remember is that the human brain is still terra incognita and our knowledge changes with the proof.

By the way, Sherri presently reads at 1,200 words per minute with 90% comprehension. Normal folk read at under 200 wpm with a 70% comprehension.

She smiles a lot more now and believes her old homeroom teacher may be hiding a touch of autism because she reads so slowly compared to her young student. She has recommended speed reading to a dozen of her schoolmates.

See ya,

copyright 2007 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org