Hold fast to the program as it is, releasing any desire to “correct” or “modify” it until you follow it exactly for several weeks. Trust yourself, even when it feels like you are making no progress. Especially stay with it when you feel like you are digressing. The feeling of digression is a sure sign that the process is working VERY well and that a major breakthrough is imminent. Reading is a skill to be learned. Like a new habit, the process of reading will take some time to replace old habits. RET will speed this process along greatly.

Trust! Trust! Trust!

How to Read
Novels and Magazine Articles

Preparation
1. While seated look to your left knee then to your right knee. Look back and forth until your eyes feel like they want to blink a lot.
2. Roll your eyes in large circles as far as you can stretch them to the periphery.
3. Continue rolling your eyes first clockwise then counterclockwise several times.
4. Stop and shut your eyes very tightly - then open - close tightly - then open — continue for 5 blinks.
5. Hum a bar or so of music.
6. Count from 1 to 10 forward, then backward from 10 to 1.
7. Hum a bar or so of music.
8. Take a deep breath and exhale all at once.
9. Continue the movement-blink-hum-count-hum-breath exercise 5 times (this will take about 1 minute).
10. Breathe in deeply through your nose - hold for a count of 3 (imagine you could gather all the stress in your body into the breath) - then release it all at once out the mouth (mouth wide open) - a big sigh! Let your shoulders drop and relax with the breath (notice them drop).
11. Repeat the breath 3 times.
12. Pick up the reading material.
13. Bend it, open it, adjust it to make the pages move easily and quickly (new books will need to be opened in several places and folded back to loosen the binding).
14. Turn the book upside-down and “flip” the pages through - like “fanning” them.

You may replace the above with the RET Emotional First Aid process.

Taken From: A Course in Light Speed Reading
A Return to Natural Intuitive Reading