Phrase-Reading

Phrases are where the meaning is. Words are way too vague on their own.
And sentences are usually too long to read in a single glance.
But phrases, meaningful word-groups, are compact and understandable pieces
of information that can be understood as a single idea, all at once, just as if
they were one single compound word.
If this is new to you, you’re probably wondering how you can focus on
meaningful phrases — how can you know what groups of words to read
together to make up these meaningful phrases.
Well, if you haven’t read Speed Reading with the Right Brain, or Easy Speed
Reading, let me give you the short version of this technique.
Basically, you use visualizing to encourage your mind to focus on the ideas
instead of words. When you attempt to visualize the ideas you’re reading,
your subconscious mind automatically gravitates to meaningful phrases
because that’s where the ideas are.
So to see the text in meaningful phrases, try to use your imagination as much
as possible while you read, and you’ll find that your eyes will focus on the
phrases for you.
To guide you while learning to read phrases, all of the text in the practice
excerpts is phrase-highlighted. This is done by alternating each phrase
between black and gray text to assist you in focusing on the whole phrases.
There’s no difference between black phrases or gray phrases — the black and
gray text is just a method to the phrases stand out as separate entities.
Note that these word-groups are not merely randomly fixed word lengths. For
example, they’re not just a set number of every four, five or six words.
Instead, the words are grouped together into actual meaningful phrases; that is
phrases that you can quickly read and imagine as complete ideas.
This is an example of phrase-highlighted text. Each meaningful phrase is easy
to see as a separate block of text so you can quickly focus on whole ideas at a
time rather than simply reading a string of words. Practice reading this text as
fast as you can while visualizing and imagining what you read and watch as
your reading turns into a virtual movie in your head.