Doubtless, all parts of our body are unique and significant, our sense organs being more so. And, of all our sense perceptions, occular vision is rated top most. Indeed, our eyes are paramount as they connect us to the world outside. If they cease functioning, there would be no glitter or grandeur of the outside universe; and darkness would be the only sensation superseeding all others.
Yet, it isn’t only to the outside that our eyes relate to. Their relationship with our inner self, our memory, is also significant. It’s thanks to our eyes that we can appreciate seven different colours of a rainbow, study myriad subjects, and size up a person for his worth.
Learning, in a manner of sort, goes hand in hand with our sense perceptions. Some people remember well what they listen from ears. Some learn by way of writing, percussing or even with bizarre acts like pin prick or induced insect bits etc. Similarly there are people who understand and remember well whatsoever they see with their eyes.
Your eyes are magical camera lenses, taking snap shots of all that you see, including study material, and then feeding it to the brain. If you must study or revise in a hurry, your eyes must indeed play a crucial role.
Make best use of your sense of sight
Your eyes have the ability to read all languages worldwide over. So why not make best use of them? Just as you can sense psychological aura around you, you can train your eyes to scan your environment and help your memory. Like when you were learning to run a paddle cycle, you scarce thought you would wind through streets at terrific speed in times to come. In the initial stages you were nervous and fearfull. You anticipated even minor accidents and rode slow lest you fall down. Yet as you gained confidence on two wheels, you fears were no more, and you were paddling fast and furious reaching awesome speed of 20 kms/hr or so. On this stage of perfection if someone asked you to go slow like you did in beginning, you may feel slighted, as if commanded to drive a baby’s three wheeler. For by then you were are expert of sorts who wouldn’t think twice even for hands-off handle daredevilry. This coming of age is nothing but the doing of psychological conditioning.
In the same way, you learn to read fast and glide through paras and pages of text with effortless ease. And should someone ask you to read or write like a nursery kid, you will find it funny the fact that you made your beginning in just that manner notwithstanding. What really happened during your formative years is this that your eyes got used to browsing through print quick and fast. Hence you now read and quick fast.
Your eyes are your private detective
You have your own Sherlock Holmes in the shape of your eyes. Your eyes can see through the veil of conceit and illusion, and find out the truth of matter in no time. Your mind is a powerful magnet, like of which, is found nowhere in world. It has power to attract to it all things big or small.
In some puzzles you are shown one particular figure in one space. In another space there are myriad forms simulating the above said ‘figure’ barring one which is true clone of it. And you have no problem locating this clone from amongst the maze of confusing figures. This, obviously, is your eyes’ doing. It takes true picture of the given standard, and transmits it to brain. The brain thereafter takes cognizance of it and has no difficulty in searching true clone in a group of like-looking pictures; and that is how you solve the puzzle.
Such like eye-mind coordination works even as you do your studies. And helping this coordination is best way to help your memory. Hence the cardinal importance of diagrams, illustrations and pictures in your text books. You can always bank upon sketches and figure formations to help your grasping and memorising power.
Thus, picturised and illustrated texts are easy to understand and remember because of their visual feel.
Same for scanning key points in fine print. Your eyes can easily locate what needs, underlining and priority attention. All you have to do is to let your eyes roam free on pages. You need not read every single word of presentation. You may jump gun stepping on key points alone.
How to train your eyes
For mastering picturisation technique for studies, eye skirting can help. Herein you glance through every single word in print, but focus attention only on that line or para which is significant. If subject matter is tedious, you must pay attention to every single detail. But if text is, easy, smooth and foreseeable; you may browse fast through the contents.
Albeit, slow down on an impart part of text—and reflect before moving on. Such pauses may vary from 0.15 second to 1.5 seconds.
Eye control technique can work wonders for your mind. For example, even as your run through a particular word or phrase umpteen times, you still tend to feel something amiss. In such dilemma, you may browse back and read repeatedly what seems to be the missing link in story. Such camping and selective focussing is an exercise in training eye movements. This is intellectually stimulating too. Like it may guide you to summarise loads of words and paras into a few punch-lines. All the same, it makes you a fast and consummate reader.
You can well understand all that you read fast
By managing your eye movements you browse through volumes and volumes of text with ease and speed. Tap upon this incredible faculty of your mind and your eyes. Train your occular vision for fast browsing. This will, at the same time, help your memory.
In the beginning, comprehending a set of six words in one go, may be rated as your first milestone. Subsequently you build upon this and may take upto 4 such sets in just one stroke. That takes your reading ability to a whopping 24 words per second.
So, get going, and unfold wonders that your eyes hold out for you.
