Don’t worry; the exercises I’m going to teach you won’t even make you break a sweat.  These exercises have been designed to give your eye muscles a workout.  Like every other muscle in your body, with exercise, you can strengthen your eye muscles and as a result, make them healthier and more flexible. Stronger, more [...]

Next up I offer tips for reducing eye strain while using your computer.  Staring at a computer monitor places a lot of extra demand on your eyes, and the only way to stop this is to stop using your computer.  But I realize that’s probably impossible to do.  For most of us, computers have gone [...]

Speaking of the eye doctor, when’s the last time you visited one?  If it’s been a while, it’s probably a good idea to make an appointment with an optometrist.  Let’s face it.  You want to improve your reading speed, don’t you?  Well guess what?  You need your eyes to make that happen.  If your eyes [...]

Glare happens because of the way light reflects off surfaces.  When there’s glare, there’s usually a lot of squinting.  And when there’s a lot of squinting, eyes get tired.  So get rid of it. The easiest way to control glare when speed reading, is to control the source of light that’s causing it.  You can [...]

Just as there are ergonomic methods that apply to the wrists or your back, there are also ergonomic principles associated with your eyes.  Think about it.  When you read, whether you read fast or slow, your eyes are constantly in motion. They’re fixating and jumping countless times a second.  They’re trying to stretch their peripheral [...]

In this post I will cover a number of speed reading tips related to ergonomics. Speed Reading Tip #1 – Choose your environment One thing that surprises my students when they first learn to speed read is the importance of where they read.  Most of them think, “Hey it’s time to read.  Let me settle [...]

Next I want to talk about the digital information explosion and offer a technique you can use to help weed out the bad information from the good.  If you’ve ever done any online research, you probably know what I mean when I say there’s some good information out there but there’s also a lot of [...]

Moving on, I want to share with you some screen reading techniques I use to help read faster on screen. The first method is reformatting pages that present a challenge to your eyes.  When you find an online page that’s cluttered or difficult to read like the kind described previously, don’t skip it.  Instead copy [...]

When you think about it, the process of reading is the same regardless of whether you read online or off.  Reading starts with the eyes as they begin looking at letters and the words those letters create.  Right away, the brain kicks into gear, breathing meaning into the images received by the eyes. If the [...]

In the earliest days of speed reading strategies, computers were nowhere near as popular as they are today.  Back then people mainly read printed material like books and magazines and newspapers.  Construction of the Information Superhighway was in its earliest stages.  So when people needed information, they usually headed to the nearest library. Today the [...]