{"id":3901,"date":"2024-04-17T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T07:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrscheckmate.com\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2024-04-17T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T07:41:43","slug":"how-does-meditation-help-chess-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscheckmate.com\/how-does-meditation-help-chess-players\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Meditation Help Chess Players? (Explained)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
If you’re a chess player who wants to use your brains and knowledge at peak levels and win more games, matches, and tournaments, this article is for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don’t have to achieve satori or enter nirvana, nor do you have to learn how to levitate or develop your ESP. Meditation doesn’t have to be something mystical or mysterious at all. It’s simply an empirically tested and proven way of helping your mind to function at its best, which is what you need for your mind to do to win chess games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chess & Meditation <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To further clarify the matter, meditation is also not about thinking. It’s not even about thinking over your next chess move, much less remembering your first kiss, worrying about your job, or pondering the meaning of life. That’s called contemplation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that we’ve covered what meditation is not, we’ll talk about what it is. It’s about relaxing and focusing your mind so that your brainwaves are basically cycling at the alpha rate or lower. In contrast, when thinking, your brain waves are busily cycling at the beta rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many years ago, using an EEG machine, brain researchers found that the electrical impulses in our brains cycle at different wavelengths depending on our state of consciousness. These wavelengths were named alpha, beta, theta, and delta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n