Here's another easy & totally effective tool you can use at once

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--- " sunsidhe " <sbjames wrote:

 

> Took the advice about the effects of stress on mental performance

to

> heart. During my recent matches I've been breathing deliberatley

> slowly and deeply, allowing a slight smile on my face and feeling

> completely calm and happy, simply treating finding each next move

>as a " fun puzzle " . Its MUCH easier to analyse in this state!

 

Good for you.

 

I love someone that actually does the drills to get the skills.

 

So, Here's another easy and totally effective tool you can use at

once, with virtually no practice.

 

Stress causes the blood flow from the prefrontal lobes to leave, so

that you go into fight, flight, or freeze.

 

Up to 80% of the blood leaves our forebrain, stress chemicals pour

into our bloodstream, primitive stress response emotions sweep over

us, and we proceed to play chess with the biochemistry of an early

neanderthal in mortal danger. Our more recently developed cognitive

abilities are annihilated. Our perceptions become distorted. Our

capacity to respond creatively is in meltdown.

 

None of which is productive for cognitive thinking, which is

required for Chess.

 

To get the blood flow back, and to get your full thinking skills

back, just lean forward at the table...

 

....and put your left hand to your forehead, with the left elbow on

the table.

 

(This is presupposing that you are right handed and move the pieces

with your right hand).

 

This hold is a gental touch.

 

On the forehead there are frontal eminences, which are

neurovasculars. When these neurovasculars are touched, the blood

flow comes back into the brain. The blood returns to your forebrain,

you will feel yourself lifting out of stress.

 

This might take a minute or two, so train your body to be stress-

free from the get-go.

 

Here's some more good news.

 

Holding your neurovascular points also provides a cranial

adjustment, so symptomms such as chronic headaches, neck pain, or

jaw tension may spontaneously diminish.

 

> Amusingly, this calmness sometimes rubs off on the opponents, and

> THEY start playing better too...

 

Yes.

 

Your own physical energies do affect others up to about 30 feet.

This is through the Radiant Circuits, and through the Triple Warmer.

 

If you want to be dastardly about this and give them energies that

affect them negatively, in a secret covert manner, let me know.

 

I love to play with people.

 

> Another side effect; I'm enjoying playing again instead of

thinking

> of matches as gruelling exams I want to pass and I'm even looking

> forward to my next games...

 

Good for you.

 

Like I said earlier, " I love people that actually do the drills to

get the skills " .

 

Sandy Godheart

 

> ---

 

> <sandygodheart@> wrote:

 

> > > Now for a google search on Win Wenger....

 

> > A good start. He has a .

 

> > Also look up La Tourrette. He has a .

 

> > Also look up Donna Eden. She has a .

 

> > Also look up Gary Craig. He has a .

 

> > And have fun.

 

> > Sandy Godheart