With the Summer 2024 Olympics having taken place this year, many people do not realize that athletes at the highest levels of performance use hypnosis to improve their game. Hypnosis helps athletes focus, visualize, and make high performance come as second nature. Just as hypnosis can be beneficial for athletes, it can also benefit chess players at all levels of the game.
Why is this? Well, when a person is put under hypnosis, their mind goes into the alpha brainwave state.
At this state, it makes it easy to access information, be creative, and absorb new information easily.
Also, if a player is having problems in their chess game, going into the alpha brainwave state under
hypnosis and working with a hypnotist to regress the player back through their life, can help uncover
exactly where the problem came from.
One of the reasons hypnosis is so effective for athletes is because of visualization. A good chess player can often visualize about 5 moves ahead. One of the most often quoted studies on the effectiveness of visualization in sports is a study that Dr. Biasiotto conducted at the University of Chicago, where he took three groups and tested them on how many free throws they could make. The first group practiced every day for an hour, the second group only visualized themselves making free throws, and the third group didn’t do anything.
The first group improved by 24%. The second ground improved by 23% with visualization ALONE. And of course, the third group did not improve because they did not do anything.
Not only is a good chess player able to visualize future moves, but there is a tremendous amount of knowledge and memorization involved in the game of chess. And for the chess player to continuously improve, this information needs to be retained and understood as to how it relates to the chess player
and his specific, individual game.
Not only are there the basic moves of how the chess pieces are allowed to move, but there are also openings, defenses, puzzles, endgames – the amount of information that needs to be retained become an outstanding chess player is astounding.
However, hypnosis helps with that. After a basic session, where the chess player does a regression to pick up on any weaknesses to their chess game that might have slipped in from their everyday life, an audio recording is made during the last 15-20 minutes of the session, which helps the player get better on some aspect of their game that they listen to for 21 days so that it becomes embedded into their subconscious mind.
Because even though our thoughts create our reality, our thoughts are creating our reality from our subconscious minds, not the thoughts that we are consciously aware of.
Because a chess player is always evolving and growing as a player, they would have the option to create a package and get a 50% discount on future sessions where only audio recordings are made to addressspecific aspects of the chess player’s game. Let’s say there’s a particular puzzle that the player wants intheir subconscious mind, or they want to memorize Bobby Fischer’s Greatest Game That Was Ever Played. Those would be examples of recordings that could be made tailored to those skills
If you are interested in working with me in using hypnosis to improve your chess game, please reach out to me at joy.cheriel.brown@gmail.com.
I think you’ve made some really interesting points