My Second Meditation

For information about my experiment, please refer to my first post.

I did my second meditation session on Sunday (10/1). I managed to focus at a reasonable intensity for about 9 minutes. After that my ability to focus was completely gone. However, my level of exhaustion was much less severe than it was last week and my ability to focus is regenerating much faster than it did last week. After 20 minutes I was able to focus at the same level as before for another 2-minute session. Last week I had absolutely no focus ability for a couple of hours, and I was impaired for a few days. This time I expect to be fully covered by tomorrow. I believe my slight decrease in focus duration is due to being slightly sick.

I was going to participate in a rated rapid tournament today, but due to feeling ill I withdrew from the tournament. I will have to wait until next weekend before I can play against any of my benchmark opponents. Hopefully in the next blog post I can present some data. My last rated event (against the 2000 I mentioned in the first post) was submitted and my ratings were adjusted up a lot (the benefit of still being provisional). 

My USCF Classical Rating: 1648 (provisional)  

My USCF Rapid Rating: 1614 (provisional)