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Ricardo -> RE: Focal Dystonia. (Jul. 1 2023 16:48:45)
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“Practice makes Permanent, not Perfect”.
Let me “zap” my fingers before I hit the stage. Also it is too cold to play in this hall, I need hand/finger warmers. Actually, a hit of marajuana/bump of coke/shot of tequila usually does the trick…
All this points to performance anxiety to me, and probably needs to be dealt with as such. They way I have worked on it over the years was with the music itself. Also, I had mentioned years ago about vitamin D. My doctor said they don’t know why it helps but it improves many strange issues. I did an experiment when I ran out of my D supplements. I was fine for a few weeks and then noticed something in my fingers after I had long forgotten I had stopped taking them. So there is something physical going on there, I certainly recommend a serious regimen of D supplements, especially musicians that work at night.
Horrifying quote by Paco de Lucia, one that I live by, as terrible as it is: “If you think you are going to make a mistake, you are LOST!”.
Digging myself out of that “hole” of feeling like at any moment it was gonna fall apart, was the key to arriving at a place where everything feels more than “easy”, rather, it is fun.
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