My childhood teachers often told me that I should ease my tension when I'm playing the piano and that should try to relax when I get tense. There were teachers that mentioned that my sound was harsh when I was tense and I should use my ears to listen to 'soften' the sound. I understood what they were telling me, but the problem is that those words did not translate directly into un-tension for me. I did not physically grasp the idea on what it was to not be tense when I pl

Having an objective view of your focal dystonia symptoms is a crucial skill to have, but it could be very difficult to do at first. It is particularly difficult because most likely, you have strong negative emotions associated and ingrained in your dystonic movements. And...we all know how emotions cloud objectivity. You have despised your dystonic symptoms over and over again and by now, you have negative charge such as anger, withdraw, loss, betrayal, depression, anxiety

The biggest change that helped me in the beginning days of my training to resolve MFD was to shift my mindset from being result oriented to being more in tune with the process of acquiring the results. After some self analysis and feedback from my closest family and friends, I started noticing my tendency on always being in a hurry to achieve the desired results and not being attentive to what happens in the process. Sometimes the actions of achieving something fast costed m

Launching a how-to-site for musicians with focal dystonia has long been on my to do list. To be honest, I had been putting the project off for some time because of so many reasons. But ...as I was looking back at my recovery (still and always going to be in the process of refining), I was wondering if I can do it all over again to do anything differently, I would cut years and months of time learning from others out there so I would not waste so much energy, money and the