The First Five Minutes Decide Everything
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The First Five Minutes Decide Everything
The first few minutes of practice do more than warm up your hands — they shape the entire session.
Before you’re fully settled, your nervous system has already decided something:
Is this going to feel rushed or grounded? Focused or scattered?
Most players underestimate how much the entry point determines the outcome.
When practice starts hurried, attention fragments. You move faster than you hear. You chase momentum instead of building it. The session may feel busy, but it rarely feels deep.
A deliberate start changes everything.
Slowing down at the beginning widens your sense of time. Sound stabilizes. Listening leads instead of reacting. The session organizes itself around clarity instead of urgency.
The body learns patterns quickly.
If you begin tense, tension becomes the baseline.
If you begin calm and intentional, that becomes the standard.
The beginning teaches the rest of the session how to behave.
If you want practice to feel deeper — without making it longer — start by changing how you enter.
Slow the first moments.
Listen before you play.
Let the session arrive.
What follows will almost always reflect how you began.