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Focus, the positive counterpart to relaxation, is an intense concentration on a particular activity. For example, if you focus on something, such as your left-hand fingers moving across the fretboard steadily and accurately, all your energies go into that particular task. Typically, the area of focus is what your fingers are doing, but sometimes it involves your eyes and brain — such as when you’re memorizing repertoire or sight-reading difficult or unfamiliar music. Either way, whatever parts aren’t the area of focus while you’re practicing should be relaxed.

When you see confident and professional performers, they always look both focused and relaxed. Even when they’re in the throes of an intense performance, they’re having fun and their energies never seem improperly channeled. That’s what focus is. It means thinking only about what you’re playing and what’s coming up next in the music. Focus isn’t wondering what’s for lunch.

Increased strength and flexibility make guitar playing physically easier over time; similarly your powers of concentration can develop so that you get better at breathing evenly, maintaining a supple carriage (the way you carry your head and body), and applying intense focus where it’s needed to perform correctly, perfectly, or brilliantly.