Tweet The chaos caused by stammering has a pattern. It starts and then it ends. It always follows this form. Observe this pattern. But don’t be seduced into becoming it. Whatever continues to be observed, in the end loses its pattern, its form and its structure.
Month: October 2011
What works and what doesn't
Tweet Trying to not stammer, almost always never works. That’s because it involves using force and pressure on yourself; the exact opposite of what is needed. When you choose to approach your stammering with compassion, non-judgement and experimentation, you give yourself a chance to really understand how you and your stammering works.
Do you really want this?
Tweet You stammer just once in a day. It probably lasted 1 minute maximum, if that. That leaves another 1439 minutes in a day. Of these, you will probably be awake carrying on with your daily activities for about 500-600 minutes. Yet, an incident that lasted less than 0.1% of your day, clouds the rest…
You're not stammering
Tweet You’re not stammering at this moment, yet you’re becoming scared that you might. You’re not even going to stammer tomorrow, but you are reacting to thoughts of you stammering. Unfortunately, engaging in such fantasy is like a self-fulfilling prophesy. It usually becomes true. The only time you will stammer (in terms of the physical…
The good thing about boxing yourself in
Tweet Is that the box can open very easily. The biggest step is figuring out how to actually open the box first.