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Visualizing in itself is not enough, so what I did was to create a 'system' or 'strategy' based on visualizing alone. I suggest to start out 'practicing' this strategy first with your family member and later with anyone else. **Step 1**: talk to someone with eyes closed while visualizing that you are alone. Speak only yourself while speaking to someone and don't let listener talk. This way you won't get confused that you are actually 'not alone'. The most important core 'learning aspect' is that you learn to recognize the 'fluency feeling' as opposed to the stutter feeling that one normally applies **Step 2**: talk to someone with eyes open while visualizing that you are alone. Try to make it harder: listener asks you only questions from time to time. Later, increase the difficulty to a dialogue without much emotion and later increase it to a dialogue with emotion. In my experience, when I divided the steps in smaller steps, I was able to eventually speak like a non-stutterer and have normal conversation with anyone. The most important take-away is that I learn to harness and increase this fluency feeling. **Step 3**: Don't visualize anymore and speak like a non-stutterer by using this fluency feeling. ​ **Conclusion**: If I stutter even once in step 2, then I go back to step 1. In my experience I never stutterered in step 1. If I stutter once in step 3, then I returned to step 2. It's not about the technique, it's about the learning process and harnessing this confidence feeling of fluency with this strategy. Of course, every stutterer is different so I suggest to adjust this strategy to your own stutter situation to increase its effectiveness. I found creating 'steps' effective for me because then I can use this confidence feeling as an anchor to switch between fluency and stuttering. Do you have more questions or improvement tips?