I deal with blocks in the long term by not relying on anticipation, thoughts, feelings, sensations and stutter beliefs/attitudes to initiate speech movements. Generally all movement actions (such as walking, climbing, swimming, biking) have different techniques or styles. To reinforce a forward motion when swimming, we can use the breaststroke or backstroke technique. Non-stutterers use a different set of instructions to maintain the forward flow of speech than people who stutter. Everyone has a different perspective of what the non-stutterer's "set of instruction" is, and that of a person who stutters. This is my attempt to depict what I perceive if I look through this lens: Unhelpful strategy: * I instruct my brain to execute motor speech movements \[action\] - based on the perfect articulatory tension in my mouth, anticipation (and other thoughts, feelings, sensations and stutter attitudes) \[parameter\] * I instruct my brain to execute motor speech movements \[action\] - by relying on tensing speech muscles or secondary characteristics, repetitions and 'tricks' that non-stutterers don't apply; and by perceiving mind-body feelings as "*it prevents my action*" Helpful strategy: * I instruct my brain to **immediately** execute motor speech movements \[action\] - in any articulatory position \[parameter\] * note: I should never **need** an articulatory starting position * label the heavy head, burn feelings or mind-body feelings as "*this doesn't prevent me from instructing execution of motor movements*" (don't need to reduce it otherwise you reinforce its meaning and attachment) * accept triggers