>(3) I made a promise to myself to never apply the terminology 'feared letter' or 'I anticipate blocks' in my mind. In other words, I made a self-rule that I may never analyze or discuss anything related with anticipation, so that I reduce overthinking and predicting the letter /S/. This lowers the possibility (in our mind) that we could stutter on the /S/ This one stood out to me because it's really similar to some rules I made in my college years where I forced myself not to dwell on my stutter. If I had a difficult time, it was a hard rule, no acceptation that I would not allow myself to worry about it or even THINK about it. I'd force myself to think of a movie, games, anything and over time I think I subconsciously got the message because it became second nature to no longer worry about it, no longer having a heavy weight over my head trying not to think about it. Rules can be a powerful thing. The mindset off of a rule or 2 really effected so much with my stutter. Edit: In reply to 55:00 - I used to not know how to get out of a block to the point where I'd do head jerks and anything to trigger some kind of breakthrough. Now I don't wanna step into them. Rather than block trying to eek something out with sheer willpower (like a finger trap tightening stronger and stronger the harder I try to overwhelm it) I see it as the opposite. I want to let up. I repeat the word or pull back from it and try again, again, another light try, don't care. I know my limit where I will start closing up entirely blocking and would rather let up, repeat if I have to until it lets go just as it would after a locking battle, I just wouldn't be so drained from it. That's kind of what I was doing in the latest video I released (part 2 of talking in the wind) in the recordings I shared. Although that's not what I want to do, it's a kind of last ditch worst case scenario rule I fall back on cause I know the alternative would be to close up needlessly.