>Any activity that that we have to perform, the conditioned responses kicks in and the freezing or holding back ocurrs. Yes, any activity, situation, thought, feeling, sensation or experience, or any other stimuli could be a trigger to freeze or hold back, in my opinion. >Personally I stutter while playing guitar. Do you stutter when speaking/singing when playing the guitar, or you stutter in your inner speech (I mean, in your mind), or do you move your mouth in a stuttering manner without necessarily pronouncing phrases? >The key may be to change our sutter program on our brain and replace the narrative for a positive one. Yes, one approach could be replacing with a positive narrative, such as in hypnosis. Perhaps all strategies can be effective as long as we believe it to be. I myself prefer to apply the instruction that non-stutterers apply "*I instruct to execute motor speech movements immediately whenever my articulatory starting position is established*" **\[strategy\]**, with the goal of subconscious fluency or putting stuttering into remission. This way I can experience negative emotions, anticipation, fight flight freeze or any other trigger, and it won't result in a speech block in my experience. I think there are different types of blocking, and my 'type of blocking' is brought about by unhelpful beliefs/attitudes to wait out speech, which I'm trying to compensate with the above strategy. **Have you tried to "consciously instruct your brain to send command signals to execute speech movements" during a block? (so that your lips, jaw, tongue, larynx, respiratory muscles and other speech muscles start moving?) How was your experience when trying this?**