>Ok, so even tho my jaw, lips and mouth feels tense, I should not try to relax and push through with moving my speech muscles? Yes correct, I recommend to stop focusing on: * tensing mouth muscles (*aka monitoring*) * stopping with tensing mouth muscles (*aka unhelpful interventions*) Because both monitoring and doing interventions causes right-side hemisphere dominant speaking and are unnecessary at best (which doesn't lead to outgrowing stuttering in my opinion). I recommend: if you notice that you are focusing on (1) mouth tension or (2) 'reducing' mouth tension, then interrupt your focus on this. Instead, move your focus (or attention) to: "**deciding/instructing to move your speech muscles**". Feel tension and regardless, still instruct/decide to move speech muscles (during a speech block). Feel fear and still move speech muscles regardless. Experience stuttering anticipation (or negative listeners responses) and still move speech muscles regardless. In other words, normally we blame tension, fear, anticipation and other triggers that result in a speech block. The issue is 'blaming triggers' so if we ask ourselves: "***If I reduce (fear or) tension in my jaw, lips and mouth, will I then unlearn 'blaming triggers'?***" Answer: no, if we reduce tension or fear, we won't unlearn the unhelpful attitude of blaming triggers to stop moving speech muscles. If I ask you: "*If we stop moving our speech muscles (during a block), is the issue* ***(1)*** *tension, or* ***(2)*** *the fact that we don't move speech muscles?*" **Answer**: Tension is never an issue. No matter how much we tense our mouth muscles, tension can never lead to halting the movement of speech muscles. So, in order to move our speech muscles, it's more effective to focus on maintaining the forward flow, like: * instructing/deciding to move speech muscles * the rhythm of speech * or interrupting 'blaming triggers' While at the same time not caring about failing to speak fluently and not caring about any other unhelpful responses (like emotional, anticipatory, secondary, corrective or avoidance responses).