>Bringing the attention to tensing up of muscles during blocks has definitely helped and understanding a lot of the times its bad timing to speak up. Yes I agree. Additionally, I believe that if we tense our lips, jaw, tongue, larynx, respiratory muscles (such as abdomen) etc, then the physical tension itself can never lead to a speech block. For example, you can try this right now: (1) tense your abdominal muscles or larynx as tight as possible, and (2) then pronounce the letter "A". See? You didn't stutter even when you tensed your speech muscles as much as possible, the physical tension itself can never lead to a block as you just now witnessed. Does this resonate with your own experience? This is just my take on it, and you probably have a completely different viewpoint. No one is right or wrong, however, we can learn from each other. Additionally, some actors, when they are on stage impersonating someone, they sometimes also tense their muscles without blocking. There are many strategies out there. I personally am interested in trying out strategies based off of fluency laws that non-stutterers also apply. I respect other PWS that they apply the 'hand technique' or 'focus on breathing to manage stuttering' but these are not fluency laws, and therefore, I focus on completely other elements and activities. For example, non-stutterers instruct their brain to execute motor movements (in order to move their lips, larynx, adbominal muscles and other speech muscles). Realistically speaking, we humans are not able to directly operate the feedforward system, such as sending electrical signals to this and this part of the brain and coordinate 100s of muscle movements. But what we CAN do is '**centrally instruct/decide**' (to execute motor movements). I created Reddit posts where I reviewed researchers who state that, when we block, the 'instruction/decision' gets disrupted. In other words, during a block we never 'instructed' (to execute speech movements) to begin with. Currently, what I apply to try to reach a stage of subconscious fluency or stuttering remission, is to "instruct/decide" (to execute motor movements) regardless of tension, anticipation, emotions, etc. Does this resonate with you as well?