This is my attempt to explain this more clearly: The goal of this strategy, is unlearning stuttering so that we eventually don't need to implement tricks/techniques or monitoring - to move the speech muscles (during a speech block). At the core of getting past a speech block, we can often experience: 1. consciously trying to move the speech muscles 2. timing the execution of speech movements But non-stutterers don't actually do this. People who stutter also don't do this - when they speak fluently alone. Stuttering can be preceded by anticipation or other perceived speech errors - which increases the defensive mechanism (that prevents us from saying thoughts out loud). During a stutter, we might justify the activation of this defensive mechanism by: * blaming genetics * needing to decrease anxiety * needing to increase confidence * etc etc etc So, in this strategy we try to unlearn this, and reinforce natural or subconscious speech. If we speak on auto-pilot, then we stutter. So it's very important to grasp this, by definition, speaking on auto-pilot does not equal natural subconscious speech.