>How did you stop thinking of stuttering every second of your life? Every second of the day (also when I"m not speaking) I observe the intention to move my tongue, observe my anticipatory fear and reduce stutter symptoms, in order to replace it with: overthinking. * Psychologists argue that the initial instinctive thought or feeling is better not to be approached by suppression/avoidance. Then, the first instinctive reaction to this trigger like 'a feared letter' is fear, doubt and panic, which is often also instinctive (a learned behavior to your stutter association), which - they suggest - is more effective with allowing and acknowledging it, rather than avoiding it. * Other consequential reactions like overthinking, overreacting and other emotions are usually not very instinctive and therefore, you could try to reduce or interrupt this What I do is this: * I **speak** (direct, natural, effortless without technique) * while I'm focusing on the **intention** to move my tongue. Other effective ways could be: 1. focusing on relaxing your abdominal muscles (which is from the valsalva manouvre) or focusing on your movie in your mind that you speak fluently where you replace problems (like avoidance) with resources (like confidence) (which is from NLP/Neuro-semantics by dr. Bodenhamer) or focusing on the speech rhythm and timing (which is from chorally speaking in unison where the right-hemisphere is not overly active) * while I'm also focusing on the anticipation and really experiencing the fear - to build tolerance and **learn that anticipatory fear is not a problem**. So, don't avoid (or reduce) this. This will then lead to **learning that it's less real or probable**. (note: prioritize experiential understanding over reframing) * while I **reduce or stop secondary behaviors** like substituting words, tensing speech muscles, repetitions, visualizing a stutter movie, etc