>"Don't rely on thoughts/feelings to move the speech muscles" This is my attempt to explain the above phrase more clearly: Acknowledge (and understand) that there is nothing that we need to increase or decrease - to reduce the defensive mechanism (that allows or prevents the execution of speech movements). Example, let's say that person A - feels a lot of fear because the MC in The Walking dead is about to die (in the tv series). In non-stutterers, this feeling itself doesn't actually increase the defensive mechanism that prevents thoughts from saying out loud. You could argue that this is because he has never learned to associate thoughts/feelings (etc) with the defensive mechanism that prevents execution of speech movements. Exactly! This strategy aim to unlearn this