Woaw, you have an amazing list of old habit and new habits. I understand it, only the vocal chords I don't understand, from how I understand my own speaking, I breathe out and I move my tongue and jaw. According to the scientific reason we stutter scientists say "Tension of speech muscles", but I disagree with this description. In my opinion, our compulsion is not vocal chords or tensing speech muscles, in my opinion the compulsion is 'I stop moving my tongue and jaw to the next letter'. Anyway, it doesn't matter WHAT the compulsion is exactly because in our discussion we can just use the term Compulsion (then everyone knows what is meant by that). What do you think about my viewpoint? In my view the old and new habits (in order to completely removing stuttering) is: **Old habit:** Constantly trying to stop trigger, ignore, distract, convince, changing how/what I say, using breathing or onset, waiting with speaking, avoidance, secondary behavior **Triggers:** * I choose compulsion * I will stutter * afraid of the shock stutter will return 1. proving I don't have control 2. causing social expectation * it's time for compulsion * Will I stutter? can I? how? Do I need more help? (this is deliberately predicting a stutter in order to prepare for a stutter) * compulsion is okay * I want compulsion * I need to prove compulsion * remember stutter experience * I don't have time [discipline] * I can't, observing trigger doesn't help [discipline] * I can't, it's too hard * I can't stop compulsion, I don't know how * I can't stop compulsion, I need more help * Wait, not enough (professional response) * trigger has convinced me * I can't convince trigger * proof I can't stop compulsion [condition] * stopping compulsion is unacceptable [condition] * as long as another person removes my stutter [condition] **New habit:** * observe trigger, don't react to it and learn that trigger is not true or scary, has no power or goal and is not identity * observe trigger and understand that 'this trigger' is why I stutter (note: don't react, don't change, just notice trigger). Because then your mind and body will learn to not make the trigger important in my mind and I stop giving it a meaning (aka I let go) * natural speaking without any technique * delay, interrupt, limit the compulsion * don't have an opinion about the trigger * trust: let body stutter automatically without reacting to trigger * act like a non-stutterer (don't want/condition compulsion) * purposely don't do compulsion, be surprised * trust in tolerance against trigger * always expect trigger * don't use as prediction to prepare * don't discuss trigger, be bothered or encouraged * observe trigger and then ask: "so what?" * build discipline to apply new habit