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The main problem (and it will sound weird) is the intention to be fluent. This puts you into PANIC MODE! I have 2 practical advices. Always remember this: AVI (It means Anxiety, Voice and Intent)... when you feel blocks coming, you are in "panic mode". And always remember this: Aim with SMEECH to Key Vowel Sounds using PR Breathing before talking (that's speaking when you exhale) If you remember AVI... you will kinda like wake up and remember "Oh shoot yeah... I'm afraid right now, I have to focus on produce VOICE (because the problem is that your larynx is closing automatically) and my intension should be the purpose of what the heck I'm doing here (be served by the pizza guy, give a note to someone, ask a dumb question, whatever... your purpose is not to not stutter or to be fluent... if you think that you should speak well, you are screwed... that's why you enter into panic mode.. because you forget why you are there in the first place) How you go through any block? Remember AVI and then Aim with SMEECH to Key Vowel Sounds using PR Breathing before talking (that's speaking when you exhale) if you do that, you have succesfully changes your intention from speaking well or to stop stuttering, to speak easily. To speak easily is a good intention, because it relaxes you. If your intention is to speak in an easy way you can focus on why you are there... to complaint, to give advice, to ask something, to say something important... If you are into panic mode, it's almost impossible to remember any technique or whatever. You just can't. That's why you practice 30 minutes in the morning. So the more you train, the easier it is to remember what to do in speaking situations... THAT'S THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THERAPY... TO REMEMBER WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HAPPEN TO FEEL BLOCKS. THE MORE YOU TRAIN THE MORE AUTOMATIC IT BECOMES. Also. Something really cool is that the more you train the less blocks you feel. You will pass days and even weeks without even one block.. they come and go sometimes but it's like you never had a stutter. Really cool actually. THE ACTUAL THERAPY... PRACTICE SMEECH IN THE MORNINGS... NOT ALWAYS... In the book you learn to do the SMEECH... It's very easy, you just speak so slow that it looks and sounds like slow motion.. this will help you see that words and phrases are not things that you will take out by force and exerting air pressure (the larynx closes for that so that it tries to help you take the words out by force... but when it does that, it completely closes impeding any vowel sound to form, so the more it blocks to help you, the less you can talk.) You have to aim with SMEECH to the key vowel sounds. this might vary, every talks differently) For example: "Hello.. yeah I was calling to know when it's the next date to pick up my pets flee medication" (Here I will put in caps the key vowel sounds that I choose, remember anyone can make high inflections in whatever vowel they want) "hellO... yEah i was calling to know when it's the nExt date to pick up my pets flEE medication" In the therapy you SOMETIMES use SMEECH for everything you are saying, and sometimes just 50%, or 20%... it depends on how you feel... You can use it with words, phrases, etc. IN REAL LIFE SPEAKING SITUATIONS what you will find out is that you can simulated the way you speak using smeech and aim to vowel sounds and disolve blocks in real time... and you didn't actually speak in slow motion. It's weird, it's like you can feel the sounds, you can aim and open the larynx and produce voice like you do in the therapy in the morning, but you can do it without slowing down. So it doesn't sounds weird, it's like normal speech. THERAPY: -1 minute PR breathiing- 1 minute PR + Aaaa (you PR breath and when exhaling, you say Aaaa, that's go very high inflexion in the first part of the aaaa, like when you say "Aaah nice thank you" but longer and louder. "A" means high pitch high inflexion here, "a" means low pitch low inflexion grave voice.- 1 minute for E, 1 minute for I, then O, the U- 1 minute for aeioUuuu (low inflexion with grave voice to high inflexion and high pitch at the last vowel and come down with that vowel to a grave voice)-10 minutes of different phrases starting with all the letters and sounds that you can possible gather and that you have stuttered with.-10 random texts (preferably positive thoughts or things that make you feel good)- 2 minutes of positive text about why speaking is easy and it's just about practice and it's a voice problem. That's it. Not that hard. It's weird how after I speak well now, I worry about other things still haha. We always worry about something haha.