Stuttering - Causes and Remedies (Part 2)

 

Good day everyone!

I have already made a video about stuttering, which you can watch here (screenshot shown). In this video I want to add some new thoughts to try to help people understand better the essence of Roman Snezhko's discovery.

In my own words, based on my personal understandings of life, stuttering is just a stupor that occurs when a person tries to perform a logically impossible action with his vocal apparatus. Namely, he is either trying to say one thought, while he is thinking about something else, or the person has not yet really built a thought in his head, but he is already trying to express it.

Here is an example. Try it out for yourself if you like.

Can you calmly imagine and talk about how a pig digs acorns under an oak tree, greedily devouring them and making snorting sounds, and at the same time build in your imagination a story about a chicken that cackles furiously, running away from a child running after it with a water gun?

And you know what? When I went to test the first shortened version of this story, I was able to say, "The pig is digging acorns," while in my mind I was imagining a clucking chicken.

There may be several reasons for this, but one of them, I think, lies in the fact that such a short text does not force a person to use fantasy. He just says sounds, words from memory - which means that these words may not carry any meaning in themselves. You can memorize a sentence from a movie in a language you don't know and say it without understanding the meaning of the words. And at the same time, you can think of something else. Therefore, it is important here to just take an example and invent and tell a story about it yourself, while trying to think about something else.

Realizing this, I tried to go further in my example and continued to fantasize about our pig while trying to think about the clucking chicken. Result? I immediately stumbled! That which was to be proved! I didn't stutter because I perfectly understood the cause of the stupor, and I didn’t try to talk about that which wasn’t present in my head. In the moment of my speech stupor, I was thinking of the chicken, which made it impossible to be speaking about the pig’s story. (Animate focus on chicken and pig). In order to talk about the pig again, I would have to bring back thoughts about it.

I stopped talking when I was imagining the chicken. I didn't talk because I understood that I had no data in my head to continue talking about the pig. [1] If I had continued, I would have started to stutter.

It turns out that such sudden stops during a conversation, are normal! They simply tell us that we don't have data in our minds - thoughts - to speak out, and if we continue the conversation, we will stutter.

This brings us to the topic of the so-called "Difficult Words" which I have also experienced in my life. What are they? For those who don’t know, when during a conversation a person is approaching such words, a strong thought appears in his mind that he will not be able to say that word without stuttering.

So, thinking about the nature of the difficult words, I came to the conclusion that this is just the feedback of our body with us, making us aware that we are doing something wrong. For example, we think about something else - which may be a memory that this word is supposedly difficult, or thoughts and fears that we will now begin to stutter. Thus, the focus of attention has changed from the object of the conversation to something that is not part of the conversation. And this is the cause of stuttering - or a stupor of speech. (photo Mark - Attention)

Important - Thinking about how to speak, or thinking about how to be focused on the topic of conversation, is also a retreat into your thoughts that will have an impact on you - which can be reflected in speech and body language.

 

Before I go any further, I want to give you one interesting example that illustrates well the essence of stuttering.

In this video, John Moschitta - the fastest speaking person in the world - at about 1 minute and 38 seconds says how he quickly reads the text from the teleprompter, and sometimes he mispronounces the word. He speaks so fast that no one hears the error and no one stops him. His own brain hears the error though, but he continues to read the text further as no one stops him. But after about six words, his brain goes, "Wow, you can't get away with it!" and then John suddenly starts talking incoherent rubbish - he stupors.

All due to the fact that while reading the text, he was thinking about what happened in the past, instead of being in the present. This is exactly the cause of stuttering, and one of the many proofs that stuttering is not a disease, but a consequence of not quite correct thinking during a conversation.

https://youtu.be/4X4Fy8YqysY

 

How to learn to speak correctly?

For starters, you could talk out loud alone just to see what mental state you're in when you're speaking perfectly; pay attention to what your mind is focused on while pronouncing the words.

Try to deliberately create problems for yourself - as I did in the chicken and pig example - this will also help you see the causes of stuttering.

Try to use your difficult words - or words you've been unable to say recently - in the sentences you're building. See that when you’re alone and your attention is not distracted by anyone or anything else, you can calmly say those words.

All this should prove to you that there is no such disease as "stuttering". This should show you what is the simple cause of speech stupors.

Speak out loud to yourself until you fully understand the causes of stuttering - then you can start talking to people. It may well be that from time to time during a conversation you will focus your attention on your fears, or on the opinions of others, etc. If this happens, you should learn to recognize your mistakes and discipline yourself, accustom yourself to staying focused on the present and on the topic of conversation in any situation.

(* Remember - you are in complete control of your attention. This is your tool that focuses on what you yourself focus it on)

 

I already said in the first video that meditation and concentration can help a lot with focus of attention. I recommend to try.

(* Meditation - Your attention is not focused on anything in particular. You experience the state of "I Am".

Concentration - you focus your attention on something: breathing, ambient sounds, etc.).

 

So, stuttering is not a disease, but a stupor of speech that occurs when a person tries to talk about something that he has no data in his head about.

Data may be Missyng for several reasons:

the person's attention has switched to another thought, but at the same time he is still trying to express the old one, which no longer exists in his head;

either a person initially did not build a thought properly, or did not build a thought at all, but still tries to talk.

The latter can often be observed when a speaking person briefly stops to think almost after every second word, or changes what he has already said before when new thoughts appear in his mind.

(* For those familiar with programming: can you show information stored in a variable that has not yet been initialized (i.e. it does not contain data in computer memory)? The question itself does not make sense. And this is one of the causes of stuttering when people do not see the obvious and try to do the impossible).

 

If a person's thoughts are in the right order, then he cannot physically stutter.

 

Please share your speech experience in the comments.

 

And thanks for watching!

Stuttering is not a disease, or how to control your speech.

I started to stammer when I was five years old after experiencing a very stressful event when my mother's life was at risk. My stuttering came to an after 13 years when I learned and realized that there is no such disease thanks to a Snezhko Roman Alekseevich's website. When I read the words "There is no such disease as stuttering! Stuttering is just a bad habit...", I immediately remembered my school years, when while answering in class I would start to stutter, but then I would speak perfectly - and as it turned out all was fine with my speech during all those years. What's interesting is that I would rarely have any trouble speaking when I was spending summers in my village, where I felt comfortable among friends. Very often I didn't have any problems with my speech in the beginning of a new school season, but the stuttering did come back during the school year, when my self-confidence was shaking.

Unfortunately, I considered stammering to be a disease because doctors tried to cure it with drugs and I trusted them, thinking they should know what they're doing. Because of that I never thought deeply about what kind of an illness it is that is present right now, and then, literally in a moment, a person can speak just as perfectly as a newscaster on television, or even better. Having read Snezhko Roman Alekseevich's website everything had become clear.

In 2007 Roman Alekseevich had a website where he shared all his knowledge as is. Without any payments. He only charged those people who couldn't completely understand his principles on their own and wanted to visit him in person. I don't know how things are going now, but I was able to find a forum, where someone posted a copy of the text, I read back in 2007:

http://uznai-pravdu.com/viewtopic.php?t=583/  

Roman Snezhko also has a YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/siddha66/

The main idea is that stuttering is nothing more than a stupor, happening when a person is trying to do several actions simultaneously with one organ. The brain in our case. Before starting to say anything, a person builds a clear thought in his mind, and as soon as he has it, he expresses it continuously by using his tongue. All the syllables are pronounced successively, and as are the words. Of course, when speaking, the person is focused on his speech organs. And, therefore, the part of the brain which is responsible for speech is active. The stupor occurs when the person starts thinking about something completely different and at the same time tries to say the thought which is no longer in his mind, or which never even was in his mind since the person never properly formed the idea he's trying to tell. It doesn't matter what the person is thinking about - be that fear of what others might think of him, or if he tries to remember something - if that which the person is trying to say isn't in his mind, he'll always be stuttering. Of course, all the person has to do is to stop trying to do the impossible, form the idea and, keeping it in his mind, flesh it out in words. It's important to speak successively and resist the temptation to repeat syllables, or even words, which you have already pronounced. Your goal is to train yourself to live here and now, and to pronounce successively syllable after syllable, word after word. Also, people who have stupor often tend to speak as fast as possible. I used to do that too, and, of course, had to suffer the consequences of my mistake. Perhaps you already realized that in this situation the person starts to stutter because he hasn't properly formed a new idea yet, but he tries to say it nonetheless. A self-discipline is required here to learn to speak with natural speed.

Here's how I trained myself to restructure my thinking process. On one of Roman Snezhko's photos I saw him mediating. I was skeptical about meditation back then, but still decided to try it and see what would happen. What did I have to lose anyway by trying? Now I consider meditation to be if not the only, but at least one of the main means of getting rid of psychological habits and problems. Of course, meditation can also be used in order to learn to see Auras and etheric field, astral projection, telekinesis etc. I don't want to confuse people who know little about meditation, but some of meditational practices are actually concentration. Such as concentration on one's breathing or on surrounding sounds. In the first case you note in your mind inhaling and exhaling, and some people note the pause after the exhalation. In the second case you try to pay attention to each sound without focusing too much on any of them. You don't analyze the sounds in any way, even if those sounds come from the girl next door having sex, or you hear how someone's discussing you outside. Meditation is, as far as I know, is when you reach the state of being here and now, the state of "I am". Your mind is relaxed and you don't concentrate on anything. Thao in the book Thiaoouba Prophecy says that if a person wants to "elevate" himself he must meditate and then concentrate.

I think you have understood that meditation and concentration help people learn self-discipline. They help us learn how to control and use our own bodies and mind.

Please, share this topic with people who stammer, or with their relatives or friends. If they are not stubborn and will learn from the acquired knowledge, they will be able to normalize their speech very quickly, maybe in the matter of hours.