How To Talk More Fluently

 

One way you might want to consider is by not trying to talk more fluently....

Have you ever experienced the following scenario?

You're laying on your bed. You've got a 9:00 am start at work or college the next day. You want to have an early night so you go to bed around 9:30 pm. Before you know it, it's 10:30 pm. No worries, you've still got plenty of hours sleep you tell yourself. However 10:30 pm somehow turns into midnight. Now you're a bit anxious. You've laid in bed, tossing and turning for 3 hours. You begin to try hard to get to sleep. 1:00 am and you're real frustrated, making even more conscious effort to fall asleep. It doesn't work. The same thing for the next couple of hours. You finally nod off around 3:00 am, only to wake up dreary eyed around 3-4 hours later...

Did all the effort, and trying to force yourself to sleep, work? I find usually it doesn't. In fact it has the opposite effect. The more I try hard to sleep, the less likely it seems I will!

Perhaps it's the same with stuttering? Are we trying to be too fluent, which is causing the opposite effect, resulting in more blocking?

Comments

[Pam]

Wow, wow,perfect analogy. I have huge issues with sleeping, because my mind races all of the time.

I have had exactly what you describe happen many times.

But as far as trying to be fluent, I find that when I try not to stutter, I stutter more. I am not sure it has anything to do with fluency.