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Happy New Year!

I would like to wish all the subscribers and readers of Stuttering Hub a very Happy New Year!!!

Thank you for your continued support.

I would like to extend my best wishes to the global stammering community. I'm proud to be a part of such an amazing and strong community.

I hope you had a good 2009.

If you haven't, there's a fresh new year just hours away...

What changes will you make in the new year?

Have you thought about your goals for 2010?

Good.

Have you written down your goals?

Great.

But honestly guys, you have to take the next step.

Make your goals into reality. Only you can do this, by taking small steps to make a difference in your lives.

Let 2010 be the speaking year. In fact, lets all try and do more speaking in 2010, then we have our entire lives...

Now there's a challenge!

 

How to Face Life Cheerfully

By being more cheerful.

Honestly, it's as simple as that.

How to be cheerful?

Look for how you can have fun in everything you do... be it speaking, working, dating, gardening, doing the accounts, paying the bills (ok, this one is difficult I know!)...

It's all fun.

Life is fun.

You are the lead actor of your own movie.

Actors are quite flexible. They can play different roles.

By being the lead actor of your own life, you too have the flexibility to choose how you want to play.

By treating life as a game to play, it makes things so much more fun I find.

Make mistakes along the way. We all do. It's all fun anyway.

So many people go mad over their past mistakes, moaning and crying. Don't do this! Do whatever needs to be done and move on. No need to look back at the past.

What do we get from looking back? Not much...

Just learn the lessons and continue moving forward!!

 

 

 

Happy Christmas!

 
Today is Christmas Day of course! It’s a day for fun, laughter and celebrations.

However, 25th of December for me also has spiritual and religious significance. In my opinion, today is the day that one of the most outstanding individuals the world has ever witnessed was born on Earth. Rare is the birth of such a pure, selfless, yet powerful person as Jesus Christ.

As I was getting ready this morning, I was thinking about stuttering.

I was also thinking about my spiritual and religious beliefs.

What I know without a doubt is that my worry, tension and stresses about stuttering do not stand chance when faced with my strongest religious and spiritual beliefs.
There is within me a part where there is no worry or anxiety about anything, let alone stuttering.

You also have this part. You might already know it. If so, good for you! Enjoy it. On the hand you might be skeptical. But believe me, it’s true. Keep searching and you will find it.

You might not be religious.

You don’t need to be.

All you need to do is ask yourself “what do I believe in with all my heart?”

It might be the world or the universe. It might be your love for your mum, sister, brother or dog.

It could you affection for your friends. Perhaps it’s work for helping the starving people in Africa or the homeless in your area.

Whatever it is for you, I urge you to keep going there.

Dwell in your most powerful feelings, until they become a part of you. When you catch yourself get nervous about stammering or dreading this of that, remind yourself what you really, really believe in.

Stammering can’t even get in the way of this.

Peace.

I Know You Stutter!

If you are a covert stutterer, then you're probably very good at coming across as fluent.

Yes, of course you experience the heart ache and frustration about your 'dirty little secret' :-). But you hide it. And you have a lot of good experience doing it.

You've been hiding your stammering from just about every person you come in contact with. These people can range from uncles and aunts to the neighbour next door.

You think you've got it mastered so well, that no one could ever tell otherwise, right?

I'm afraid not.

There is one type of stutterer who will see right through your fun and games - It's another covert stutterer!

I don't know what it is about it. You could hide your blocking from all the people in the world, including people who stammer highly overtly.

But come face-to-face with another person who stammers like you, and you've been exposed.

Giving Your Stutter a Kiss

Taoism, the ancient Chinese philosophical system is littered with paradoxes.

This linguistic magic, where words and statements contradict themselves, really do expose the limitations of mind made concepts. Not only can paradoxes be used to untangle rigid and unhelpful ideas, but they can do so in fascinating ways one would never expect...

Take stuttering for example. Most people who stutter, hate their stuttering. They don't want it. They can't stand blocking. They would rather be doing anything else but stuttering.

But instead of fighting the stuttering, what if one decided to embrace their stuttering? And gave it a really big hug? A kiss even?

Doing this is paradoxical.

I'll explain why.

By welcoming your stammering (something who believed you had no control over), you are now in fact in control over it, as you are allowing it in.

Quite neat I reckon...

 

 

The Finest Actors in the World

Has to be Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

Well I'm bound to say this, as these two actors are my favourite. One of my all time favourite movies is Heat when they both played against each other. Ah...What a flick!

Who do you think is the finest?

One thing for sure is there are many talented actors and actresses in the world.

Actors are very good at playing the roles of other types of characters, be it someone who is witty, a bit dim, scary or endearing (or a combination). They can really 'get into' the minds of the characters they are acting out.

I suppose they should do as it's their job!

Anyway, ask a top class actor to get into the mind of a covert stutterer and play the part of being fluent, then they might not be so good.

In my opinion, people who stutter covertly but play the part of being a fluent person in front of others, are highly competent actors in their role.

Not only can the play the part convincingly, bu they can do it consistently on a daily basis.

Ask a professional actor to do that!