Thursday, August 13, 2009

I Decided NOT to stammer today

I've been listening to "Personal Power" again for the second or third time at this stage, trying to get as much as I can out of the program. I was listening to day two yesterday evening "Pain and Pleasure" when a thought suddenly hit me,

What if I could decide NOT to stammer!!
I sat down for about an hour or so and thought about this, Imagine it, Decide not to stammer, could it be that simple? surely not. Could I just decide to not take any notice of the negative thoughts and feelings? could I decide to use my Airflow technique without fail? Does it work that way? Could I decide to keep eye contact in a conversation like any other person?

I had so many questions, so many ideas about how, If this could work what would it mean? I'm still trying to figure this one out!

Let me tell you how my day went... I went to work, as part of the management team I had our usual morning meeting to get ready for, Stats and daily reports in hand in I went. The meeting was shorter than normal and before I could get my chance to do my briefing the GM said "OK that's it." At this point I'd normally give a mental sign, Thank God that I wasn't put under the usual pressure, not only to get work done but also that I didn't have to speak and risk stammering. But not today! "Andrew, I have a few things I need to go through.." and off I went.

I made phone calls, spoke to customers, colleagues all without the usual tense apprehension I normally carried with me into every conversation.

Don't get me wrong, I did stammer, I was definitely 100% more fluent.

I Just read out loud this blog to my wife, I decided not to stammer before I started and I read it, OUT LOUD.

Is this is my Epiphany.???

1 comment:

Agantx said...

That's great. You can read my blog too about my stuttering. Maybe we can learn from each other!