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Discover How To Stop Stuttering
Have you heard about the latest therapy for stammering? Now this is not your usual treatment via your local speech and language therapist, this is what is known as “specialist stammering treatment”. Why? The reason for this is because the speech coach is a person that has previously had a stammer.
Steve Hill, aged 35 and from Birmingham, UK, developed a stammer when he was just four years of age. He attended various forms of speech therapy but this did little to help.
Mr Hill had a single life-time goal or ambition which was to some how achieve fluency. Steve was told by his local speech and language therapist that there was not a cure for stammering but despite this he continued on his quest to achieve fluency.
Steve could and would not accept that there was not a cure for stammering. Negative thinking is for losers is the attitude that he believes in.
At the age of twenty-two Mr Hill managed to achieve his goal of fluency after working extremely hard to formulate a set of “how to stop stammering techniques”.
He now teaches these techniques to other people who stutter and does this via a one-to-one speech course. There are also a number of self-help stammering therapy options available for those people who are unable to attend a course; these include an audio-book, an e-book and a DVD.
Stuttering is clearly a problem that affects many people of all ages around the world. There are many ways to approach such a issue and it is always a good idea to do as much research as possible.
There is full back up provided where people are able to telephone Steve to ask him any questions that arise.
Steve:
“In the past I often dreamt about what life would be like as a fluent person. Now that I am able to speak free from the fear of stuttering I have to say that it feels even better than what I had imagined to be. I am now able to reach my full potentail in life”.
What Is Neuro Linguistic Programing?
Neuro linguistic programing is also known as NLP. It is a type or psychotherapy which was invented in the 1970s and involves interpersonal communication. This form of interpersonal communication is achieved by monitoring certain types of body language, facial expressions, tone of speech and posture. This allows the ability to understand what a person is exactly trying to say.
Neuro linguistic programing claims to allow people to see and learn certain things about the subject that would normally be hidden. It gives an insight into what the subject is thinking about, what they are feeling and sometimes even if they’re telling the truth. NLP simply relies on the theory that about 90% of human communication is not speech. It claims to be able to translate to some extent, the other forms of communication that we unwittingly use every time we talk.
Neuro linguistic programing is considered a way of self improvement. It may also be used as a form of psychological therapy addressing issues such as phobias, depression or bad habits and learning disorders. There are a great number of techniques involved in NLP with a lot of them having originated from hypnosis.
There has been a considerable lack of scientific evidence to back up the sometimes extraordinary claims of NLP. Because of this, it has little to no respect in the scientific community and it is made no impact on academic psychology and is generally not taken seriously and mainstream psychotherapy.
In spite of this, however, there is still quite a large following of NLP and it is often still used by private psychologists and enthusiasts. There are many people who claim that it is actually an effective method of self improvement and psychotherapy and as of yet, it has not been entirely disproved by science either. It remains popular in the self-help industry as well as certain private counselling.
What Happens when you have a Hypnotherapy Session
Much in modern hypnotherapy is owed to Milton H. Erickson, who believed that subjects could be put into a state of trance through conversational story telling, rather than using the old Freudian – you are feeling sleepy method. Ericksonian hypnosis thought that particular phrases could spark the mind and have an affect on an individuals behavior, whether they were in a trance or not. This belief is at the heart of NLP hypnosis otherwise known as Neuro Linguistic Programming, which is one of the techniques of hypnosis used in hypnosis sessions to assist folks overcome several mental and physical complaints.
Patients undergoing hypnotherapy, stage hypnosis or those that use self hypnosis cds move from their normal waking state to a stage of deep relaxation, where they breathe deeper, their body feels heavier and their mind starts to get more absorbed. Next in the state of trance, the subject will feel deeply engaged in the words or pictures the therapist presents and there is dissociation from critical thoughts. The patient is then open to suggestion and will respond and comply with the hypnotherapists suggestions. Following the experience, patients frequently report feeling euphoric and like they had just had the best night of sleep ever, even though the session only lasted several minutes.
Hypnosis Hypnotherapy is employed to treat a wide range of physical and mental complaints. Most recently, researchers learnt that the mind plays a vital function in pain management, especially with cancer patients or those undergoing surgery. Studies show that hypnosis meditation can reduce a person’s need for medication and shorten recuperation time. Thinking negative thoughts can lead to stress, which has important ramifications on the body. It can interrupt a woman’s menstrual cycle, produce a cold sore, make an individual ill with a cold, disrupt sleep patterns, generate ulcers, facilitate hair loss, exacerbate psoriasis, lead to heart disease and contribute to obesity. Today, hypnosis sessions are used in the treatment of asthma, anxiety, sleepwalking, nail biting, smoking, colitis, insomnia, addiction, bed wetting, fibromyalgia, IBS, eczema, psoriasis, acne, migraine headaches, stress, tinnitus, cancer pain, eating disorders, phobic disorders, depression and the pain of childbirth.
In spite of overwhelming clinical evidence, hypnotherapy is still considered a pseudo science. The scientific community is at odds over techniques such as hypnotic suggestion, acupuncture, magnetism and several other natural alternative cures. However, most doctors will advocate a combination of therapies to treat their patients, frequently combining medication with a form of counseling. The mind is undoubtedly the most mysterious part of the body, with so much left to be discovered about how the mind and body work in concert. Maybe with the increasing applications of MRI technology, more studies will reveal the mind’s miraculous possibilities.
