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From: Keith Boss
Date: 02 Oct 2010
Time: 03:36:09 -0500
Remote Name: 81.98.118.85
This is an interesting thread. I would like to throw in some other thoughts as a person who is working to improve my communication every day. I think some (maybe a lot) of our difficulties continue because we have not understood how our brains work. There are countless dualities in life. (up/down; in/out good/bad as examples one means nothing without the other.) Our brains have a conscious / subconscious duality. This duality usually works in perfect harmony. The subconscious takes the pictures / ideas / etc. from our consciousness and does everything in its power to make what our consciousness wants to happen. (Bear with me, I am getting to the point, but this is a ginormous topic.) There is one major problem in this duality. The subconscious does not understand a negative. It only understands positive and it takes the positive thing you are focusing on to make it happen. So if in your consciousness you are focusing on not wanting to stutter or problems you had when you stuttered then your subconscious tries to make them happen, again and again and again. That is why I focus on improving my communication day by day. A forward thinking positive, achievable goal. When I stutter I think, very briefly, 'that is interesting, how can I communicate more easily next time'. Hope this is of use to this discussion. Keith