Expanding Your Comfort Zone

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Re: "comfort zones"-therapy techniques

From: Alan Badmington
Date: 10/10/03
Time: 3:41:02 AM
Remote Name: 195.92.67.70

Comments

Hi Blanche,

Yes, I suppose we could think of 'expanding comfort zones' as a kind of self-therapy. It is something that we all need to do in order to attain personal growth. (This, of course, applies to everyone, not just persons who stutter).

In my own particular case, I learned new techniques to overcome the speech block and 'feared' words. These were initially taught to me in a safe environment, where I demonstrated that I could use them well.

If I had not chosen to test them out in more challenging situations, I would still have had the fears and negative emotions associated with speaking outside the therapy room.

I was not content to speak well in only familiar environments. I wanted to take my new freedom out into the real world and live a more fulfilling, rewarding, interesting and expansive existence.

That's exactly what I did!

Kindest regards

Alan


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