Do I have an identity?
or
Do I identify with values, ways of doing things, standards etc.
Think about it.
We actually do the second but limit ourselves by thinking that we have an identity.
Actors identify with a character and while doing so can't have their own identity.
Identity is a behaviour too.
Where does this take you with stammering?
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About Me
- PM
- I am a middle aged medic who is interested in Modelling Behaviour. I have 12 yrs experience and attend trainings regularly with John McWhirter at Sensory Systems Training in Glasgow, Scotland. I am interested in stammering and I am convinced that in the majority of cases it is a behaviour and not an affliction. Rather than lurk on other sites I decided to share my thinking on a blog.
2 comments:
I believe strongly that in-put equals out-put. And what you think you are you are. If you tell your self every day after day that you are a stammerer and you 'label' yourself as having a speech problem then you do. Self talk is so so important.
The way i see it speech is a subconscious act that should flow freely. When a stutterer talks he/she is speaking from the concious mind, scanning and planning what word or letter will be coming next, and processing the reaction from the other person. When a word comes up that they might struggle with they dwell on that fact it compounds the anticapation.
I have undergone a number of hypnotherapy sessions under my own steam and have found that directly after the session I feel absolutly free to talk and converse totaly unhindered by a stutter. Slowly that wares off however over the past couple of years the effects have been fantastic.
Most stutters who under go hypnosis do not stutter when they are under, so this proves that when the subconcious mind is engageged and alowed to do its job it works.
Is identity important? The simple anwer is yes. Finding your true self and realising that a stutter is learned liberates you to move forward and build a life of confident speech.
I'm just about to start my own blog to tell my story of how i developed my stutter and how i over came it.
i no longer see myself as a stutter, its the only way. Just discard it from your identity.
Thanks Ross
I agree with you; but it isn't easy to change one's identity.
Discarding something assumes it is a thing whereas I believe identity is a behaviour which needs modified or better still just take on a different behaviour and let the old useless one wither on the vine.
The question is what am I identifying with, how am I doing it and why. Then we know what needs to change. But that needs practice.
Pleased you are doing your own blog. Let me know and I will add as a link.
Peter
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