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How to Control Stuttering Most people have experienced dread of public speaking, or severe anxiety before an interview. While stuttering and stammering is a physical speech impediment, one of its major effects is to cause this fear in everyday conversation, and this fear in turn makes the stutter worse. While there is no way to cure a stutter completely, breaking this cycle of anxiety and stress can reduce the severity of the stutter and minimize its effect on your life. Method One of Three: Reducing Anxiety over Stuttering. 1.Understand how stuttering works . When a person stutters, the stuttering may completely block his speech, cause him to repeat sounds, or cause him to "stick" on one sound for too long. During a block, the vocal chords push together with great force, and the person is unable to speak until the tension is released. Becoming comfortable with the stutter and practicing the following techniques will make this tension less severe. While there is no cure...

Õ Probably at one time or another you have been either on the giving or receiving end of a silent treatment, otherwise known as the cold shoulder. What you probably didn’t realize is that the silent treatment is a form of ostracism. When someone is ostracized it affects the part of their brain called the anterior cingulate cortex. Do you know what the anterior cingulate cortex does?  The anterior cingulate cortex is the part of the brain that detects pain. When you give someone the silent treatment you are causing that person physical pain. Simply by ignoring someone else’s existence you can inflict pain on them. This is what the ever popular “time out” with a child is so effective. The child feels ostracized, therefore is feeling pain even though no physical pain was inflicted on them, and therefor they want to behave so they don’t have to feel that way again. The silent treatment can be a very destructive behavior when it involves personal re...

Patience is the best virtue anyone could ever have. We should all learn to acquire it, so we can laugh, over what made us cry. Before our very eyes, If we are patient enough, airplane that goes up will come down, seeds sowed will be reaped, trees planted will have fruits, children born will grow, heart that is broken will heal and things that make us sad will make us laugh. Trust me, patience can solve all our problems. Patience is the only sure way to reason, to meaning, to fairness and even to true success. No matter how much we are hurt by people or situation, if we remain patient with ourselves and our situation, our hurting heart shall eventually smile, over the same thing that hurts us. If we are confronted with extreme hardship, to the extent of being desperate to do what we won't ordinarily do, what we need to exercise is patience to come out victorious. We should learn not to act based on our immediate anger or discontent, let's hold our mind and body together for a mo...