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Stuttering and Lazy Tongue Improved with Stress Management Hypnosis Techniques Symptoms of stuttering and lazy tongue or twisted tongue can greatly be improved with basic stress management technique and hypnosis. Lazy tongue is a condition for which I coined the term. The phrase "lazy tongue" basically speaks for itself. When the affected person attempts to speak, it seems that the tongue is lazy, twisted and simply doesn't move fast enough to enunciate what is spoken. The result is slurred speech and or stuttering. It often feels as though the twisted tongue is enlarged and because of this feeling it is often easy to bite the tongue or the side of the mouth--rather painful. Typically stuttering is not necessarily associated with a lazy tongue, but more often simply stuttering is associated with excessive tension in the mouth. Whereas one can begin suffering from lazy tongue at any age, stuttering is often left over from child hood. The issues surrounding both lazy tongue and stuttering are similar. Stuttering is often associated with a less than healthy self image resulting from a conditioning experience of an embarrassing nature as a youngster, or having an overbearing and critical parent. Lazy tongue, on the other hand, is usually the result of a major stressor such as loss of a marriage, death of a loved one, loss of a job... With both stuttering and lazy tongue, there is a situation of low self esteem. However, a boost in self esteem (although helpful) usually will not solve either problem without stress management intervention.

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For example, Carl was 19 years of age and away at college. Stuttering since elementary school he successfully stopped all stuttering within three weeks of stress management training. He returned home over semester break and promised his father to clean the garage one Saturday.

Carl became distracted and never got around to fulfilling his promise. His dad came home from work later on Saturday, noticed the garage wasn't cleaned, and called Carl a "stupid shit," for not cleaning the garage. Carl's stuttering returned instantly.

Who is the "stupid shit?" That's right, his overbearing controlling critical father is. Ironically the one who wants Carl to stop stuttering. This is a case of having an overbearing, over critical parent who in combination with the son's sensitive nature, contributed to his son's stuttering which often makes overcoming stuttering a two part program for the one suffering from stuttering. Of course we're not going to change Carl's father, however, we can use hypnosis and self esteem building techniques to move Carl beyond being affected by his dad. The two part program is:

1. Using basic stress management skills involving deep rhythmic breathing, and muscle tensing relaxation exercises for the various muscles of the jaw, mouth, and tongue.

The deep breathing is for composure. The muscle exercises are to stretch the jaw in various directions, stretch the tongue and press it against various locations in the mouth. It also involves tensing the facial muscles. Each time the muscles are tensed, they are tensed to the point of extreme discomfort--almost to the point of fatigue. Then the tension is then released and self mental programming is done as to which feelings are preferred and which are disliked.

2. Self hypnotic affirmations are used to change the perspective so as to build confidence and create building self esteem. Focus is on dealing with the emotions of rejection, disappointment, and frustration. Through hypnosis the individual moves to embrace the emotion and then move beyond it to somehow benefit from the experience.

An enlightened approach to stuttering and lazy tongue involves more than one approach. Whereas many programs only focus on the mechanical, you wonder why the obvious self esteem issues are left out or only dealt with in passing. It's clearly a mistake to ignore either the stress management or the self esteem issues. Doing the physical exercises and dealing with the mental issues of building self esteem produces real results.

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Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E. NGH certified, a prominent figure in the personal change field. His aim is to make it possible for anyone who wants to get rid of speech impediments such as lazy tongue and stuttering to do so.
For more information please visit http://www.DStressDoc.com/Twisted_Tongue.html 
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Do you become anxious when speaking to the point where your tongue feels too large or it won't move as fast as you need it to in order to make the words come out? Like your tongue is twisted in your mouth? Sometimes, it is so slow or enlarged that you bite it as you speak. This program can help with both slurred speech and stuttering as it provides you with the technique for learning to relax as you speak. 

Stress affects each of us differently and at different times in our lives. One particular type of stress may evoke emotions and feelings that challenge one's self worth. This type of stress is often experienced by those going through rejection either in a personal relationship or work relationship. The result is often a life crisis which can erode one's self worth. This type of stress is housed in the tongue muscle (lazy tongue syndrome and trouble speaking). Treated effectively using the techniques in this CD limit the lazy tongue syndrome to a transient short term issue. Once progress is made with this program, the Overcome Life Crisis Program is highly recommended for redefining one's meaning in life to avoid symptom substitution.

Reacting to this type of stress, the tongue muscle  actually becomes lazy and may actually enlarge resulting in slurred speech and difficult--not to be confused with stuttering which is also usually related to low self esteem, but more so a long term condition from child hood.  This technique may also be highly effective with stuttering when used with the Building Self Worth Program.

This program uses specific proven muscular tension relaxation exercises to improve circulation to the tongue muscle and retrain the tongue to respond normally to the brain's speech center. Of equal importance, powerful affirmations are integrated to get beyond the short term self worth issues and build confidence. It's normal for affirmations to be questioned by the conscious mind which will negate their value. To insure the success of affirmations, this program utilizes the power of negative thinking to work for you--that's right "the power of negative thinking." By acknowledging self doubts and negativity, the power of hypnosis takes you beyond your perceived limitations to return your speech to the point where you will forget that you ever had a problem.

Letting go becomes a way of life. Profound improvements in your life circumstances may be anticipated as a result of a new found peace. A mental relaxation allows you to drain all the the mental and physical tensions from your body followed by suggestions to visualize the greatness within you. The beauty of the suggestions are that you don't have to have visualization powers to get in touch with your greatness--your potential.

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Improving Self Esteem and Build Confidence Program

This best selling program is the most effective program ever produced for improving self esteem to build confidence!  It is leap years ahead of the science and today is "state of the art." This one program on two CDs accomplishes the same as other programs requiring a half dozen CDs and costing well over $200 to accomplish the same results. 

In my experience of conducting stress management programs and counseling for over 20 years, I found that roughly 99% of those I've worked with felt that they had low self esteem. How could this be? Simply because most of us have been taught to base our self-worth on our accomplishments, skills, physique, financial worth and earnings, ability to help others... Little wonder then when we:
   • lose skills because of injury;
   • lose a close family member on whom we're very dependent to the great beyond;
   • lose our financial nest egg because the stock market collapses;
   • do poorly in a course of study;     
   • have a bad hair day; or 
   • don't live up to our own expectations... 
we don't feel good about ourselves and our self esteem is challenged. Ultimately, this may jeopardize our health, emotional well being, set us up for failure mechanisms, be constantly trying to impress others, identity crisis, suicide, chronic depression, and so on. Why, when there are so many programs available for improving self esteem building confidence,  the shortage of those who have self esteem? 

The answer is that all the other programs for overcoming low self esteem, you'll see that they actually create the path to easily put your self esteem in jeopardy with the first calamity that comes along in your life. 

Most programs for improving self esteem or building self esteem either instruct you to use affirmations that simply may be rejected by your subconscious. Sure they may fire you up for a short period of time but in a few weeks the affirmations will be forgotten and you'll return to the same fundamental question about your self worth. 

Or, as a psychologist did for one client, (take the link for an example of setting one up for self esteem failure) the programs instruct you in improving self esteem by improving some specific skills, i.e., get a better job, a better education, some kind of specific training, attain some achievements, and so on. Sure, with improved skills, more friends, a better job, higher education, and specific acknowledgments for achievements you will feel a sense of self esteem--but, in my experience in working with hundreds of clients, it's cosmetic at best. That is, the moment the unexpected crisis occurs that threatens or worse yet wipes away your accomplishments, attained stature, physical abilities, employment, and so on, you may well be left with a lousy feeling about your self esteem. In other words, if you put all the other programs to the test, you'll see that they set you up for failure, and the effects on self worth is temporary at best.

This is the one program that goes beyond you ever needing to be dependent on you having accomplishments, connections, an education, physical abilities, physical beauty, a certain weight, a high paying job, physical beauty, behaved kids, your ability to spell... In fact this program shows you how to build self worth and self esteem free of requiring accomplishments or having to believe any affirmation. Not that you won't create accomplishments, wealth, great looks, friends, a higher education, a great career or whatever--you just won't need them or be dependent on having them to feel good about yourself to overcome low self esteem. 

How is it done? 

First, in improving self esteem or building self esteem, it's important to observe (not criticize) the sources of your role models' self esteem. It's important to also observe (not criticize) where your self esteem has come from in the past, i.e. what makes you feel good about you and what you need to feel good about yourself. Thus you'll understand the psychology of self worth and the causes of low self esteem. 

The next step  is to meet your own best friend. So if you've ever thought that you are often your own worst enemy, this portion of the program is particularly valuable because it introduces you to "you," and creates the path by which you easily become your own best friend.

Now, how do you handle emotions? I mean feelings of anger, uncertainty, confusion, frustration...? Self criticism in the past may have eroded your self esteem. This program helps you to flip over negative emotional experiences and empowers you in building self esteem through your experience of any emotion that life can throw your way.

Part #1 lays a foundation for suggestions for improving self esteem building self confidence. It gives you the easy a,b,c's for improving self esteem. It is educational in nature for your conscious mind. And even if you never listen to Part II which is a relaxation hypnotic program for reprogramming the subconscious to a strong healthy self image, the easy a,b,c instructions in Part #1 will get you there all by itself.

Part II is for your subconscious mind and has suggestions for  your subconscious mind for restoring self esteem. This side also has subliminal suggestions (suggestions that are below the audible range). 

The revised expanded program also includes:

Part III which lays a foundation for being your own best friend, brings your emotional brain up to date, and provides an incredible means of turning disappointments into benefits to profit from disappointments. In other words, you will learn how to make the best tasting lemonade from the lemons that life sometimes throws at you and feel good about yourself—keep your self esteem--in the process. This is the bible, so to speak for dealing with and handling emotions. Emotions are the challenge of the twenty first century. Why, simple. We've had twenty centuries of denying and pretending emotions aren't important. And yet, we're emotional beings—the primitive limbic brain is the emotional brain. Emotions were there long before language and centuries later, we're really very little better off handling emotions than we were centuries ago. We generally learn how to ignore them, pretend they don't bother us, or to act them out. In fact it's our poor ability to handle emotions that keeps psychiatrists, psychologist, therapists and many doctors in business. Yes, poor handling of anger and rejection can lead to depression which in turn can lead suppression of immune function—auto immune disease and even cancers. Or instead of poor handling of depression leading to depression, it can lead to heart disease. Tony Robbins in his Get the Edge program devotes an entire CD to understanding emotions. He suggests that there are many reasons we have emotions and that it's important to process each emotion—the purpose and result. Ultimately what he suggests isn't very different than what psychologists and therapists have been doing for the last two hundred years. The problem with this approach is that it's attempting to quantify something literally happens at the speed of light. It's attempting to use the rationale brain to control the emotional brain with analysis and there just isn't sufficient time to accomplish this goal. It's simply an impractical means of handling emotions.

Part III is based on techniques popularized in the Erhardt Training seminars of the 70's and 80's and The Angry Book by Isaac Rubin psychiatrist. Rather than understanding emotions, it's in the experience of them through which we gain a handle on them and then can profit or in some way benefit from them. It becomes more of a three step dance or three frames of a cartoon as opposed to six to ten different analytical reasons for each possible emotion. Instead it is through this three step process that is the same for each and every emotion that we have which allows you to stop the process at any one of the three steps being free of any analytical processes to do so. It is truly the most effective method and advanced thinking to deal with emotion! s available--one that empowers you to meet the challenge of the 21st century—handle all emotions in a healthy way and feel good about yourself no matter the outcome.  

This is the bible, so to speak for dealing with and handling emotions.

Part IV, complete with subliminal suggestions, is for nurturing your subconscious mind as you sleep. This is what accelerates the process of building self worth, being your own best friend, and turning disappointments into benefits.

Part I and Part II are the bible for building Self Worth CD

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Overcome Life Crisis Program

Midlife Crisis Time? The best program you'll find! In fact I had to go through a personal crisis of my own to complete this program. Life crisis, mid life crisis and crisis's in general are the major contributing factors to alcoholism, drug addiction, and suppression of one's immune system leading to life threatening illnesses. 

This is the one program that will get you back on track from mid life crisis or any other crisis. You've worked hard all your life, been dedicated, honest, and now everything has changed. The reality sets in that life is passing you by and the last 5, 10, 20, 30 or more years is lost. Lost to the wrong relationship, wrong job, career, and so on. Or you lost a skill, or your good looks, or have been crippled from an accident, or diagnosed with a life threatening illness. You feel life is totally unfair and has passed you by and the opportunities you've squandered or missed are gone.

Normally what happens is that when faced with this tremendous loss, it may take years to adjust if ever at all. Everyday is an unwelcome reminder of the loss of yesterday and ends in the same bleak feeling the day before. Uselessness or high levels of anxiety to make things right, but no solid direction to channel that anxiety.

Most of us were taught to get our self worth from the things we do in life. It's normal to become passionate about and identify with the things in life that we love. Little wonder when for some reason we can no longer do can do those things, or when we wake up and question our relationships, the time table we set for ourselves, and suddenly find ourselves lost. This program is about taking the lost "you" and finding the new "you."

The brain is incredibly powerful and because you've learned to identify yourself with what you do in life, you set the jaws of the trap for midlife crisis or mid life crisis. As long your relationship with what you do--the hats that you wear--is ok or as long as you don't question the value of your hats, all is ok. But then when the hat gets knocked off or you wake up one day and question the value of the hat, it's mid life crisis or life crisis time.
Part I of the program:
1. Provides you the awareness of the identity trap--IDENTITISTM
2. Gives you the tools to re identify yourself.
3. Moves you beyond the unfairness of life.
4. Empowers you to live in the present and let go of guilt of the past and worry of the future.
5. Moves you beyond attachments defining your life.
A new leash on life!

Part II of the program, complete with subliminal suggestions, on a separate CD plants the suggestions into your subconscious mind to release you potential, find new pathways, and meaning once again in life.

Bonus: On CD #2 of the program is a special bonus track. If you're familiar with Wayne Dyer and his most recent push for each of us to connect with intention, then you'll love this track. Or if you've been wondering, pondering, confused about the meaning of it all--life--God--intention--essence, then this bonus track on this CD is a must. It's about how to really connect with intention and deal with the emotional states and physical states that corrode your conduit to intention--something no one else provides real sound direction in doing.

This program is included in the Self Esteem Series, and the Dealing With Rejection Series,

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