stammering

Hi there,

I am not sure which techniques he used as I didnt see the program.

I have used EFT coupled with hypnotherapy scripts and NLP techniques for some interesting results in this area.

I was treating a man with Parkinson's who had a pronounced stammer. It helped hiom relax but did not rid him of the stammer.

Has anyone else had any results with Parkinsons?

Ian

Hi

Lets address the stammering. I have worked with Parkinsonian symptoms with some success but the original question focussed on stammering. Often stammerers will have had very emotional experiences whilst they were learning to speak. The right hemisphere which processes negative emotional responses will have taken over what should be more of a left hemispheric function of speech. So the stammerer is literally talking from the wrong side of the brain. Think how hard it is for any body to speak coherently when extremely terrified!

I relax the client and get them to hypnotically visulise the left brain 'lighting up' before they begin to speak. I have had considrable success with this. Asking them to speak 'through' the left side. I also use a lot of hypnotic reheasal of relaxed fluent speech to forge those neuronal connections!

Conciously focussing on a particular brain hemisphere (for example in depressed people the left hemisphere is used much less) seems to efficiently activate that hemisphere.

See how you get on.

Best regards

Mark.

It never ceases to amaze me how refreshingly different and yet so coherent is the approach Mark uses, almost coming from another planet.

mark tyrrell wrote:I relax the client and get them to hypnotically visulise the left brain 'lighting up' before they begin to speak. I have had considrable success with this. Asking them to speak 'through' the left side.

Come to think of it, when you relax, the right side of the brain becomes dominant so when, during relaxation, you visualise the left brain 'lighting up', does the right side lose its dominance?

I think that the effect, as with so many effective therapeutic interventions, is rather less direct than that. I would think that using the imagination to visualise the left side of the brain lighting up would increase right hemispheric activity. However, having the client think about speaking through the 'left side' may help through altering their psychological / neurological processes enough to get them out of the stuttering 'rut'. Perhaps.

hello
i have had a stammer since childhood - I have tried hypnosis previously on 2 occasions without any improvements. Does anyone know of a reputable hypnotist in the London area (north and central) who has had previous success ?
thanks
Andrew

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I relax the client and get them to hypnotically visulise the left brain 'lighting up' before they begin to speak. I have had considrable success with this. Asking them to speak 'through' the left side. I also use a lot of hypnotic reheasal of relaxed fluent speech to forge those neuronal connections!

Mark - I'd really like to try this with a volunteer client, so need to be clear when you say 'hypnotic rehearsal of relaxed fluent speech' that you mean they imagine themselves speaking in a relaxed and fluent manner, while in trance. (sorry, this may seem obvious to everybody else, but I'm still learning :? Also I wonder whether it would be a good idea to anchor the lighting up of the left brain, so that they could use the anchor whenever they have to speak. Does this make sense? I look forward to hearing your response.

Hi Nona

Yes you can have them imagine speaking fluently in the types of situations in which maybe they would have been nervous in before (if that makes sense). The more we do this the stronger the neuronal assocaitions become.

The stammerer may have to work hard in order to get the changes to 'take' long term i.e. one man I worked with read aloud for one hour a day getting into the habit of imagining his left brain lighting up whenever he approached words that had been difficult for him. This repetition of practice would have a natural 'anchoring' effect so that eventually he didn't need to consciously imagine his brain working in a new way.

All the best

Mark.

Hi,
I am new to self hypnosis, and have begun to download some of your excellent scripts.
Would it be possible for you to do one for stammering, I have always atammered and would dearly love to ease my condition.
Or do you have any scripts that I could use for self hypnosos.
Would appreciate any help you can give me.

Many thanks

Hi Darrenh we do not, as yet, have a download for stammering-although we will have within the next few weeks.

Best wishes

Mark.

I stumbled across this article, and thought it might be of interest. You need to go to www.stammering.org, then type "stuttering modification" in the Search box, and then select the article entitled 'stuttering modification using hypnosis:a case study'.