I've read through research that has said there are 3 components that stutterers do not coordinate: 1) Mechanics 2) Sequencing 3) auditory feedback. 3 separate areas of the brain. I'm assuming meditation is useful for giving us "head space" to perform this for low stress situations. High situations--fugghetaboutit. I don't care what research says but stuttering to me is psychological. I've made an effort lately to speak 30,000 words a day via reading ( research says men speak 7-10 thousand words a day so I said i'll triple that daily to get my mouth/brain "exercising"). I can speak 30,000 words just fine but when I went to the store to ask a question that consisted of 5-6 words it's a train wreck. I did this immediately after reading 30,000 words and then talking out loud for another hour---all 100% just fine leading into asking a question to the clerk at the store. What changed? Why did things go "offline" which is the sensation that i feel when i stutter --everything just goes BLACK as if i'm a newborn who does not know what speech is and i babble. It just feels like an involuntary response when i have to talk to people--muscles are tensing in areas where they should't, and my mind's attention goes to place that are unnatural. Current theory is that i need to gradually de-sensitize myself while continuing to practice daily reading/speaking out loud with the hope that at some point it will normalize as the fear response goes down. I've done speech therapy--doesn't work. What a burden. Then of course your intelligence and ability as a human being is judged by everyone around you because you are misrepresenting yourself. That's a stutterers day to day life. That's where meditation and yoga fit in--it eases the suffering but not a direct solution to speaking fluently but rather a healthy outlet for stress management of being a stutterer. Thank you for trying to understand this. Good luck.