There was a little trick I established when I was a teenager, that I just recently rediscovered. I'll warn you that it's kind of a strange idea... but it's worked for me. The premise is that the breathing muscles of the body (the diaphragm) have both autonomic and wilfull nerves attached to them. The diaphragm will function when you're sleeping and at all other times, simply by itself. But the interesting thing is that you can choose to flex it. There's no other body part that acts this way. It's really unique. In the 1980s, the idea of "visualization" was a huge new idea in the "New Age Movement." I found then that the only really interesting observation I made when toying with this, was that if you visualize something - imagining it in your body or brain area... like a little light or darkness... it affects the automatic breathing rhythms of your body just for a few seconds. So, this is the thing that gave me an idea. Stuttering mainly has to do with breath control... and so I have a little trick I do the instant I start feeling my jaw tensing up when I'm going to say something. My visualization trick may be different than the one you would want to play with... but I choose to imagine that I can superimpose a dark cylinder around the outer portion of the brain stem... and I move that up and down. Somehow, I find that my jaw relaxes - but maybe more importantly I find that my diaphragm takes a breath all on its own - which gives me more structure to the shape of my talking apparatus. Then, it's much easier to say the words. When I was diligently practicing this technique in high school, my mom always commented (when I asked her) how it seemed like my stuttering had pretty much gone away. I had braces - which were annoying - and I got myself onto the debate team, so I was always really needing to use this trick to make it easier for me to talk fluently. Eventually when I became an adult, I forgot about the trick entirely (my stuttering since then has been off and on, and I never had a sense of control over whether it was better or worse in different situations). Only recently, did I remembered the technique. It **does work consistently** for me. It's really quite quite incredible.