You suggest to believe that the words you want to say are meaningful. Positive effect: you stop compulsion Negative effect: you don't become resilient against the 20+ triggers that lead up to an anticipation of a stutter, you don't learn to disconfirm expectancy and you don't learn that the 20+ anticipatory anxiety are not real, true, powerful or fearful. Because if you stop believing that your words are meaningful, then you still believe that the triggers are true and fearful which increases expectation of compulsion and then your body is subconsciously being convinced to do compulsion. Also, if you need to turn your words into meaningful in your mind, as a coping mechanism, then you add importance because you do reassurance-seeking (you rely on a technique) and you subconsciously create a condition: "it makes sense that you do compulsion whenever you don't believe your words are meaningful". So you reinforce your stutter habit, which is your perspective and response to the stutter trigger. Any kind of 'needing' or 'labeing' puts your mind in a good and bad category. If you suggest that a technique is 'good' then you tell your body that automatically speaking naturally (which is without technique) is bad. Also, by saying that you 'need' to believe your words are meaningful, you are telling your body that your 20+ triggers are real (after all, you NEED to believe it's meaningful) so you make the trigger important. The goal is to make it less important and less real in your mind (detach importance). Also, if you 'need' to believe that your words are meaningful, then you reduce confidence "I cannot speak without compulsion automatically and naturally without thinking my words are meaningful"