NLP for Speech Problems

What’s happening here is simple: you’re so excited and often impatient to tell your listeners what you want to tell them that the words come out uncontrollably fast and get mixed up in the speed, because your brain produces the words faster than you can pronounce them.  This is common and the only thing that’s crazy about this is the speed that your brain works at, which I mean as a compliment!  I’ve heard that the human brain processes information at 32 frames per second.  If you turn your hand 90 degrees in the wrist and back, that will take 2 frames per second.  So imagine how fast your brain works if we take the 32 frames per second as real!  But your mouth doesn’t work even half as fast, so there’ll be an inevitable time delay every time you pronounce your thoughts.  And because while you’re pronouncing one thought your brain is already seeing three, four, or a hundred thoughts ahead of the one you’re pronouncing, there’s absolutely no surprise that you mix words or letters up!

1. Shed the attitude that “you have x“.  Labels are dangerous for your progress and personal development!  What you’ve done is common: if we don’t understand something, we seek explanation.  Most adults aren’t comfortable with not having explanations to what they don’t understand, because adults like to be right and feel that they know things. So we research things on the internet.  And the research will reveal all sorts of labels.  Your label was picalepsy.  And once you found this label and saw that its explanation matched what you believed about what was happening to you, you said to yourself: “Aha!  Here’s the explanation!  Now I understand what’s going on!”.  This is exactly the psychological state that puts many people into the comfort or complacency zone.  Once they find their explanation, they use it as an excuse for future inaction.  You haven’t fallen into the comfort or complacency zone, because you’ve gone further to ask me for advice. It’s up to you to implement my advice or just read this, leave your computer, and say “no, this doesn’t fit with what I believe”.  How you’ll react is up to you. If you do start improving your issue, firstly shed the attitude that you have picalepsy, brain seizure, or anything else.

2. Channel your energy to observing yourself.  Start observing exactly when you mix words up and exactly what happens when you mix words up.

3. Once you start observing yourself, you’ll pick up valuable clues that will start telling you the story. And you’ll start connecting the dots.  When you know yourself better, you can improve and tweak things one by one.

4. Visualize the content of exactly what you want to say before your mouth pronounces it.  When you visualise the content, you’ll organize your thoughts. That will automatically slow your processing down. And you will have more time to pronounce one thought at a time.  Then you won’t feel so rushed to tell it all at once. You’ll breathe deeper while speaking – and you won’t breathe so high in the chest [which I suspect you are doing a lot now].

5. You can engage in breathing exercises to teach yourself to breathe down in your diaphragm and then tummy.

6. Grounding will also help you.  Read about grounding and learn to ground when you need to.  It’ll give you a lot of learning and answers to why this is happening to you.  You may currently be very ungrounded.  When you learn to ground yourself, the rest will [often] come naturally.

Dear reader, if you know someone who has exactly the speech problem described here, now you know that solving it is no rocket science. Sometimes things really aren’t complicated. If you’d like to get NLP help for your or someone’s speech problem, let’s talk about it.