What is Stupor?
Anna Deeter
16 Mar 2012
Stupor is a sudden stop of a speech action and useless attempts to force out the speech; it is an inappropriate interaction of stutterers with their speech apparatus caused by human’s inability to perform more then one task at one moment consciously. The causes of stupor are not known to stutterers.
Understanding the causes and the mechanism of stupor is a very important part of the program as a student is learning how to speak without unplanned stops, repetitions, hesitations or stupors.
Because stupor always develops as the result of an attempt to complete an impossible task, it is always accompanied by unconsciousness and fear (a very strong emotion and motivation). When appearance of both stupor and a certain situation or object repeats several times, the human’s brain unconsciously bonds these two completely unrelated events together and begins to react to them in the same way. For example, an audience (situation) may become as a mandatory attribute of stupor. Each time a public speaker faces a big crowd, he unconsciously reacts with a stupor. Sometimes, a coincidence of stupor with an emotionally charged or stressful external event may occur only ones for the brain to remember that and begin react with stupor to the situation that was unconsciously attached to this stupor. This connection is accidental and unpredictable, which makes it impossible to determine or classify various types of fears and styles of stupor that stutterers may exhibit. However, because they all are based on one unconscious reflex connection, it provides the only logical “remedy” for “curing” of “multifaceted” stuttering/stupor. It is the CONSCIOUS BREAK of such reflex connection, which could only be accomplished by a stuttering person, who should understand the absurdness of the attachment of the stupor to the external factor. The moment this realization comes clear for a stutterer, his fears disappear instantly.
For the sake of simplicity, any fear or any external event (e.g., an object, person, letter, situation, sound, smell, taste, etc.) is called an “X-Factor”, where “X” indicates a countless number of various external attachments to stupor. Depending on what the “X-factor” is, stupor could be different in nature, such as: visual, tactile, auditory, taste, etc. However, any kinds of stupor could be easily overcome by Snezhko’s program. The method destroys the main evil – the reflex – without focusing on details, which disappear automatically by themselves.
Understanding the causes and the mechanism of stupor is a very important part of the program as a student is learning how to speak without unplanned stops, repetitions, hesitations or stupors. Because stupor always develops as the result of an attempt to complete an impossible task, it is always accompanied by unconsciousness and fear (a very strong emotion and motivation). When appearance of both stupor and a certain situation or object repeats several times, the human’s brain unconsciously bonds these two completely unrelated events together and begins to react to them in the same way. For example, an audience (situation) may become as a mandatory attribute of stupor. Each time a public speaker faces a big crowd, he unconsciously reacts with a stupor. Sometimes, a coincidence of stupor with an emotionally charged or stressful external event may occur only ones for the brain to remember that and begin react with stupor to the situation that was unconsciously attached to this stupor. This connection is accidental and unpredictable, which makes it impossible to determine or classify various types of fears and styles of stupor that stutterers may exhibit. However, because they all are based on one unconscious reflex connection, it provides the only logical “remedy” for “curing” of “multifaceted” stuttering/stupor. It is the CONSCIOUS BREAK of such reflex connection, which could only be accomplished by a stuttering person, who should understand the absurdness of the attachment of the stupor to the external factor. The moment this realization comes clear for a stutterer, his fears disappear instantly.
For the sake of simplicity, any fear or any external event (e.g., an object, person, letter, situation, sound, smell, taste, etc.) is called an “X-Factor”, where “X” indicates a countless number of various external attachments to stupor. Depending on what the “X-factor” is, stupor could be different in nature, such as: visual, tactile, auditory, taste, etc. However, any kinds of stupor could be easily overcome by Snezhko’s program. The method destroys the main evil – the reflex – without focusing on details, which disappear automatically by themselves.
