Mens Health Article
This article of mine was published as the winning letter for February in the SA Mens Health Magazine. The prize was a 20Gig Mp3 player. This Mp3 player can also record voice using a built in microphone, and it helps me alot to capture my thoughts, and my speech for self monitoring. Thanks MH.
Dear MHI’m a avid reader of your magazine, discussing different issues such as health, style, sex and relationships one really finds good advice on how to be a better man. Reading the article on Jet Li (Pow and Zen - October 2005), the way he discusses the different levels of martial arts, I can relate to my own sport. Which is the sport of “getting good at speaking”. Being a chronic stammerer up until a few months ago, and have tried speech therapy and other remedies for many years to no real avail. I recently joint a program that is different, and that works! Treating the recovering process from stammering like a sport, you first learn the basic techniques and repeat them endlessly. You are taught and guided by recovered and recovering stammerers, persons who’ve been there and had the experience. (The best coaches in any sport are persons who’ve played the same game, took the shots, and took the cup home……not true?). Once you’ve got the physical technique, you practice the sport, talking to strangers, doing speeches, making phone calls, things that never before seem possible, like getting fit and finally being able to run that first 10km marathon. And after that you keep practicing, improving, perfecting you technique, learning how to be in control of your speech.
As there are no quick fixes to any “inadequacies” we feel we have, it is hard work, but also a MOERSE LEKKE ride with the right support towards freedom, self-acceptance and eventually fluency.
Whether it be to lose some weight, get in shape, staying healthy, getting that girl or recovering from stammering. MH shows us it every issue what it takes: get of your ass, bite the bullet, work hard, and do it. And keep doing it, until you find your Zen, your own inner peace were you won’t have to fight anymore, and can enjoy life.
Regards
Hein van der Merwe.
Recovering stammerer.
