Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. This is Michael Williams. And I hope you're having fun with me. Because I'm having fun with you.

I'm not teasing you, I'm not messing with you. But I'm having fun spending this time sharing with you these seven steps to quickly achieve smooth, calm and confident speech. And sometimes you do have to laugh at yourself. Sometimes my clients and I, we actually just get together and we laugh about stuff. And then we go on and we work on it and we fix it. So sometimes it's good just to laugh at it.

But just because you laugh at yourself doesn't mean you have to stay where you are. Some people feel like that. They're stuck. They've tried every program. They've even dabbled in my program. Doesn't work, try his program tries to try devices doesn't work.

And the truth is that maybe it didn't work for them for one reason or another, but I can confidently tell you and I stand behind it with a money back guarantee. If you do what I asked you to do, you will absolutely improve your speech by, you know, if you say 80%, that's for me, that's not even enough. But definitely by 80%, more likely 90 and 95%. That is, you're going to be to the place where your speech is going to be very, very smooth, you're going to be able to say what you want to say when you want to say, and you're going to be confident, meaning you're simply not going to be thinking about and worrying about stuttering. Does it mean that you're never going to get stuck? No, it doesn't, I still get stuck, everyone gets stuck.

That's okay. She can be confident enough to just deal with and keep moving. I can be thinking about it all the time. It's not going to be a part of your identity. So what we're going to be doing in this step is talking about a specific technique that you can use to smooth out your speech but before we're going to quickly do a review, right, reinforcing everything. So the first step we talked about telling yourself affirming remembering when you are rewriting your speech program, you do have a pattern, a habit that is represented by a neural connection.

There are literally neurons connected in your brain that manage everything that manage everything that we do everything we think, memory of how we do things. And what we're doing is we're, we're making new connections, we're writing a new program. So you want to tell yourself, I don't have to rush I can take my time and say what I want to say, when I want to say it right? Now, tell yourself that each and every day, each and every one step to pause and relax before you speak, how many seconds, pause for a second, two seconds, three seconds. You want to do this so that you kind of counteract your natural inclination and response to jump in and start speaking right there. Step number three is you want to use natural introductory words, phrases or sounds.

Let's see. Wow. So and use naturals and I want and we're going to I gave you a homework assignment to listen to how people speak. Listen, do they always do that? They're always gonna start now but you'll hear people use sounds and they use different words like like and so on and so forth. Like is a word that I don't want you to use a lot.

But certainly you can use a quiet quiet on a so well okay. And there may be some other words that are appropriate to help you get started speaking either to rewrite the program, so that you stop thinking about speaking, so that whenever you want to say something, you might not ever even use an hour or so or you just might say what you want to say because speaking is no longer issue for a year now communicating, right? you're communicating Without thinking about speaking without thinking about the mechanics without worrying about stuttering. And this fourth step was to extend your first few words to elongate to extend to stretch. Your first few words when also we said the pause a little more frequently, especially in high pressure situations, or situations where you feel anxious. Pause a little more frequently.

I don't mean pause so that you are speaking, choppy like this. I mean, extending and pausing, expanding and pausing until you settle in to a nice rhythm. Take more in deeper breaths. Hmm, it's a great question. Right? move slower, especially in the beginning, move slower.

You're in control of your body. When you move slower. You feel more relaxed, you're orchestrating your speech. More And it will help you gain and maintain control. And so we're going to be looking at now. Step number one, step number five.

And step number five is to step number five is to blend. Your words is to blend your words, blend your words while speaking, blend your words while speaking. Michael, what in the world do you mean by blend my words, what does it mean to blend my words? This is simply my way of explaining what we do when we're speaking naturally. So if I want To try to represent this graphically, we can say here's a word. And here's a space.

And here's the word. Here's a space. Here's a word. Here's a space. Here's a word. So these are spaces.

Let's call these spaces pauses, right? It's called these pauses. Okay, so there's a pause between. So if I pause, there's a pause. And each of these pauses have a certain amount of time attached to it. The time could be half a second a millisecond.

If so let's say it's one second. This is says one second between each pause, right? If I pause for one second, right, so does a second in between sports so makes your speech choppy, right makes your speech choppy if I pause between if I pause between, okay, so this is choppy speech, this is what we would call choppy, choppy speech. We don't want to do that. There are times where you are thinking or you're emphasizing something and you may pause after every word that's not the way you want to normally naturally see blending. On the other hand, blending when we blend, we're doing something different.

So I'm going to just using the same phrase using the same phrase We're going to say, we're actually going to take the spaces out. Take these spaces out, where there used to be a pause. And we're going to say, I want you to watch this. Right? Right when take the spaces out, and now there's not going to be any pause. If I pause between, if I pause between, right notice there's no space if if I pause between So the way this would look if we wrote it, it would be like if I, if I pause, if I pause between if I if I pause between.

So what's happening there? What's happening is it survived, right? It. It looks like it's all one word. If you look at it like this, there's no space. If I pause between notice how maintaining airflow maintain f5 pause between I'm not if I pause on maintaining air flow, if I pause between, okay, I'm linking all the words together linking the words together and blending my words.

I'm blending my words. I'm, I'm blending. So notice between the M and the B, I'm blending blending, but I'm blending my words. Some so what if I can't say I, so I'm blending my words and I'm blending my word. Well, I'm blending on blending my words. You get the idea of stretching.

I'm blending my words I just said I stretched the eye. You can do this. So blending your words. means speaking naturally, really maintaining airflow, by connecting. By linking your words together, or removing the space between your words, it doesn't mean just keep speaking space Victor, you run out of air. But what you want to do is you want to parallel you want to imitate natural speech, so that you begin speaking more natural.

Once you imitate natural speech, your brain begins to recognize, oh, this is what natural speech feels like. It already knows it's in there somewhere. This is what natural speech sounds like, this is what it feels like, okay, we don't have to think about speaking anymore to writing the code writing the program. We don't have to think about speaking more. This is how we're going to speak. And it will be natural, right?

It might feel strange at first, even though it's not it's very natural normal to blend your words while you're speaking. Maybe you've been used to speaking in a choppy manner but once you you consciously almost force yourself in the sense once you consciously make yourself blend your words, what will begin to happen is it'll start to feel and sound more natural. And then the brain says, Ah, this is natural speech. This is what it feels like. Now we don't have to think about it anymore. Does that make sense?

So what I want to do is give you my famous technique. It's called a free flow speaking exercise. free flow speaking exercise to help you retrain your brain to blend your words to blend your words and to speak naturally. So free flow speaking exercise. And it's kind of broken into maybe two or three parts. So So let's start with this first part.

The first part is you don't think about anything you just speak until you run out of air, right? I don't want you to fall out. I want you to speak until you run out here. First. He has to take in some Have a deep breath because I want you to say enough that you can actually experience fluent speech without breaking without stopping. And this may be challenging for you at first, but trust me you can do I mean I've had severe people speak stutter severely, people do mild, you can do this.

So I'm going to demonstrate free flow speaking. Okay? Not sure I'm going to flip over here, and then we'll flip that but I want to write this down. This is called the free flow. Speaking. Exercise is Michael Williams his ex XOR.

Exercise right XOR sighs microwaves if Michael Williams can learn how to spell exercises the right write my code is free flow speaking exercise. So here it goes. We are going to take a deep breath. And then without thinking of a subject or a topic, I'm just going to speak randomly just random crap until I run out of air. Watch and then you try. Okay, so right now I'm just going to continue speaking and sometimes if I have to say the same thing over and over and over and over again, but what you really want to do is you want to say different words and you want to continue to speak until you're running out of air and I'm not out of air now but I'm about to run out of air because I can feel the air about to run out but I'm not running out of air because I'm that now I'm out of air.

No, so I took a deep breath, and I just kept speaking and if I needed to repeat something, I repeated I said random stuff. I'm gonna do it again. Because I want you to see what it looks like what it sounds like, then I want you to try it yourself. Michael Williams is free flow speaking exercise. Okay, exercise. Take a deep breath and then speak randomly talk about Anything.

Okay, so this time, what I'm going to be talking about is I'm going to be talking about what you and I are talking about today, which is the seven steps to achieve or to quickly achieve smooth, smooth, smooth, confident speeds. And I'm going to continue to speak and I'm stretching my words and I'm running out of air now. Okay, did you get that? Just talking about anything this time, I just kind of went and just started talking about a specific subject, but then I just kept one babbling on about anything. Now. This next time, I'm going to pick a subject.

I'm going to pick a subject and I'm going to do the same exercise, what's the subject that I'm going to speak? Let's talk about how to do the free flow speaking exercise. I'm gonna talk about how to do the free flow speed. So that is, I have an intention. I have an idea. Have a thought in mind that I want to communicate, but I'm not going to think about the words.

I'm just going to speak and let it flow. My goal. What I'm focused on is Maintaining airflow. That is blending my words, not letting myself stop, I might extend. But I'm not going to pause I'm not going to stop, I'm going to maintain airflow. Okay, now first once you understand this is this what we're doing now, in its entirety is not natural speech, but it can help you achieve naturally it's the exercise.

Alright, so let's do it. This time I have a subject have a topic. The first two times I didn't have a topic. topic is free flow speaking exercise. Okay, so this time we're going to be talking about the free flow speaking exercise. And if you notice, I'm going a little slower now to give myself time to actually think about the words that I want to say.

And what I want to do is to actually show you and demonstrate how to do the free flow speaking exercise. I hope I don't fall out from that. And once you go that far, right where you can actually fall out, but I didn't want you Have an intention, have a thought and then practice. Keep practicing that over and over and over until you can say random things without stopping. Because what happens is sometimes people will stop because they're trying to think about what to say, I don't want you to think first time I don't want you to think to speak. Just focus on maintaining positive airflow, maintain positive airflow, blend your word, blend your words by speaking, maybe speaking a little fast, right?

Till you're out there. Then the second part of exercise is to have a topic, but don't think about the words you're going to use. Just speak about the topic and let it flow. Here's an important word. Actually, two words flow. flow and this other words, rhythm, right flow.

And rhythm, two very important words. Two very important words flow and rhythm. Trying to help you create a speaking flow speaking rhythm, right? flow and rhythm. Remember that. So second, first part exercises speak to your Renata air about anything.

The second part of the Part two is speak about a specific topic. Don't think about the words, you have a topic, just speak till you run out of air. Now, what you saw me do was also slow down. The third part of the exercise is I'm actually going to slow down a little more, which means I'm going to say less. And I'm going to speak about a specific topic and I'm still not going to think about the words but I am going to slow down more. And I'm going to talk about the free flow speaking exercise again and I'm going to take I'm not going to take super deep breath like I did before, I'm going to just take a shorter deep breath almost just a slightly more than normal breath.

So this is Michael Williams. And what I'm going to be doing today is talking to you about the free flow speaking exercise. And I actually haven't run out of air yet. Notice how I did that nice and easy. It sounded like I actually paused but I didn't, I just kind of lowered the value down, extended the words low and then I picked back up again. Okay, so the third part of the exercise is to go slower.

Let your brain go out and capture the words you want to use. Don't think about the words just let it go out and capture the words and bring them back. Take your time, take a slightly more than normal deep breath, but maintain airflow. Now the fourth part of this exercise is normal speech. Now that pretty much was normal speech what I just did, right, but we're gonna make it we're gonna normalize it even more this time. Don't take any deep breath, I'm just gonna take take in a little air, it's not gonna be a really deep breath.

Take a little air. And I'm going to speak, pause, speak pause. So today, what we're going to talk about is the free flow speaking exercise. And what I just did is I took in a little air so that I can continue to speak with this rhythm. And I just took in a little more air because what I want you to understand is that I can pause, I can take an air, I can speak with flow, and I can speak with a rhythm. You'll notice what I did, I took in just a normal breath, and I spoke for a while, then I pause.

Then I took in some more air and I continued to speak for a while and I pause. I took in some more air I continued to speak for a little longer than I would pause and continue to do that, right. So what would happen My speech pattern would kind of look like this starting to speak and I'm speaking and then there's a pause and then I'm starting to speak and I'm speaking and then there's a pause, starting to speak and to speak. And all the well, these units of speech right these units these phrases these ideas, as I'm speaking them, I'm maintaining constant airflow, right? these phrases in these phrases during these phrases, I'm not letting myself stop. I'm only pausing here to get air to pause because for like, I needed to pause the in the middle or the end of a thought or I just needed to pause right.

But while I'm speaking, I'm doing what? While I'm speaking, I am freaking maintaining positive airflow right? I'm blending My words blending my words while I'm speaking, so that I can do what we call maintain. maintain positive airflow. Okay, maintain positive airflow. So, blend your words while you're speaking.

Why? Because it's natural and if it's something you're not doing, I just taught you a technique, free flow speaking exercise, so that you could retrain your brain to speak and maintain positive airflow. How do you maintain positive airflow? It's by blending your words while you speak, and not allowing yourself to pause after every word or the pause before difficult words. The other part of this is not thinking about the actual words because when you scan ahead, you see We're also going to get stuck there. Don't think about the words.

Just think about the idea you want to communicate, you already have a vocabulary, you already intuitively subconsciously know what to say and how to say it, you simply have an idea that you want to communicate. So let your mind pull it together and communicate. So like I want to walk from here to there, I don't have to plan out how I'm going to walk and how I'm going to move I just, I want to go over there. So I go over there. I want to communicate this. So I let my body and my mind and my vocabulary, pull it all together and do that right.

So you want to do this because it'll allow you to get into a flow and allow you to get into a rhythm and allow you to maintain positive airflow. This may be this may be one of the most important sessions that you have. All of them are important all of them work. I had a client Who lives in Ireland just started working together. Within our first week of work. The guy said, you know, my, this idea of blending my words.

I got stuck twice. We've only we only met once, right? He just started working through the courses I did blending has helped me out. He got stuck twice in a week where he might you might use might get stuck several times in a day, and you're stuck twice in a whole week in our first week. What do you think's going to happen in a month or two or three months? Okay, so this guy's been all around the world.

He's tried all kinds of different programs, not going to mention any names try all different kinds of programs. Also, within a week only got stuck. So how long is it gonna last? I have clients who I've worked with three years and they're still doing well. So this is very important. Blending your words Why?

To maintain positive airflow, natural speech. So let me Go over the exercising and the free flow speaking exercise basically four or five components to it depending on how you break it out. The first one, the first step in this free flow speaking exercise is to take a deep breath and speak constantly. Without thinking about what you're saying, just let the words come out, maintain airflow, don't stop, don't pause until you're out of here. Second is you want to pick a topic, taking a deep breath, and you want to speak on that topic, while maintaining positive airflow, maintain constant airflow, till you run out of air, right. Third is now you want to think of a topic, right?

Think about think about the topic, not the words. And you want to take in just a slight deeper, not even really a deep, just a slightly more than normal breath. And you want to speak about that topic until you run out and you want to go slower, giving yourself time to think this is the third one yeah. Have a topic. Don't think about the word go a little slower but maintain airflow. Finally, this last one is you want to take a normal breath.

And you want to say, a few phrases, say three phrases or four phrases. And during each phrase, you want to maintain constant airflow. You want to blend your words so that you maintain airflow. So you say a phrase, and you pause, you say a phrase and you pause, you say a phrase, and then you pause, retraining your brain, I can say, I can say what I want to say, I can save phrase. And I can pause. I can say a phrase I can pause.

Does this make sense? You're retraining your brain. I know this session has been helpful for you. I'm sorry, I went on longer than what I would have liked. But pack a whole bunch of stuff in here that if you do it, oh my goodness, that could be it. Alright, so we're going to look at step six.

In the next two steps are gonna be really cool. And basically we're going to be wrapping things up and tell you how to get the most out of this whole system here. Okay, see you in the next video.