Conscious Choices

Mark overcame his stutter by slowing down his speech and concentrating on each sound, making each a conscious effort and so controlling its production.  It seems therapy should do the same for people, helping them slow down so they might focus on choices rather than feeling a debt to old and ineffective patterns.  It would be making chosen actions really our own, no matter what went before or how long the old pattern seemed to belong.  Then not only life would be mine, but also each event in it.