Introduction to mewing for those who are not familiar:
I see many people mewing have breathing difficulty or are stressed while mewing - please follow this method to ease your breathing:
Special thanks to @TheSir - this method is his he originally mentioned in the mewing thread but I tried to make it easier to follow for users on this forum
I see many people mewing have breathing difficulty or are stressed while mewing - please follow this method to ease your breathing:
Special thanks to @TheSir - this method is his he originally mentioned in the mewing thread but I tried to make it easier to follow for users on this forum
Step 1:
form a suction mew - how to perform the suction mew:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYcPpOB_i8&ab_channel=JawHacks
Step 2:
Straighten out your neck and spine (imagine if someone is pulling you up by your head with light pressure) - once you straighten out your neck up you should notice your shoulders drop down ... this is proper shoulder and neck posture
Step 3:
Tuck your head in backwards until you feel your back neck muscles "engage" the force - it should feel like your back neck muscles are flexing - While keeping your lips sealed - let your lower jaw drop a little bit - your jaws SHOULD NOT be shut or "clenched" while mewing - When you drop your lower jaw enough you should feel a strong force from behind the lower jaw pushing it forward - you should have a suction mew with sealed lips with your jaws open - keep your jaws open but lips sealed and practice continuing to breathe through your nose in this position - it should feel a lot more effortless - the neck is now REFUSING to let the lower jaw go back down into your airways and leveraging the lower jaw forward to free your airways
Step 4:
Your lower jaw should end up being pushed downward due to the tongue using it as leverage to push the upper jaw. In addition, the downward movement should either be in a forward or backward movement depending on your occlusion, posture and cranial structure.
As your jaw is being pushed downward by the tongue, it'll eventually meet resistance at the anterior neck muscles, which will prevent the jaw from descending much further. As such, an equilibrium of forces will be born:
1) the tongue pushing the jaw downwards
2) the neck muscles resisting this push.
The mandible would come to sit at a balanced half-way point between these two forces. As such, this mandibular positioning shouldn't feel particularly straining, but rather intuitive and effortless. By habitual I mean that this dynamic which I'm trying to explain should be adopted as a natural part of your overall body posture.
Step 5:
You should notice it much easier to breathe and you should feel the FORCE being exerted on your jaws is VERY STRONG - you shouldn't feel any pain or stress while performing this
Why do some people have no results from mewing ?
A few reasons:
In order for the maxilla (upper jaw) to move forward (it doesn't necessarily move forward - it grows bigger and then is displaced along with the mandible to free your airways)
... hence why it must expand
The upper palate MUST grow bigger (in width and length) in order to "move forward" if you are mewing by "pushing with your tongue" - no results will happen because the maxilla cannot really be "pushed forward" it can only grow bigger (by suction mewing - the tongue expands the upper jaw in all directions) - you cannot "push" the maxilla with your tongue and have it "move" - it can only move from your tongue expanding the space by creating an intra-oral vaccuum for long periods of time.
It is IMPERATIVE you mew with enough force with the tongue and neck working together to generate enough force and yield results
If you are mewing for "years with no results" as an adult - I can say with certainty you are mewing incorrectly - if you are generating enough force using this method you should notice results to some extent within a month ... please do not give up - make sure you are mewing correctly
There is only so much "space" you can gain from pushing the jaws forward without expanding the width of your upper palate - without expansion it just goes right back - by expanding it you are basically helping it stay there in other words:
hence why people with forward jaws also have wide jaws and correct posture without exception - this is not a coincidence - it must expand to reach that point.
Check-out this image - notice for everyone on the left they all have NARROW jaws with poor forward growth and bad posture - this is not a coincidence - these are all linked - the maxilla MUST expand in all directions to achieve "forward growth" and posture MUST be corrected to maintain this
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