today I wanted to talk to you about muscle effort and how much effort do you
put into the exercises now I want you to ask yourself how much effort am i
putting into the exercises is it too much is it too little or is it just
right when you ask the question about muscle effort you're the one that needs
to answer it because it's to do with your body specifically it's to do with
what your muscles can handle and because we're all so very different it's very
difficult for me to give you an idea of what to do with the muscle effort
because I can say we'll do it like this but it might not be enough for your
muscles or I could say do it the way I do it and it might be too much for your
muscles so it's up to you to determine the muscle effort that you put into the
exercises because the facial muscles are so much smaller than our body muscles we
do actually have to treat them a little bit differently and that's why I've set
up the program for balance it's why you rest a lot after each series that's why
you build to the crescendo and you only do that for two weeks and that's why you
change the exercises around every six weeks so all of these things give you
balance and it's a structured facial exercise program but the thing that you
need to do and you need to understand is with muscle effort this is all up to you
so consider that if you're doing the exercises and you're getting massive
pain from it do you think you're doing too much muscle effort if you're doing
the jaw exercise and it's tremendous pain when you're doing the exercise
extreme pain do you think you might be doing too much muscle effort because
it's like when you do go to the gym let's say you're in the gym and you're
going on the circuit and you're you know you're pushing out all these you know
really fast reps and you're doing all these things with your body now the
moment it gets extreme pain what would you do
you stop and rest and then you keep going at a lesser rate pushing it less it's
what you do isn't it it's the same with your face if you are getting headaches
from the back of your neck this means that your focus and your muscle effort
is not correct so when you're doing that the neck exercises the muscle effort is
to what your body can take and the muscles can take especially when you're
doing the neck exercises you do have to remember to bring your focus right into
the front of your face right to the chin is the best place or anywhere in this
area in the chin and under is where you would bring your focus so let's do an
example so this example is say the first forehead exercise in series 1 so we've
got our fingers up into the position now if you're pushing too hard and if you're
going like this and it's extreme pain in the back of your neck and in the front
of your forehead it is too much effort if you press too hard and it hurts in
your neck or it's putting too much strain on your neck it means you are
pressing too hard so here we go I'm just pressing to the point where I can
isolate the muscle and I can lift now I'm not lifting crazily are not being
you know pushing it so hard I'm not using the back of my neck with that
exercise what happens is the back muscles on your scalp they just
naturally start to move when you start getting that area stronger you don't
have to force those muscles and in fact with any of the exercise you don't have
to force it because if you do you end up with headaches you end up with soreness
and it is too much and I think the main thing what I try to let you know is not
to do too much stick to the program as I've taught it but when you are doing
the exercises understand that you need to just think
about what you're doing just think about what you're doing if there's pain
anywhere on your face it means that you're doing too much
now there is going to be a certain amount of exercise pain when you're
doing the exercises it goes immediately after you finish the exercises it
doesn't hang around so what I'd like you to do is next time that you do your
routines consciously think about your muscle effort and if there's too much
pain if there's too much pressure in your neck start thinking about doing
less effort and I can absolutely let you know that it's not going to impede the
success of your facial exercise and in fact it will help it because the motto
is less is best we don't do more we don't add exercises we don't do more
repetitions we just stick to the program and we do it in a way that is gentle in
a way that is calming I know that we do the exercise and it does take discipline
and it does take time to push it out into to do all of that but the whole
reason why we're doing the exercises is to help us feel better and look better
and that's really what the whole reason why we do it it's a loving accepting
thing that we're doing for ourselves it says self-acceptance and self caring so
when you put it in the concept of self caring then you start to understand that
you do not push your face muscles to hurt you treat your face with with much
more gentleness than you would the rest of your body so it's up to you to think
about how much you're doing so I can't I just can't you know it's like for me how
long is a piece of string when someone says how much effort do we put into it
well the effort you put into it is to the point that you're not getting pain
that you're not getting pressure that you're not getting headaches
and that the pressure and pain is not ongoing okay it's like when you do the
jaw exercises but your exercises they're really really strong exercises and if
you have any indication that you might have a problem with your jaw I do ask
you to do those exercises with extreme caution with extreme caution if at all
and I have said in previous videos that if you do have problems with your jaw
like big problems or big problems on your face with your skin with anything
like that you cannot do facial exercise because it
will exacerbate it you have to have a healthy face healthy skin and a healthy
bone structure for you to do this and then when you do it you need to do it
with loving kindness that's how you do it
so you can imagine if you're pushing really hard and you know you're being
really violent with it you've got to get those exercises done and you've got to
push them out it's it's not kind it's not kindness okay you do them with
loving kindness and then if you have that attitude you'll find that your
exercises will feel better and you'll look better and you'll feel better I
hope that's helped you specifically today with your exercises I really do
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