Hi, students, hope you're well.
In this video, I want to talk to you
about my experience of mewing, which put simply,
means changing your tongue posture intentionally in order
to realign your jaw, and you will
get some other benefits such as improved posture, and healthier
breathing.
So that's the quick version of what mewing is.
So I've been doing this for 2 and 1/2 years
now, as I said, and it's honestly
not something I can talk about to anyone, really, until now,
because I wasn't sure when I started this,
whether it's a quack kind of thing or just a fad.
And I didn't know if it worked or if it was something that I
should tell other people about.
And also, I think because nobody has to know.
You're just changing your tongue posture, right?
It's not like you have to go and shout that from the rooftops.
And there was also another personal reason
why I came to it, which is I was having breathing
problems for a really long time, and this
was making me try everything.
I had to learn how to breathe, essentially.
It wasn't the only thing that helped,
but it was one of the things that I learned along the way.
What you need to know first about mewing
or to know whether you should start doing it
yourself is you need to know whether you're
a mouth breather.
So are you always breathing like this.
Is your mouth always hanging open, essentially?
If so, that's a good indication that mewing could
be really beneficial for you.
And another sign can be--
I don't personally snore, to my knowledge,
but a lot of people who have this problem,
they'll snore quite loudly, as well.
Having rounded shoulders.
And also-- let me just turn to the side so you can see--
having a kind of waddle here.
So when you see yourself from the profile,
you don't have a proper angle on your chin,
because your jaw is always like that.
I'm exaggerating now.
And also, one other thing is where
is your tongue when you're resting.
So you have to catch yourself with you've not prepared.
But if you find where your tongue is resting,
if you can feel your bottom teeth,
then that you would really benefit from mewing.
Because if that's so, your tongue
is really, really far forward, and you
have no posture in your tongue.
And this is also the cause of crooked teeth.
The reason why it is a problem doing the mouth breathing
all the time is one is the physical aspect of how
you look, and the other aspect is just to do with health,
because respiratory tract is designed for us
to breathe through the nose.
That's why we've got all those little hairs there.
We're meant to breathe in through the nose
and then catch the germs in those hairs.
And I've got to say that since I have been doing mewing--
that is probably not the only reason,
but I've had a dramatic improvement in overall health.
I don't really get cold and that kind of thing
very often anymore, because I'm usually
breathing the way I'm supposed to be breathing now,
which is through the nose.
Now I want to talk about how to mew, how do you get started.
I remember when I started doing this,
I had to focus a lot of my attention
in keeping my tongue up.
So let me explain how it is, and this
was quite a revelation to me.
When if you explore the roof of your mouth now, there will be,
I sometimes call it like a cave shape, where the back is soft,
and then as you go forward, it's hard.
And then this bit ends in something
called the alveolar ridge, which is hard,
where we make sounds like tuh duh tuh duh.
But that part there, which goes back--
feel around the shape there.
It's slightly curved at the top.
It's quite wide.
Revelation is that's where your tongue is
meant to rest all the time.
Your tongue is designed to be up there, because that
is the shape of your tongue.
Now as I said to you earlier, that
wasn't where I used to keep my tongue.
My tongue was down here all the time.
And my mouth was hanging open.
So when you stop doing mewing in you're new to it,
you have to concentrate to keep lifting your tongue up.
So there's different ways you can do it.
You can keep pushing your tongue up
to strengthen it, try and get in the root of the tongue
up there.
And like doing reps, this will strengthen the muscles
and make it easier for you to keep the tongue up there.
And then the other thing is you can
push the tongue back and up, and not clench your jaw,
so you don't hear your teeth closing like--
[SNAPPING SOUND] but loosely open.
If you don't have that much of a gap,
your tongue is just going to sit in that space.
So what we've got to do then is when you're not speaking,
not eating, not drinking, keep that posture,
and your tongue is going to be in the right place.
Let me know talk about the physical changes
that I have personally got from it.
I'm going to turn to the side now.
I'm sitting in a chair, so you can't really see,
but my overall posture now is much straighter.
And for anyone drawn to the idea of mewing
to get rid of that waddle shape, that waddle skin,
I think it works.
And I just regard it as one of those things
that you do overall in life--
or you should do--
to improve your health, your well-being, your posture,
the way you stand, everything.
So it's just one piece.
And maybe some people, they always had this kind of stuff
from when they were young-- they knew how to breathe properly,
knew how to walk properly.
Well, I wasn't one of them.
I had to start from the ground up.
And yeah, I'm pleased with the results.
You can go ahead and try it, as well.
Thank you for watching this video,
and I'll see you again soon.
Bye.