Wincel
Zephir
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2018
- Posts
- 1,802
- Reputation
- 2,286
"Just get as much of you're tongue up as you can to breathe comfortably, eventually you will be able to fit the entire thing"
That's bullshit, and so is people doing "reps" putting their tongue up where it blocks their airway so that they can expand it or "grow their maxilla forward" (JFL) enough to one day get it so they can't block their airway with their tongue, then they'll finally (in their mind) be mewing correctly.
Stick your tongue out as far as you can and then try getting the "posterior third" up there, just like you do when you're tongue is in your mouth. You can still block the airway! You're never going to get to this magical point where you cannot block the airway with your tongue, no matter how forward your maxilla grows or how wide your palate expands.
Backing the tongue off from where it blocks the airway is proper mewing, this is not failure to get what Mike calls the "posterior third" up on the roof of the mouth.
Look in the mirror with your mouth open. Now raise the soft palate, Astro describes this action as a reverse yawn. The soft palate is the back of your palate, near your throat. Once you have it raised, keep it raised (for the rest of this exercise) and quickly close your mouth (SOFT PALATE STILL RAISED!), jam your FULL tongue up there at once, not starting from the root or the tip, and then instantly begin to breathe through your nose. The only parts moving from the point where you reverse yawned should be your tongue and your mouth closing. You can breathe! Its magic. (Couldn't before with the old shitty mew push swallow example)
Your posterior third tongue is never blocking your airway and preventing you from breathing. That last part of the "tongue" that blocks your airway is you lowering your soft palate, as you should do only with a swallow, not when learning the tongue posture.
If you have trouble understanding, switch between your tongue blocking your airway and the spot it goes to when you can just breathe comfortably, and really feel whats going on there. You are not dropping the back of your tongue to breathe, you are raising your soft palate. (Keep in mind this doesn't apply if you are actually sagging your tongue, which is the wrong way to open your airway after a mew push swallow. Most people just feel as though they are sagging their tongue but they aren't.)
People often say that after doing the cheesy smile swallowing exercise to get your tongue on the roof of your mouth that they can't breathe when they do this. This gets in a lot of people's minds that they aren't fully mewing and they have to block their airway when they mew. I think its a shitty way to go about teaching people mewing, and my method above should be taught to people once they know the proper swallowing pattern. The mew push swallow will always end in a position that blocks off your airway. Mike has x-ray footage (not x-ray but something that shows soft tissue, forget what its called) of the mew push swallow and it ends with the "tongue" (soft palate) blocking the airway. This is normal for everyone, even lifelong mewers, the end part of the mew push swallow where it blocks your airway is not the tongue posture!
In this part of the video the guy in the xray does a mew push swallow and then raises his soft palate so that he can breathe after the swallow.
Get to a point where you can breathe after doing a mew push swallow and you DO have the posterior third up on the roof of your mouth. You do not need to grow your maxilla or expand your palate to mew properly.
Credit to Astro Sky for bringing up this raising the soft palate idea, I've never heard this before.
Be sure to call me a dumbass and report this thread if you already knew this or if you disagree with me. (And if you disagree with me certainly don't explain why you disagree.)
All posts saying mewing doesn't do shit are welcome, I'm only here to tell you what the tongue posture is, I already destroyed you long ago when I scientifically proved that mewing works. It was impressive, really. I deserve a nobel peace prize.
That's bullshit, and so is people doing "reps" putting their tongue up where it blocks their airway so that they can expand it or "grow their maxilla forward" (JFL) enough to one day get it so they can't block their airway with their tongue, then they'll finally (in their mind) be mewing correctly.
Stick your tongue out as far as you can and then try getting the "posterior third" up there, just like you do when you're tongue is in your mouth. You can still block the airway! You're never going to get to this magical point where you cannot block the airway with your tongue, no matter how forward your maxilla grows or how wide your palate expands.
Backing the tongue off from where it blocks the airway is proper mewing, this is not failure to get what Mike calls the "posterior third" up on the roof of the mouth.
Look in the mirror with your mouth open. Now raise the soft palate, Astro describes this action as a reverse yawn. The soft palate is the back of your palate, near your throat. Once you have it raised, keep it raised (for the rest of this exercise) and quickly close your mouth (SOFT PALATE STILL RAISED!), jam your FULL tongue up there at once, not starting from the root or the tip, and then instantly begin to breathe through your nose. The only parts moving from the point where you reverse yawned should be your tongue and your mouth closing. You can breathe! Its magic. (Couldn't before with the old shitty mew push swallow example)
Your posterior third tongue is never blocking your airway and preventing you from breathing. That last part of the "tongue" that blocks your airway is you lowering your soft palate, as you should do only with a swallow, not when learning the tongue posture.
If you have trouble understanding, switch between your tongue blocking your airway and the spot it goes to when you can just breathe comfortably, and really feel whats going on there. You are not dropping the back of your tongue to breathe, you are raising your soft palate. (Keep in mind this doesn't apply if you are actually sagging your tongue, which is the wrong way to open your airway after a mew push swallow. Most people just feel as though they are sagging their tongue but they aren't.)
People often say that after doing the cheesy smile swallowing exercise to get your tongue on the roof of your mouth that they can't breathe when they do this. This gets in a lot of people's minds that they aren't fully mewing and they have to block their airway when they mew. I think its a shitty way to go about teaching people mewing, and my method above should be taught to people once they know the proper swallowing pattern. The mew push swallow will always end in a position that blocks off your airway. Mike has x-ray footage (not x-ray but something that shows soft tissue, forget what its called) of the mew push swallow and it ends with the "tongue" (soft palate) blocking the airway. This is normal for everyone, even lifelong mewers, the end part of the mew push swallow where it blocks your airway is not the tongue posture!
In this part of the video the guy in the xray does a mew push swallow and then raises his soft palate so that he can breathe after the swallow.
Get to a point where you can breathe after doing a mew push swallow and you DO have the posterior third up on the roof of your mouth. You do not need to grow your maxilla or expand your palate to mew properly.
Credit to Astro Sky for bringing up this raising the soft palate idea, I've never heard this before.
Be sure to call me a dumbass and report this thread if you already knew this or if you disagree with me. (And if you disagree with me certainly don't explain why you disagree.)
All posts saying mewing doesn't do shit are welcome, I'm only here to tell you what the tongue posture is, I already destroyed you long ago when I scientifically proved that mewing works. It was impressive, really. I deserve a nobel peace prize.
Last edited:
