Primal Revolution: Proper Habits During Sleep to Prevent Improper Development (Part 7)

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Proper Habits During Sleep to Prevent Improper Development​

Your room temperature whilst you sleep is extremely crucial. Maintaining a cool room, around 18 degrees Celsius or 65 degrees Fahrenheit, helps mitigate the risk of nasal blockage, which is essential for uninterrupted nasal breathing and mewing. Warmer rooms can circulate allergens which can potentially cause stuffiness and prompt mouth breathing. These conditions are not only ideal for mewing but also enhance overall sleep quality and REM sleep. Cooler rooms have been linked to faster sleep onset, deeper sleep quality, and a host of other health benefits, from the production of melatonin, better skin health, and uninterrupted sleep cycles, to boosting metabolism, preventing insomnia, and reducing stress. A cool sleep environment is indispensable.
Your sleep position also plays a crucial role. It is paramount in preventing the tongue from falling into the back of the throat, which could obstruct breathing and potentially lead to snoring and subsequent mouth opening. Sleeping on your side leverages gravity, aiding in maintaining a proper jaw position and tongue posture. This position ensures that the tongue doesn’t fall back into the throat, and the lower jaw remains supported by your pillow or bed, preventing it from dropping open. Specifically, sleeping on your left side has even more additional benefits: the stomach and its gastric juices remain lower than the esophagus, reducing occurrences of heartburn/digestive upset compared to sleeping on your right. It helps spinal stress and promotes natural spinal alignment/easier ability to decompress overnight whilst no gravity compresses it.
“Won’t sleeping on my side create asymmetry?” Sleeping on your back was not the natural sleeping position of our ancestors. Lying flat on one’s back on the uneven, hard surfaces of a cave or forest floor would have likely led to significant back pain. Anyone who has gone camping will be aware of this. Also, when you sleep on your back, it is more difficult to follow the tropic premise because gravity causes the lower jaw to drop, and the tongue to fall back into the throat. This is supported by the fact that more people snore when sleeping on their back than on their side, causing them to mouth breathe. If you sleep on your side, you can keep your jaw from dropping by using a pillow for support, and suction-based mewing should be enough to keep breathing through the nose.
As long as you don’t have these issues, sleeping on your back is great.
To elevate mewing practices during sleep, consider incline bed therapy, or IBT. Raising the head of your bed enhances airway flow, meaning a lower chance of you opening your mouth and maintaining nose breathing. It also improves circulation and promotes brain detoxification and reduces intracranial pressure, creating an optimal environment for mewing.
Mouth taping serves as a gentle reminder to keep your lips sealed, it encourages nasal breathing and maintains your mewing posture throughout the night. It is quite simple, but very effective. If you don’t have any trouble with mewing while you sleep, you might not need these.
Also, don’t overlook the effectiveness of nasal strips. They can clear nasal passages, facilitate much easier airway flow through the nose, and make sure your mewing streak is UNINTERRUPTED.
TLDR:
– Cold room
– Side/black sleeping
– IBT
– Mouth taping
– Nasal Strips