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Re: New Gum Chewing Technique by Mike Mew
DIR By: Progress
Date: June 3, 2017, 3:42 am
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> [quote author=Progress link=topic=274.msg2164#msg2164
date=1496349710]
> Does it seem to you like Mew's face has become slightly fuller
recently? He must be doing something right.
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> On a related note, the underside of the tongue, what do you do
with it? I used to only pay attention to the top side of the
tongue being against the palate, but recently with all the
postural improvements, I noticed that I've started pushing and
expanding the underside of the tongue against the chin and the
sides of the mandible while maintaining the regular tongue
posture.
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> This seems to make the tongue posture and the whole head much
more stable and activates the muscles on the frontside of the
neck in a very similar way than the exercise in the video does.
Perhaps there's some kind of relationship between these
observations, I don't know.
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For me, the underside of the tongue is raised up? My tongue
isn't flat from a narrow palette - and it's up higher so it's
just pushing...
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I know what you mean, that is what I've been doing mostly too.
But it doesn't feel as natural any more. If I place a hand under
my chin I can feel the tongue activate and push against the
inner wall of the chin. I wonder if this is the actual lower
jaw-expanding aspect when a growin child is mewing, or if I'm
just leading myself astray.
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> I feel this exercise in the muscles on the back of my head at
the top of my neck. It is as though tucking my chin and
squishing the gum by pushing up with my tongue, especially the
posterior 1/3 of my tongue, is opposed by these muscles at the
back of my head which might typically be contracted in a forward
head posture.
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Based on my n=1 experience, that means there's still progress to
be made in terms of unlocking the head and shoulder posture. At
this point my head is held and moved mostly by the muscles on
the front and the side of the neck, while the back of the neck
serves as a light support. Pulling your shoulders back and wide
and chest frontward seems to aid in not having to use too much
of the back of the neck. Stressing a muscle makes it harder to
lengthen it, you most likely only have to lengthen the back of
the neck/head, and strengthen the front neck.
#Post#: 2179--------------------------------------------------
Re: New Gum Chewing Technique by Mike Mew
DIR By: reenochrobinson
Date: June 3, 2017, 3:37 pm
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I did the tongue gum smashing exercise last night and my tongue
was still a little fatigued at breakfast this morning. I guess
that's a sign it's working.
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> Based on my n=1 experience, that means there's still progress
to be made in terms of unlocking the head and shoulder posture.
At this point my head is held and moved mostly by the muscles on
the front and the side of the neck, while the back of the neck
serves as a light support. Pulling your shoulders back and wide
and chest frontward seems to aid in not having to use too much
of the back of the neck. Stressing a muscle makes it harder to
lengthen it, you most likely only have to lengthen the back of
the neck/head, and strengthen the front neck.
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I'm sure I need to improve my body posture, but it hasn't been
my focus. Do you have any suggestions for where to start with
this?
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Re: New Gum Chewing Technique by Mike Mew
DIR By: Progress
Date: June 4, 2017, 6:02 am
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--- Quote from: reenochrobinson link ---
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> I'm sure I need to improve my body posture, but it hasn't been
my focus. Do you have any suggestions for where to start with
this?
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It's difficult to give clear steps that are applicable for
everyone because the exact way your body is unbalanced depends
on the weakest links in your postural chain and how the rest of
the musculature is compensating for them.
However, typical problem areas where muscles are not activating
in a balanced manner are: neck and shoulder area, hip & groin
area and the pronation of feet. Your feet, hips, shoulders and
head should be aligned in one straight line. If you're spent
years sloughing, a lot of forceful stretching needs to be done
daily. I stand in front of the mirror and try to "see and feel"
my way into a better posture by making corrections based on how
my reflection looks and how my body feels.
Breath is also a good guide. If you try to take deep breath into
your lungs and simultaneously kind of fight against the
breathing with every muscle in your torso, including the back
(basically all the musculature around the lungs), you start to
get a feel for the various core muscles that are supposed to be
supporting the body all the time.
All in all it's a very intuitively done way and if you're low in
such intuition I'm afraid this is not very helpful. For me it
was easiest to just get my hands dirty by flexing and stretching
muscles and figuring out how mechanics of the musculature are
intended to work. Smoking a bit of sativa helped in creating a
better mind-muscle connection too.
It takes perhaps 1-2 months of almost daily work to reach an
anatomically optimal posture and train your nervous system to
remember that.
I don't remember if I've posted this already but here is how I
used to stand before improving posture vs how I stood a couple
of weeks in. Notice how much forward the hip area has come (as a
result stomach and butt don't stick out so much).
HTML https://s11.postimg.org/8kxx5un2b/20170528_142353.jpg
Good posture also improves blood flow to the testes, which can
make you feel and act more manly.
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Re: New Gum Chewing Technique by Mike Mew
DIR By: reenochrobinson
Date: June 4, 2017, 9:44 pm
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--- Quote from: Progress link ---
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> Notice how much forward the hip area has come (as a result
stomach and butt don't stick out so much).
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I definitely need to work on my anterior pelvic tilt. I'm not as
intuitive about these matters as you are, so I guess I'll
research some stretches and exercises, but your pictures and
story are encouraging. Thanks!
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