First of all I would like to thank Dr Mew for everything.
I've been mewing for 10 months. Which only involves the habit of mantaining a good tongue posture throughout the day, (no force over the roof).
On day 1, (December 31st 2017) I took a video of my whole face on all angles. I just watched it and I confirm noticeable and evident changes have been taken place for good, the moment I started the video I noticed my face being narrower and a little bit "melted" my maxilla has improved by being more wide (no upward or forward projection at least as I can notice)
My jaw also improved, it is more wide, as wide as my cheekbones, I must say my jaw was a little narrower than my chekbones before. Even though I started chewing gum only around 6 months ago (2 hours daily) the jaw seem to grow much more easily. Overall my face looks much better and "solid".
That being said I would like to improve more on my maxilla, I want upward and forward cheekbone growth, and around 2 weeks ago I decided to start experimenting with power mewing which I divide in 2 excercises:
▪ Explosive mewing
▪ Static hard mewing
The first one is a sort of variation of Dr Mew's "tongue gum chewing", as I simply press the roof of the mouth as hard as I can at a rate of 60 pushes per minute, I try to spread my tongue as much as possible trying to use the back of the tongue as far as I can, I almost completely close my air flow. And the static hard mewing is simply mewing but using all your tongue power, again trying to go as back as possible.
So my daily routine is 500 reps of nonstop explosive mewing (10mins) followed by 30mins of static hard mewing. I do this 3 times a day. Which would be around 2hrs of hard work everyday. While I'm doing these (especially the static one) I feel a painy sensation on my inner ears, nose bone and forehead (around the hairline), I hope this will help me, I will be posting in case of results.
I wait for your comments, suggestions, opinions, critisism, similar experiences, etc.
sounds cool man. I hard mew now too and while I am not sure whether or not it increases the rate of facial development from increased tongue pressure alone, it is very likely that such usage of the tongue will make it stronger and larger which means you're going to have more thorough and consistent palatal forces.
also, it's much easier to forget to mew when you're regular (soft) mewing, compared to hard-mewing which becomes immediately apparent when you stop doing it.
I really like the idea of explosive mewing but I would suggest you incorporate an amount of tough gum and maybe work up to to a larger/tougher amount into the exercise. Think weight lifting where you wanna do a range of motion against a strong force in order to build up strength. If you are just explosive mewing against the palate the tongue is not really moving much and thus it is not being broken down as heavily so it can be repaired later on to be stronger.
keep us informed! I will do similar exercises
Since you asked for similar experiences, I thought I would write about my current experiment as it has similarities to yours. The big change is that I have abandoned the intentional upward push and committed to pushing solely forward. When done in an upright head position, cramming the tongue forward will create an upward push anyway (in contrast, when only focusing on the upward push, sufficient forward push may not occur as automatically).
I imagine my mouth as a cave that has to be filled with the tongue, including the areas under the lower incisors and behind the molars. I press my tongue against my upper and lower arch with the force of the whole anterior neck. Another way of picturing this is an attempt of pushing the teeth against the tongue. The skull goes back, the tongue forward. Since I have deep bite, which is kind of opposite of open bite (CW vs CCW premaxillary excess), I'm not afraid of deliberately pushing against the upper and lower front teeth - I trust that pushing against the incisors must resolve the deep bite first before the occlusion could morph further into an open bite. Doing so will also maximize the amount of tongue that can be crammed inside the dental arches.
When done with hard force, this feels INTENSE to the point of being almost unbearable. Top, sides and back of the skull along with the chin and the midface feel pressure, ache and tingling. When I do this, I can't stay still, I have to walk around, which seems similar to Jamo's description about the body wanting to get up and move while mewing hard. Pushing hard seems to generate this kind of nervous tension and energy.
I think in the beginning the maxilla barely moves forward at all. Your inter-molar distance has to first increase and your tongue has to hypertrophy, your posture will improve as well. People claim at higher inter-molar distance maxilla changes are faster.
What do you think the reason could bethat I don't experience these pressure/acheing sensations @progress even if I were to mew as hard as possible or push hard w/ my thumbs. makes me worried that I'm not getting as much out of mewing as you guys
What do you think the reason could bethat I don't experience these pressure/acheing sensations @progress even if I were to mew as hard as possible or push hard w/ my thumbs. makes me worried that I'm not getting as much out of mewing as you guys
I don't experience sensations from thumbpulling or other forceful ways of pulling the maxilla either, only from a certain kind head & tongue posture. Experiment with your tongue. Push hard to one side of the anterior palate. Then do the same on the posterior palate. Expand your tongue against on your ramus and lower molars. Push with flattened tongue. Push with narrowed tongue. Push the tongue forward. Push it backward. Push while tilting head up. Push while tilting head down. Push in chin tuck. Push in forward head posture. And so on. What seems to important in my case is sufficient activation of the underside of the tongue and the soft tissue of the mandible. It kind of feels like pushing tongue through the mandible too.
That being said, I'm not sure if feeling sensations is necessary in order to achieve changes in the first place.
Since you asked for similar experiences, I thought I would write about my current experiment as it has similarities to yours. The big change is that I have abandoned the intentional upward push and committed to pushing solely forward. When done in an upright head position, cramming the tongue forward will create an upward push anyway (in contrast, when only focusing on the upward push, sufficient forward push may not occur as automatically).
I imagine my mouth as a cave that has to be filled with the tongue, including the areas under the lower incisors and behind the molars. I press my tongue against my upper and lower arch with the force of the whole anterior neck. Another way of picturing this is an attempt of pushing the teeth against the tongue. The skull goes back, the tongue forward. Since I have deep bite, which is kind of opposite of open bite (CW vs CCW premaxillary excess), I'm not afraid of deliberately pushing against the upper and lower front teeth - I trust that pushing against the incisors must resolve the deep bite first before the occlusion could morph further into an open bite. Doing so will also maximize the amount of tongue that can be crammed inside the dental arches.
When done with hard force, this feels INTENSE to the point of being almost unbearable. Top, sides and back of the skull along with the chin and the midface feel pressure, ache and tingling. When I do this, I can't stay still, I have to walk around, which seems similar to Jamo's description about the body wanting to get up and move while mewing hard. Pushing hard seems to generate this kind of nervous tension and energy.
Jnteresting, I didn't think about forward pushing, the problem is, I don't wanna use my front teeth as a lever but I'll try to get a good grasp and push forward, good luck
I think in the beginning the maxilla barely moves forward at all. Your inter-molar distance has to first increase and your tongue has to hypertrophy, your posture will improve as well. People claim at higher inter-molar distance maxilla changes are faster.
For real? I hope that's true, I don't care if I have to wait 5 years, I want some forward growth, thanks man
What do you think the reason could bethat I don't experience these pressure/acheing sensations @progress even if I were to mew as hard as possible or push hard w/ my thumbs. makes me worried that I'm not getting as much out of mewing as you guys
I neither seem to feel any maxilla sensations, unless it is shadowed by other steronger sensations? For example in my case my ears hurt quite a bit, my nose bone and forehead, and if my nose bone hurt that must be because my maxilla is pushing it, so maybe you don't have to "feel it" to know it's workong
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