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I was in a similar situation where I quite literally could not mew without not being able to breathe, and all I can say is if you're a teen especially; focus on getting either "reps" or mewing or lower your tongue to the most you can fit while being able to breathe. For me it was uncomfortable and sounded like "darth vader" if I had to describe it, but after around 10/11 months of inconsistent "mewing" and essentially just being aware of my tongue posture and trying to correct it when possible I'm at the point I can mew without it sounding/looking abnormal. Best advice I can give is to just set timers/reminders regularly or if you're at school try to focus on keeping posture in any downtime. If after a year of genuinely trying you might want to consider getting either an expander, MSE, or any other option if you can. Until then you might as well try to figure out mewing and just focus on hardmewing in reps to gain that space. Sorry if this made no sense, feel free to ask if you have any questions, and thanks Ronald for the video.
This comment is gold!!!! Thanks for sharing. Nowadays I have that problem, i can breath a little but i make a strange noise. I have been doing mewing for 3 months and i will do it for everyday :). Your comment gives me motivation!!!
Instead of placing your tongue all the way BACK, Move it slightly foward. Start breathing theough nose again, and have proper neck posture to maximize air flow. Move the tongue slightly foward if you are lacking oral space, EVENTUALLY, you will develope enough space the move the tongue all the way back.
You couldn't breathe like at all or you only had difficulty breathing? Also When I breathe the "thing" between my chin and neck goes a little bit down? When will that go off?
@@janmilovic1097 When I was doing it wrong and essentially backing up my throat I couldn't breathe - once I corrected it I could breathe but as I said, it sounded abnormal almost like darth vader. When you mew the thing between your chin and neck should TIGHTEN not go down, the reason it's going down is because you're incorrectly mewing; you're pushing pressure on the alveolar ridge (the little bump right behind your front teeth). You're putting too much emphasis on the tip of your tongue/front of palate, to get an idea of what's right, swallow with lipseal, hold the ending motion and get used to that feeling. Then once you get used to it, hold that position but drop the back of your tongue a BIT so you aren't blocking your airway. And if that's not enough drop it more until you can breathe (it's ok if it's uncomfortable).
He actually explained this in one of his video's, you can't breathe because pushing your tongue back like that is the same thing you do when you want to swallow. You push back that tissue so that it blocks your airway and you can swallow your food. Now, what you want to do to prevent this is find this fine line where you still can breathe and the root of your tongue is still against this tissue. How you can practice doing this is using one hand to block the nose and try breathing trough your mouth while testing different pressures with your tongue on the back of your mouth. Find that sweet spot where you can breathe... If you want to know if you're mewing correctly, most often you will feel a pressure arise on your cheekbones after a few minutes... Also do different things aside mewing! Correct body/ head posture, face assymetry excercises (before mewing is best), chewing excercises to enlarge your jaw muscles (not too long, could cause pain because of overworking the muscle, 1 hour daily is enough) and doing something sportive to inprove body posture by engaging your body.
Wow ur comment actually helped me. I tried the nose block thing and I’ve been feeling pressure in my cheekbones. So I have been doing it correctly, thank you
You are literally the only guy that explains it thoroughly enough to where I can now do it properly. I always thought that you just hold your tongue on the roof of your mouth but I didn’t realize that you had to put the back of your tongue up on the roof of your mouth as well... thank you for explaining it :)
I'm a teen 16rn nd when ever I mew nd put the back of my tongue to the roof I cant mew nd then when I have to breathe I have to let my tongue go from the roof moreover I got asymmetrical face (ig its cause i mew incorrectly ) so when i breathe the underdeveloped part of my the tongue just comes off so any suggestion about what to do?
Lol I couldn’t breathe at first but for some reason the problem just went away as I carried on doing it only took me a few days for the issue to go away
@@casualk9377 The tratment is called COPA i blelieve, but with a expander. What Copa does is to reposition your bite and the expander expands the upper jaw. it a standart expander i believe nothing crazy. This will correct my bite since i have a bit of a overbite. The doctor told me the expansion will allow my mandible to come foward. It will treat my CMD issue since i have that since childhood. I want to get rid of that first before i try anything else to crazy. I hope its worth it cause it costs me 3 k
I'm a teen 16rn nd when ever I mew nd put the back of my tongue to the roof I cant mew nd then when I have to breathe I have to let my tongue go from the roof moreover I got asymmetrical face (ig its cause i mew incorrectly ) so when i breathe the underdeveloped part of my the tongue just comes off so any suggestion about what to do?
Thank you for giving a no-bs explanation. I just watched a video where the guy basically said, "you're blocking your airway, just don't block your airway"
I feel that it is difficult to know how much tongue I NEED on the roof of my mouth. I have heard about the power and importance of the root of the tongue. It’s difficult for me to tell if I’m just going too much and choking myself, or if I don’t have enough room
I'm a teen 16rn nd when ever I mew nd put the back of my tongue to the roof I cant mew nd then when I have to breathe I have to let my tongue go from the roof moreover I got asymmetrical face (ig its cause i mew incorrectly ) so when i breathe the underdeveloped part of my the tongue just comes off so any suggestion about what to do?
It's only impossible to Mew sustainably in the short-term. Your palate will expand and your airway will expand over time. Eventually it will be sustainable.
It gets better! Do what you can and like with exercise, one day, barring any serious Orthodontic malfunction/malformation, you'll realize you're doing it without thinking about it! I just cam here to make sure I hadn't given myself any bad habits doing that - turns out, that's the way! So stay strong my friend, we'll all have that Angelina jaw ONE day... lol
I'm a teen 16rn nd when ever I mew nd put the back of my tongue to the roof I cant mew nd then when I have to breathe I have to let my tongue go from the roof moreover I got asymmetrical face (ig its cause i mew incorrectly ) so when i breathe the underdeveloped part of my the tongue just comes off so any suggestion about what to do?
When I swallow like you said and have that vacuum I feel like Im sucking my teeth and maxilla in, instead of feeling the tongue pushing and expanding the maxilla
@@AR-ff3fm I found it better to just get used to constantly be pushing slightly with your tongue instead of the vacuum. Im starting to see a little gap between my front teeth and I feel like my face is expanding
@@MrYannick4000 the constant pushing works better. I got the little gap between my teeth and feel less pressure on my head, and more of an expanding feeling. I started breathing better as well
This issue WILL go away after a couple of days of mewing, depends on how poor you facial structure is when you start, it will be hard to mew and breathe at the same time, you will suffer in the beginning but then you’ll adapt and you will be able to do both
you nasal breathe while mewing. "Teeth together, lips together, tongue on the roof of the mouth" When doing exercises I think you can inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth, or maybe it's encouraged to breathe through and out of the nose. @@xxxx-om7tx
You couldn't breathe like at all or you only had difficulty breathing? Also When you breathe does the "thing" between your chin and neck goes a little bit down?
Man, no offense but I can't quite understand why you keep on working on expanding your palate: you have gaps between your incisors, doesn't that mean you went overboard?
I'm a teen 16rn nd when ever I mew nd put the back of my tongue to the roof I cant mew nd then when I have to breathe I have to let my tongue go from the roof moreover I got asymmetrical face (ig its cause i mew incorrectly ) so when i breathe the underdeveloped part of my the tongue just comes off so any suggestion about what to do?
Thing is. I have a overbite like most people. Nothing crazy. But my chin is still slightly behind my maxilla or rather my mandible is setback slightly. It’s definitely way better now. But my theory now at this point is my maxilla is still rotated clockwise and I need to rotate my maxilla counterclockwise to finally have enough space to have my jaw shift forward. For example if I “jut” my jaw forward where both my front teeth touches. I lose contact with my molars. My chin and jaw looks better but I gain facial height. If I have contact with molars. My chin looks a little worse but my face looks a lot more ideal in terms of height What are your thoughts?
I think you mean orthodontist...And it's really rare that they do expansion in adults, let alone maxilla expansion and not just dental arch expansion. Most will refer you to an orthognathic surgeon for this.
Thank you so much Ron. You explain things incredibly well....such a great communicator. I was about to move forward with AGGA although I felt unsure. I saw your video on that with the new information and warnings. I’m completely grateful to you for sharing this information. Thank you!!!
@@willbrench924 I'm in the same boat as you. I've tried to do it 100% correctly with many tutorials, but I just can't breathe. If I do it halfway I can breathe through, but I stopped doing that since I just don't think the effect is convenient :/
@@rov-0250 no man i think u should keep trying cause I seen people mew that have their chins straight up social distancing from their lips. Put ur tounge halfway and then when that becomes automatic Try experimenting by slowly bringing up the last part (to the point where you can still breathe)
@@rov-0250 bro I think I just did it. Basically you're putting the tounge too far back. You have you move the tounge forward *without it being on your teeth or pushing with the tip of your tounge* . Basically just move the tounge forward just a little bit
good tips, just want to say correct posture helps make space to breath for me, and opening up the airways with qigong/pranayama practise. acupressure under and beside the nose
Hey Ronald, wish you the best. Hope you read this...for the duration you have the expander installed and while your sutures have been disrupted, try hard mewing/regular mewing now...I'm guessing that now is a great time to do this so you can upswing the maxilla since your sutures are now disrupted, sort of like when you were still a child exhibiting growth. Hopefully the changes will be noticeably positive for these next few years.
@@ishmael9435 Yes i did. The secret is to practice it more. The tip is to not to block your airway while doing it. And that takes time/practice and control. Try swallowing all your spit and keep your tongue where it ends up after you swallow it all.
I have crossbite, overcrowding (+ wisdom teeth coming now, ouch), and my tongue sits between my lower and upper teeth cuz I feel my upper teeth are too far back. mewing is basically impossible right now. Help.
It's when lying down trying to sleep where I get it impossible to mew, it's like I'm taking in too much air and not sure when to exhale, creates a pressure so I have to stop, it's ok when up and about during the day
@@morningmaxilla7169 I hope so, thanks, I'll try it again when allergies aren't as bad, although it's hard to see mewing work throughout my sleep cause will probably go back to mouth breathing
@@omgronnny864 sorry, only seeing this now, I dont do it during my sleep unfortunately, I try every now and then but nose always gets blocked and its usually forceful breathing so very difficult to sleep while trying to concentrate Keep trying during the day anyways and use good posture as much as possible
I have a severe overbite. It’s so bad that I can’t even naturally seal my lips without straining them. Not only that but I can’t breath at all when I mew. Is there any hope for me
Andrew Garfield Sorry to hear that, save up I guess? That’s always a goal you can work towards. I have a weak chin and I’m planning on trying to get it fixed too so you’re not alone 🙂
there are some stages when i mew.. I have enough space for my tongue to fit (according to width) but I don't know if it is less according to length, by length I mean from the back of my mouth to front.. now, when I get my tongue up to the extreeeme back, I can't even breathe, when its partially back my breathe makes sound and when it is like not very extreme back, I can breathe while making very very less sound... now please suggest me how should I mew? 🤨
I'm a teen 16rn nd when ever I mew nd put the back of my tongue to the roof I cant mew nd then when I have to breathe I have to let my tongue go from the roof moreover I got asymmetrical face (ig its cause i mew incorrectly ) so when i breathe the underdeveloped part of my the tongue just comes off so any suggestion about what to do?
What the hell I can't breathe at all if I stick my tongue all away back through my throat, but I can stick on the whole roof, I'm 17, that means I can't mew?
i don’t really know how to explain it but i couldn’t breath the first time but then it just kind of happened but like popping the middle but down so it’s kind of a curve i can breath and swallow when i do that and i’m still mewing properly as well
So correct swallowing works how? Should I put spit to the front over and swallow but not completly swallow it (only so the spit in the back of my mouth) to then make a final swallow getting all of the spit finally into the stomach?
i dont realy know how to mew properly but what im doing is sticking by tongue up to the roof of my mouth maybe half of my tongue on the most of the hard pallate but what im hearing from video is that the whole tongue should be on the roof but when i cannot breathe is when i put my other half on the soft pallate
I had a MSE for like a year and a half, but then I had to wear braces and retainers and I feel like my palate is still too small to be able to mew properly
I can't position the tongue against the palate with the back, because of tongue tie. And I can't get a tongue tie release because I have too little forward growth (oral volume). :(
Ive got an IMW of 40-42mm as measured by Dr. Zaghi and Kathy Winslow. I can very easily drive up the back of the tongue and hold it pretty much all day and breathe fine. Do you think I will be able to see expansion?
This is the problem with mewing. Dude , teaching kids some nice habits is already something known. The real problem is most of the people are not even aware that they have bad habits that ruining them over time. Mewing is not something genius.
Yeah my mewing sucks. It was helping for a second. Your situation sounds like my exactly like mine, but my doctor thinks that a splint helps.... it is not. We spent money on something that isnt working. And like, my right cheek muscles are clench, and my left cheek muscles feel over stretched, of that makes sense?? Both sides of my face are clearly uneven and it's so hard doing facial exercises when my muscles aren't being used right. Idk what do to when so specialist near me will help me!
I can breath but i need to do big breaths im a mouth breather maybe its cause its hard for me to breath through the nose i can but i need to do big ones not normal ones
In others video say that if you say a word that end with ING like sing maintain that tongue position on the roof of your mouth but in your vid you need to push up the back part of you tongue dammmn im confuse which one to follow
For me I cannot breathe because my nose is always blocked. That’s why i became a mouth breather to begin with. Is it because of allergies? Sinus issues? Or something else? I’m still trying to figure this out.
@@user-fw5qm9vu4s turns out i had deviated septum after an accident. Discovered it 20 years later & done septoplasty 3 weeks ago. Still recovering but i’m soo excited to start breathing from my nose in the upcoming month or so 😭😭😭
My face is long and thin and exactly like you said, I'm unable to mew properly despite me doing so for around 1 year+. I wasn't sure up until watching your video that I didnt have enough oral volume so that's definitely something to look into. My lower mandible is also severely recessed so I will need a plan of action for that whether it be surgery or otherwise. I just want to be able to breathe through my nose and also get those aesthetics. I also have sleep apnoea too which i suspect is from an underdeveloped maxilla and recessed lower mandible.
I have this problem, but maybe not as extreme as yours. I received slow results cause of my narrow palate, but I can still mew. I was thinking of getting a palate expander, and maybe that’s what you should get.
If you can’t mew like I can’t just place your tongue in between your teeth and press the tip upwards against your top lip. It will make your lips look fuller, bring your chin forward and make your jawline slightly more prominent. Just look in the mirror to see where the tongue placement looks best.
@@patrickfrank2892 Instead of placing your tongue all the way BACK, Move it slightly foward. Start breathing theough nose again, and have proper neck posture to maximize air flow. Move the tongue slightly foward if you are lacking oral space, EVENTUALLY, you will develope enough space the move the tongue all the way back.
Hey Ronald Can mewing fix protruding eyes with oral volume do you mean wide palate and face And last question I have a side of my face with vertically small eyes and it looks great and the other side has smaller cheekbones and a bigger eye should I bout more pressure on the smaller side Sorry I asked lot of questions and thx for your explanation in your vids they are great
There is a guy on insta who had the same problem (if I understood it right) mewingdiaries, look at his older pictures one eye was popping put meanwhile they are both balanced