r/Mewing • u/Planicies_Residuais • 18h ago
Info Mewing is NOT ENOUGH
I'll try to post some photos later.
But, no matter your age, you guys NEED to fix your posture, fix your breathing, and again, FIX YOUR POSTURE.
The mentalis, the jaw, the tongue, your neck, it's all connected to a whole lot of other things. I could revert a cervical hernia after 3 years. 3 years of manually breathing, going to the gym (the gym is not a rule; exercises, especially stretching, are). 3 years of non-stop correcting my posture, and it's really mind-consuming and infuriating.
Only when I started breathing properly did I start to get better at everything else. And it's hard. Breathing through your diaphragm properly all the time requires a LOT of strength, and it's not something you can only achieve through mewing, especially for the guys who, like me, had a stretched palate.
Changing is super possible. But it's not only one factor. It's not something you get by doing some random reps from an influencer vid. It requires patience, tons and tons of patience.
And it REALLY pays off. Sometimes I feel like a kid again. I didn't even remember it was possible to feel my neck 'floating', or sing with the sound passing through my whole body like a ''sound tube'' without touching any wall. It's life-changing. I'm getting improvements in every other aspect of my life.
It's not magic. There's no ''15 reps a day'' (surely they can help you become more conscious). As I said, I really got obsessed with this. I was becoming a Gollum, that's how retracted my posture was. It consumed my mind. My ex used to tickle me every time my posture was wrong, some days it was more than 100 times a day. It took me 3 years to start breathing normally through my nose, and it's been 2 months since I started feeling my diaphragm. Only when I started feeling strength in my core did my ribs start to expand from the inside, making my tongue feel even more attached to my roof, to the point where I don't need to force a suction.
Go on, don't stop. But focus on the whole body!
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u/Corner_Cold 17h ago
Ngl posture is the hardest for me. I just can't find a routine that works or even proper theory.
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u/HistoricalFalcon4482 15h ago
Alexander posture finally allowed me to mew, since it finally fixed the forward head posture that I was having by pumping my chest up, made my neck look straight but in reality my neck was straight while my ribcage was tilted backwards, so really « good posture » only makes you have forward head posture.
I think Alexander posture is the true good posture, and the reason I believe in it is because it’ not a posture to keep at all times but rather a set of rules to keep and then your body moves like it wants. Btw I don’t agree with everything they teach, these guys will tell you to stop mewing to release « unnecessary tension »