Just as a hunched posture pulls the shoulders down and can change our appearance both momentarily and permanently; Language can also pull the bones of our face downwards. For this reason, if you care about the shape of your face, you should also care about the position you place your tongue.
Let’s see what we can do by just using our tongue if we want to make our face shape more attractive without needing surgery.
The correct position of the tongue can affect our facial expression.
Let’s give it a try. With your mouth completely closed, your teeth slowly touching each other, breathe in through your nose and lean your tongue against your palate. Now you have positioned your language correctly.
Language in this form; It defies the scales of gravity on the chin and cheeks and lifts the drooping or splayed appearance on the face. In short, although we see it as a worthless muscle, our language actually has a large and effective muscle.
Our skull does not consist of a single fixed bone.
The skull bones contain fibrous joints that are allowed to be repositioned over time. The bones of your upper teeth, nose and cheeks are attached to the skull with these fibers. When the tongue is placed on the palate, the weight of the tongue pushes the upper jaw towards the upper jaw. Teeth, nose and cheekbones; is held against gravity.
Pushing the upper jaw upward in this way not only raises the cheekbones, but also makes the face have clearer lines. In other words, since sharp cheekbones and aligned faces are more associated with beauty, the position of the tongue is in contact with the attractiveness of our face.
According to YouTuber Astro Sky, he started paying attention to back and tongue position from the age of 16, and 6 years later he looked like the one on the right:
The position of the tongue also has other benefits.
Breathing by closing our mouth allows us to breathe through our nose. Thus, oxygen levels and memory condensation increase. Of course, clogged sinuses or an irritated nose can force mouth breathing.
So, will it have any effect if we start doing this now?
If you are under 40, yes. The fibers in our skull do not close until the age of 40. Therefore, as we get older, it becomes more difficult to adjust the appropriate tongue position and have a more bony face shape. Even if you are under this age, if you want to see obvious changes on your face, you need to stay like that for an average of 8 hours a day for a few years.
Actually, it is not difficult once you get used to it. For example, until you reached the end of this article, did you put your tongue in a different place than the one we had it in the first place? Frankly, as the author of the content, I have been keeping my tongue on my palate since I started writing…
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