Break the Matrix

Day 12: I decided to treat both sides today. I still felt more expansion down into the throat and couldn't get that same satisfying outward expansion I had for a few days earlier. Maybe I'm just better aligned after several sessions. At least I'm gagging less, with Improv's thumb trick and being more accustomed to the sensation. I think tomorrow I will try a small finger cot to see if I can better localize to the nasopharynx.

I wonder if you're taking pictures to track your facial progress

I tried to take some pictures on my phone (front and profile), but they aren't the best quality.

It's great to have such a detailed diary from you reenochrobinson. Its helping me improve my technique too! I wish I had started taking photos as soon as I even started mewing, I have a few to show progress but I should have monitored it more closer. I saw on another blog a girl compared her passport photos, I think that's one of the best ways as the lighting and angle is more likely to be the same.

Yea that thought ran through my mind at some point

But figuring how to hang me upside down was too much work so I decided to keep standing

Reenochrobinson are you planning on having any rest days?

Wrap cotton or dental floss around it lots of times really tight

Reenochrobinson are you planning on having any rest days?

I was hoping to go pretty intensively for about a month to build momentum, and then maybe take a break before resuming shorter rounds of consistent treatment, maybe about a week at a time. That being said, my work has been really busy lately, so I've missed a couple days here and there. I missed yesterday, but completed my 14th session today. I decided to try the smallest size finger cot in my assorted box today. It gave a different sensation as I was still able to reach the nasopharynx through every meatus, but the shorter balloon put more pressure toward the front of my face and the sides rather than back into my head or down my throat. I got more shifting sensation through the ethmoid, zygomatic, and maxillary bones as compared to the sphenoid, frontal, and temporal bones that I had been feeling during earlier sessions. This is just my impression, but it seems to me that (once you master the technique) using a variety of finger cot sizes for different sessions might be more effective than using just one to generate tectonic shifts along different fault lines. A medium size is probably best for me but I think I'll use a small or large size occasionally.

Do i then need to tie the floss in a knot or just leave it wrapped around tight?

I tie the finger cot on with a knot on one side of my piece of dental floss then wrap about a dozen times or more and then tie the loose end on to the end sticking out from the first knot. I think the important part is wrapping many times and then securing it. When I first started, I was having trouble with air leaking because I was just tying a couple knots rather than wrapping.