I feel that my tongue is producing great force, but as with all things that take time I am beseiged with doubt. Is the tongue enough to produce results, or does one need to facepull/use a palate expander. What are your opinions? As anyone seen results with mewing and NCR together?
I'm in the process of attempting to produce structural changes without using anything else than the body's own anatomical function. Like you, I've achived SOME palatal expansion with the tongue, so the real question is: are significant results achievable without appliances and devices? It should be. I strongly believe so. I've been in contact with people who claim to have experienced improved skeletal symmetry and structure after getting the whole body into anatomical & functional harmony and alignment by fixing postural imbalances. While there's no way to know if these people are telling the truth, what they talk about
makes sense. In a sense, the skeleton adapts to the forces generated by the surrounding musculature. Having lacking range of motion anywhere in the posterior or anterior chain forces the skeleton into positions that aren't "neutral", meaning that the body can't and doesn't neutralize its own pull against itself (kind of like pushing a fragile tower with equal forces from opposing sides results in zero movement). A straight body stands effortlessly and gracefully just by keeping the correct muscles active, whereas a body with limited range of motion has to forcibly fight against the pull of gravity. So the postural chain has to compensate in some way. And then this compensation has to be compensated in another way and so on. Eventually you get a posture that is imbalanced all the way from the head to the toes.
In other words, everything has to work in unison, because one weak link will compromise the function of the whole chain. The tongue is only one link in chain. In fact, I will go as far as saying that awareness of the tongue is IRRELEVANT when everything else is about your posture is working well. If you feel like you NEED to focus on the tongue in order to maintain the tongue posture, the actual problem lies somewhere else, like tight hips or forward head.
Likewise, if you suddenly stop achieving results, there's probably tightness somewhere in the postural chain that is preventing further progress. A loose and relaxed musculature leads to less resistance.
To end with a question: Are you able to feel the lower wings of the sphenoid bone above your soft palate, behind the hard palate / wisdom teeth? Would you say that your tongue pushes against these wings during mewing, or solely against the hard palate?
If I have progress, this forum will hear about it
Wish you the best and looking forward to hearing from you.
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