Facial Exercises

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Hi there,

I am sorry for a very delayed reply on the description of facial

exercises that was sought by a few people on board quite a while ago. I

was busy moving from Utah to Illinois.

Please find below a description of the exercises.

BTW, anybody from Illinois here?

Gai

 

Kundaliniyoga, Gayathri Narayanan <gaia3_71>

wrote: attention?). In case you didn't know I have a major hearing

deficit, so this last one is interesting to say the least.

 

Leo,

 

I thought about a very simple set of facial exercises to increase blood

flow to the facial region, including the ears. It should, therefore,

potentially help in improving hearing. You might want to try the

exercises. The steps go like this.

 

Step 1: Raise both your eyebrows as high as you can slooowly ( as you

are physically lifting the brain when doing this ). You should feel

stretching in the scalp, and the top of the eyes, increasing blood flow

in these regions.

 

Step 2: Widen your eyes as much as you can. You should feel some stretch

below the eyes and some stretching in the ear.

 

Step 3: Open your mouth wide, and drop the jaws down as much as

possible. This should stretch the ears further, and the cheeks and the

jaw line.

 

Step 4: Now, cover your teeth rows with the lips. This should intensify

the stretch in the ears, cheeks, and jaws, besides stretching the

nostrils (clearing sinuses ).

 

Step 5: Shift the mouth/jaw line from left to right.

 

This will further intensify the facial stretches on the left side,

besides stretching the sides of the chin and neck.

 

Now, hold the above stretches combinedly for 5 breaths

 

( DO NOT HOLD THE BREATH, BUT HOLD THE STRETCH ). Breath in and out

sloooowly and deeply for 5 breaths (that should be about 20-60 seconds,

depending on the rate of your breathing ). For any stretch to be

optimally effective, it should be held for 20-60 seconds. If you hold

the stretch for too long, you overbias the stretch in that region and

the skin loses its elasticity. Then, do the above steps, and finally

shift the mouth/jaw from right to left. And, hold this for 5 breaths.

 

You can then do another similar set.

 

Step 1: Shut both your eyes as tightly as you can. This will

counter-stretch the lifting-of-eyebrow- stretch, and create a balance).

Step 2: Pout your lips, and then move them from left to right

(Counter-stretch to the wide-open jaw).

 

Hold the stretch for 5 breaths. And, then repeat the above steps, and

shift the lips from right to left for 5 breaths.

Wherever there is a stretch, there is increased blood flow, as the

stretch dilates the blood vessels.

Wherever there is improved blood flow, things work better. And, the

above steps can certainly help in increasing the blood flow to the

facial region. I am not sure how you are going to feel while doing the

above set of exercises, but stretch to the point of slight discomfort

and not pain. They are simple stretches, and you can try them anytime

and anyhow (sitting, standing, lying down). With daily practise, it

should ease up things progressively. Please try them, and let me know

how it goes.

 

gai