The body & skull have the physics of a balloon
Meaning it stretches and inflates as you recover
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A lot of new Reviv-ers write to us and ask whether it is a problem that they cannot close their mouth with the mouthguard in.
They often think it is a sizing issue.
But in my view it is rarely ever a sizing issue.
Rather it is a stretching issue.
You see the mouthguard is acting like a doorjam that prevents the jaw from closing and this forces the tissue surrounding the jaw & skull to stretch.
And it is by stretching that the skull inflates.
So you just need to keep wearing the mouthguard and stretching things out until finally you can close your mouth comfortably with it in.
And then you just keep wearing it so that all of the rest of the body stretches out to its correct form.
Kind of like when you’re inflating a really big balloon.
This game is all about stretching
The physics of how this whole biomechanical process works has always boiled down to stretching for me.
I don’t see any other physics at play to be honest.
Press on a tooth directly it will move out of position and you will tip your teeth. The ALF appliance is a great example of this.
Press on a bone directly (eg. with expanders) and you will just derange the other bones.
No.. you need to work via the soft tissue. And there is only one type of physics that effectively operates on this soft tissue in my experience. And that is stretching it.
Literally everything I’ve seen on my body and skull over the years supports this.
When I do my stretches it builds pressure in the skull and then the skull decompresses by expanding outwards. How do i know?
Well i see lines that appear on the body and sometimes the face as if it has stretched.
I see that my old shoes no longer fit because my feet have gotten too wide.
I had to cut off my wedding ring a year or so back because it had gotten too tight to take off.
The scalp stretches and flakes regularly as if it was stretched
The complexion of my face remains youthful effortlessly because the skin of my face is constantly being stretched.. often to the point of breaking and flaking.
etc.
Everything points to stretching.
When you’re on the wrong side of biomechanics you ‘deflate’
Basically i’m saying that the opposite of stretching happens when you have the biomechanics wrong.
How do you get the biomechanics wrong? Well take your pick… orthodontics, grinding your teeth, extractions, etc.
And of course aging. But I hate saying ‘aging’ as I don’t think it exists in reality.. rather I think the main reason we age is because we grind down our teeth and things collapse in over time.
So then what happens? Well the soft tissue deflates almost like a deflating balloon.
Just look at the faces of older people. It starts to look a bit like a raisin.
But it also does something similar to your body. Think of it like a fully body wetsuit that can deflate and crush your body. That is to me one of the best visuals for how to imagine what happens as you age.
Knowing the physics works like a balloon is very powerful information
Once you buy into the fact that the physics works like a balloon as I’ve described above you can conclude many things based on logic alone.
For example:
Plastic surgery is unlikely to hold up well over time because regardless of whether you inflate or deflate… you will mess it up.
Forcing bones to move is a bad idea. Because bones and muscles should only move or change based on either inflating or deflating. Do it unnaturally and it will revert back to where the skull and body want it in time.
Diet and exercise will play a minor role as it does not directly influence this inflating and deflating.
Aging perhaps does not really exist. Rather what we call ‘aging’ is just this deflating effect that can be halted and even reversed.
Think about what else you can conclude once you accept that the only physics are this inflating and deflating biomechanical effect.
It changes everything we think and understand about the human body.
Closing thoughts
Today I want you to drive home the point that the physics we are using in this biomechanical journey is ‘stretching’.
Correcting the body is never about putting direct force.
It is never, in my opinion, about forcing it to go into the shape that you want. Which is why people that do this will often end up having aged themselves much faster.
Rather you just keep sticking to the basic rules and in my experience so far… pretty much everything fixes. Physical stuff, mental stuff, neurological stuff.
It sounds crazy in its simplicity.
But maybe… we were foolish to think it had to be so complex to begin with?
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Hey Ken, really great site you have here, I thought i'd share a few thoughts wrt your biomechanical model of collapse
So 2 months ago, I came across the TRE = Trauma Releasing Exercise, and to summarise, I began to conceptualise the idea of trauma = undischarged tension = happiness. So I conceptualised this model as a way of becoming happier as I realised unhappiness was in fact simply a form of physical tension/contraction/tightness in the body. And then of course, it was quite simple to also extrapolate that physical tension/trauma causes a lot of physical problems.
Your model approaches this from a different perspective of biomechanical structure = physical health = happiness, although your posts are more focused towards physical health and structure
To throw out some thoughts, consider that the 'prior' principle to biomechanical structure (physics) is in fact, metaphysics (spirituality). Why does biomechanical structure degrade? due to wrong metaphysics of stress-tension-struggle. in a chronic state of tension, the physical body goes into a state of tension which is always contraction, constriction, tightness. Thus, your insights on stretching and expansion have in fact come upon the same conclusions. and the opposite of tension is relaxation-surrender-love which always means expansion, relaxation, ease, smoothness, loosening, and in your terms, stretching and inflation.
So perhaps the optimal, direct, and most effective way is to physically relax-stretch-expand-loosen.
But I believe you have discovered a very amazing way to partially 'solve' this issue from a bio-mechanical perspective.
If you consider how physical tension contracts into the body inwards, it seems very difficult to find a way to 'expand' it since the surrounding skin sheaths the body. how do you loosen or open a closed system? You have found the one, accessible way which is through the mouth-jaw. The mouth provides the 'opening' to the closed system to 'expand' the biomechanical structure from within. Furthermore, since it is in center-close proximity to the neck and skull which are arguably the most important and influential parts of the body, biomechanical adjustments to the jaw (and also the neck and skull) have a disproportionate effect on the body. We could even consider the 'jaw' to be the true-center of the head.
(the other opening is through the anus HAHA and I believe that in the future, someone might be able to find a biomechanical-adjustment for lower body problems through the anus)
So I believe you have found the one way to partially 'solve' on the biomechanical level, the issue of aging, healthy and happiness. Your other points on stretching etc are also right on point and in line with TRE.
I haven't read all your posts (only up to feb), but it may interest you that other TRE movements include tremoring, shaking, vocalising, flexing, tensing, although stretching is definitely a very big component of TRE movements.
I say its a partial-solve as I believe the 'complete' solution lies with metaphysics/ spiritual enlightenment- relaxation, love, oneness. But its still a very insightful and helpful model since it is going to be way more accessible and acceptable to people stuck in materialist worldview.
My current practice with TRE is quite simple - I simply focus on my bodymind and allow it to make whatever movements it needs to 'discharge tension' from the system. For myself personally, my right suboccipital is my main source of tension so my body focuses a lot of the TRE movements there, though the movements also move through other spots of tension in the body and include shaking, flexing, tremoring and vocalising. So rather than consciously or deliberately trying to 'stretch' particular spots of tension, I let the bodymind guide the entire process of tension-discharge
Hope this is interesting in some way