This process can tire you out

Why does it tire you out? Is that a good or bad thing?

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I estimate that over 3000 people have bought a Reviv mouthguard at this point. And over 900 folks are in our Skool community exchanging their thoughts and experiences freely.

Progress is being made on all kinds of things…. chronic pain, TMJ, sleep apnea, postural issues, neurological diseases, ADHD, and on and on.

It’s like seeing your vision come together.

Over ten years of:

• suffering and going in circles and feeling like I wasn’t in control of my life.

• getting the runaround from lots of various dentists.

• getting told I was crazy or full of shit.

And now it’s like all of that is starting to feel like it was worth it. Like it’s going to contribute to some very positive change in the world.

Additionally it is giving me some extremely valuable data on how others experience the whole thing. Because I had only a handful of longer-term data points all these years (me, my son and my wife).

And now i’m starting to have a LOT more. And i’m learning from it.

Today i want to talk about the fact that this process can tire you out.

What do I mean by it can ‘tire you out’?

Some of you might be thinking “But wait a minute Ken… I thought you said this process gives us amazing amounts of energy and productivity?”

And you would be right, but there is another side to the story.

I can pretty much put myself to sleep at will with my stretches.

If I do my jaw-body stretch cycle for long enough (usually 20-30 minutes) I can often make myself tired enough that I want to take a power nap.

But then after shutting my eyes for 10-20 minutes I feel very well rested as if it’s a new day. Plus when I sleep the body feels like it ‘absorbs’ the stretch and i’ll wake up with lines on my face or my body.

I interpret it as the body ‘inflating’ while i sleep and bones repositioning outwards to a healthier position.

The drowsiness that overcomes you is very very powerful. Coffee does almost nothing against it in my experience.

Sometimes when i’m driving I’ll be doing my stretches and then have to pull off to the side of the road for a powernap. As I know it’s just dangerous to try and fight through it while driving.

I evolved from headaches to tiring myself out

It’s important to note that a year ago when I did my stretches I typically got less tired but gave myself a mild headache.

Now i rarely get the headaches. It is as if my brain has inflated enough and so it doesn’t react with headaches to the releasing of compression on it.

So if you’re not getting tired but are getting some headaches then there’s a chance you will eventually graduate to getting tired instead.

Or perhaps not.

I have a feeling everyone experiences this recovery process a bit differently.

And that is definitely what i’m seeing right now when I read through journals. Yes some of the same patterns are there but everyone has their own twist to it.

What if you’re not getting tired or headaches?

This does not mean you are not progressing.

Perhaps you’re still early in the process.

Or perhaps you started with far less issues than I did.

Or perhaps you’re just not very good at the jaw-body stretch cycle yet and so you don’t make yourself very tired yet.

In essence I think there are a lot of variables so don’t worry about it too much.

Why does it tire you out?

I do not have a scientific explanation. Rather I only have an intuitive one based on what I feel.

To me it feels like you’re building up pressure in the body with the stretch that the mouthguard and stretches impose… and then at some point the body ingests it and tries to correct itself.

And this correction process takes a lot of the body’s energy.

It’s almost like server maintenance downtime in the software world. The body needs 20-30 minutes of downtime where it essentially shuts itself down so that it can reboot stronger and healthier.

Closing thoughts

A number of people have written me saying that they were at times very fatigued and were questioning whether it was perhaps a setback.

So i’m writing this post to say that it is not. It is normal.

But this process is NOT LINEAR.

It is a weird ride. You will question it at times. I know I did.

But for this reason you need to look at your progress from the vantage point of longer intervals. For example by the week or by the month.

Do you feel or function better this month than last month?

Over these longer periods my experience is that this process is consistently pretty steady progress. And over even longer periods of time you realize just how amazing it is.

So stick it out…. I think you will be very happy you did.