Should Tongue Rest/ Touch at the Palate/ Maxilla/ Roof of the Mouth By Dr Mike Mew

0:01 getting your tongue up on the roof of your mouth particularly that back that posterior third of the tongue is incredibly difficult and I've made some videos of that and I've described it to people but people are still struggling to do it and it's really I think that most people who listen to me about putting the tongue on the roof of the mouth they're doing this they're walking around with the tip of their tongue on the roof of the mouth but without trying to get the whole of the back of that tongue this posterior third of the tongue here onto the roof of the mouth well then you probably don't put the rest of your tongue on the roof of the mouth and then you're not going to drive your max up and forwards and that is the most important thing because not only does it drive your maxel up and forward

0:49 but it's acting as an anterior support the head support the reason we're all walking around with our heads like this as we're missing that support to help hold our heads upwards that's supposed to be coming from this organ here that's sitting on the hyid that's strapped down from the center of the um axis and it's helping hold the whole facial structure upwards now for most people if you get the posterior third of the tongue properly up on the roof of the mouth you're going to find that back of the tongue is pushing into your Airway for most people faces are down and back even from this nice but modern

1:35 image so by the time you've got the whole volume of your tongue back into correctly the right place you're going to be pushing your soft pallet and the back third of your tongue into your Airway and temporarily while you're achieving this and driving the maxilla forwards is going to feel uncomfortable and sometimes when I am doing that I do a test to myself and the test to myself is if I hold a breath so I go and I can't push out because what I've done is I've moved the soft pallet across onto the back of the naso farings and if I push the soft pet this soft pallet here back on the nof Farin then I

2:21 can't breathe out so yeah that stops me breathing out completely and that's how we can all hold our breath now getting the post Ste a third of the tongue up onto the soft pallet and holding your breath in that way is very very similar the difference between the two is small and one good exercise is to flip back between these two and I think that the sections of muscle that do one or the other may be slightly inappropriately programmed because we've never used them properly and because obviously the muscles have adap Ed and changed to an inappropriate situation and architecture an inappropriate structure so it's

3:07 really important to work out the difference between that two identify it work on it feel that posterior third of the tongue I think that posterior third of the tongue really wants to be working on the soft pallette like a trampoline the posterior third pushing up holding the whole of the maxilla up and holding your whole head up use that with the me push swallow to keep you upright work hard and good luck