2.5 My Own Failed Attempt at Hard Mewing

This is Chapter 2.5 of the JawHacks ebook. See the full Table of Contents here.

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Can Mewing Grow Bone in Adults?

I discovered Mewing in 2014 at age 24. At that time I was living at a Buddhist monastery near San Diego, CA.

In fact, I had begun researching tongue posture and palate expansion because during meditation practice I had realized that my mouth was too small for my tongue.

In the Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta, the Buddha teaches that a monk should meditate with “his teeth clenched and his tongue pressed against the palate.” [src]

From Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta (MN 20). Source: Access to Insight

While some take this instruction to be a figurative reference to meditating with intensity, I took it literally.