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You are going to be able to see my face change over the course of this video. It's incredible to watch. So, take note.
You can see that my eyes are puffy. I'm puffy overall, less jawline definition. My features look pulled down. We're going to change all that and I'm going to teach you proper technique on exactly how to do it.
We'll start by pinching the sternocclato mastoid muscle. You can turn your head to make it pop out a bit. And then just bring your head back to center to massage it. And we pinch all along this muscle. It connects to the clavicle and then goes all the way up to the area where it connects to your skull just about under your ear. This is very helpful for reducing puffiness in the face and for lifting non-getic hooded eyes. Do not pinch below the muscle. Just stay on the muscle itself and on the tissue on top and you'll be fine massaging here. Make sure that you get all the way up to the top. This is a very important area. See how it connects up here? My hand kind of covers it when I'm showing, but make sure you get up there. You may have to play around with your hand position like I show here. Make sure you do this on each side and spend more time on the side that feels more tense because that can be a cause of facial asymmetry.
Next, we'll work on our trapezius muscle. Super important. You're going to pinch up that muscle and then you are going to pull forward with the hands to your clavicle after you do a nice pinch. So, just like that. Trapezius tension can contribute to jaw tension. and it keeps you stuck in that cycle and it can shorten the neck which is going to pull down on your lower face.
And now we're going to use shoulder rolls to mobilize the shoulder girdle. That's the entire shoulder area connecting into the clavicle. This is going to free up tension to help your body naturally drain fluids into that point above your collar bones which is a major drainage point for the entire body. So I roll the shoulder up and then back down. And then think about using your midback muscles to really pull that arm down instead of using your upper trapezius muscles to do the movement. This is very helpful for training your body to hold proper posture.
Okay. And I'm already seeing a difference. Are we seeing it? And we haven't even done the facial massage yet.
So I applied glycerin and a moisturizing toner for glide. And we're going to start out working on the jawline. You take the knuckles, one goes underneath the jawbone and one goes on top. And then when you get back to the ear, you twist and go down the neck. We are using medium pressure here which is where you can feel the tissue structures underneath. You feel some tension release. It feels good but you are not pressing in hard or deep. We do not have to force the muscles to yield to us. They're going to be more responsive to medium consistent pressure.
And now just take your hand and massage across your chest. You don't have to have oil or glide here because this area is different from the face. The face is unlike the rest of the body in terms of tissue structure. So you can push across and just free up this area. This also helps with posture.
And now take your knuckles closed and go on the jawbone itself. We're not underneath the jawbone or on top of it. We're on that bone. And when your knuckles reach the area behind your mandible underneath your ear, you push in and vibrate a bit. Once you get back there into that divoted space, just push in and feel the tension release. Especially if you have jaw tension, this is very helpful. And it helps with the position of your mandible. Helps it come forward.
And now we take all four knuckles. We start at the corners of the mouth. We press in with medium pressure again. And we sweep across the lower face. And when you get to the end, you can also vibrate in place and press in a bit just like we did for the other movement. This will help you release tension in the entire lower face.
Okay. So, we're working on the massitor. I know some people teach it like this. I'm not a fan because the massitor is not flat. We want to contour to the massitor. So instead, you take your knuckle and you work in one small area at a time before you move on to the next. And you're naturally going to fit the contours and ridges of the massitor muscle doing this. Also note that I'm keeping my mouth slack just a bit. Play around with what slackness feels good for you. Everybody's a little bit different. And you may also want to jut your jaw forward slightly, a little bit of protraction, because this can take pressure off of the TMJ. And if you find a spot that feels particularly tense, you can stay there and focus on it. I've had a lot of people tell me that this technique was so helpful for their jaw tension.
And now for the eyes, you want to make sure that you go underneath the brows, target those muscles under there, and you sweep in underneath the eyes because there is a drainage point near the nose. So, we're pushing all that fluid towards it. And slow it down a bit because the eye lymph system is very slow moving.
Now, massage in circles all along your hairline. If you have a lot of tension here, then you probably have drooping eyebrows. This area is very connected to the eye area, and we want to keep it loose and mobile. It gets very glued down over time with age. To continue to lift and open the eyes, take your fingertips, you start underneath the brows, and you do these nice shaking, vibrating movements all the way up to the hairline.
And now for our final move. It feels amazing. It's amazing for lifting the face. You're going to open the hands up like a book. out, up and open, training the face to lift out into that V-shaped facial posture.
And here is our final result. So, I know that I feel incredibly better. So much better than the start. Bodies fluctuate every day. That's normal. But my baseline is still so much better than it was years ago before I started this practice. And that's what this is all about. Improving the health of our tissues so that we can look and feel our best from the inside out.