Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Do You Know The Exercises To Stop Snoring?

By Christian Goodman

Is you snoring threatening your life? Well, over 23% of couples suffer from this serious situation. If you aren't being kept awake by your partners snoring, you are repeatedly being jabbed awake by them trying to stop you from snoring. In fact, not getting enough sleep is truly life threatening

It is life threatening for example when you lose your focus in heavy traffic during the day. In our modern world, losing focus for few seconds is a good way to have an accident. Its also life threatening because your whole emotional and physical balance will suffer. Nervous breakdown, stroke, and heart-attack are only three examples.

Neither you nor your partner are to blame. And surely you have attempted some sort of treatment to eliminate the snoring altogether. Hopefully you haven't done like some who have had expensive, dangerous surgery in an attempt to solve the problem only to be worse off afterward.

To be able to cure your snoring, you must know what causes it. Snoring is always caused by some kind of blockage in the breathing passages. When the breathing passage is blocked, the airflow (breathing) becomes irregular, not smoothly flowing like it should be. This irregular airflow slams the soft tissues in your breathing passages around like a door in a wind. Your throat and mouth become like speakers powered by powerful amplifier and your partner cant sleep.

When the soft palate (the soft part of the back of the roof of the mouth) begins to vibrate the noise really gets bad. If the soft palate is weak then the tip of it may bang down on the back of the tongue like a bongo drum. The tongue may at the same time be dropping into your throat further blocking airflow.

Curing snoring is complicated even though there is only one main cause. The reason is because most people have more than one type of blockage causing their snoring.

Your snoring can be caused by some or more of the following:

1) Tongue is weak and falls into the throat blocking it. Very common to those who sleep on their back but may also happen if you sleep on your side.

2) Breathing passages blocked due to pressure from tense jaw muscles. Many dentists try to solve this problem by putting in dental implants. It is far easier to avoid this by loosening and relaxing your jaw muscles.

3) As has already been mentioned, the soft palate is another source of blockage. When weak, it will flap around and make the snoring sound more easily. In most cases, the soft palate is not too big, it is too weak.

4) The Soft palate may be too weak and not firm enough and will lay too close to the tongue, making it very easy to flap around and make the irritating snoring sounds.

5) Finally, anything that builds up in your throat will work as a dam for your breathing passages. The most common dams are fat or cigarette tars in the throat or allergy in the sinuses.

Now you ask how you can get rid of these blocks to relieve your snoring?

It's just common sense, you can train this part of the body just like you do any other part of your body. You know, weight training for the breathing passages. With a few exercises each focused on a specific area around the throat can remove any block you have, no matter what is causing your snoring. It is simply that no matter what is blocking your air passages, the same few exercises will be effective for you.

A stronger, well trained tongue will not drop into your throat when you sleep.

Jaw exercises to remove tension from the jaw muscles will loosen the jaw. It will surprise you how much more easily you will breath once you do the jaw exercises for a few sessions.

The throat exercises open up the throat preventing it from closing when you sleep. Theyll also strengthen and lift up your soft palate, so it wont flap any more.

Its about working smart not hard. You make the choice how many minutes a day you want to train. The minimal time is only three minutes. How long you exercise every day is up to you. You can train for as little as three minutes a day. For quick permanent results, I recommend taking the program that requires ten minutes a day commitment.

It varies a lot between people how quickly the exercises work. It is recommended that you be ready to work the program for two months. The program will most likely stop your snoring quicker than that. But if youre ready to give it full blast for two months, youre guaranteed to cure your self. And you should be ready to commit for about two months to permanently cure your snoring. Although most likely you will have quiet nights long before those two months are up.

Send me your success story. I want to open my email up and find out how you healed yourself using my program.

Snoring has put a great strain on many relationships. some people have resorted to sleeping separately while others have learned to live with it. There may still be some hidden resentment so I hope you give the exercises a try. Please commit to doing the exercises for a couple of weeks and I promise you, you will have many quiet restful nights in the future. - 15438

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