Can Anti-Snore Exercises Really Stop Snoring?
If you and your spouse suffer from horrible snoring, You are not alone. 23% of couples suffer seriously from this terrible condition. The problem isn't just the irritation of staying awake the whole night or waking up from a spouse's elbow over and over again. Not getting enough rest is simply life threatening.
Losing your focus in heavy traffic during the day can be life threatening. If you are distracted for only a few seconds, you could easily wind up in a terrific accident. Another way loss of sleep can affect you is when your emotional and physical well being are out of balance. The result could be heart attack, nervous breakdown or stroke for example.
Don't go blaming your partner or yourself. I'm sure you've tried many things to reduce the snoring but nothing was totally effective. Many people have had dangerous, expensive surgery with no positive result. Some were even worse off after the surgery.
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 can't 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 can be very difficult regardless of the fact that there is only one cause. This is because the blockages vary so widely and to top it all off, many people have more than one type of block causing their snoring.
Here are just few examples of what can cause your snoring:
1) Weak tongue falling into the throat blocking it. If you sleep on your back this is very common and it can also happen when sleeping sideways.
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) Additionally the soft palate may be too weak and will lay too close to the tongue. This makes it very easy for it to flap around and make those horrendous 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.
So How Can You Get Rid of the Blocks That Cause Your Snoring ?
It appears to be common sense. It is possible to train this part of your body much like you do any other part. Kind of like taking the breathing passages to the gym. With a few simple exercises focused on the area in and around the throat, you can relieve any block you may have. It doesn't matter what is causing your snoring the beautiful part is that a few simple exercises can solve all your problems.
A stronger, well trained tongue will not drop into your throat when you sleep.
Using the jaw exercises to loosen it up removes tension from it. Don't be surprised at how much easier you breath after a few sessions of the jaw exercises.
To prevent the throat from closing when you are asleep you can do throat exercises which also strengthen and lift the soft palate keeping it from flapping 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 you're ready to give it full blast for two months, you're 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.
I'm looking forward to receiving your success stories. Nothing is more encouraging than opening email and reading how people healed themselves using the exercise programs.
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.
About the Author:
To learn more about these exercises and try some out for FREE, then you can find the exercise programs that have helped so many people to Stop Snoring here... Christian Goodman is the founder of The Stop Snoring Exercise Program which has helped thousands of people to stop snoring without having to undertake dangerous surgery, dental implant or having to buy and use drugs every day.
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