I’m Shocked... This 1-Minute Neck Move Fixes Sagging Jowls! (Do It Daily)

If your face starts to look like this, but you want to have nice and lifted features without plastic surgery or Botox, keep watching today's video. The reason why you notice that your face starts to look more tired or sad, and you yourself don't feel tired or sad, is actually because of the muscles, not because of your skin. So rule number one, leave your skin alone and watch this video until the end. My name is Valeria Veksler, I'm a registered nurse, face fitness expert, and a board-approved provider in manual therapy and body works, and I've been practicing face fitness for more than eight years now, and I'm here to tell you that this one muscle is actually causing you to have droopy skin, jowls, marionette lines, and even neck lines. And this muscle is called platysma. Platysma muscle is actually one of the biggest muscles, and it's called a depressor muscle. And depressor muscle means that it depresses your face down whenever you have certain facial expressions, and because it's a neck muscle, so what it does is it drags your face downwards like this when it's tensed, when it's tight. And who doesn't have posture issues nowadays? Who doesn't scroll their phone 24-7 nowadays? Who doesn't work at the computer a lot? A lot of people who have posture issues that are caused by their devices have tension in their platysma muscle, in their neck muscle, and if you right now are watching this video and you tend to have tightness in your shoulders, pain in your neck, that's probably because your platysma is tight, and not only it contributes to pain, but also it causes your face to age faster. So what we need to target is this one muscle. Once it's relaxed, it starts to stretch, it starts to elongate, and this muscle actually starts at our chest. It extends all the way through our neck until it reaches the area above our jawline. So if you have any issues, aging signs in these areas, most likely it's because of platysma. And in order to stretch this muscle, in order to relax this muscle, we need to do different face fitness practices that I'll teach you in this video. So let's look at facial anatomy and what happens with our face when our platysma is tight. When the muscle is tensed, it starts to shorten, it starts to look smaller in diameter, and it starts to block our blood flow. When our platysma muscle is relaxed, our blood is able to come nicely up towards our face and then down without any restrictions. But when we have tension here, the blood is not able to get freely to our face. And if you notice that you also have dark circles, or pigmentation, or your face starts to look dull, it's not as glowy, or your cheeks are not as pink anymore, that's because there is lack of blood flow. And it's not because you lack blood in your body, it's actually because your muscles are tense, they're tight, and they're blocking blood from reaching your face easily. And our blood is a because with it, it brings nutrients, oxygen, minerals, and all the good hormones that our skin requires to look good, and for us to feel good as well. So in order for us to relax our neck, we need to do face fitness exercises, and I'll show you a couple of them right now. Place your left hand over your left shoulder, place your right hand under your jawline, take an inhale, and on the exhale, lift your chin slowly up towards the right diagonal direction. You'll feel a nice stretch on the left side of your neck, hold this position, and breathe. You can even close your eyes, and notice how the whole left side of your neck starts to stretch, let go of the tension, and relax. Stay here for five more seconds, breathe. Now when you're ready, come back to the center, use your side of index finger, and glide down your neck, and then up, down, and up. Avoid thyroid area, just work on the muscle. Up and down like this, warming up this area, boosting blood flow, lymph flow, and releasing tension. You might have some pain or discomfort while doing this, that just indicates that there is a lot of tension, and that's good that you're doing those exercises. And let's do the same on the opposite side, but before you jump into the other side, check right now how this side is feeling. You can move your head from side to side, you can turn it from side to side, and feel how this side is a lot more released and open compared to the one that we haven't worked on. So let's make it even. Place your right hand over your right shoulder, use your left hand, place it under your jawline, take an inhale, and on the exhale, stretch your chin up towards the left diagonal direction, and hold. Breathe, and notice how this side might feel tighter than the other one. A lot of people who are right-handed have more tension on the right side compared to the left, that's very normal. I would stay longer here, this side is tighter for you. Make sure that you are bringing everything back to symmetry, and then slowly come back to the center, use index finger, and glide up and down your neck to release tension that accumulates here. By the way, if you want to practice a full routine, I'm actually hosting a workshop on Saturday, so I'm inviting you to attend it. It's free for first 500 people, and I'll show a full routine that targets your neck. Stay here for three more seconds, breathe, and then slowly come back to the center. And you can again test it out, and notice how your neck is a lot more open. And now we can also stretch the front part of our neck. You can place your fingertips under the collarbones, you can take an inhale, and on the exhale, you'll stretch your chin up into the sky, and notice how you are relaxing the whole frontal part of your neck. Your whole platysmal muscle starts to relax, elongate, and this helps double chin, this helps neck lines, jowls, helps define jawline. So many benefits of doing those face fitness exercises. Slowly come back to the center, and you can tap yourself under your chin to calm the tissues down. And that's how quickly you can solve the issue of turkey neck, jowls, marionette lines. It's all about how to understand our face from the perspective that no one has told us before, and how to implement proper techniques with proper amount of pressure and proper amount of duration. And that's what I'll be teaching you in the workshop, so please join, because I'll talk in a lot more details about those aging signs. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you again in the next one. Bye!