The key to wiggling your ears: Walk like an Egyption!
I wanted to learn Tom Hagerty’s scalp exercises to get the same results he has: no forehead wrinkles, lots of hair with his original hair color. (He is over 74 and still has naturally dark hair!) Previously, I couldn’t even feel the muscles at the back of the head he was talking about. Tonight I tried again and I could almost feel them, but couldn’t feel them enough to have any control over them. Bonus: If you can control those muscles, you can wiggle your ears.
Then I talked to my genius mom:
Me: How’d you do it?
Mom: It helps to look in the mirror at first. When I first started trying to wiggle my ears…
And then I stopped her because, although I knew she could wiggle her ears, it had never occurred to me that at one point she couldn’t wiggle her ears, had wanted to wiggle ears, had made it a goal to do so, and had practiced until she succeeded. !
Me: Wait, wait, WHY did you want to learn how to wiggle your ears?!
Mom: Hmmm… I don’t remember now… but at first I could only just barely see them moving. You know when you move your head out and back like you are an Egyptian?
Me: Yeah
Mom: Well, try and move the front of your face out front while you try and hold the back of your head in place.
Me: Wait… this feels really weird…
And then, wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles, I could squeeze my back scalp muscles together and wiggle my ears.
If you ever need to giggle, try a little wiggle. We were talking on skype and I was very seriously showing her my progress, while she was wiggling her ears too, “Look, look, did you see my ear wiggle!” Then we both started laughing.
The funniest part about this, to me, is imagining my mom looking in the mirror and trying to wiggle her ears, and going about it with the hard working dedication that she applies to most everything. Ahhhh…. funny.
Update 4/15/08: It really works! After just a day of doing the scalp exercise, the horizontal lines in my forehead are significantly reduced! I got those lines young due to my face actually freezing in that expression. :) I hadn’t been able to relax my face consistently enough or do anything else to get rid of them. WOW. This is a truly amazing result, especially after just one day.
I visited the scalp exercises link and was intrigued. I discovered that I can wiggle my ears, quite easily and with a great deal of movement. Funny thing to discover at 39 years old.
I hear a low roar in my ears everytime I flex the muscles to wiggle my ears. From time to time, as a child, I would make the sound in my ears to overcome boredom but did not know that my ears moved in the process.
I can’t wait to show my husband.
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Toonhead, That’s so cool! I never thought about that low roar as having anything to do with wiggling my ears. but I can make that sound too. Cool! :)
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