How to Stop Grinding Teeth at Night And Clenching Jaw (Naturally)

Simple way to stop grinding your teeth that doesn't require a mouth guard.

How to stop grinding your teeth and clenching your jaw from anxiety.

In this video I'll share a process I went through to stop grinding my teeth at night. I didn't figure it all out at once, it came bit by bit, but now I can confidently say I haven't grinded my teeth in months.

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Alright how to stop grinding your teeth at night.

Around 8-9 months ago I went to the dentist for a regular cleaning.

And I'll never forget the dental hygienist, because I really learned a lot from her that day. Her name was mary rose.

As she was polishing and cleaning my teeth, she asked me "Do you grind your teeth at night?"

I said, "I'm not sure, but I probably do."

Then she said, "Do you ever wake up with headaches?"

I said, "Yes."

She said, "Yeah that's from clenching your jaw in your sleep. It puts pressure on your head and creates headaches."

I said "You know, I catch myself clenching my jaw during the day sometimes."

She said, "If you're clenching your jaw during the day, you're definitely grinding your teeth at night."

Then she said it's from anxiety.

And I was thankful for what I just learned.

If I could stop clenching my jaw during the day, I would stop grinding my teeth at night.

I was just in the habit of bearing down and clenching my jaw, and the habit was leaking into my sleep.

So if I could break the habit clenching my jaw during the day, I would stop grinding my teeth damaging them every night.

So what I started to do, throughout the day if I noticed my jaw was clenched, I would first relax my jaw and shoulders, then I would take 5-6 slow, deep breaths.

And this alone gave me a huge improvement. Before this I was waking up with a headache around 4 times a week, this alone brought it down to 2.
I was able to cut it down even more when I added a breathing exercise to by bedtime routine.

About 30 minutes before going to sleep, I would do the 4-8 breathing exercise for about 10 minutes.

The way you do it is you breathe in for 4 seconds, and out for 8 seconds. This calms your body down, and gets your nervous system ready for sleep. I have a video on it, I'll put a link down below.

Doing this before bed, I was to down to just one night per week of grinding my teeth and waking up with a headache.

Over the next few weeks, I tried to become aware of why some nights I grinded my teeth, but not others.

And what I found out was if I had a panic attack during the day, I would grind my teeth at night. It didn't matter how relaxed I got before bed. If at any point during the day I let myself go into full panic, even just for a few seconds, I would grind my teeth at night.

By this point I had come a long way in my anxiety journey. A few months before this, I was having 5-10 panic attacks a day. Being down to 1 per week felt amazing, but even one per week was causing problems. I'd get poor sleep, wake up with headaches, feel irritable, and it was a slippery slope back to high anxiety.

That was until I learned how to take control of my physiology and my emotions by doing a breathing exercise 3 times per day.
I would do it first thing in the morning. After lunch, and after the work day. I would even do in the car to and from work.

And after a few weeks of making this a daily practice, I noticed that I couldn't remember the last time I felt panic.

And as the weeks and months went by, I never woke up with a headache. And I stopped grinding my teeth.

And it came with a million other benefits as well like clearheadedness, and inner balance.

If you want to learn the breathing exercise that I used to stop grinding my teeth and feeling high anxiety,

You can download my ebook, it's called breathing secrets.

It'll teach the 6 secrets to conquer anxiety doing the one thing you do naturally, which is breathing.

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[kjc]

Wow this is the only video that actually told me to manage my anxiety and emotions and mental health basically instead of just wearing my night guard! Thank you!

[jacquelineduarte]

I clench my jaw a lot and I don’t even notice I’m doing it until I start to feel nauseous (I get nauseous from anxiety)

[LutonDiscovered]

Whenever I grind my teeth at night, they feel weird and wobbly in the morning but are fine throughout the day

[xdzc]

I’ve been having toothaches all day long, jaw pain, and ear pain, and it said I might be grinding my teeth, I really hope this helps

[itspaintosee]

Just from watching this, imma subscribe.

I have constant headaches and I'm hopeful your videos will help me overcome them

[eeg]

One of the best videos I've watched on how to stop grinding your teeth naturally. Reminds me of the wim hof method. Have you heard of him? so yea I guess breathing exercises have loads of benefits. Now I really have to discipline myself in doing this.

[kimberlyhoward]

Thank you I just figured this out was having temple pain, headache in morning, and I would find myself clinching my jaws, my dentist also told me. I’m home sick, just lost my dog and this coronavirus is crazy, I had to be tested and waiting and this week has been stressful. Thank you so much for this I caught myself 4 times clenching my jaw today, it’s crazy.

[jeananderson]

Great tips!! You described my symptoms exactly. While searching for help, I came across your video and plan to apply it immediately. Thank you!😍

[Rollwithit]

I've taught myself to stop clenching during day, but over years it has worsened at night. 99.9% molars are now crowned and I've cracked several crowns too. I always wear a night guard and break through even the thicker flexible ones in a month or two. Face and neck aches causing headaches I wake up with every morning and only Imitrex makes them better. Neck muscles and traps are extremely tight. So wish I could stop clenching.

[brendanberney]

It's hard not to clench my jaw even if I'm actively trying not to. For some reason I really like the physical sensation of grinding my teeth together and feeling the "softness" of my teeth, if that makes sense.

[tradingwithwill]

I recently started getting tingling nerve sensations around my eyebrow and temple/ear area. I was hoping it was TMJ but my coronoid process is above my condyle bone as part of my earlier bone development (which is not how most people are d]structured anatomically) and possibly from ongoing wear and tear from chewing food and grinding at night. I used a bite plane for my teeth but the specialist says it doesn’t help this issue and is too hard and thick. So my only hope right now is using vitamin d and calcium etc to hope the condyle bone hardens and doesn’t reduce any more. It is quite distressing. I hope anyone else with this issue will check out their X-rays from the dentist and see an oral pathologist if they get similar symptoms.

[pineapplesun]

This was useful video. Thank you. I grind my teeth and this cracked my 7 th molar vertically. I shall try these techniques.

[johntheo]

Thx for vid. As someone who dealt with anxiety make sure you’re right with God and look into supplements. Many people are low on vit D. Now if only I can stop grinding.

[sop.]

Its was helpfull 🌼 thanks for your good job ❤️🌷

[whapakkouch]

I've had constant headaches for 2 weeks now and I realized that I've been clenching my jaw throughout the day, so now I consciously try to avoid it. I hope the headaches would stop.

[rafaelnuma]

what does a clenched jaw look like? How do I know if it’s clenched versus a normal resting position

[traumatizedbysmile]

My mom’s jaw was locked when she was young because of this but now im doing it and i also kept on biting my gums. Blood came out and i was scared to grind my teeth and clench my jaw.

[OzmaOfOzz]

I'm gonna try wearing my mouth guard during the day too, especially since I work from home 95% of the time.
I wonder if CBD could help.

[lilycampbell]

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I realize I’m grinding my teeth I do not know how to stop that I really don’t clinch my jaw During the day that I realize but I noticed my teeth getting smaller I really want to buy a mouthguard or something but my mom won’t let me if there’s any home remedies please reply also to the creator of this video did you ever have dreams that include you grinding your teeth it’s scary and I wake up in the morning thinking about it I hate grinding my teeth and I want to stop prayers will be taken God loves you all and he always will small teeth or not from lillie

[agee]

ive been grinding my teeth all day for around six months, its driving me insane