Think you've been yawning properly your whole life? Think again. You could be getting much more out of it, says Gwyneth Paltrow.
The latest post on Paltrow's lifestyle blog, Goop, explains the best way to yawn (and you thought it was an automatic reflex).
First she taught us how to boil an egg, then she explained her break up from Chris Martin , coining the phrase that enthralled the internet: ‘conscious uncoupling’. Now, she’s teaching us how to yawn.
According to Goop, yawning is ‘a very important mechanism for releasing stress’. This advice comes from Paltrow’s dinner partner and yogi Michael Lear. Paltrow explains how at her last dinner with the yoga master he encouraged his guests to yawn publicly: “Really give into it, as it’s the body’s primary way to release and stretch the jaw and neck muscles after a long day of work and conversation.”
