Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 3: Prepare Your Body to Yawn
• Method 2 of 3: Observe People Yawning
• Method 3 of 3: Create the right environment
• Tips
• Warnings

We all yawn, but no one knows why. However, yawning plays an important role in a person's life.Yawning is a way of cooling the brain. Plus, yawning can help normalize pressure in your ears and even improve your relationships with those around you. If you want to yawn, look at the person who does it. You can also try opening your mouth wider. After reading this article, you will learn how to make yourself yawn.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Prepare Your Body to Yawn

1. 1 Consider yawning. Sometimes the thought of yawning is enough to do it. Imagine yawning. Look at the word "yawn" and imagine yawning deeply.
2. 2 Open your mouth wide. Pretend to yawn, even if you don't feel like doing it. Open your mouth as wide as you can. Sometimes the image of yawning may be sufficient to induce a real yawning act.
3. 3 Tighten the muscles at the back of the throat. In the process of yawning, the muscles of the face and neck contract in a person. Muscle tension helps to yawn. The brain will associate muscle tension with the act of yawning.
4. 4 Take a deep breath through your mouth. Just as you breathe in when you yawn, try repeating this action. Breathe deeply and slowly, instead of breathing quickly and shallowly. During the act of yawning, you need to take a deep breath.
5. 5 Maintain the required position until you feel yourself yawning. When you open your mouth wide and tighten your throat muscles, you will most likely be able to yawn. You will involuntarily yawn naturally if your mouth is wide open, your muscles are tense, and you take a deep breath. If you are unable to yawn, try the next method.

Method 2 of 3: Observe People Yawning

1. 1 Spend time with family and friends who yawn. You've probably noticed more than once that yawning is extremely contagious. When you see someone yawning, chances are, very soon you will start doing the same. This happens most often with people who know each other, such as relatives, friends, or classmates. If you really need to yawn, watch the person who yawns frequently.
   • According to scientists, yawning helps to synchronize the behavior of a social group. Perhaps that is why 50% of people yawn when they see that someone else is doing it, especially when it comes to loved ones.
   • Yawning is so contagious that even reading about yawning can make you want to yawn.
2. 2 Ask someone you know to pretend to yawn. If you don't see people yawning, ask a friend or family member to pretend they are yawning. Just seeing a person who yawns, even if they don't really do it, chances are you will yawn back.
3. 3 Look around. You may see a stranger yawning. Note that yawning from a stranger is less contagious than yawning from a loved one. If you're in a public place where you don't know anyone, look around to see the person yawning. If you are lucky, you will see what you need and will certainly yawn.
4. 4 Watch a video of people yawning. If no one is around, look for YouTube videos of people yawning. This method is similar to the previous one, when you need to look at a yawning stranger. Sometimes, just looking at a photo of a person yawning is enough.
5. 5 Watch the animals yawn. As mentioned above, yawning is contagious in humans and animals. Experiment: Try observing how your pet yawns and how it affects you. Watch videos of animals yawning. According to research, almost all animals love to yawn.

Method 3 of 3: Create the right environment

1. 1 Go to a warm room. People yawn more often in warm weather than in cold weather.Scientists believe that by yawning, we inhale cold air, which lowers the temperature of the brain when it is on the verge of overheating. Research shows that people yawn less often in winter or in cooler rooms. On the other hand, if you have important work to do but can't stop yawning, try cooling the room you're in. You will stop yawning very soon.
2. 2 Create a cozy and comfortable environment around you. We tend to yawn more in the morning because our brain temperature rises at night. By yawning, we cool our brain. If you want to force yourself to yawn, go back to bed, lie under the covers to keep warm. You will start yawning earlier than you think.
3. 3 Increase your stress levels. Stress and anxiety cause the brain's temperature to rise, causing the person to yawn to cool them off. This is why Olympic athletes start yawning right before a competition. Skydivers and other daredevils also yawn right before jumping. Therefore, being in a state of stress, a person begins to yawn, because his brain needs cooling.

Tips

• In a public place, cover your mouth when you yawn. Remember good manners.
• Try to imagine that your nose is itchy, then open your mouth wide. You will soon yawn.
• Just try to say the word "yawn" or think of yawning, and you will inevitably yawn.
• Open your mouth slowly, pretending to yawn. Take a few short breaths.

Warnings

• Once you yawn, you may not be able to stop anymore!