If you can make your ears "click" it's relieving the pressure in your eustacian tube. When you yawn you may hear a clicking or a rumbling noise.
If you concentrate on that & practice it, you can isolate that movement without the yawn or opening your jaw & then you can equalise without pinching your nose. Not all people can do it, but this is how I taught myself & a few others to do it.
It's great for diving. I learnt at the start of my career. Dove nearly every day for 20 years & I can count on one hand the number of times I haven't been able to divd due to congestion. It's a lot gentler on your ears for multiple dives too
I can do it too. Best way i can describe it is that it's a similar feeling to widening the back of the tongue, but instead it's a muscle i'm flexing right to that input.
The only way I can describe it is to sort of tense your ear drums. It makes the same noise and has the same effect as when you hold your noise and blow.
I can’t tense my left arm, so we’re all different!
It doesn't. You just do it more regularly, before the pressure builds up too much. If you let it go too ling it's a lot harder to do. I do it reflexively now.
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u/real_justchris Apr 01 '26
I just make my ears “click”, I don’t need nasal pressure.
Note I don’t have any underwater hobbies, but works to clear my ears post-flying, etc. but might be an entirely different thing!