I went to Vancouver Celebration of Light fire works and wasn’t able to hear my cell phone speaker, so I came up with a very good solution:

I’m telling you, you may look like an idiot, but it really works. Of course if you are able to keep those Eustachian canals open like I can. In my case, I can open them with simply contracting some muscles in my head. Not sure how though, but its simple.

Here’s a picture of the ear anatomy again:

I’m not sure were I got the picture from, but thanks to its provider and artist anyways.

Like I mentioned, all of us have used these canals I’m sure, even without knowing what we are actually doing.

When the environmental air pressure changes for some reason, like the air pressure in the cabin of airplanes when lifting off, this air pressure presses on the ear drums and creates discomfort.

And then, we grab our nose and keep it shut and blow in the nose to create pressure and open the canals and pop our ears. This is when the ear feels imbalanced due to difference in pressure on each side of the ear drum and opening the Eustachian tube helps equalizing the pressure on both sides of the ear drum. Don’t push too hard though, my brother hurt his ear  once doing this.

Well, I guess this one was a short article, and I’m sorry about the scare! But some of you need more excitement!