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Equalizing your ears
Equalizing your ears involves opening the lower ends of your Eustachian tubes to allow air to enter. The commonly taught Valsalva maneuver, where you pinch your nostrils and blow through your nose, creates overpressure in the throat, forcing air up the Eustachian tubes.