How To Practice Self Lymphatic Drainage Massage

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How To Practice Self Lymphatic Drainage Massage
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Introduction

• The lymphatic drainage massage has long been a
  celeb favourite for its sculpting effect in
  addition to helping flush toxins, boost immunity
  and eliminate water weight and bloating.
  Lymphatic drainage massage is a beauty skill
  worth mastering, and we're here to show you a DIY
  approach that you can implement at home.
• So firstly, what is a lymphatic System? The
  lymphatic system is a collection of vessels
  beneath your skin and is part of your immune
  system which functions kind of like garbage
  disposal. It acts like a sanitation system for
  our body by getting rid of 'waste' that our body
  naturally produces, or other things that can
  invade our body, like bacteria. It's what
  protects us from getting an infection.

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What Is A Lymphatic Drainage Massage?

• Lymphatic drainage is a kind of massage that
  stimulates the natural drainage of the lymph,
  which helps to eliminate waste from the body. It
  is not like a regular massage which has a deep
  pressure that massages the muscles. This kind of
  massage is usually gentle and use specific
  techniques to move fluid around the body more
  effectively. The massage has a very light
  pressure because the lymphatic system is close to
  the surface of the skin. The goal is to move the
  fluid out of the tissues and into the lymph
  nodes, where bacteria, viruses and other harmful
  microorganisms are destroyed.

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How Do You Lymphatic Drainage Massage Yourself?

• Understanding the lymphatic map of the body will
  help you to know which direction to massage.
• Lymphatic drainage massage strokes are gentle,
  light, slow, rhythmic, and nurturing. Respecting
  the cadence of lymph flow can also have a calming
  effect on your nervous system.
• Your lymph system doesnt have a central pump to
  move fluid the way the heart pumps the blood. It
  depends on muscle contractions to move it. Its a
  one-way circulatory system. Every day, three
  litres of fluid are absorbed into your lymph
  vessels. Without your lymph system, your body
  would swell with fluid and waste, including
  viruses and bacteria. With lymphatic drainage
  massage, were moving lymph fluid through the
  vessels to mimic muscle contractions and speed up
  lymph circulation.

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How to start your massage?

• As lymph fluid empties into the bloodstreaminto
  the subclavian veinsat the base of the neck the
  first thing you want to do is to stimulate your
  lymph nodes in the neck. The best way we found to
  help people understand this concept is Lets say
  you have a dirty ring around your bathtub and you
  want to clean it. Whats the first thing youre
  going to do? Most people say Put soap on it and
  start scrubbing the ring. But if you do that and
  you havent cleaned the hair out of the drain
  first, when you start scrubbing and put the water
  in the tub, youll get a backlog of dirty water
  at the drain. So when you're doing your lymphatic
  massage, first start at the main lymph nodes,
  neck, armpit, and the top of the thigh and
  abdomen.

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• Learn more how to do Gua Sha massage
• Lymph strokes use the palm of your hands as much
  as possibleor a side of a Body Gua Sha that fits
  that part of your body. This is how youll
  achieve the nurturing and comforting response
  associated with lymph massage. You want to
  massage the fluid in one direction toward the
  lymph nodes, not in circles.

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How Do You Feel After?

• Deeply relaxed, lighter, brighter, and with more
  energy. Its like a reset button. Might start
  feeling lethargic, heavy, or sluggish, and when
  you're done leave feeling revived. Waking up the
  lymphatic system even just a that little bit is
  going to increase the lymph circulation, and you
  will feel the difference immediately.

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Nativ Sens Gua Sha

• Nativ Sens gua sha tools serve the body in a
  number of purposes from lymphatic drainage
  massage, body contouring, increasing blood flow,
  removal of stagnant energy, collagen production
  and a number of beauty benefits.
• By mindfully spending time with ourselves we are
  deepening the connection with our bodies, this is
  what we like to call gua sha meditation.
• We look forward to our products becoming part of
  your daily self-care routine.