A lymphatic drainage massage, which is different from a muscular massage, offers a number of health benefits, from improving your skin tone to boosting your immune system. 

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Be Well: How Lymphatic Massage Can Boost Your Immune System

A lymphatic drainage massage is very beneficial for overall wellness detoxification helps to improve skin tone, boost your immune system. Um And so what it is is it's very different than a deep tissue massage or a regular massage. We're working with the lymphatic system as opposed to the muscular system. So we're working more with fluid in the body. So it's going to be a very light pressure. Um And so we can go through a routine that you can do. I like to do it most mornings just to stimulate the lymphatic system de puff through the face, get fluid moving. Um So we can go ahead and start. So your lymphatic system ends right here in what is known as the terminus, correct? So just above the collar bone and inside these um muscles, here is the end of your lymphatic system. So this is where we start and where we end through every lymphatic session. So we wanna start to drain this area before we send excess fluid there. Now, when you say drain this is nothing, we're gonna see externally the skin. Very, yes. So it's a very light pressure. We're just moving fluid. So 70% of your lymphatic system lives just underneath the skin. So if you're pressing too hard, you're essentially going to collapse the lymphatic vessels and veins. So you wanna maintain a very light pressure. And so just to start in clearing out these nose, you can take both of um your fingertips into this area here. Um Yeah, so I would say maybe if you wanna pull down your shirt a little bit and get into um I would say inside this little triangle here and so we can take about three fingers and what we wanna do is kind of leave them static and start to take little circles. Got you good. So we'll take about, they say about 8 to 10 passes at the minimum to start to open up nodes. But depending on how much time um you want to devote to this, you can even take a little bit more. So we wanna um start to clear open up these nodes and who should be doing this because my wife loves to roll that thing on my face in the morning. Is that that concept? So, yeah, so we can do. But yeah, just in the morning to deep puff improve skin tone, all of that. It's also just a very relax, relaxing, but almost meditative experience you could have. Yeah. And then once we're done with the neck, what do we do? Yeah. So we move up into the ears. So we want to drain, um, the glands just in front of and behind the ears. And the best technique to do that is to kind of make this little v with your hands and the front two fingers go outside your, your ear, back to your fingers go behind. And so same thing, very gentle, start to make circles, start to open up these nose. How do you know if you're, this is actually working or if this is doing anything besides looking silly? No. So, so you can actually, I mean, the results can be almost immediate when you're done doing the whole thing just in, in de puffing and improved skin tone. Ok. And how long should we be doing this? Everything about you can, this is a very gentle and safe practice that you can do absolutely every day. Show me which one is gonna make me look younger. Ok. This isn't what I want this. So same thing, we can take these gentle circles and start to move it out. Um We could also take kind of just like the blade of our, um, pointer finger and kind of just drag just along the skin again. Very light pressure, I would say about 8 to 10 passes for each area. So a lot of face rubbing all in the morning, start at the neck, do the face and then end at the neck and hopefully we'll look younger, more refreshed and less puffy and less stressed. All right, I like that part. I'm going for the younger look. No Botox needed here. All right. Thank you so much, Megan. I appreciate it. You're welcome.