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How to keep your breasts healthy with massage and herbal oils

  • By hoano
  • 22 Nov, 2009
Circulation: The vital link to breast health Breasts are filled with fluid-rich lymphatic pathways. They have no inherent musculature and require circulation for optimal health. Many factors can affect the DNA of healthy cells compromising breast health. For example emotional stress, environmental pollutants, preservatives in our foods lowers our immunity. Fatty breast tissue are a […]
Breasts are filled with fluid-rich lymphatic pathways. They have no inherent musculature and require circulation for optimal health. Many factors can affect the DNA of healthy cells compromising breast health. For example emotional stress, environmental pollutants, preservatives in our foods lowers our immunity. Fatty breast tissue are a waste receptacle for toxins in the body. If the lymph system stagnates due to stress, tight bras, poor posture or trauma the immune fighting T-cells will have difficulty taking out the accumulated debris from the breast tissue making it a perfect breeding ground for cancer cells. Massage enhances circulation and prevents the buildup of stagnant lymph fluid.
How Self-Massage and Herbal Oils can Enhance Breast Health?
Gently massaging the breasts increases oxygen and nutrients and helps keep the tissue clean of impurities.
Self-breast massage

is an important therapeutic modality for easing or preventing breast related conditions and may offer a measure against breast cancer.
Benefits include:
* Alleviates premenstrual discomfort associated with breasts
* May help reduce fibroids and cysts
* Ease lumpiness of fibrocystic breasts
* Balancing effect on the hormones
* Improves breast size and shape
* Increased oxygen and nutrients
* Eases lymphatic congestion
* Makes skin soft, supple and resilient
* May help reduce scars and stretchmarks
* Encourages familiarity with one’s breasts
* Promotes relaxation, relieving internal tensions
* Deeper appreciation and acceptance of one’s body
* Encourages lymphatic circulation for post-surgery healing
Herbal Oils are certified organic herbs infused in cold pressed organic olive oil. The healing actions of the herbs migrate into the oil creating a simple, effective product for maintaining breast health.
Benefits include:
*Strengthen and add resiliency to the breast tissue
*Aids in enhancing lymphatic circulation
*Relieve internal tension
*Offers anti-inflammatory properties
*May help in dissolving troublesome lumps and cysts
*Gives skin a soft, supple, radiant glow.
Remember when doing your self-breast massage you want to use an oil that contains nourishing organic herbs that have a special affinity for the breasts to enhance the fluidity and feel of the breast tissue.

Breast Caress

offers a perfect blend of organic herbs, oils, and aromatherapy, inspires self-awareness of one’s breasts and body and offers an opportunity for women to love and nurture themselves. The more care and gratitude we give to ourselves, the greater the correlation to our good health.
In love and light
Article written by Jennifer Telford/owner of Hoano
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Change is a part of life and as humans we either embrace it or fear it. For some of us, change means getting out of our comfort zone or maybe loosing something we had before. It also might mean something exciting is to come and we just haven’t learned how to breathe into yet. We need to un push the pause button.

 

Covid times is our biggest experience in which we are all dealing with both personal and collective change. Many have lost businesses, jobs, health insurance, loved ones, their familiar routine, but some have bought houses, some are moving out of state, some are starting new businesses and on some level we are all changing inside, deepening our relationship to self through more self - care, our standards may be shifting, relationships are changing, or we are able to carve out more family time.

 

What keeps me going when I am grieving a loss of something I have been so familiar with is the belief, faith and hope that the universe is conspiring to make my vision a reality. Having trust in myself and my purpose. I trust that no matter what we will all be ok. I see the change as a teacher and an opportunity for growth and expansion. And it is a mirror to our next level of healing or service to others. We are all going deeper right now and really shifting on many areas of personal development and I feel like I am a catalyst for that change and transformation for the clientele I seek to find me.

 

It may be scary at first, this idea of change, as we hold on to many beliefs and behaviors that give us a sense of love, comfort and belonging. But I can promise you that those beliefs/behaviors are our allies, and the more we flow and build on our ability to love and care for ourselves, we start to initiate new beliefs and behaviors as we step into a new version of ourselves something that has existed already, we just didn’t know it.

 

Letting go of a space that was my practice and identity for 8 years, was a bittersweet experience and a myriad of physical and mental emotions, but I have done it once before so I know I can do it again. Change. It is not a goodbye. It is a reinvention, an expansion, a new offering. And perhaps the change is needed for my clients. Life brings to us new people and new situations for many reasons.

 

If you are ready to embrace change, whether that be creating positive habits, deepening your relationship to self, improving your health, making a career change, desiring a relationship, learning stress management, learning to love your body, and so much more; contact me to discover what is involved in working with a coach, a compassionate advocate to your life and health goals. I am here to support you. Make yourself a priority today and call me to be heard, listened to and validated in a way that you may never have before….I am offering a 60 min Discovery Call.  

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I get asked a lot by my clients about what they can do to enhance their lymphatic health in the interim of sessions. Ladies, your in luck, as there is a wonderful tool and self-care regimen called Dry Brushing. Your probably familiar with the basic bath brush that has a wooden handle that people use in the shower to exfoliate their skin. Well this is the same idea, but with the intention of stimulating the lymphatic system. Dry Brushing is becoming a popular trend, as women are now seeing the importance of rejuvenating the skin’s dermis by clearing out toxins as a way to maintain health and beauty.

It is the same idea when we exfoliate the face to clean of impurities after a cleanser and toner. Dry brushing for the body is a way we can exfoliate the whole body and help reduce stagnancy and inflammation from our very delicate lymph vessel system.

We have many vital organs that are responsible for detox including the liver, kidneys, skin and colon. The skin being the largest.  Stimulating the lymphatic system through dry brushing helps remove dead skin cell and makes the skin smoother. It helps to improve circulation, reduce stress and provides a relaxing way to connect with a very essential process of the body in removing metabolic wastes.

Whether for health maintenance, reducing water in the body, reducing the appearance of cellulite, lymphatic dry brushing feels good and makes your skin look great.

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 breathing are also wonderful ways to get the lymph system to circulate.

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