A lymphatic specialist demonstrates a simple neck massage to mobilize lymph and improve digestion and breathing. About 20% of lymph lives in the neck and 50% in the gut, so moving these nodes quickly shifts internal fluid. Scar tissue and constant Wi-Fi exposure block healing, while breathing and unplugging at night support lymph flow.
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You wanna stimulate the nodes above the clavicle, and you do that simply by pumping and releasing them. So you take your ring finger and your middle finger, just like you're, you're pressing in avocados or peaches to find the ripeness. You're not squeezing it, you're not pinching it. You're just pumping and releasing above the clavicle in a circular way, 3 or 4 pumps. Then you go up to your tonsil area outside your— Under your jaw. Below your ear and just pump again in the direction toward that area you just opened up. And as you do that, just 3 or 4 pumps, just feel what feels different. I mean, instantly you're like, that's crazy. Yeah. It's your internal fluid. 20% of your lymph is in your neck. 50% is in your gut. And as you move this, it's gonna start to move, mobilize your urine, your bowels. You're gonna blow your nose more. You're gonna cough more perhaps because you're gonna move out the clutter. So do the sequence a couple times a day.
And so why do systems like lymph and fascia and oxygen matter so much?
It's so, it's such a great question because it's why our work is so intertwined, right? The house that we live in outside of the physical house that you live in is your actual body. That's the vessel, your house, and the majority of that house by material is your fascia and your lymph. But I can almost guarantee you that most people listening to this do not know what the lymphatic system is, or maybe they've heard the word, maybe, or the fascia, what that, what that really is. And I find that the lymphatic system is the most underrated, misunderstood, and yet the largest part of your body. So it's— The fascia is the fabric that actually holds our shape and puts it all together. So that's kind of like the structure of your house and the, and the lymph is like the floors and the walls and the ceilings. Majority of your body, of your house. Right. And people want to attend to the furniture, which for me is the blood work. And I'm like, yeah, but the furniture changes dependent upon your house. If your house is dirty and dusty, the furniture is going to be dirty and dusty. And so looking at the fascia and lymphatic systems, and if I have a chance to work in a system that makes an impact on 10%. versus work on a system that makes an impact on 90% of the system, which one makes more sense? There's two blockades to us healing. Let's start there. And scars are one of them. So the body is— its default program, if you will, is to heal. I know I gave you a lot of download of information in the first 5 minutes. Let's all take a breath together right now. Right? Let's just do that. Take a breath in through your nose. And go ahead and exhale. Do you know that that's a technology you just applied? And that the technology that our body is, that this vessel we talked about, this house, it's a, it's a system of organization, of complexity. Yet when you do simple things, it performs for you. And the lymphatic system is the gateway to that healing system, because the default in nature, the default in our body is to heal. The system of healing— so a lot of people, and I know Heather's one of them, has had to lean on allopathic medicine at times. And it's a great system when you need it. The problem is it's a system most people are trapped in that they don't know that they're trapped in it. They're dependent upon it. And that is the goal of that system. Yeah. That's exactly what they wanted. A massage therapist, if they wanna be a lymphatic specialist, has to do special training, which I've done for 20 years now and had a clinical practice for 20 years applying these techniques because I recognized that this was the system that was gonna be able to impact the majority of it. And as we've applied that, and as we continue to apply it with people like yourself and so many others, it's not that I'm a healer, I facilitate healing, right? And I facilitate the ability of the body to heal, and that's in the fascia and the lymphatic system. Mm-hmm. A lot of people now are talking about the nervous system, which is great. How do we see that in the nervous system when the fascia and the lymph is clogged? Well, it's those symptoms of feeling stuck and heavy and sluggish, just like your house feels and looks sluggish when it's cluttered. Your body looks and feels sluggish when it's cluttered. And what gets cluttered is the spaces between the cells, and that's the lymphatic system. And what gets cluttered is what I call your closets, which is your fascia.
Mm-hmm.
Which is like your adhesions, your scars, and the tissue, like the soft tissue that wraps around all your joints and all your bones and suspends and hangs your organs. And then your bones float in this fluid, this culture known as your lymphatics, wrapped around by your fascia, and then the skin lays over it. And so when we look at the function of this, of the organs like the liver and the kidneys, and that's all dependent upon the culture that it lives in. So again, we work on the 90% that's gonna affect then the 10%, which is the organs and the cells to then create and manifest wellness and space and healing, or it's gonna create chaos because there's so much stuff in the spaces around the cells. And so it's missignaling the cells and therefore the cells and the organs don't function appropriately cuz they're not getting the right information. It would just be like walking in your house and being like, oh, I'm looking for my water bottle, but you have 19 water bottles in a room, how you gonna find the one you need? Right? And so it's easy if everything's cleared out and you go, oh yeah, there's my water bottle. I got it. So it, it's just the same thing with your lymphatics and your lymphatics are in charge of fluid. So if you have puffiness or swelling or heaviness, that's excess fluid typically. And oftentimes when people work with us, they generate a lot of urine and a lot of bowel and a lot of excretion, letting go of all that excess So often we will just say, oh, I'm overwhelmed, I'm overwhelmed.
And we use it as kind of an umbrella feeling anytime we feel heavy or nervous or anticipate something or a little tension. And so it's not true overwhelm, right? That, and so you're talking about a true overwhelm if we really did take in absolutely everything that was coming at us at one point. And so I Yeah. Wanted to throw that in there.
No, it's a really good point because think about just like my, I have a 12-year-old, right? I'm 51, gonna be 52 soon. And when I, the first 12 years I grew up, I did not have the inputs that my son has. Like we, we spent the summers where we didn't have a phone and a television from March till October and lived on 200 acres of land outside. I did not have Wi-Fi. I didn't have constant scrolling. I didn't have all these video games. All the other inputs that we have now, right? It's just input, input, input. The Wi-Fi is a non-physical input your body is having to deal with all the time. That is not a stressor we grew up under. And that is— you're not aware of it, but you sure are annoyed if your computer doesn't work and you can't get a good signal, your phone doesn't work. Don't you realize that your body's also having to ward that off and go, wait, that's not for me. That's not a biorhythm. That's not a bioenergetic. That's not meant for the life force here, and it can confuse it, and it actually slows down the lymphatics. I'm here to reframe you and educate you and blossom you and bloom you, to give you freedom, to give you the awareness of what actually is causing the chaos in the body and the overwhelm that is real, that you actually can take control over by unplugging your Wi-Fi at night. Simple as that. Or putting it on a timer and it shuts off at 11:00 PM and it turns back on at 7:00 AM. Body workers are the missing piece in our wellness category, and not all body workers are created equal. And as I said, they need special training, and there are a lot of great trained practitioners out there. So I know it's a lot, but I'm asking you to reframe today. I'm asking you to look at just like when you met Heather to go, whoa, the clutter in my house is the same as the clutter in my mind. Wow, the clutter in my closet is the same in the clutter in my relationships. And how I do one thing is how I do everything. And when your body is giving you symptoms, that is not something to suppress. It's something to investigate and to understand and to unwind, to allow your body to heal.
