Breast massage helps to increase the circulation in your breasts and decreases the symptoms of PMS, menopause and menstrual cramps. Therapeutic breast massage can also lessen discomforts associated with breast cancer treatments, help relieve post-surgical symptoms, and reduce discomfort from pregnancy, breastfeeding and weaning. Breast massage also contributes to improved skin tone while promoting relaxation and balancing your energy.
With regular massage, you will help diminish benign breast cysts while helping to flush lymph nodes and stimulating your glandular system. The breasts are soft tissue and do not have muscles to help them move.
Steps for Breast Massage
Decide which breast you will massage first. Apply breast cream, hand lotion or baby oil to the breast using your hands.
Starting at the nipples, slide your fingertips outward, smoothing the breast as you go. Use light pressure, as you might if you were stroking a baby’s head. Your finger strokes should also be slow and deliberate. Stroke the circumference of the breast, always beginning at the nipple and massaging toward the outer body. This will help drain the breast’s lymphatic system.
Gently but firmly massage the breast, as though you were kneading dough. Lift and press the breast as you massage.
Once the above step is done, then the breast should be lightly massaged with a kneading kind of action. Hold one breast with both your hands so as to cup out the breast. Do not apply heavy pressure; stop if it begins to hurt. Holding your breast in this manner, go on kneading it slightly for a while. Finish with one breast, and then take on the other.
Next step begins by holding the breast just as it had been done in the prior step. But here, instead of compressing it out, get it a spinning kind of motion. For this, rotate the hands (and so the breasts) first in clockwise movement and then followed by anticlockwise motion with equal pressure and effort. Continue the entire procedure for about ten times. Then repeat the same onto the other breast.
Use your fingers to gently smooth away from the nipple. These movements travel from the nipple and directly away using no more pressure than what you would apply to your eyelid. Any more pressure would flatten the lymphatic vessel and stop the flow of toxins and fluids. Also, make this stroke slow, not fast, for it to be effective.
Gently massage the breast with a kneading-like motion, using lifting and pressing movements.
Slowly and carefully use your hands to twist the breast in a clock-wise and counterclockwise direction, being careful not to put too much tension on the breast.
Using the hand opposite the one to be massaged, begin by gently applying moderate pressure - circular strokes radiating out from the center and working into the underarm area as well as the center of the chest (sternum). You can spread your oil in this manner.
Use the flat underside of your fingers with a broad contact to gently, but firmly, scoop and lift the tissues beginning from the underarm area and moving in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, with medium pressure directed toward the center. Massage the whole circumference of each one in this manner.
Conclude by applying light touch to the center, smoothing the tissue away from the center. Breath fully. Relax by drinking a cool glass of water.
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