Your chest and breasts are an extension of your heart space. Energetically, this place serves as a conduit to give, receive and express love and joy through our heart. - The Way of Yin

Our heart organ, also known as “The Empress” in Chinese Medicine, oversees and rules our entire landscape; mind, body and spirit. This brings so much meaning to the phrase, “Leading from the heart.” On top of regulating communication throughout the body, it also houses the mind (seat of consciousness), provides a home for our Shen (spirit), controls sleep, memory and our expression of the Fire Element. Our shen/spirit and our heart signifies the entire sphere of our mental, emotional, and spirit selves. And, emotional health almost always comes back to the health of your fire element organs and the strength of your spirit.

Of the Five Elements, Fire is accorded to our heart. Fire represents the season of summer and embodies utmost yang. Fire can come in many different forms and expresses a peak in energy. It is about connecting and merging with things and people that we enjoy. It is the energy of expansion and full bloom.

"Fire is the energy of summer; it gives us warmth and the capacity to love and be loved. It enables us to mature and blossom." - Institute of Classical Five Element Acupuncture

How can we connect with the Fire Element?

The inner alchemy practice of chest and breast massage can help us to not only harness the magic that happens in our heart space but also helps to facilitate the movement of anything that is “stuck”. Anything from fluid, blood, emotions and energy. There’s also an intimate connection that the heart has with our womb space called the Heart & Womb Connection that you can read more about in this blog post. 

Your heart, and by extension your chests and breasts are intimately connected to your Womb. In Chinese Medicine, there's a channel called the Bao Mai (The Uterus Vessel) that connects your heart to your uterus; a direct link!! This explains the profound influence of mental-emotional triggers of the heart and its effects on the uterus. 

Chest & Breast Massage

Levels of Touch

Your chest/breasts require connection and engagement. The anatomy of this area is mainly mammary glands, lymph and fat. Because of this, this landscape needs a lot of circulation. Lymph needs our help in order to move and fat likes to store and hold. Any level of touch will stimulate circulation that is much needed in this area of the body.

• Lymph Flow

Requires the lightest amount of touch and pumping motions. We can help stimulate our lymphatic hearts, move old and stagnant fluids and make way for new nourished fluids. 

Movement in general helps to move the lymph as well. So if you find yourself sitting, standing or laying for long periods of time, take a break, stretch and walk around, hop on your trampoline or do shaking qigong exercises. 

• Qi & Blood

If you often experience tender or sore chest/breasts this usually means you have a stagnation of qi and/or Blood. Massaging the breasts promotes much needed circulation to help move blood & qi allowing new blood and qi energy to fill the area. At the end of each shower, bend forward, cup the area in the palm of your hands and give this area a good shake. 

• Muscles & Tissue Rejuvenation

As we age, and as gravity continues to weigh us down, our organs and tissues will naturally start to sag. By inviting levels of touch to our breasts we can aid in the rejuvenation of our muscles and tissues to not only improve the appearance but also functionality. When organs start to sag, our pathways of flow can be affected. 

You can help to rejuvenate these tissues by “pinking” them up. The techniques are a bit more abrasive so be mindful not to engage too aggressively. 

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