How often you do self care is so important.  Taking time to do your own breast massage is the best thing for you to do.  At least once a month using coconut oil, or sesame oil, or a nice gentle almond oil.  Using oils that are gentle to the skin is super important.  The next step is to learn that your armpits hold many little nodes, called lymph nodes that help the body to cleanse and detoxify the tissues of fluids that need filtering.  The filtering then travels through the body to the kidneys where it is filtered more and the waste products pass out through the urine. 

The next step is to use the oil, warm the oil if you can and then apply it to your breast one at a time.  This is the goal, to show your body that you are paying attention to it and caring for yourself in a loving way that it can always remember to function properly.  Massaging the oil in circular motions slowly is the goal.  Try to massage gently and soften the tissues, some women hold stress in their breast tissues, and even in the pectoralis muscles that help to hold the breasts.  With the circular movements you can start around your nipple, and then make the circular movements larger all the way out to the armpits.  Again remembering that the breast tissues filters out through the lymphatic drainage system via the armpits. 

Massaging your breasts can bring a great shift to your mood, help you with weight-loss, it tightens your tissues while softening, and increases blood flow throughout the body.  Your breasts work directly with your sex glands and therefore you can even heal and balance your female or male hormones. Breast massage is not just for women, men need breast massage too.  No matter what age you are, encourage each other to self care check-in once a month with self breast massage. 

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​Jenny Saferstein L.Ac.

When your grey hair glistens, you know that nothings missing. You've achieved your timings so beautifully, that its time to observe yourself more. Taking time to see how well you've aged, from the fine lines, to book choices changes, know that you have achieved great things. 

There are milestones of Moon Timings that take place to us wonderful women on Earth.  They are Peri-menopause, Menopause, and Post-menopause.  They are the next best achievements in life, the wonderful women-hood life. At these times of body awakenings there are great moments to focus on. You have reached a level of grace, love, compassion, and teaching to others, by just being you.  You have survived different colds, flus, knitting disasters, and laundry plunders, you have fixed buttons on shirts, cooked great meals, learned new fads in exercising that may have led you to return again and again to middle school gym stretching. You have had wheatgrass, tea from all over the world,  and used computer telephones now. Microwaves exists, along with hot-flashes sometimes. There are so many great inventions, insights and more to help heal what comes up during these moon timings. 

If you have hot flashes, try getting acupuncture, drink plenty of water, even look into drinking Aloe Vera Juice.  If you have muscle aches, try getting massages, simple exercises regularly helps with great strength achievement to overcome anything. Regular, even when you don't have periods anymore if the greatest thing to remember. REGULAR, eating, REGULAR exercise, REGULAR sleep patterns, REGULAR entertainment, REGULAR R&R, REGULAR phone calls with family, friends, REGULAR Dr. appointments, REGULAR prayer.  Gardening helps to keep women regular as well, at any age. 

Remember to enjoy your time being at your moon times, and beyond. Young women are always watching, and learning, keep showing us the great things to come as we grow up a women!

Cheers!

​(Feel free to share your stories and questions in the comments below. 

How amazing are we! I'm a little older now, and checking in.  What wonderful timings we bring to the Earth, we remind all people about the Seasons, the day and night cycles, the Sun the Moon and the Stars.  Being a great women brings peace to the Earth by far. 

Being a woman come with different timings, of heaven showing us what being on Earth really means. We get direct messages at times, that say hey its time to take care of ourselves more, to look more within, and be proud of everything.  It is important to know what you need at your timings of the month.  Whether its chocolate, books a special blanket, soft pillows, and especially flowers. Make sure to take are of yourself in loving ways. Flowers are an amazing inspiration for us women of an timing to focus on learning about.  They teach us about colors, they teach us about smells, they teach us about sensations with touching the petals and the leaves.  Even more so they teach us about timings, their timings. Some flowers are perennials, some flowers are awakened to being open for just a week long.  Some flower only open one month out of the year. 

When you study the flowers, focus on the women feelings, and then look to feel where the men strength feelings for you as a women comes in. Who is there?  Mother Nature knows, your Father, your Grandfather, you brother, your Cousin.  The men maybe sometimes felt in the leaves and the stems.  Its a great visualization to spend time awakening to who and what holds and takes care of you.  Picking out your favorite flowers is so special, the color that matches your emotions, the smell that you like the best, the feeling of the petal (is it smooth, is it fuzzy, does it glisten in the Sun?)  

Now if your an Older Sister, the greatest things you could do, is to help your sisters recognize their favorite flowers too! Spend time showing your sister, or sister what is so special about flowers, and let them tell you too about the flowers they choose.  At times of the month when the young women are old enough, remember your favorite flowers, and the women feelings of love that are there for you, and the wonderful men helper too. Periods are private times for young women, very true. To know that we always have our love and helpers is the greatest feeling in the world. 

Many blessings of great months and months and months of perfect timings that arrive perfectly. May they be wonderful times that reconnect you to nature, may they be special times to eat the favorite foods that you like, love foods (within reason), and healthy foods (that are love foods too). May you find the artist within, to do great things there too, to paint , to draw, to make music, you can do anything you can dream of!

Cheers and be well!