Lymphatic System Ins & Outs

Can you feel yourself back to flow?

Are you familiar with your lymphatic system? I would love to introduce you if you are not.

Before I bring on the educational adventure, I invite you to notice your body.

In fact, invite your body to show you how you experience your own lymphatic system.

Want to play a game with me?

Feel Your Lymphatic Flow

Start by feeling your feet. Then, feel your legs, hips, belly, and chest. Now your arms, hands, and fingers. Then up your throat and into your head. What about the back of you? Can you feel the back of your head and neck, your shoulders, your back, your gluts, the back of your thighs and calves, your feet?

What do you notice in your body today? Are there any areas that feel a little tense? Are their areas that feel more open and pleasant?

Put your attention on one of the pleasant areas for a moment. Can you almost imagine the flow of fluid or energy through that area. As you put your attention on it, does it flow more or less?

Now try the same thing with one of the more tense areas. What happens when you imagine the energy flow in that part. Does it begin to flow any differently? Maybe even as it begins to flow, does it change the level of tension?

Are there any areas you couldn’t really feel? Try to imagine the energy or fluids flowing around that area—until you can find all of its edges in 3-D. What do you notice when you do that?

This game of interroception is a close approximation of how to experience your lymphatic system.

So, what the heck is it?

Your lymphatic system is a blanket of very, very, tiny vessels (and some less tiny vessels) that carry all of the waste fluid from your cells through a network of nodes to filter it and introducing it to your specific immune system.