Here are two ways to decrease abdominal bloating and decrease gut pain. This is an abdominal massage for constipation.
Abdominal bloating is something that I have personally struggled with since I was in college. I find that self-massage and myofascial release to the abdominal region increases motility in my gut as well as improves overall comfort and flatness. Abdominal massage for bloating is a really helpful technique to complete on yourself to improve comfort and decrease bloating.
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This video will help to:
Decrease constipation, abdominal bloating, and discomfort
Increase gut mobility and movement of waste
Decrease abdominal pain
Watch the video below to learn abdominal self massage for constipation, abdominal discomfort, and bloating.
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today we're going to be teaching you an abdominal massage technique that can help you increase the mobility of your abdominal organs.
Food moves through your intestinal organs or your digestive system in a fashion called peristalsis. Your organs are contracting to push that fluid and waste through your descending colon on the left side of your body into your rectum and then out into the toilet and to the sewer.
What can happen though is through different disease processes or through bloating and dehydration, your organs can just decrease in their effectiveness and you can just get stuck and when you're stuck it may not really activate those muscles the way that they need to and so sometimes a massage technique can help that process.
You're gonna start at the bottom on the right side, right on the inside of your hip bone with your hands on top of each other and you're going to start doing mini circles in a counter clockwise direction.
You're gonna go up maybe about 3 or 4 circles on the right side you're gonna follow the ascending colon until your right kind of by the ribs so you're gonna be on the bottom part of your the ribs and you're gonna start going to the transverse colon so you're gonna go horizontally across the belly you're like two finger widths above the belly button and you're gonna go until you kind of reach the part of your ribs and you're just gonna kind of go down.
It’s actually a little bit before you hit the ribs and you'll feel kind of your organs underneath there and you can do this three to five times you just kind of keep going and again you’re gonna go up over down and an upside-down u-shaped that is the first massage technique.
The second massage technique is the one where you're gonna want a little bit of coconut oil, you don't want a ton you're just gonna kind of rub it on your belly this one you're gonna start right around your belly button and you can do two hands all you kind of like to do two hands next to each other with my fingertips.
You’re gonna start and you're gonna go in the clockwise direction and you're gonna draw a spiral circle around your belly and you're gonna go wide and then you're gonna go small again you don’t want to do this right after you've eaten.
I personally have really good results with this when I do it before going to bed and then in the morning, I feel really kind of thin and like my belly is less bloated.
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