Mary Niker Mindfulness

20/11/2025

🌈 Vibration Plates & Your Lymphatic System

A Colourful, Science-Backed Guide for Lymphies

By Bianca Botha, CLT | RLD | MLDT & CDS

Vibration plates have become incredibly popular — not just for fitness, but for lymphatic drainage, inflammation support, and chronic fatigue recovery.
But how do they actually work for the lymph? And who benefits the most?

Let’s break it down in a colourful, factual way. 💚✨

🌿 1. Why Vibration Plates Help the Lymphatic System

Your lymphatic system doesn’t have its own pump — it relies on muscle contraction, breathing, and movement to move fluid.

A vibration plate:
• Creates rhythmic muscle contractions
• Stimulates deeper lymphatic vessels
• Improves circulation
• Helps push fluid out of stagnant areas
• Activates your parasympathetic (rest-digest-drain) state

This means better detoxification, less swelling, and improved immune function.

⚡ 2. Science-Backed Benefits for Lymph Flow

Vibration plates may support:
• Chronic inflammation reduction
• Fatigue + brain fog improvement
• Histamine stability in MCAS / histamine intolerance
• POTS / dysautonomia symptoms by improving circulation
• Fibromyalgia, autoimmune flare support
• Swelling in hips, thighs, pelvis, and abdomen

Gentle vibration = gentle lymph release.

🍋 3. Why It Helps Histamine Intolerance & MCAS

High histamine levels often come from:
• Gut inflammation
• Lymphatic congestion
• Mast-cell activation
• Slow detox pathways

Vibration plates improve:
• Blood flow → faster histamine clearance
• Lymph flow → less histamine stagnation
• Vagus nerve tone → better mast-cell regulation

This is why so many people with MCAS, POTS, long COVID, and chronic fatigue feel relief.

🍃 4. Vibration Plates & POTS / Dysautonomia

A gentle vibration session can:
• Increase venous return
• Reduce blood pooling in legs
• Improve autonomic balance
• Support lymph movement out of the abdomen
• Stabilise lightheadedness over time

Start low → slow → short sessions.

🔄 5. Types of Vibration Plates (and which is best for lymph)

There are two main types:

✨ Oscillation plates (seesaw style)

Best for lymphatics.
Gentle → moves fluid → stimulates nodes naturally.

✨ Linear plates (up-down vibration)

More intense.
Use carefully — especially if you have:
• POTS
• MCAS
• Autoimmune flares
• Herniated discs
• Pelvic congestion

⏱️ 6. How Often Should You Use It?

Lymph-friendly guidelines:
• Beginner: 2–4 minutes
• Intermediate: 5–8 minutes
• Advanced: 10–12 minutes (max for lymph)
• Frequency: 3–5 times per week

Always hydrate before + after.

⚠️ 7. When NOT to Use a Vibration Plate

Avoid or get medical clearance if you have:
• Pregnancy
• Acute clot / DVT
• Uncontrolled heart conditions
• Recent major surgery (first 4–6 weeks)
• Severe dizziness
• Severe spinal instability

💚 Final Note

Vibration plates are not a cure, but they are an incredible tool to support:
• Lymph flow
• Immune regulation
• Histamine metabolism
• Chronic fatigue recovery
• Stress & vagus nerve support

When used correctly, they can transform your lymphatic health.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, exercise, or health regimen.

13/11/2025

Be kind to yourself

Your heart
and your dear body
are always listening.

Give yourself a little space
A little more slack
No one can live in the tiny room
you've allowed for yourself.

Be gentle in your words
Be generous and understanding.
For you are fashioned of the
dark, rich humus of this earth
not only the lofty dust
of stars.

Catch those barbs and poisoned arrows
that you might think or feel,
before they strike that precious heart

And send those unloving thoughts
and doubts,
and the faulty worries of the world
away.

You're learning here.
You're growing
And you're allowed to make mistakes.

We all are.

And we will.

Your uniqueness
and compassionate humanness
are needed in this injured world.

And we will only find true compassion

when we start
with our own
dear
selves.

Rachel Alana (R.A. Falconer)
Midwives of the Soul

From "Soul Songs" by R.A. Falconer Now at Barnes & Noble, Waterstones & Amazon.

at | Karl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955)

11/11/2025

We have not long to love.
Light does not stay.
The tender things are those
we fold away.
Coarse fabrics are the ones
for common wear.
In silence I have watched you
comb your hair.
Intimate the silence,
dim and warm.
I could but did not, reach
to touch your arm.
I could, but do not, break
that which is still.
(Almost the faintest whisper
would be shrill.)
So moments pass as though
they wished to stay.
We have not long to love.
A night. A day.... ---Tennessee Williams

08/11/2025

08/11/2025

“The death of your mother is not comparable to the death of the man you loved: it is the prelude to your death. Because it is the death of the creature that conceived you, carried in the womb, gifted life.
And your flesh is her flesh, your blood is her blood, your body is an extension of her body: the moment she dies, a part of you or the principle of you dies physically, nor is the umbilical cord cut to separate you.
To postpone that death which was a prelude to my death, so I stayed awake.
To keep me awake I kept her awake and talked, talked.
I told her what I had never told her and I would never tell to anyone, my wounds, my regrets, my doubts, precious burden however, since it was life itself, I told her that despite those wounds and regrets and doubts, I loved life very much.
I was so happy to be born, and I thanked her on my knees for giving birth to me."

( ✍️ Oriana Fallaci -"The Meaning of Life")

Art : Max Ernst

03/11/2025

Sometimes, rest
is all you need,
to bring you back,
to yourself,
and to all you love.
Take time
just to sink into ..
Coming home,
to your safe place.
Embrace the joy and security
Of your home comforts.
Relax into each breath
As you notice
the chaos of life
Leave you,
Quietly,
Cocooned in love
and safety.
You're home ..

🖋️C.E. Coombes
🎨 Lucy Almey Bird

Serendipity Corner ✨

02/11/2025

"The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest." - May Sarton

28/10/2025

“And yet the light of the moon, like love itself, touches all it sees and asks for nothing in return.”
Khalil Gibran

Oscar Emil Törna - Moonlight Over Coastal Landscape, 1882.

28/10/2025

Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books, seasons – all these things, which are not really things, but moments of life – take on a different quality at night-time, where the moon reflects the light of the sun, and we have time to reflect what life is to us, knowing that it passes, and that every bit of it, in its change and its difference, is the here and now of what we have.

Jeanette Winterson
Painting by Deborah deWit
www.teallach.com

28/10/2025

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations.

Paul Oscar Droege - Riverside, 1960.

28/10/2025

"In each of us, two natures are at war... one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose."

- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

[Image: Romantic Encounter (The Kiss)(1864) painting by Hungarian artist Mihály von Zichy (1827-1906).]

About the Painting:
This artwork was inspired by the poem The Demon, a narrative poem by Russian author Mikhail Lermontov, first published in 1855. It tells the story of a fallen angel who becomes obsessed with a mortal woman named Tamara, leading to a tragic love story that explores themes of alienation, love, and the conflict between good and evil. The poem is a masterpiece of Russian literature, set against the backdrop of the Caucasus Mountains.

Poetry, Tea and Me