Why Float?
People float to relieve stress, recover from injuries, fight addiction, eliminate chronic pain, and much more. Studies indicate that floating increases your dopamine and endorphin levels, boosting your mood and leaving you with a pleasant afterglow that lasts for days afterwards. Without the need to fight gravity or take-in external information, it'll likely be the most relaxing experience you've ever had.
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Everything you experience while floating comes from within yourself. It’s the perfect time to reflect on your life, and reports of creative and personal insights abound. Float tanks can also be thought of as training wheels for meditation. After about 30-45 minutes of floating, your mind starts producing theta brainwaves, which are responsible for that ‘between waking & sleeping’ state. After years of practice, people can enter theta state through deep meditation. Float tanks get you there with hardly any effort at all
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People have cut strokes off their golf game, developed complex scientific theories, and drafted whole portions of books while floating. With nothing to distract you, your level of concentration and knowledge absorption is astonishing.
Your Mind
Floating is about everything that you won’t be doing. You won’t be fighting gravity. The half a tonne of epsom salt in the water takes care of that while you lie on your back.
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The water is kept at 35 degrees. This is skin-receptor neutral, which means you lose track of where your body ends and the water begins.
Your ears stay just below the water, and the rooms and Pods are insulated against sound. Noise from the outside doesn’t reach you.
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After you shut the door and turn off the light, you float in total darkness.
During your float the outside world is gone, and amazing things happen.
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It turns out that when you’re not fighting gravity or constantly taking in information your body has a lot of extra resources at its disposal.
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Your mind is free to mull things over without distraction, your brain waves slow down, and your body gets to rest, de-stress, and heal.
It’s likely to be the most relaxing thing you’ve ever experienced.
Your Body
The buoyancy created by the dense Epsom-salt solution effectively removes the effects of gravity on the body and brings the individual close to an experience of total weightlessness.
With ear plugs in and, if you wish, the Pod’s interior lights off, the quietness and the darkness allow the mind to drift into the deepest state of relaxation possible. Freed from all sensation of gravity, temperature, touch, sight and sound (which together account for 90% of normal neuro-muscular activity), you conserve and redirect vast amounts of natural physical and mental energy.
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The ultra-deep relaxation of floating "resets" the body’s hormonal and metabolic balance, strengthening resistance to and accelerating recovery from the effects of stress, illness, injury or strenuous exercise.
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With no commands needing to be sent out, the logical side of the brain is rendered redundant, and its activity slows down until it synchronizes with the creative side.
This leaves the individual in a dream-like state, akin to the thoughts experienced just before you go to sleep. In this state, the brain releases vast amounts of endorphins.
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