Benefits of Floating
Athletes can float to increase blood flow, relax muscles, speed recovery, and use visualization techniques
Wellness enthusiasts and students can use floatation to clear their mind of distraction aiding in focus, meditation, and memory retention
Public workers in high stress occupations can use the float tank to relieve stress and learn to let go of traumatizing experiences.
Endrophins and neurotransmitters are realeased durring float therapy which can aide mental clarity and illness
Artist can float to stimulate creativity,focus on a concept or flush out an existing problem.
Enhanced Healing
Without gravity pushing you down, your body is capable of amazing things. Blood flow is increased throughout your entire system and joint pressure is released.
“90% of the energy output of the brain is used in relating the physical body to gravity” Dr. Roger Sperry, 1981 Nobel Prize Recipient for his Split Brain Research.
Without having to fight off old man gravity your body can focus on repairing itself more efficiently.
Stress Relief
Cortisol is an adrenal hormone that’s released when the body is under stress. While you don’t have to worry about getting eaten by a tiger anymore, high work load, family issues , or just watching the news seem to put the body on high alert.
Floating allows the body to produce dopamine and endorphins which counteract the cortisol allowing floaters to de-stress naturally.
Magnesium Sulphate Absorption
Magnesium is usually derived from the soil that our food is grown in. Over time our soils have become less abundant in this mineral due to over farming and certain pesticides can even block the absorption of magnesium into the body. Its used all over the body from heart health to bones and teeth, its also an electrolyte. For more info go here
Sulfate is involved in joint and brain tissue. It also plays an important role in the proteins that line the intestinal wall. It aides in detoxification and again is hard to get out of the modern diet.
Here’s the kicker, Epsom salt is actually Magnesium Sulphate :O and its easily absorbed through the skin.
While floating, magnesium sulfate is absorbed through the skin allowing it to it draw out toxins, reduce swelling, chill out the nervous system, soothe muscles and exfoliate the skin.
Creativity and Focus
The tank reduces both conscious (light , sound , touch) and unconscious distractions (temperature, gravity). Freeing your brain from monitoring these factors allows it to focus with greater clarity and awareness on what is important to you.
Floating allows you to generate Theta waves common among Zen monks. These brain waves are associated with vivid memories, intuition and creative insight. From the theta waves the brain is able to reach a state of hyper-suggestibility. Here the brain is particularity receptive to new information and studies have shown that language students are able to learn and recall thousands of words in a singe session.
The float tank is about a truly relaxing experience that you make your own. Use it to prepare, use it to explore, use it to understand. Here at the Float Lodge we provide you with the best environment to be yourself.