Who Benefits Most from Regular Floating?

The deep relaxation and stress relief provided through floating are good for everyone, but there are some groups of people who may receive specific benefits from floating.

 

Athletes and Performers

Performance training and other forms of super-learning are proven benefits of floatation tanks.

Every muscle is allowed to rest and recover. By using the floatation tank in conjunction with visualization techniques, many athletes have found rapid improvement in their performance.

Floating can duplicate the mental focus achieved through self-hypnosis and help with visualization.

This “mental practice” affects your mind like physical practice. The next time you engage in physical activity, your mind will respond to the activity as you visualized it and help you achieve your goal.

Healing, even from chronic pain, proceeds at an accelerated rate.

Floating helps you bring worries or blocks to the forefront where you can focus on and confront them.

Floating can enhance your performance and soothe your aches.

 

Pregnant Women

Pregnancy can be hard on your body as you try to adapt to hormonal changes and extra weight. Balancing your pregnancy with daily life, including your job and family, leaves little time to care for yourself.

Revel in an hour entirely to yourself, resting in warm water with gentle music and nothing to think about but you and your baby.

Soothe your back in water that gives you complete support and the feeling of weightlessness.

Give yourself time to bond with your baby.

 

People Experiencing Pain and Stress

Floating is not a medical treatment, and no claims are made for its use in curing medical conditions. It has, however, been shown to be very effective in providing relief from pain associated with medical conditions, even chronic pain.

Floating causes the body to release endorphins (the body's own painkiller), including beta-endorphins. The body releases endorphins in times of comfort as well as pain. They are far more powerful than drugs, such as morphine, and are associated with relief from migraine, back pain, and arthritis.

Try floatation therapy as part of a program of behavioral pain management (assisted relaxation) for musculo-skeletal pain.

Use regular floating sessions to ease inflammatory pain from rheumatoid arthritis.

Regulate your blood pressure through regular floating. Your heart rate will slow down during a float and the effects of this may last for several days.

 

Creative People

Floating has been shown to have effects similar to meditation in helping the brain to produce theta waves, which aid creativity.

Increase theta wave production in your brain to aid visualization, creative insights, and association.

Release intuitive understanding and start to see the 'big picture.' By removing the stimuli (light and sound) from the analytical side of the brain, floating enhances the operation of the right side of the brain.

Pressures from work are eliminated, leaving you with a clearer mind and the ability to concentrate more effectively. This increases creativity, the ability to solve problems, personal motivation, and energy levels.

Solve the problems that normally seem too complicated to tackle. With no new information entering the mind, floating allows a deeper and different quality of thinking.

 

Jetsetters

The experience of quiet, warmth, and calm is so profound that body and mind drift into relaxation easily and quickly. This helps overcome the feeling of being unable to unwind after a long journey when your body clock is off.

One hour of floating is equivalent to four hours of good restful sleep.

Floating will help you recover from jet lag.

You will feel relaxed and revitalized, which will help you adjust more quickly to a different time zone.