Benefits from Floating
The deep relaxation and stress relief provided through floating is good for everyone, but there are some groups of people who have been found to get specific benefits from floating
Performers in sports and the arts
Performance training and other forms of superlearning are proven benefits of floatation tanks
- Floating can duplicate the mental focus achieved through self-hypnosis, helping with visualisation
- This 'mental practice' affects your mind like physical practice. The next time you try 'the real thing', your mind signals nervous responses as you imagined them, helping you achieve your goal
- Healing, even from chronic pain, proceeds at an accelerated rate
- Worries or blocks can be brought into focus and confronted
- Float to enhance your performance or soothe your aches
Pregnant women
Being pregnant can be a hard time for your body as it tries to adapt to hormonal changes and extra weight. As normal life also carries on, you will be coping with job and family, leaving you little time to 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 backache in water that gives you complete support and the feeling of weightlessness
- Give yourself time to bond with your baby - floating is safe and enjoyable for the whole nine months of pregnancy
People who are 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 from chronic pain (see section on the Science)
- Try Floatation as part of a programme of behavioral pain management (assisted relaxation) for musculo-skeletal pain
- Assist relief of Inflammatory pain from rheumatoid arthritis through regular floating
- 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 visualisation, creative insights and association
- Release intuitive understanding and start to see the 'big picture' - by removing the stimuli (i.e. light, sound), to the analytical side of the brain, floating enhances the operation of the right side of the brain
- Solve the problems that normally seem too complicated to tackle - with no new information coming into the mind, floating allows space for a 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 you body clock is upset
- One hour of floating is equivalent to four hours of good restful sleep, and floating is a real help to people recovering from jetlag
- After an hour, you will feel relaxed and revitalised, and a good step forward to being back in the right timezone!