All you have to do is float, relax and let your mind do the rest. As you submerge into a still tank filled with warm and soothing Epsom salt water, you are equally immersing into a new understanding of healing; one that is unlike any medical or therapeutic practice you have experienced before. You are now fully submerged in a pacifying pool of water. You lean back expecting to sink but you are now floating and it is as effortlessly as breathing. The tank is pitch black and there are no sounds except for your rhythmic beating heart and soft, constant breaths. Your senses become numb as you have become one with the water, yourself and your thoughts. What is this profound involvement you are experiencing? This is floatation therapy, a new modern day therapeutic practice.
The remedial powers of flotation therapy are wondrous and aid in restoring the mental and physical health of those who practice flotation therapy. There are three elements of flotation therapy, which includes, Epsom Salt, Weightlessness (Counter-Gravity Stimulation) and Meditation (Theta-State). The mental and physical health benefits that these elements behold are vast and wondrous.
Flotation therapy through sensory deprivation has become a safe haven where escape from the many congesting and overbearing mayhems of life is conceivable and is just a float away. In many cases, the varying mental and physical imbalances of many people who seek out floatation therapy are derived from the inflicting stresses and controls of everyday life. Floating alleviates the body and the mind by delivering indefinite relaxation that can be nearly impossible to obtain due to the havocs that consume and congest everyday life.
Over the course of one's life, mental and physical stresses and tensions have accumulated. These tensions can become so imbalanced and continuous that the body and the brain have become accustomed to them to a point of no recognition. Riding these mental and physical imbalances will require immense therapeutic practice. What separates Flotation therapy from the rest is that it addresses and relieves these imbalances in ways that surpass the capabilities of other therapeutic practices. Float therapy is entirely natural, effortless and allows for more rapid and cohesive results that continue to increasingly improve the more one floats. The benefits in which are derived from flotation therapy are wholesome and also do not require the many demands of opposing supplementary practices that pressure for medicinal and surgical attentions when in many cases, recovery can be achieved simply through natural practices like flotation therapy.
By detaching from light, sound and replacing the weights of gravity for a low gravity environment will allow in alleviating the body and mind from the overbearing pressures and strains. While the low-gravity, pitch-black, silent floatation tank may be unfamiliar and or intimidating, allowing curiosity to guide one to partake in flotation therapy will be the first liberating step to take to restore one's mental and physical healing to a state of balance.
The mental and physical benefits of flotation therapy are countless. Sensory deprivation aids to the body by increasing blood circulation, which will allow for the muscles and joints to relax and also allows the ability to repair muscle tissues and heal the body on a quicker scale. It has also been noted in many cases to aid in healing broken bones and sprained joints, at a faster rate. Flotation therapy also assistances with pain management by easing chronic pains such as neck and back pain, joint pain and also assists with easing the varying levels of arthritis pains.
The mental benefits of floating have been proven to reduce the levels of stress that cloud and congest the mind. It also increases creativity, reaction time and sensory acuity, aids in meditation and is used to aid with insomnia and other sleep disorders. Sensory deprivation through flotation therapy leaves those who have floated in a state of euphoria and jubilation due to the ability it has in creating and increasing levels of dopamine and other neurotransmitters.
Flotation therapy has brought substantial evidence and truth in that healing is not limited and or bound to authoritative institutions such as pharmaceutical or surgical conventions. While these institutes have been socially constructed as being the sole enforcers that should be depended on to receive medical and physical aid and recovery, flotation therapy supports that in some cases this is a falsehood and healing is a freedom and choice that is not barricaded to these medical institutes although it has been portrayed for one to believe so.
Like many great medical practices and therapeutics, sensory deprivation and floatation therapy have become the renowned, beneficial therapeutic practice it is today by withstanding doubts and backlashes. Hopes are that as this practice continues to catch fire, the natural healing modality that it possesses does the same. This therapeutic practice is solely for the benefit in achieving wholesome and progressing health for oneself and does not come at a countering cost like some medical conventions may.
