There are numerous benefits of Float Therapy

There are numerous benefits of float therapy. 

The benefits fall into three categories: 

1. Gravity Reduction

2. Sensory Deprivation or Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique

3. The Healing Powers of Epsom Salt 

BENEFITS OF GRAVITY REDUCTION

Although you are not aware of it, you are continuously using a large portion of your mental and physical resources to fight against the force of gravity. Approximately 89% of gravity no longer affects your body while floating because of the high density of the Epsom salt in the water.   When left with this abundance of energy, your body spends its efforts on resting, recuperating and healing anything that needs attention. In addition, the gravity-reduced environment allows your body to decompress, especially throughout the joints and the spinal column. It is the combination of these elements that creates the following benefits:

Pain Relief - Floating relieves back and neck pain while helping with spinal and structural alignment.  

Medical Conditions - Gravity reduction reduces the pain caused from arthritis, scoliosis and fibromyalgia.

Athletic Training - Floating reduces lactic acid, improves reaction time and speeds the physical recovery time from training and injury. 

Strengthens Immune System - The abundance of resources freed up while floating allows your body to reallocate that energy towards building up your defenses, giving you a nice boost of immunity during and after a float.

BENEFITS OF SENSORY DEPRIVATION OR RESTRICTED ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULATION TECHNIQUE

Stress Reduction - In today's world we are in constant fight or flight mode, being bombarded with an overwhelming amount of information to process.  Our minds are always actively working, making decisions.  The brain, in interpretation to all of the daily stresses, responds by activating our sympathetic nervous system.  Constant activation of the stress response is the cause for the stress epidemic.  Stress creates imbalances that lead to serious diseases like hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and mental illnesses.

Floating frees the brain of the constant tasks of orienting the body in space and processing external stimuli. Freed from these two cerebral demands, the brain can easily slip into a profoundly deep and rejuvenating state of relaxation that eventually leads to a meditative state of slower alpha or theta brainwave patterns. Meditation has been accredited for reducing blood pressure, calming the nervous system, and recent studies suggest that it dramatically improves the immune system by reducing anxiety, worry and stress. Regularly achieving this meditative state also produces an increased number of antibodies and improves brain function.

Floatation therapy is an effective and practical tool to reduce levels of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline, as well as immediately lowering blood pressure without any drug intervention, special techniques or training.

Floating also has positive effects on our biochemistry by naturally increasing pleasing and beneficial dopamine and endorphin levels, the combined effects of which contribute to a whole host of benefits including increased performance, longevity, intelligence, memory and well-being.

Increased Creativity - The human brain is split into two hemispheres or lobes, which operate independently and quite differently from one another. The left-brain is responsible for analytical, sequential and logical thinking, while the right brain deals with non-verbal, simultaneous, intuitive, nonlinear, timeless, imaginative behavior. During much of our day-to-day activities, our left-brain dominates as we make decisions based on reason and logic. The right-brain is often neglected due to the overwhelming amount of the verbal/analytical information being transmitted by the left-brain.

When we float, we’re removing many of the tasks processed by the left-brain. The lack of sensory stimulation gives our right-brain a chance to thrive. This simple phenomenon is why so many floaters report increased creativity during a float session. Research has shown that there is more unity between the right and left sides of the brain during and after a float. This synchronization may indeed be one of the biggest benefits of floatation therapy, and explains reports of “an increase in productivity, performance, efficiency and generalized feelings of competence, confidence and wholeness.”

The benefits we receive from putting our bodies into a place of sensory relief are profound, and the following list is hardly exhaustive:

Stress Relief

Emotional Pain Relief – Improvement in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), personal breakthroughs, emotional growth

Calming for Autistic Individuals

Insomnia Relief

Jet Lag Recovery

Addiction Recovery – Pain killers, smoking, alcohol, narcotics

Enhanced Creativity

Hemispheric Brainwave Synchronicity – Enhanced problem solving and cognitive ability

Super-learning – Improved skill acquisition, language acquisition and memorization

Susceptibility to Hypnosis and Increased Suggestibility

Weight Loss

Overall Well-Being

HEALING POWERS OF EPSOM SALTS

People have been taking Epsom salt baths for centuries, and its restorative properties have been passed down from generation to generation. When floating, Epsom salt is absorbed through the skin but does not dehydrate the body as table salt would. Soaking in Epsom salts provides the following benefits:

Improved skin and hair health

Relief from muscle and joint soreness