What is Floatation Therapy?

There’s a reason we refer to floatation as “therapy.” This is an incredible method of holistic healing on many levels. Float Therapy is an easy and effective way to invest in your health and happiness. Designed to eliminate all external stimuli, a float tank lets your mind and body take a break from the constant environmental stimulation (gravity, temperature, sound, light, etc.) encountered daily. This allows you to fully relax every muscle in your body, similar to experiencing zero gravity.

Various studies reveal that floating in a state of weightless relaxation can provide a wealth of health benefits. Along with the psychological benefits of float therapy, those who float regularly also enjoy improvements to their physical and emotional wellbeing.

The Physical Benefits

While all the benefits of a regular Epsom salt bath at home are present in a float pod (like major reduction in inflammation), there are many more benefits when you’re floating stretched out and completely effortlessly and your body can enter a complete state of rest. During float, the entire muscle system relaxes simultaneously, allowing the joints to be at complete rest and the spine to gently decompress (yes, you can hand that inversion table right over!). This feeling of weightlessness in a zero gravity environment helps relieve nerve issues like sciatica or tingling in the fingers or toes and pinched nerves. It’s also incredible for pain relief from any spinal issues – compression injuries, disc issues (slipped, bulging, or ruptured disc see great relief), scoliosis, and just that thrown out back.

Other physical benefits include (but aren’t limited to)

• Faster recovery from athletic training or injury
• Correction of magnesium deficiencies that can cause cramps, chronic fatigue, migraines, digestive issues, insomnia, and more
• Pain reduction for chronic pain conditions, migraines, or injury – Arthritis, fibromyalgia,
• Lyme, lupus, and multiple sclerosis sufferers find great relief in the stress-less environment due to the inflammation reduction and all over release of muscle tension. Floaters report a drastic decrease in their symptoms even after the first float with effects lasting hours, days, and weeks.
• Reduces blood pressure + heart rate
• Decreases the production of cortisol, ACTH, lactic acid and adrenaline
• Increases the production of endorphins
• Boosts immune function
• Increases energy
• Improves sleep patterns and quality + depth of sleep

The Mental Benefits

The desire to relieve stress and anxiety is sought in different forms, as these two conditions can wreak havoc on our daily lives. No matter how often you experience stressors, the impact can be overwhelming, and oftentimes, detrimental to your productivity. In extreme cases, stress and anxiety can even lead to many different problems.

These are some other positive mental benefits of Float Therapy:

• Increases motivation
• Reduces brain fog + promotes mental clarity and focus
• Increases creativity and problem-solving abilities
• Increases intuition and sense of self
• Elevates mood
• Improves patience, mental balance, and sense of calm
• Promotes a sense of overall well-being
• Reduces symptoms associated with anxiety, stress, post-traumatic stress, depression, and more
• Learn more about all the research behind floating and read the science at ClinicalFloatation.com.

Float for Meditation

The power of deep self-examination found in the stillness of the float environment just cannot be discounted. This space that is held for you promotes deeper meditation, a stronger sense of self, and space to find the answers to your questions apart from the noise and loud, biased opinions of a constant droning in the modern day world. When we are willing to turn inward, it’s amazing what we can find that can then be examined, healed, discovered, or released.

Wellness centers around the world promote the power of meditation, thanks to its ability to reduce tension and promote deep relaxation. Additionally, meditation practice increases mindfulness, which allows you to reshape your life goals and priorities. Floating and meditation go hand in hand, because this experience is a peaceful, prime location to complete work related to self-reflection.

How Float Therapy Visits Increase Creativity

Float sessions often initiate creative inspiration. In fact, by unlocking new lines of communication along our neural pathways, float therapy helps to:

• Rid established patterns.
• Stimulate creative thinking.
• Engage our imaginations.

For example, author Michael Hutchison, who wrote the book on float therapy, said he couldn’t have completed the project without regular float center visits. In fact, he said the book “is not only about floating, but was conceived while floating and largely written in my mind while floating.”

Lifestyle Benefits of Float Therapy

Like massage, yoga, or acupuncture, floatation therapy is a wellness practice, and the more you practice, the more improvements you’ll see in your day-to-day life. Regular float appointments may aid in:

Stronger relationships: Those who float may be able to enjoy stronger relationships with their family, friends and co-workers. If you’re able to reduce stress, sleep soundly, focus more and discover mental stability, you may begin to find your interactions and connections with others more positive and meaningful.

Changing bad habits: Be it smoking, drinking, or even eating to excess, floatation can work as an intervention tool to assist in ending bad habits and addictions. The improved connection between the mind and body can encourage you to bring more awareness to your decisions and how your life choices make you feel.

Improved self-love: The daily hustle and bustle can be stressful and overwhelming – so much so that we can forget to carve out time for ourselves. Adding regular floatation to your wellness routine is a simple and effective way to take a step back, soothe your mind and soul and emerge recharged and renewed.

At Vivify Holistics & Massage, we aim to arm you with the most important and up-to-date float therapy research and knowledge, so you will feel comfortable and confident when entrusting us with your valuable free time.

Floating can provide an endless list of health benefits, whether you’re:

• A medical professional with an irregular sleep schedule.
• An overly stressed entrepreneur.
• A patient suffering from depression.
• A professional athlete in search of new recovery therapies.
• An addict seeking to treat a substance abuse disorder.
• An overworked parent — or even an expectant parent
• A student struggling to maintain focus.
• A gamer who needs an escape from technology.

Whoever you are and whatever the reason you are researching floatation, Vivify Holistics & Massage in Blair, Nebraska welcomes you with open arms to relax, recover, and rest with us today– and every day.