Anybody who has been health conscious and has been actively seeking ways to enhance their health would have by now heard about the numerous benefits that people are deriving from float tanks in Melbourne, Australia. Lately many people within the city have been talking about and partaking in new phenomenon, many who have taken part agree it works, but there is still sceptics who have not yet tried.
But, is there really need to scepticism or is it true that float tank therapy actually works wonders on our biological systems and if so, how is it accomplished by someone simply floating in a pod that is filled with Epsom salt solutions for brief periods of up to 45 minutes to 90- minutes per sessions? Is it possible?
Well, based on the numerous reports from those who actually use the therapy once or twice a week yes, but now this kind of reports could simply be attributed to the placebo affect and easily disapproved, but, how are we going to diffuse the reports that are coming in from the medical community and scientific researchers who are saying that float tank therapy actually works mainly due to the impact it has on the individuals mind.
Based on the reports that are being gathered from the medical community, anybody who is placed in a float tank which basically stifles all external stimuli which bombard our basic sensory elements such as sound, taste, temperature, smell, vision and the all mighty gravity take a break from these external stimuli which quietens the brain and allows the brain in turn to take a break from dealing with these ‘external noise’ and when this happens, all that brain processing power which is usually busy attending to these stimuli and keeping us on constant alert is brought down to a whisper giving the brain a break to attend to other ‘issues’ that have been brewing within us for a long time and issues that have basically been left unattended by our minds.
Our mind which normally responds to the differences in temperature via our skin would not be required to do so, because of the temperature of the Epsom salt solution that floaters are placed in which is heated to body temperature which tells the brain that the temperature around is stable and thus ‘safe’ and there is no need to continuously monitor it which is similar to what happens to the light that stimulates the retina which is also removed along with the sounds that our ear drums pick up. Even the influence of gravity which constantly causes our brain to keep up with every single activity in order to ensure balance and be able to estimate weight ratios and force exerted is eliminated within a float tank.
All these processes would require a dozen super computers to process, and now all these resources are freed within the super complex construction of our mind which is more powerful than a bunch of super computers.
These resources that are freed during floatation therapy are not wasted by our brains which is a workaholic and what happens is, our brains start to work inwards and runs a ‘system scan’ so to speak and starts calibrating our biological balances that range from chemical balances, cell optimisation, blood pressure, enzyme production rates and the list goes on.
When this happens, our entire bodily functions is optimised which means that our immune systems are enhanced, our oxygenation capacity is improved, our blood flow is improved, our healing ability is increased and when all these are made possible, our brains enable us to have more concentration on everything else that we do because ‘other factors’ have been taken care of.
It is basically due to this very reason that athletes often cite rapid healing from
