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Behind the Strange New Science of Floating This scientist thinks floating in salt water could treat mental health disorders

How Floatation Therapy Benefits Mental Health (Research) Credited for helping with anxiety, depression, chronic pain and other health problems, float therapy has been evolving as a wellness treatment since the 1950s. Similar to meditation, floating in a salt tank or pod may hold an advantage over other methods...

Did you know your favorite food critic and chef has been floating since the 80’s?

"John Lilly saw the float tank as having two major uses. One is for individuals for whom the external world is the only reality, and for whom the internal world of imagery and fantasy is perceived as something unreal. If the individual is satisfied and content in this mode, the flotation tank can be used as a place to consider one's problems and work out solutions with minimum distraction. For another group of people, the distinction between external circumstances and internal processes is not so clear cut. They perceive both sets of phenomena as partaking of the quality of realness. These people may be interested in self-analysis, meditation, transcendental experiences, and altered states of consciousness. For them, the isolation environment is useful because it minimizes interactions with the external reality and allows the internal domain to be more fully explored. The picture above is not meant to imply that any of the 3 should be categorized in any particular group and not the other, they are just arguably the 3 most influential figures in spreading the word about float tanks in general."
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Steph Curry's Secrets to Success: Brain Training, Float Tanks and Strobe Goggles Steph Curry and the world's elite athletes are using deep science and cutting-edge tech to study and train their brains, and the results have been profound—not only in their games, but also their lives.

5 Unique Benefits of Flotation and Sensory Deprivation Therapy What is it to 'float'? To sit in a 'sensory deprivation tank'? It's all the craze now in Vancouver and beyond. Here's 5 unique benefits to getting your own float on.

"It's Like Floating In Space" The first time I clambered in, I had to steel myself. As someone who checks his phone every 10 minutes, the idea of being cut off from the world -...

Pregnancy and Floating | oGoFloat - Float Tanks in Penticton, BC Float therapy can have tremendously positive effects on expecting mothers, or those wishing to become mothers.

Floatation Therapy to ease the Suicide Disease I started my journey with an official diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) this past year. My frustration in trying to find a diagnosis was only matched by the frustration from the la…

Escape from Planet Earth: Psychedelics, religion, and outlaw scientist John C. Lilly Most scientists don't include personal stories in their research reports, but for John Lilly, personal experiences and science experiments were the same thing. His ears, eyes, mouth, and nose were calibrated probes. His mind was the unbiased observer, the ideal model for dispassionate inquiry. Knowl...

I tried floatation therapy, a crazy womb-like sensory deprivation technique that can be hallucinatory Have you ever realised what noise your eyes make when they move in their sockets? I have. Floatation therapy is deeply, deeply weird.