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• Exploring New Depths Through Sensory Deprivation Therapy
• What is Floating?

Studies have found that float therapy can reduce stress, depression, anxiety, and pain while increasing optimism and quality of sleep. Float therapy is often used to promote overall wellness. Other names for float therapy include sensory deprivation therapy, isolation therapy, floatation therapy or restricted environmental stimulation therapy REST. Float therapy helps you to achieve feelings of calm and deep relaxation by cutting you off from almost all external stimuli, including light, sound, and touch.

The containers in which float therapy sessions take place, known as sensory deprivation tanks, sensory deprivation chambers, or float tanks, are designed to isolate you completely from the outside world. The practice of floating and sensory deprivation tanks dates back to its initial development in by Dr. John C. Lilly, a neuropsychiatrist interested in the effects of sensory deprivation on the brain.

Lilly explored the effects of cutting the body off from external stimuli on creativity and concentration. Lilly and other early float practitioners also investigated the spiritual and emotional benefits of float therapy with some using the practice to facilitate intense experiences of awakening and emotional release.

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Over the last few decades, float therapy has become increasingly popular as a means of relaxing, especially for those suffering from high levels of stress. It is also being explored as a treatment for a range of health conditions that may be worsened by stress.

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Contemporary research suggests that float therapy is an effective, noninvasive method for treating stress-related illnesses and pain. A float session can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of the central nervous system that calms the body down after a stressful experience. Additional research has also confirmed Dr. This may be due to the fact that float therapy can help your brain achieve a state of mind similar to what people experience in deep meditation—but without the time and effort that goes into a meditation practice.

Over the course of a float session, your brain also begins producing higher levels of dopamine and endorphins the neurotransmitters of happiness, well-being, and pain relief , while reducing your levels of cortisol—the main chemical component of stress. The feelings of well-being produced by a float session may last for days or even weeks afterward. Float tanks are sealed, light- and soundproof tanks that are partially filled with epsom-salt infused water.

The water is heated to the same temperature as your skin, which makes it difficult to feel any separation between your body and the water itself. Because of the epsom salts in the water, you float effortlessly on your back, without any danger of turning over or drowning. During a float session, you typically spend 45 to 90 minutes inside the tank. It is used to cool the body during the warm summer months. To practice sitali curl your tongue and stick it out of your mouth.

Inhale deeply through your tongue as if you are sipping through a straw. You should immediately feel a cooling sensation on your tongue and in to your throat. Bring your tongue back into your mouth and exhale through your nostrils. If you are unable to curl your tongue, there is a similar technique called sitkari. Gently let your upper and lower teeth touch. Open your lips as wide as you can comfortably and inhale through the gaps in your teeth. Close your mouth and exhale through your nose.

If you are ever feeling warm during a float session practice 5 to 10 breaths of tongue sipping to gradually cool the body. For more information on tongue sipping click here. Every float session is unique. Our bodies are a little different each day. The next time you are floating try out these 3 breath techniques. Experiment and gauge the impact of these techniques on your focus and comfort during your sessions. Happy Floating! When she is not floating she can be found running around the Float Club, laughing like a hyena, riding her bicycle, eating scrumptious vegetarian food and striking random yoga poses.

Sometimes life gets away from us, we get too busy, or too distracted or something unexpected happens that shakes up our usual routines. Recently, I inadvertently took two weeks off of floating and I was eager to get back in the tank. I had been meditating daily outside the tank, but my body was achy and looking forward to physical benefits that go along with floating. Here is my float story I stepped into the float room and did my initial float tank limbo to keep my chest and belly from submerging.

I leaned back and as always the water perfectly embraced my body. I slowly swayed back and forth for a few minutes occasionally tapping the walls with a finger or a toe as the waves from my entry dissipated. I drew my attention to my breath and strength of my heartbeat. I felt my heart reverberating in my chest cavity generating tiny waves of water around my rib cage with each thump. I stayed with my breath and gradually sensations arose all over my body.

I mentally scanned from the crown of my head through my toes. I noted sharp shooting pains from my right shoulder, deep rumblings from my intestines and powerful vibrations from all 10 toes. I am grateful for my Vipassana meditation practice, it has trained me to observe all these sensations, but to remain as equanimous as possible.

These strong sensations gradually give way to more subtle ones. Eventually, m y breath slowed and I drifted away. I feel like I have left my human avatar for the universe of vibration and energy. I feel at home. Some unknown length of time passed in this in-between state when suddenly fear jolted through my entire body. My heart raced and I began breathing quite heavily. I felt as if I was a bunny being chased by a pack of ravenous wolves.

There are jarring flashes of light vivid that I began to question whether or not I was still alone in the float tank. I managed to settle back, thinking of the advice we often give to floaters when anxiety surfaces. I was restless and struggled to return to my peaceful state. My meditation session had ended and it was time to me to reenter the world little lighter, calmer and wiser than before. For me, every float is an opportunity to learn and grow, to release some baggage, to appreciate the impermanent nature of the universe and the impermanent nature of ourselves.

One only needs to be quiet and still enough to observe it. This is an amazing post from the Samadhi Tank Company. If you are curious about the history of Floatation Therapy it is definitely worth reading.

We find it to be more of a Sensory Enhancement Tank. But the terms Sensory Deprivation Tank and even the solemn sounding Sensory Deprivation Chamber are already ensconced in the collective conscious, and we have spent years reflecting on all of the terms used to describe this place where nothing happens. Concern that sensory deprivation tank increases some people's fears We have always avoided using the phrase Sensory Deprivation Tank.

For over 40 years we have worked to allay peoples' fears about floating. Darkness and drowning were reason enough for people to avoid the tank, let alone an idea as heavy as sensory deprivation! But we've realized that in today's world sensory overstimulation is a very real problem, and the younger generations are actively seeking ways to turn off the constant stream of information coming at them from every direction during most waking moments.

Today, people are drawn to the potential of darkness and silence.

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And yet, the float experience is truly not a sensory deprivation experience. In the early s scientists at McGill University, under the direction of D. Hebb and funded by the Canadian Defense Research Board, began a series of experiments on what they labeled sensory deprivation. In Scientific American wrote: "The aim of this project was to obtain basic information about how humans would react in situations where nothing was happening. The purpose was not to cut individuals off from any sensory stimulation whatever, but to remove all patterned or perceptual stimulation, so far as we could arrange it.

However, it was later revealed that beneath the desire to study the phenomena stated above was another motivation, which the original researchers kept secret. Hebb revealed this in the introduction he wrote to the book Sensory Deprivation, writing: " The work we have done at McGill University began, actually, with the problem of 'brainwashing'.

We were not permitted to say so in the first publishing. The chief impetus, of course, was the dismay at the kind of 'confessions' being produced at the Russian Communist trials. We did not know what the Russian procedures were, but it seemed that they were producing some peculiar changes in attitude. One possible factor was perceptual isolation and we concentrated on that. This was done by placing an adult male subject in a room or "chamber" reclining on a bed where he would wear a translucent plastic visor which let in only diffuse light, cotton gloves and cardboard cuffs to prevent the hands from feeling anything, and a foam rubber pillow around his head plus the low white noise of an air unit to block any external sound.

Time outs were allowed only for meals and bathroom breaks. However, as Jack Vernon, a researcher who continued the sensory deprivation studies at Princeton and author of Inside the Black Room: Studies of Sensory Deprivation, points out, even in this extreme environment the term sensory deprivation is a misnomer: " Now obviously we did not, and could not, take entirely away the action of all the senses.

It is possible to deprive the visual sense totally extinguishing light, but it is not possible to do a similar thing with hearing. Even if a man is placed in a completely soundproof chamber, where no external sounds will reach him, he will still experience auditory sensations. He will hear blood coursing through those blood vessels that are near the ear. He will hear his breathing movements as well as occasional rumblings from the stomach, and the like. It is easily possible to prevent sensations of odor and taste by merely removing stimuli, but man must eat and food, of course, serves to stimulate both of these senses.

In addition to these, the mind also receives sensory stimulation that informs it of bodily movements, body positions, movements of muscles, changes in temperature, feelings of thirst and hunger, etc. So if the term sensory deprivation isn't even accurate when describing these early chamber experiments, how did it come to be associated with floatation tanks, which hadn't even been invented when this research was first taking place?

We think that films such as The Manchurian Candidate , The Mind Benders , and Altered States contributed to the use of this misnomer in the popular culture. In addition to that it started being used in beginning college psychology text books. Let's turn now to the most famous figure on the history of floating, John C.

Lilly, to learn how he invented the floatation tank and why he preferred using another term altogether. John Lilly did not do sensory deprivation research.