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WHAT IS FLOATATION THERAPY?

Have you ever wondered what floatation therapy is and how it contributes to your overall well-being in life?

There has been a lot of buzz about this new approach to stabilize your mind and cure other ailments which originates from the unhealthy mind.

Welcome to the world of floatation.

Now, it is very important to know what this is all about. What is floatation, how to get your floating experience, and how it contributes to your health and well-being of your mind.

What is floatation?

In floatation therapy, the user floats on surface of water without any effort. For this floating experience, floatation pod or Floatation room is used. Floatation pod is a soundproof tank in which water is mixed with Epsom salt completely dissolved. This salt water gives the buoyancy effect due to which user floats on the water.

The water in the pod/tank is adjusted to the body temperature at about 93.5° Fahrenheit. Now this is where your floatation experience starts. Because water is at the temperature of your body you really don’t feel there is water below you. This gives you an effect like you are actually floating in the air!

This is also called as sensory deprivation. All your sensory inputs sight, sound and smell are shut down. It frees your mind getting distracted with the sensory feelings. Your mind and body are purely at rest in this state.

Now as you are floating your body gets more and more relaxed, your mind also starts stabilizing. And as our mind gets more stable, it gets more open to the suggestions and increased creativity. One may also perform meditation, mindfulness, auto-suggestion, self-hypnosis in such relaxed state.

This is scientifically proved therapy and has many benefits, some of which are-

• Stress Relief
• Emotional Healing
• Weight Loss
• Cure for Insomnia
• Overcoming Jet Lag
• Pain management

Modern life and stress have contributed many of these ailments. Floatation is the perfect and natural therapy for these ailments as it heals your mind and body simultaneously.

Floatation and other therapies

Many other therapies have been used for well-being of body and mind for years. For example, Yoga, Meditation, Massage therapy etc. They have their own benefits, but they differ from floatation therapy with respect to relaxation of mind and body.

For example, yoga therapy really has some learning curve. You have to actually learn asanas that too in the proper form. In yoga, body stretches may involve varying level of intensity. The yoga offers relaxation through different poses and stretches to the body.

Meditation sometimes becomes very difficult for the beginners. Sometimes it becomes a frustrating experience to concentrate the mind when so many thoughts come to our mind constantly. Being focused and free from the clutter of the mind seems impossibility for many practitioners.

Massage therapy too works when it is done by the proper therapist. It is totally depending on the other person and his ability to make your body relaxed. Also, many people do not feel comfortable being semi-nude in front of the therapist or sometimes they don’t feel good about someone touching their bodies.

In floatation therapy, you are isolated and completely being with yourself in the floatation pod. It slows down your brain waves from higher beta state to theta state, which gives the effect of deep meditation, which could take a lot of time if you simply do meditation or yoga practice.

Although floatation therapy is different from other relaxation techniques, you can reap maximum benefits if you combine it with above-mentioned methods. For example, a floatation session after yoga can truly calm your mind and body and you feel deep relaxation.

Floatation therapy leaves your body deeply relaxed, properly rested and strong. It is the simplest way to enhance your overall wellbeing.

What have been your methods to relax? What do you think about floatation therapy?

Floatation therapy can be experienced in Relaxopod in Pune,India at Shalom Float and Mind spa