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Due to the subjectivity of the experience, answering the question “yeah, but what do I do in there?” is probably best answered by examples that we’ve heard from members at Awaken. To this point, we’ve left a lot of specifics about the experience a little vague and now might be a good time to address more practical matters.

Like meditation, yoga means many things depending on who you ask but taking only the etymology of the word into account, yoga is a union of the Self and the experience of being disconnected from your senses can produce quite dramatic unions of the inner psychic life. Another more common analog to floating our clients bring up in conversation is that of yoga. This would be assumed to come, primarily, from the sensory isolation aspect of floating in removing as many and as much of your sense inputs as possible, the mind is able to free-associate in a more varied, patient manner. Quite a few of our members view floating as a “meditation shortcut” a way into the deep states of meditation that many people spend much time attempting to reach. If the mental effects sound a bit like meditation to you, then you are in good company.

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So the sensory isolation seems to free the mind and allow it to enter a more creative, imaginative or even helpful space getting out of it’s own way, so to speak. These people say things like “it felt like I was having a conversation with myself as a child”, “I saw colors and shapes that were fascinating” and “I seemed to watch my thoughts like I watch the clouds, much more passively”. For the people seeking physical therapy, the mental experience is not a lot to write home about and they spend their time in the tank either in a state of sleep or “just-about-to-fall-asleep”.įor others, almost the exact opposite is true: the physical benefits are the more passive part of the experience and the mental effects of the sensory isolation are why they float. We also have received numerous referrals from physical therapy practitioners for a variety of post-incident rehabs. These people say things like “I feel like I just got a massage, but no one touched me”, “I feel so stretched out and loose after I float” and “it felt so good to unplug my body from reality for a bit”. It’s different for everyone.įor some clients, it is the physical benefits of the zero-g environment and the supplemental effects of the magnesium sulfate used to float you in the water. I suppose this is not entirely surprising (subjective therapies are nothing new, after all), but if “therapy” is in the list of reasons that led you here, I figured you should know that we are not (yet) held to any objective standard. I found it very interesting when taking over the business that the State of California would not let me put the word “therapy” in the business name due to me not holding any particular license, and yet hardly a day goes by that one of our customers does not refer to it as some kind of therapy for themselves. They hear that it is good for this physical ailment or that mental ailment and they are in search of a fix for something and that leads them to us. One of the more interesting angles that many people approach floating from is that of therapy. Nevertheless, here we are on something called an Owner’s Blog, so I suppose we can agree that the attempt seems worth the effort. One of the reasons this appears to be the case is that floating is perhaps the most subjective experience a lot of people have, and a lot of times the attempt to put it in words simply leads to laughter over the difficulty in putting it into words. If floating for 2 years now has taught me anything, it is that there are as many answers to the question as people asking it. Because we are hard to find by accident, I will assume that the basic question that led you here is something like “What is floating?”. I must warn you in advance, however, that in the attempt to answer this question I will submit you to a bit of a hoax namely, I cannot really do it. Hello and welcome to Awaken Float Lounge.

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