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Buzzfeed video: These People Tried A Sensory Deprivation Tank For The First Time And Found Inner Peace

15/2/2018

Are you contemplating giving floatation tank therapy a go, but unsure what to expect?

We just found this funny and interesting video of three people trying floatation tank therapy for the first time. It might give you a little bit more of a sense of what floatation therapy can offer you!

All three bring different fears and expectations to their experience, and it’s interesting to hear their impressions after emerging from a two-hour float session. They all seem to find some really positive benefits!

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Check out the whole article here, and then book in and give floating a try for yourself!

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Music While Floating

30/4/2015

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Listening to music can help you relax

Have you ever wondered why there is music at the beginning of your float session?

You will notice that at the beginning of your floatation session, once you hop in the tank, that there is light switched on and music playing simultaneously. While it might be a great method in creating a relaxing atmosphere, it does serve a purpose.

The music allows your mind to slowly settle into a state of complete relaxation. Some people find that having complete silence at the beginning of the session can be unsettling or uncomfortable. The thought of coming from such a loud outside world, where your mind is processing every little noise and movement, followed by floating in complete silence can be quite alarming to some.

Once in the float tank, for some, your minds can take some time to switch off or slow down enough for you to feel relaxed. This is how music can help you. The music can act as a distraction. Having the music playing lightly in the background for the first part of your float can allow you to slowly turn down the volume of your inner mind and stop paying it as much attention, letting you settle into a state of silence.

As stated by Michael Hutchison in The Book of Floating, "the harder they try to achieve the desired state, the more it escapes them, until finally they learn -almost by accident- to let go, and the state just happens." You can feel obligated to completely turn off once inside the tank, making it a conscious effort to not think. This makes your brain work harder. The music can often act as a relaxer in itself, calming the mind and helping to eliminate any extra force making the brain try and switch off.

For those who prefer to have music playing the entire time during your float, this is possible. Be sure to let your floatation therapist know before you go in for your session. Call us on (03) 9440 9453 to book your float or click here to book online

Music can act as a distraction during your float sessions

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Floatation and Creativity

23/3/2015

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Ever wondered where musicians, poets and artists get their creativity? Do you often wish you had a source of some sort to get your creative juices flowing?

Look no further! The Floatation Tank, also known as a Sensory Deprivation Tank, is known to help inspire creativity and innovation in a range of individuals.

No wonder why floatation tank therapy is so popular with many creative minds, including those of designers, architects, artists, musicians, and many more.

Floatation Encourages Creativity

In fact, studies have shown that floating in a sensory deprivation tank has enhanced perceptual-motor skills in sports, and creativity in the sciences. Further studies have demonstrated an improvement in music students' technical abilities after floating once a week, for only four weeks (Vartanian & Suedfeld, 2011). Enhanced musical ability has also been noted in research, specifically with the jazz genre, in musicians who have floated. Others have found inner benefits of floating after improvements were discovered in 'creative cognition' in a range of individuals.

You may be curious as to how floating helps in this way. Increased creativity is achieved through a number of techniques explained below, which can all be experienced in as little as one hour of floating.

Sensory Deprivation
We've all heard stories of artists who claim that their sudden insight, revelation, or creative designs occurred in situations where their sensory input has been reduced. This includes circumstances where their attention has been turned inward during long walks along the beach, or while starting off in space. What you may not have realised is, that one of the fundamental elements of creative or imaginative thought, is concentration gained through some sort of sensory restriction or deprivation. What better way to eliminate the overload of sensory input of our busy lives, than floating in a floatation tank?

Brain Waves

Theta State
One of the explanations as to how many gain unexpected inspiration, physical relaxation, creativity and vivid imagery, particularly while their mind wanders off while gazing into the distance or just before entering their sleep stage, is the influence of the theta state.

Theta state is the brain wave experienced when we are in a very deep state of relaxation. This is the state that is used in hypnosis and during REM sleep. Normally we experience this theta state for a few minutes, but enclosed in a floatation tank, this state can last for longer.
Unfortunately, this does not mean reaching theta state in a floatation tank will leave us all geniuses. Rather, the floatation tank has the ability to let us easily fall into this state, which can be an essential tool in promoting innovation and creativity. The more you float, the more benefits you may discover, as the theta state becomes longer, the more often the floatation tank is used.

Visualisation and Imagery
Another vital component of creativity is visualisation or imagery. Visualisation can be a very powerful tool which helps us invent and create, which has been proven throughout history. Many geniuses over the years, well-known and not so well-known pioneers, encountered visions or mental images of their 'reality-changing ideas' or concepts before pursuing them.

An Invigorating Float can help with Musical Ability

The floatation tank is the perfect environment created for experiencing vivid and intense mental imagery and visualisations, and the best space to manipulate these also.

What makes the float tank so optimal for inspiration, is the profound relaxing environment. In these surroundings, your brain is so relaxed that it generates an exceptional amount of very slow, strong, rhythmical theta waves. You already know a little about theta waves (mentioned above), but the extended theta states gained from floating are associated with vivid, lifelike hypnagogic images. Deep relaxation and strong mental imagery are derived spontaneously and effortlessly while floating in the float tank for most individuals.

Visualisation can Improve Creativity

As described, there are a number of techniques associated with floatation tank therapy that can inspire and encourage creativity and innovation. Relaxing in a peaceful and comfortable environment for an hour or so, doesn't appear to be too hard of a job to gain some extra insight to assist with your creative activities.

Be mindful, that the longer it's been since your last float, the less prominent the effects will be - they will begin to diminish as time passes. To preserve ongoing imagination and vision, consider floating on a regular basis, or on an as-need-basis when you need to rejuvenate your creative self.

Floating for Relaxation

Comment below and tell us about your experiences: whether that be what you've seen while floating, the success of your musical band, or how your creativity has thrived.

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Meditation and Floatation Therapy

19/5/2013

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In its most simple essence, meditation is allowing yourself to “just be”. This state of “being” allows room to observe your physical, mental, and emotional processes as well as your spiritual connection and heightened states of consciousness.

There are many different ways that you can meditate. One of the simplest ways is to sit still in a peaceful place and close your eyes, and focus on your breath. It is a good idea to restrict sensory stimulation (such as sound and light) so that relaxation can occur. Meditation can take on various forms – sometimes it is simply focusing on your breath, or it could be repeating a mantra or prayer, other times it is done walking or with free movement.

Some of the goals of meditation include to learn how to quieten the mind, reduce stress, create inner peace and connect more deeply with your inner self, improve health, deepening the relationship to God/Source/the Universal Divine energy that gives life (or whatever the person’s spiritual beliefs include).

When looking at their benefits and effects side by side, the similarities of meditation and Floatation Therapy are numerous. Whether it’s the basic principle of “just being” and purposely being still for long enough that the mind and body are able to rest and relax, or whether it’s the physiological effects, there is no doubt that both share numerous positive effects on the entire being.

Some clients who already meditate have told us that their experience of Floatation Therapy is very similar to a deep meditation. They have found that the environment of the float tank further enhances their meditation, taking them deeper than ever before.

We have noticed that some people who have never really meditated before, or who say “I’ve tried meditation but my mind is too active” or “I can’t sit still enough to meditate” can find Floatation Therapy a great introduction to meditation.

The combination of Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) with the properties of the Epsom Salts (i.e. magnesium sulphate) allow physiological changes to occur effortlessly in terms of relaxation and stress relief. This allows people who struggle to “calm the mind” to instead calm their body first, which in turn affects the mind.

It appears that some people find this experience of body-mind relaxation a very helpful aid, fast-tracking their ability to learn how to meditate. For others, it can require more practice and time. It truly is an individual journey when it comes to both Floatation Therapy and Meditation, as the journey is about learning, exploring, discovering and eventually mastering various aspects of yourself.

If you would like to learn more about the experience of meditation and Floatation Therapy, why not try it out for yourself? We are open for bookings 7 days!

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Floatation Tank Better Than Meditation

2/4/2011

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Many novices to floating ask us if a floatation tank session is better than meditation. The answer is YES!

BECAUSE most people meditate WHILE in the floatation tank - even if they don't realise it. The experience of weightlessness creates an all-consuming sense of peace and tranquility that invites and encourages a meditative state, calming the inner voices and inducing the perfect meditation environment.

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Buzzfeed video: These People Tried A Sensory Deprivation Tank For The First Time And Found Inner Peace

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