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Floatation Therapy and Art

9/5/2022

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Enhance your creativity
Research has indicated how floating can enhance creativity and help us to see things differently. We can use the float tank as a tool to heal our bodies, but the floating experience can also provide inspiration and you will be amazed at what your mind is capable of creating when it’s free from the constant distractions of the outside world.

Do you know one of the most talked-about benefits of floatation therapy is its effect on our creativity? Many artists claim they have been inspired and their creativity has been boosted after they’ve had a float session. These artists include those working across various genres as well as those involved in scientific research. They’ve claimed floatation therapy has been crucial in getting their creative juices flowing.

This flow of creativity often happens by you just slowing down, enjoying the calm by gaining perspective and appreciating the moment. It’s true that sometimes, doing nothing, like floating, can put you in a state of profound relaxation which results in the restoration of your creative spirit. This is particularly true and especially relevant to artists as the float sessions create the atmosphere or environment of doing nothing, enabling them to detach, unplug, and stimulate a new view of the world and of self.

Studies have shown there is a link between sensory deprivation and creativity. There appears to be a noticeable increase in creativity caused by sensory deprivation. Researchers found ideas generated directly after a float session appear to be more creative than the ideas gathered during our normal work hours. ​
The benefits of floatation therapy
There are many benefits of floatation therapy, some of which are far-reaching, but the most universally appealing benefit is floating’s a tendency to enhance creativity, learning, and memory. Whether you are a student, artist or a working professional, we are predisposed to enjoying the experience of a boost in our ability to think, learn, and solve problems. Floating can do just that: studies show the time you spend in a float tank enhances your cognitive powers. Floating provides you with an extreme form of rest which is achieved because all external sources of distraction are removed; this appears to increase the positive effects of letting your default mode take over.

You can use floatation to explore your creative being and deeper self by using your time in the float tank to tune out the outside world. Since your body isn’t fighting gravity and your brain isn’t busy trying to process hundreds of sensations all at once, your mind is left free to explore and visualise rather amazing things and ideas.

Floating can be a unique way for you to break through creative blockages to find new inspiration to enhance your creativity. When your brain recognises it is being starved of stimulation it then begins to create new thoughts and ideas; some people begin to see colours or hear music, some feel themselves spinning around even though they aren’t actually moving. 
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Floating is not only beneficial to our physical bodies, but it also helps expand and inspire our minds. 
During your float session, your brain goes from highly conscious alpha and beta waves to solid theta waves—what you would normally have right before falling asleep and just after waking up. Normally we only experience these theta waves for a few minutes but this extended theta period helps us to visualise better, sometimes giving us vivid mental images. The theta state can last for several minutes in a float tank without the loss of consciousness and is a beneficial tool we can use for enhanced creativity and problem-solving. 
One of the coolest advantages of floating is how much it boosts creativity and nurtures inspiration and clarity. After floating in complete isolation, your senses are heightened… colours are more vibrant, the scents more aromatic, and the food tastes better.
​So, if you’re looking to give a boost to your creativity then you should try floatation therapy today!
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Happy New Year! Need a little help sticking with those New Year’s Resolutions? Floating can help!

15/1/2018

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Looking for relaxation? What could be better than a float?
We’re more than halfway in to January now, and you know what that means: many of us have either given up on our New Year’s Resolutions already, or our commitment is starting to waver. But not to worry! It’s not too late to get a grip on those desires for self-improvement, growth and change in this new year. And we know just the thing to help you re-commit!


It may seem strange, but lying naked in a floatation tank for an hour or two regularly has been shown to be one of the best methods out there for sticking to resolutions, breaking old bad habits and forming positive new ones.

Studies of the effects of floatation on breaking habits and addictions have shown incredible results. From quitting smoking to weight loss to breaking all kinds of addictions, habits and dependencies, a regular floating practice has been demonstrated again and again to be beneficial. We’ll run through the hows and whys of habit change below, and outline some of the findings of those intriguing studies!

Quitting smoking:

Pioneering studies conducted by psychologist and professor Dr. Peter Suedfeld have shown that sensory deprivation is hugely beneficial in the process of quitting smoking, and particularly in what’s known as the maintenance effect. Many methods of quitting smoking yield reasonable results in the short term, but Suedfeld found that two years later, subjects who had undergone sensory deprivation therapy were much less likely to be smoking or were smoking far less than another group who had undergone otherwise identical treatment without sensory deprivation.

What does this mean for your resolution to quit smoking in 2018?

Whatever other methods you might be trying, from patches to hypnotherapy to cold turkey, your chances of stopping smoking and staying stopped are massively improved by incorporating a regular float into your routine. You don’t even have to do anything special in your float - Suedfeld found that sensory deprivation alone was beneficial. But if you do want to boost your float experience, you can work with mantras, positive visualisations and other tools to make sure your body gets the message that it is a non-smoker from now on!

Weight reduction:

Many people resolve each January that this will be the year they really lose weight. They start out strong but then the barrage of contradictory messages from advertisements, magazines, television, well-meaning friends, cookbooks and even medical professionals confuse them so much they lose touch with themselves and why they wanted to lose weight in the first place.

Well, you guessed it: floating in sensory deprivation tanks can help!

How? Well, it has to do with the science of stress and relaxation.

When we are stressed, the body responds by releasing cortisol. High levels of cortisol in the body interfere with the metabolic process and cause us to gain abdominal fat.
Stress also causes overeating: cortisol can confuse hunger signals and cause cravings for high fat, simple carbohydrate foods that the body can easily convert to energy. These habits, once formed, can be difficult to break.

Floatation therapy can help by clearing cortisol and other stress hormones from the body, and at the same time releasing endorphins, which are natural feel-good chemicals. Scientists think it is this release of endorphins that explains the high rates of effectiveness of floatation therapy in weight loss programs and the treatment of other addictive behaviours.

These natural opiates simply help us to create pleasurable feelings, thereby decreasing the need to eat for comfort.

Furthermore, in a floatation tank, you are able to increase your body awareness, your emotional awareness and take some time and space for self-analysis. You may use the opportunity to discover what your trigger mechanisms are, as well as gaining clarity on your motivations and expectations around weight loss and your relationship to yourself and food. Discard all those confusing cultural messages and get back to basics: you and your body.

Alcohol reduction:

Been overindulging this silly season? If alcohol dependency is becoming a problem for you, you guessed it, floatation therapy can help!

For reasons very similar to those laid out above, the floatation tank environment is a powerful stimulus for change. Research conducted by Dr. Roderick Borrie has shown fantastic results for the reduction of alcohol consumption using sensory deprivation therapy!

General lifestyle change:

Maybe your resolution is something more general, like just being more present, having more fun, worrying less. Taking regular time to connect with yourself throughout all the stresses of the new year will help you to keep in touch with yourself, make decisions that serve you, and stay connected with your mental and physical health.

So don’t guilt yourself about letting your resolutions slip a bit! Get in the tank and spend some time loving yourself, listening to yourself and letting yourself be. And then get on with being the best you yet in 2018!

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