Floatation Therapy Deepens Meditation
The float tank is an excellent place to practise meditation as the absence of external stimulation and time pressure helps your body to relax. The sensory deprivation which the float tank provides blocks outside distractions making it easier to quieten your thoughts so that you can slip into a meditative state.
Floating has become an increasingly popular way to promote meditation. Breathing and visualisation techniques practised during the floating help deepen meditation. Breathing helps you relax and release the tension in your body to effectively keep stress at bay so you achieve a more calm and present state of body and mind. The visualisation allows you to reflect on deep-rooted memories and is the perfect way of bringing positive energy into your mind; it can be a powerful tool to effect personal change. Benefits of visualising include alleviating anxiety and depression, relieving insomnia, decreasing stress and eliciting behaviour change.
Floating and meditation go hand in hand because the conditions in the float tank provide a peaceful experience that helps you to work on self-reflection to achieve a state of mental clarity and emotional clarity. The deep relaxation provided by floating causes the brain to allow meditation to become easier to achieve.
A float tank environment helps still the body so your mind can follow, putting you in an altered state of consciousness where you may feel your awareness slipping out of your body, or hear sounds that are not there, or feel dreamlike perceptions of time and space.
Many people use floatation to explore their deeper self and their creative being because floating allows you the opportunity to turn off the outside world and all its distractions. So, because your body isn’t fighting gravity in the float tank and your brain isn’t busy trying to process a hundred million sensations all at once, your mind is left free to explore some amazing things/ideas.
To achieve theta state (reduced consciousness - just before we fall asleep) through deep meditation usually takes years of practice, but with floating, theta brainwaves are produced half an hour into the float. When your brain produces theta brainwaves you experience a state of very deep relaxation; theta brain waves produce a sensation of detached relaxation which can result in you feeling drowsy (hypnotic-like state), to experiencing vivid, holograph-like images. This encourages deepened meditation.
“Meditation is very important. It has a very high objective – to take us away from this world of suffering into the world of happiness, joy and Bliss. It is a method, a discipline, that we have to follow very discreetly and if we follow it properly we will find that meditation helps us to discover ourselves, what we really are. As we get deeper into meditation we come nearer to the Source of our Being.” -Swami Nirliptananda
Floating has become an increasingly popular way to promote meditation. Breathing and visualisation techniques practised during the floating help deepen meditation. Breathing helps you relax and release the tension in your body to effectively keep stress at bay so you achieve a more calm and present state of body and mind. The visualisation allows you to reflect on deep-rooted memories and is the perfect way of bringing positive energy into your mind; it can be a powerful tool to effect personal change. Benefits of visualising include alleviating anxiety and depression, relieving insomnia, decreasing stress and eliciting behaviour change.
Floating and meditation go hand in hand because the conditions in the float tank provide a peaceful experience that helps you to work on self-reflection to achieve a state of mental clarity and emotional clarity. The deep relaxation provided by floating causes the brain to allow meditation to become easier to achieve.
A float tank environment helps still the body so your mind can follow, putting you in an altered state of consciousness where you may feel your awareness slipping out of your body, or hear sounds that are not there, or feel dreamlike perceptions of time and space.
Many people use floatation to explore their deeper self and their creative being because floating allows you the opportunity to turn off the outside world and all its distractions. So, because your body isn’t fighting gravity in the float tank and your brain isn’t busy trying to process a hundred million sensations all at once, your mind is left free to explore some amazing things/ideas.
To achieve theta state (reduced consciousness - just before we fall asleep) through deep meditation usually takes years of practice, but with floating, theta brainwaves are produced half an hour into the float. When your brain produces theta brainwaves you experience a state of very deep relaxation; theta brain waves produce a sensation of detached relaxation which can result in you feeling drowsy (hypnotic-like state), to experiencing vivid, holograph-like images. This encourages deepened meditation.
“Meditation is very important. It has a very high objective – to take us away from this world of suffering into the world of happiness, joy and Bliss. It is a method, a discipline, that we have to follow very discreetly and if we follow it properly we will find that meditation helps us to discover ourselves, what we really are. As we get deeper into meditation we come nearer to the Source of our Being.” -Swami Nirliptananda
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