Floating has become the #1 most-effective method for many who have experienced success with relieving chronic pain. Where the heck has this been  all our lives? What a beautiful and affordable way to ease our suffering and awaken!

This method of self-therapy will help you start healing faster than almost every other therapy modality out there too. Only one other modality listed in the Ultimate Healing Guide ranks higher for its more aggressive (but less practical) approach: the more-extreme Wim-Hof Method.

Harmonious bliss for both self and mindbody: that’s where floating can take you. Quite possibly the quickest way to a better you; that’s floatation therapy in a nutshell. You don’t need a doctor to give you permission to experience this incredible modality, so find a float tank spa nearby and try it for five floats of 60 minutes or more before you make an evaluation.

You should go into a float session with the idea that you are entering into what could be the most comfortable and safest space you could possibly imagine. Think of it as a place where you can feel at ease enough to disconnect from the world and become disembodied into a wonderfully peaceful, meditative state of mind. There in that float tank, you are safe.

This is where self-healing begins. A relationship between self+bodymind develops quickly. Self-awareness shoots through the roof!

Floatation will provide you with improved creativity, flow state, and self-healing. Floating will help synchronize your brain hemispheres (which is good), calm the chatter in your mind, and provide you with a sense of deep relaxation at the cellular level throughout your entire body.

If you are lost, you may even find yourself.

There’s something for everybody when it comes to floatation.  Spiritualists can imagine floating in the palm of God’s hand during a float experience, and materialists will get amped about floating inside a matrix-like force-field of balanced energies. 

Whether we tap the power of our faith or the power of imagination, self-healing during floatation therapy is available to those who reach for it.

The first vision – self-healing through faith – has been scientifically proven to increase your odds. 

Patients with pain use a number of cognitive and behavioral strategies to cope with their pain, including religious/spiritual factors, such as prayers, and seeking spiritual support to manage their pain.

Research on the biology and neurobiology of pain has given us a relationship between spirituality and pain. There is growing recognition that persistent pain is a complex and multidimensional experience stemming from the interrelations among biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors.

Spirituality and Religion in Pain and Pain Management

The second vision is scientifically true; we float suspended within an electromagnetic field of strong and weak forces associated with the interaction between the atoms of our bodies, the water, Epsom salts, the air, plus the forces of gravity and buoyancy. We’re traveling millions of miles and yet somehow we remain suspended and motionless. 

It doesn’t matter who you are, it feels amazing.

As the awareness processing unit (APU) and central command for all body systems, our brain uses the fast-as-light electrical network of the central nervous system to send out signals to the rest of our bodymind systems. These systems include our digestion, our immunity, and cellular function. Cell function switches between, for instance, whether the cells should work or sleep. All this happens autonomously and without our awareness.

We might live in pain and suffer seemingly endless agony. We might live with the anxiety that makes us think we’re going crazy, and makes other people around us mad too. And so far, there haven’t been many reliable ways to calm ourselves down. We take drugs and go on drinking binges in attempts to distance ourselves from this pain and madness.

If we’re forcing our body to continuously digest because we’re overeating or continuously filter an overload of toxins because we’re popping so many pills, when do your cells ever have time to rest and repair? It’s an endless cycle which tends to lead one to bouts of despair or depression.

What if you could reliably achieve bliss with relatively little effort in an affordable manner, floating somewhere close to home? Would you do it? You should, because there’s so much to be gained. Self-healing comes within easier reach. Self-healing becomes more believable.

When we want to reduce our pain, anxiety, and stress, what we’re after is for our body to calm down (which includes the brain); we want our thoughts to wind down, we want our heart relaxed, and we want the cells of our tissues to release tension.

The point of this is that once we’re all calmed down, our brain waves slow down into Alpha waves (peaceful, maybe daydreaming or falling asleep) and Theta waves (dreaming, problem-solving in our sleep). Scientific evidence and personal experiences shared online have repeatedly mentioned that floating is the fastest way to experience these stages of consciousness reliably.

Through judicious use of floatation therapy, you will arrive at brainwave states where your body switches on your natural healing facilities. Your repair mechanisms engage during floatation mainly because you are there with the explicit intention  of encouraging that very thing to happen. Also, because your brain is no longer required to process external stimuli such as vision and hearing.

The place we are looking for during floatation has been compared to lucid dreaming.

Your bodymind remembers your worst fears and traumas. If you care to tap that bodymind for a release of trauma, the tank is a great way to go, especially if you’ve already had practice being with your thoughts for lengths of time. If not, you should start in shorter increments of time to avoid panic and achieve the sensation that you’re safe there, where you are in that dark tank, without being able to see.

The fastest way to allow your bodymind to release chronic stressors is floating in a dark and quiet tank, in water that’s skin-temperature, for at least an hour, and at least five times in a row. Some folks do not reach the “depth” of relaxation desired until floating 2 hours per session. Commit to (10) 2-hour sessions, and use them once per week. After you’ve done this for at least 10 hours, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Almost anyone with chronic pain, anxiety, or stress can benefit significantly from a whole block of floating time. Since you’re floating in Epsom salts the entire time, it may help relieve insomnia or other chronic illness.

After a float session, you’re likely to be more relaxed than anything you’ve ever done before. Maybe sitting on that beach or snorkeling on that hot tropical day was pretty dang relaxing, away from your daily grind, sure! But after floating, you can’t help but feel better about yourself. Your inner fire gets stoked, you start feeling ambitious, and all the problems you thought you had before you went in will seem to have melted away.