Life in the rhythm of a modern city leaves no time for relaxation. Many daytime stress does not let go even at night. The ideal way out of stress is floating.
Floating - what is it?
In English, it means "soar" or "swim". The procedure is the presence of a person in a dense saline solution in an isolated chamber. Water, saturated with s alts, pushes the body to the surface, and the person seems to be floating above the liquid. Comfortable temperature, close to body temperature, silence and darkness allow a person to be alone with himself, to experience complete physical and psychological comfort.
Floating is carried out in a special chamber, which is a capsule filled with heated water, with a tightly fitting light door. A person opens and closes this door on their own.
Before and after the session, you need to take a shower. Duration - 1 hour. Time should be planned so that after the session you can do nothing. Floating causes deep relaxation, and working after it is difficult, almost impossible.
Who came up with this?
Someone John Lilly, American neuroscientist. He studied the effect ona person of the phenomenon of sensory deprivation or deprivation of all external stimuli. Lilly de alt with the problems of the human psyche, and in the middle of the last century he invented floating. What it is, the specialist understood a little later, when this method of deep, quick and safe relaxation turned from a treatment method into a super popular procedure for everyone.
Initially, Lilly was engaged in the rehabilitation of retired officers who had undergone many stressful situations during their service. It was for them that a chamber with warm s alt water isolated from sounds and light was invented. Dr. Lilly's patients swam in this cell for hours. The attempts were successful and gave a lot of new data on the activity of the human brain. Subsequently, Lilly studied the brain activity of dolphins and tried to teach them to communicate with people. Lilly's research became a bestseller and the camera was used commercially.
Why does this work?
In the process of life, a person receives a lot of stress. Many of them are literally driven into the subconscious, a person cannot fully “digest” them. From this, multiple muscle clamps or places of constant spasm are formed in the muscles. Staying in a solution supersaturated with s alt is comparable to weightlessness, floatation relaxes the body so much. That it is so effective, everyone can feel for themselves.
Float tanks use Epsom s alts or magnesium sulphate, better known as magnesia. This is a substance of natural origin, a medical preparation is produced from it.to lower blood pressure and an excellent laxative. In various concentrations, this substance is used as a food additive and also as a fertilizer.
Additional bonuses
Many effects, in addition to deep relaxation, gives a person floating. What it is is clear from the properties of magnesium sulfate. This is an improvement in the work of the heart, sleep, increased concentration, easing various pains, softening and exfoliating the skin, and even losing weight.
Magnesium is present in all tissues of the human body. It regulates the transmission of nerve impulses, resists spasms, improves blood composition. Without magnesium, it is impossible to restore joints. Staying in a state of complete physical rest unloads the spine and gives impetus to spontaneous recovery. Floating, reviews of which are always enthusiastic, returns many physiological processes to normal.
Main effect
The fact is that the activity of the brain is continuous, but due to external stimuli, we are unable to comprehend the signals that it sends to us.
During the session, the person does not sleep, but is in a state of complete rest. Floating - reviews say this - can cause unexpected associations. A solution to a complicated life task may come, an understanding of the need to forgive the offender. New information can be assimilated, which before that did not want to fit in the head. In this sense, floating can be compared to a meditative technique, and the state of meditation arises spontaneously andwith no apparent effort. Connoisseurs say that an hour of floating replaces 6 hours of sleep.
Who can and who can't?
Almost everyone can float.
Contraindications are as follows:
- epilepsy;
- suicidal tendencies;
- infectious disease;
- open wounds;
- alcohol or drug intoxication.
Pregnancy is not a contraindication. On the contrary, pregnant women feel great after the session. Firstly, their spine is unloaded, and secondly, nervous tension passes.
Floating is useful and pleasant in all respects. Indications and contraindications are very relative, and this new procedure of instant relaxation is gaining a growing number of fans.
