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2017 float conference

8/29/2017

Niv and I make sure to try to learn as much as we can about floating staying up to date and also by attending the float conference back in August. We can't believe how much is happening in the floating world. So much amazing research from the Air Force, Laureate Brain Institute for Brain Research, and the University of Cincinnati. Floating can allow you to balance physiological symptoms of your body with just ONE float and it can last 4-7+ months after. It balances your sympathetic and parasympathetic systems whichever way it is disrupted. All you have to do is get in the tank and it can lower your blood pressure, lower your cortisol levels, and improve heart rate variability, even for people who are under chronic physical and mental stress. Also shown in the data presented this at the conference: floating (in a sensory deprivation tank) enhances mental wellness. It allows your body the break it needs to heal itself, both mentally and physically. Floating enhances your mind, body, and soul. It is an extremely valuable tool to evolving as a human being.

I can feel the difference floating has not only on my body and well being before and after a float, but all of our clients' body and well being as well. They hold themselves differently when they come out of the tank, and you can feel the difference spending time alone with their self has done for them. I encourage everyone to try a float and feel the difference for your self.

-xx (honihoni) anisa

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Article titled: “Float therapy: A new method in PTSD treatment”

8/29/2017

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I think as a species most of us who are suffering mentally have been for a while. Some of us just didn’t or couldn’t see it. We were too stuck. A lot of us are tired of the current mental health model we have right now. We are told to take a pill that only helps with the symptoms, sometimes only decreasing them, and sometimes causing worse side effects than the symptom it is eradicating. The pill doesn’t even solve the problem. We are also told to go to talk therapy, with the cultural mindset that our healing will come from someone else. The problem with that is that it is the wrong mindset. Healing cannot come from someone else, it is your mind that is creating it, it is your mind that needs to change it. You’re going to have to do the work, and you have to continue to do the work to prevent it from happening again. By no means am I saying it is easy because it’s not, but it is easier with the right tools. From the beginning we need to be taught that our healing comes from within, not from someone else. The float tank is a safe space for you to discover your self. Get back in touch with who you are and why. The way you think directly contributes to how you feel. The float tank is one of the many tools you can use to change the way you think, empowering you to change how you feel.

Straight from the article:

“It’s like a reset button for your brain,” Hearn said. “It really is. If you think of your brain as a computer, you have all these apps that are going to the hard drive, and you’re letting it all reboot.”

In addition to the mental break the technique gives floaters, the ability to feel weightless and relieve the stress from pressure points and joints is a huge benefit, he said.

The biggest draw of floating for Hearn, though, other than his own positive experience, are the benefits to military veterans and sufferers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The lack of stimuli allows the brain to confront images or memories they have previously suppressed, he said.

“What’s actually helping people on our PTSD program is, when they get into the tank and get to that point, now they can address it in a calm environment where there’s nothing else there that could hurt them,” Hearn said. “They feel calm in the tank. They feel like it’s secure, and they’re safe, and they can approach the traumatic events in more of an internal counseling session with themselves.”

Article: https://www.military1.com/ptsd/article/1641000014-float-therapy-a-new-method-in-ptsd-treatment/

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Why you should float after the dentist

8/6/2017

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First of all I really dislike going to the dentist, who doesn’t? Don’t get me wrong, I love the dentist that I have, I think he is an amazing dentist, he is understanding, and takes the time to understand why. But also: There’s usually shots involved which means needles, and lots of drooling, and slobbering, and someone is looking and inspecting how good you are at taking care of yourself. Most times it feels like you’re just being judged the whole time. They know whether or not you smoke, drink coffee, tea, they can tell a lot by your teeth and when you recognize that, it feels like they are judging you for it. The whole time you’re just like oh my gosh, why didn’t I floss more, I should be brushing 3 times a day, they probably think I’m a monster! And then you put on some head phones and try to listen to music as they go about their business in your mouth. When my teeth are being drilled I can barely hear my headphones on full blast. It feels like I am in a war zone. The whole time I have my eyes closed, I can’t look at the needle from the shot or the drills, or their judging eyes. I just want to hide away in my head away from everything that is happening to me. It feels like I have no control. I take a breath and I remember the float tank, my safe space. I remember the only control I have is how I react and what good is it if I continue to react like this?

And then I began to think of my next float and how much I need it. I’m sitting in a dentist chair and I realize that my whole body is tensed up. I am actively having to remind myself to relax. That is an hour of exhaustion for me. If I wasn’t consenting to this it would feel like a trauma, it would be considered torture, but I am consenting.

My fight or flight response is turned on, leaving you with your overactive amygdala. Luckily the tank shuts your amygdala off, shuts down the fight or flight response for just a little while at least, sometimes more with practice. The epsom salts also help to release whatever toxins you got from that experience. You also need to heal, my mouth is usually sore from all the poking and prodding as well as holding it open for that long. You heal in rest and the tank is the deepest state of rest your brain can have. So get in the tank.

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2017 float conference

Article titled: “Float therapy: A new method in PTSD treatment”

Why you should float after the dentist

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