Why We Float In Sensory Deprivation Chambers

Float tank, Isolation tank, floatation therapy chamber, they are all names for one of the most beneficial, misunderstood and underutilized healing tools on the planet. The many benefits of floating aren't always understood, so we are going to take a little time to talk about who floats and why they float.

Who Floats in Float Tanks?
Professional athletes, CEO's, Doctors, Busy Mom's, Artists, CFS sufferers, Writers, people suffering from pain, people who want mental clarity, people who want mental creativity, pretty much everyone can benefit from floating in a isolation tank. So why doesn't everyone float?


Float Tanks and Stress

If work, family, or just everyday life stress has you feeling worried, anxious, and maybe even tense consider trying a float. Spending even just one session in the float tank can help to restore your calm and inner peace. The Vibetality Float tank experience is like a massage for your mind, designed to create a space that is ideal for relaxation and rejuvenation.



Sensory Deprivation and Athletic Performance

Sensory Deprivation sports therapy tanks are used by a wide range of professional athletes worldwide to increase athletic performance and reduce recovery time. The Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, have use sensory deprivation tanks to help both athletic performance and recovery from injuries and fatigue.


Floatation Therapy for Chronic Pain Relief

Test indicate that the most physical severe pain intensity is significantly reduced, by the floating technique. Flotation tank treatment also elevates the participant's optimism and reduced the degree of anxiety or depression; at nighttime, patients who underwent flotation tank therapy fell asleep more easily.

So as we move towards the New Year, and the potential stress that can come with the holidays, take refuge in the knowledge that each time we float, we are healing our mind and our body's and taking care of ourselves in a way that is immensely positive and beneficial. In recent years research examining how "mindfulness" and meditation change the brain have been popping up everywhere. This new foundation of scientific research has helped to change the old ideology that the brain's development ends around age 25. New studies have revealed just how flexible and adaptive the mind can be. Activities like physical exercise or flotation tank meditation can not only promote new functions and connections, they can even physically change the brain's structure. This flexibility of the brain is referred to as neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to change over time in response to our environment.

Meditation inside the Vibetality Float tank influences brain activity during tasks, and also influences the connections between regions of the brain. Researcher Judd Brewer, used real-time fMRI to observe meditators in a 2014 study conducted at Yale University. When Brewer asked participants to practice "loving-kindness" in the scanner, experienced meditators exhibited a completely different connective pattern in the brain than the pattern of novice meditators.

Research has also shown that meditation changes not only the function of brain networks, but their actual physical structure. In a study conducted at UCLA by researcher Eileen Luders Long-term meditators exhibited greater gyrification. Gyrification is a process of cortical folding and is believed to support greater intelligence because it allows for greater surface area of neurons within the same skull volume. Interestingly in this study, gyrification increased when the number of years practicing meditation increased. In other words 

~ Float On.