The search for pain relief can drive people in many unexpected, and sometimes downright odd, directions – float tanks among them. With the high concentration of Epsom salt, the tank can fully support the body without any areas of pressure on your back. This alone has been shown to help with inflammation reduction, faster recovery times, and general pain management, which helps explain why many big-name athletes and sports teams (like Steph Curry, Tom Brady and the Patriots, the Seahawks, the Dodgers, the Cubs, and many more) incorporate floating into their recovery programs.
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Some things never change
Although the environment for floating is carefully constructed and controlled, it doesn’t stop every float being its own unique experience. This is true, not only from person to person, but also from float to float. The float tank is a neutral environment, but every individual brings in their own unique state of mind and body. It’s one of the reasons we always recommend playing around with different times of day (and days of the week) when you’re starting to float, so that you can find what you enjoy most consistently for your own practice.
Continue reading Some things never changeFinding yourself in quiet darkness
How does anyone really know who they are? This question has been asked and answered in countless ways, in countless languages and mediums, throughout human history. Despite access to all of the wisdom that humans have gathered through millennia, we’re seemingly no closer to any kind of universal answer to finding yourself.
Continue reading Finding yourself in quiet darknessCreative notion from the silent ocean
Creativity is at the core of our being and is one of the main driving forces of productivity. The relationship between self-care, creativity, and productivity is both fascinating and often frustratingly elusive to balance in our lives.
Continue reading Creative notion from the silent oceanImprove thyself: betterment by buoyancy
Since floating is so versatile, and appeals to so many people from different walks of life, we wanted to run through different ways we can use floating to improve ourselves.
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