Floating in an isolation tank is supposedly good for the health due to a variety of reasons that range from regulating blood circulation, rejuvenation processes to optimising our chemical balances and enhancing our auto immune systems.
From a mental perspective flotation therapy has also been observed to do wonders for thought processes and re-calibration of our nervous system. Floating in an isolation tank in Melbourne has become popular among the older age groups that suffer from an assortment of illnesses that range from insomnia to arthritis, from pregnancy discomfort to chronic joint pains, headaches and slow healing injuries.
This has caused many people to raise the question of how is it possible that a singular treatment could be so effective for a range of ailments. Well, the truth of the matter is that, it is not mainly the therapy itself that allows such healings to occur, but the more accurate statement would be ‘what Floating in an isolation tank does for the mind which in turn allows the brain to rectify biological issues within us’.
Most of those who attend a float within an isolation tank in Melbourne report a higher level of consciousness, higher levels to pain tolerance and a generally better immune state merely due to the fact that during Floating in an isolation tank all external stimuli is eradicated and when the brain is free from contending with external stimuli, it simply does not laze around doing nothing, but in fact the brain actually refocuses all that unused energy or resources rather to revamp our biological chemical balances which in turn supports our internal healing processes.
Although most people would tend to think that floating in an isolation tank is something new, it is not, as the idea of the therapy can be traced back to the times of King Herod and one of the first ‘health spas’ in recorded history located within close proximity with the Dead Sea. This idea was then taken by one Dr John C Lilly during the psychedelic era who reinvented the concept on a smaller scale with some added features such as heating the Epsom salt solution to body temperature that does not allow us to tell apart which parts of our body is submerged and which parts are not which mimics the effect of a gravitation void environment.
Apart from this Dr Lily also introduced the idea of depriving the floaters from hearing, seeing or smelling anything which is the reason behind the effectiveness of this therapy as the brain is given a break from the constant engagement with these external stimuli. When these external stimuli are not present, an enormous amount of brain resources is set free, which our brain conveniently refocuses on other areas of our biology that have been neglected for a long-long time.
Although the phenomenon has become popular, the true nature of how this therapy impacts our brain still remains very much a mystery that scientists are still trying to uncover. It would only be fair to say, that although the treatment has been around in some way or another for nearly 2000 years, the scientific community only recently started paying attention to it due to the immense positive feedback that has been collected over the last decade on the therapy.