5 Ways Floating Helps

1.  Floating helps reduce inflammation,  pain and muscle soreness.  It does so in a few ways.  First, through the absorption of Magnesium.  Research has continued to determine the qualitative and quantitative effects of Magnesium absorption through the skin.  Magnesium has been clearly identified as a lacking and deficient nutrient in our bodies.  Magnesium is a key ingredient in many key processes from musculoskeletal, to neurologic. to cardiovascular to digestive and more.

2.  Floating lowers blood pressure while reducing cortisol and adrenaline output.  Feedback mechanisms in the brain respond to the state of relaxation that occurs during floating, which leads to reduced blood pressure and reduced adrenal burnout through minimizing the secretion of stress hormones.

3.  Floating also helps  by reducing stress through increasing the output of 'happy hormones'.  Research has demonstrated that float therapy elevates the secretions of both serotonin and dopamine.

4.  Floating improves sleep.  When we don't sleep well, you don't heal well and this distorts the immune system even further.  While floating, you enter various stages of sleep and associated brainwaves, which helps the brain to rewire and repair (neuroplasticity).

5.  Floating enables activity.  Often, when you are weak and fatigued, your brain and body do not want to be active.  It is easier to be sedentary.  But, we all know that if you don't use it, you lose it.  Through stress management, muscle relaxation, and restfulness of a float, it enables you to do that yoga class, swim those laps, take that walk, prepare that report.

In short, Floatation Therapy leverages everything.  The benefits come from the combined impact of the high content of magnesium in the water and weightlessness.  Being free from gravity helps your muscles fully relax.  The biggest benefit of float therapy is in your head - literally- which passes the rewards down to the rest of your body.