Is Floatation Therapy The New Medical Wonder?
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Spending time alone inside a sound and light proof floatation tank is anything but a new phenomenon, as a matter of fact, floatation therapy has been in existence for more than half a century, the roots of which can be traced back towards the end of the swinging sixties and early 1970's, when the first commercial experimental tank filled with warm Epsom Salts was invented by Dr. John C. Lilly, who was, among other things, a physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst and an inventor in his own accord.
His fixation with the study of neuroscience, sensory deprivation theory and associated inventions for research, lead him to create a number of early tanks for scientific
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His hypotheses and first commercial floatation tank was released for sale during the mid 1970's, it was not long until the newly developed tanks revealed participants found the experience of floating in isolation very enjoyable, and were able to reach levels of relaxation previously only observed during stages of deep meditation, normally an effect impossible for the average person to achieve.
The scientific results of floatation tanks (originally known as isolation tanks, or sensory deprivation tanks) have demonstrated the ability to reach a prolonged theta brain wave states within 30 or so minutes inside the float pod, these states previously were only seen during hypnosis or through years of practising conventional meditation