Sleep has obvious benefits for all of us and is part of our natural life. Sadly, research shows that 33%-42% of adults report sleeplessness each year and the figures obviously do not decline. Increased stress, obesity, multitasking and companies are some of the main causes of insomnia, and it can be hard for people to slow down enough to reach the necessary level of sleep relief. Most of us had stretches of days or even weeks when we couldn’t stop trying to sleep, mainly due to job stress or anxiety, relationship problems, complaints and/or future activities like relationships, vacations or tests.
The good news is that a solution is possible. Floating in a float room releases stress and enables you to sleep in addition to being perfectly safe and natural. Float care among medical experts is becoming highly tracted. Most floaters sleep and have extremely relaxed levels during their floating sessions. Many doctors say that 1 hour’s sleep in a floating tank equals 4 to 8 hours of sleep. The float tank has a strong, transformative effect on the ability of the body to restore its natural sleep cycles by eliminating all external stimuli to remove disturbances.
For a number of reasons this is believed to be true, but here are three great ones:
- Physically, the anti-gravity effect of the tank is refreshing. Most insomnia sufferers find it hard to sleep in the night. Float treatment reduces the impact of tragedy on the corpse and helps muscles to achieve intense relaxing stages. This is particularly helpful for people with back and neck pain.
- Therapy for floating helps people de-stress mentally. It allows the brain to switch from alpha waves to theta waves more quickly. Theta waves, the key to sleep, allow the body to switch into REM-dependent delta waves. While extended sleep is usually not possible during a float session, the night sleep can be improved during the therapy session.
- The floating effect is neurological, even if your brain and mind are nervous, the body will respond. Relaxation is natural, it is an adaptive reaction to floating, normal to all human beings, it functions even when the brain is engaged in floating sessions. This operates in many stressful circumstances.
It’s a perfect calming tool thanks to the stress-relieving properties of floating and can dramatically improve the quality of sleep.
Given what we know about the physiological effects of floating includes how it can decrease cortisol and increase low frequency brain activity, I is not shocking to see this evidence of direct sleep gain. High levels of cortisol and an involved, task-oriented brain (dominated by high-frequency beta waves) make it much more difficult to fall asleep and sleep. Looking forward to further studies into these advantages of flying, and assess the effectiveness of floating as a treatment for permanent sleep changes.
