Top 4 Benefits of Float Therapy on your Mental Health

Since you’re not touching a hard surface when floating in the pod, the feeling of weightlessness and disconnect is exemplified. The absence of sound, light and any other kind of distraction creates an environment of serenity. 

With this in mind, floatation pods aren’t just beneficial for the body, but for mental health too. The lack of stimulation can do wonders on an overwhelmed or loud mind. If you experience one or more of the mental health concerns below, then floatation pods could be something to include in your recovery strategy:

Anxiety
The total lack of sensory stimulation could be just what you need to reduce the overwhelming feelings of anxiety. Float tanks provide the best environment for meditation, which is a method for quieting the mind, and steering away from overthinking. 

The feeling of floating in body-temperature water means you won’t even feel the water touching you. Freedom from touch offers a total release for your tight muscles too from furrowed brows to stiff backs.

Stress
Being physically distant from your phone - its blue light, the constant notifications, phone calls, messages, advertising, social media updates, work emails - may well reduce your stress levels immediately. Designating time and booking yourself out to tend to yourself could be the ideal excuse you need.

People with more serious stress disorders such as PTSD have also found to benefit from floating as part of their treatment to allow feelings of serenity and reduction of cortisol (stress hormone) during this time.

Depression
Feelings of depression are often reduced in float tanks as cortisol reduces in a relaxing environment. Allowing yourself time to recharge, reflect and be in a state of deep relaxation, which induces similar benefits to being in a deep sleep, can enable your body time to heal and recharge.

Float tanks offer a womb-like experience, which allow for feelings of security and safety that aren’t easy to find beyond the tank! Taking time to be cocooned could allow you time to find solace and a renewed perspective.

Sleeplessness
It’s been reported that floating for an hour - awake or not - is equivalent to two or three hours of deep sleep. So if you’re not catching your zzz’s at night, or experiencing bouts of insomnia, this short cut to feeling recharged again could be the boost you need.

When your session is finished, you may need a few minutes to ‘wake up’ again as your body would have been in a deep relaxation state. But it won’t be long before you feel more refreshed - as though you’ve had a proper night’s sleep.

Float tanks have fantastic benefits on the mind and body, and are more frequently used to treat mental health and addiction problems. 

If you’re looking for a place to switch off and heal without distraction, book in for a session today.