How to Comfortably Float While Pregnant
Floating has many potential benefits for both mom and baby, and so it’s not surprising to see a growing trend in floating while pregnant. Some take on floating to help reduce back pain, while others just love to hear their baby’s heartbeat without anything else around to distract them.
The rise in floating while pregnant has sparked some questions. While medical questions are best left to your doctor, we wanted to provide some tips for one of the most common queries we hear: how can I comfortably float while pregnant?
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From East to West: What Did Mindfulness Lose Along the Way?
Spending time in an isolation tank is a great way to practice being present, removing external distractions about the past, worries about the future, and escaping your stress. In a word, it’s a great place to be mindful.
Over the last few years, mindfulness has become a popular tool for improving general mental wellness. When mental health professionals talk about mindfulness, they’re referring to a state of “moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.”
Studies have shown mindfulness offers remarkable results in dealing with stress-related conditions such as anxiety disorders, PTSD, and depression. The results have been so profound, in fact, that they were considered extremely unlikely from a non-invasive treatment (at least by the standards of Western medicine). As these problems become more ubiquitous, non-traditional methods for dealing with it also become more common…
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Appreciation, Inspiration, and Thoughtfulness: Slowing Down Makes Art (and Life) Better
If you’ve ever gone on a walk after a good float, you’ve probably felt something similar to the experience of cresting a summit after a long hike or staring deeply into a beautiful painting. It’s that overwhelming feeling that comes from a profound sense of awe after being in the presence of something greater than yourself.
When we stop to smell the roses, it improves more than just the scent of the roses. When we slow down to appreciate the little things, those little things take up more of our mental focus. If we stop to think about this phenomenon, it can inspire some curious questions. What actually is awe? Why does it feel so good to experience it? Beyond being satisfying, how does it impact us?
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I’m looking for a little peace and quiet
As someone who is a chronic overthinker and craves control, this last year has been, simply put, exhausting. I often find myself paralyzed by fearful thoughts of what the future will hold and when I will be able to regain power over my life. These questions run on a constant loop. Worry lives in my bones.
But I started realizing that those issues are out of my hands. What happens, happens.
Recognizing that pandemics and the future are out of my control, I decided to turn to things that were within my power. I started going to therapy, and I attempted different forms of exercise to try and tame my overthinking tendencies.
And I tried them all — meditation, yoga, pilates, barre. But none of them gave me the peace that I was looking for. I found solace in running and the ability it offered to distract myself from my own thoughts (mostly because I was more concerned with when I would be able to stop running), but still, I craved the ability to quiet my thoughts in a less physically taxing way.
So I turned to something that always felt out of touch. It seemed too extreme, too luxurious, and, frankly, ineffective:
I floated in a tub of salty water in complete darkness.
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How to Learn to Love Yourself (and Others)!
Let’s talk about loving yourself. It’s that time of year when partners and paramours really try to show their affection to their special someone. Alternatively, for the unattached, this time of year can be a reminder of our own isolation (and after 2020, that’s something we don't need more of).
Whatever your Valentine’s Day might look like this year, you already have the perfect date: yourself. Even if you’ve already got a beau, belle, or similar beloved you intend to dote on, dedicating some affection internally can pay off for them as much as for you.
This means more than buying yourself something nice, giving yourself compliments, or going for a spa day. In fact, limiting your idea of self-love to such a surface level interpretation is going to be counterproductive in the long term.
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Floating Your Way to a Better You
No matter what your New Year’s Resolution may be, floating can be a really helpful tool in getting there. And even if you’re not sure what goals you’d like to focus on in the New Year, a float tank can be a great place to think about it.
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Salinity and Serenity: Floating Your Way to Inner Peace
Serenity. That sounds nice, doesn’t it?
With 2020 not letting up as it careens to a close, serenity can seem like nothing but an out-of-reach pipedream – both in our own lives and in the world as a whole. It’s difficult to relax and focus on the present when so much of even the immediate future is uncertain. In times like these, though, fostering that sense of mindfulness and serenity is perhaps one of the most important things that we can do.
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Floating and Creativity: Finding Inspiration in the Darkness
Creativity is such a fundamental part of what it means to be human that we often take it for granted. Change is one of the defining characteristics of the human experience, and being able to adapt to it and think laterally when problems arise has shaped our history in both big and small ways. Innovations like flight, the internet, and homogenized milk were all expressions of creativity. It’s something we use daily, even if we’re not thinking about it: developing a sense of style, finding ways to automate your work, or even creating a unique Zoom background for your digital meetings are more everyday examples of how creativity influences our lives.
Floating has such an obvious effect on creativity, that it’s hard to find a float center that doesn’t celebrate it in some way, whether through float-inspired artwork on display, post-float journals for zen’d out floaters to express themselves in, or album releases of float-inspired music.
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