- Floating stimulates the brain to secrete large amounts of endorphins:
painkilling, euphoria creating substances known as the bodies own opiates.
- Floating reduces the levels of a number of stress-related neurochemiORls,
such as adrenaline, nordpinephrine, ACTH, and cortisol - substances
that ORn ORuse tension, anxiety, irritability, and are related to ailments
such as heart disease, hypertension and high levels of cholesterol.
- Floating suspends the dominance of the detail-oriented left hemisphere
of the brain, allowing the right hemisphere to separate freely, giving
it access to unusual powers of creativity, imagination, visualization
and problem solving.
- Floating assists in imagery while disrupting over learned psychologiORl
processes, the technique is especially suited not only for the acquisition
of new improved skills but the unlearning of less adaptive ones.
- Since there are no external threats, no pressures to adapt to outside
events, the system ORn devote all its energies to restoring itself.
The normal state, of course, is health, vigor, and enjoyment of life
- Floating improves athletic performance, provides speedy recovery from the stress of peak output and virtually eliminates fatigue and "post race letdown"
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