The Neuroscience of Flotation Therapy - How it Calms Anxiety in Mind and Body

Rebel Health Radio

I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).
Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.
Catch the original paper I am referring to here which outlines the medical benefits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902218300491
00:00 Intro to dark therapy/dark therapy/floatation (sometimes referred as sensory deprivation)
01:30 The practical aspects of floating in salty water - lighting, temperature are all controllable.
03:05 Why it works - muscular relaxation from floating in Epsom salts high in magnesium, feedback loop to brain is changed - reduction in anxiety from quieting the Default Mode Network
07:00 Neurological benefits - interoceptive feedback, increases heart rate variability HRV increases wellbeing
09:30 The hynogogic state increases internal focus and changes the DMN coupling away from mental chatter towards internal homoestasis
12:20 the effect of stress and changing your brainwaves. the importance of setting.
17:00 summary and thanks
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