but until you let go of your own baseline of resting tension, you are wasting time and money.
just a few minutes in the tank will reveal to you what you are holding onto — physically at first.
then the physical unwindings occur automatically.
pretty soon ,the subconscious floats free and clear as well.
but I’m only at the physical unwinding level for now.
Please understand each sensation you have in the float tank is a message to you from other universes. Your float tank is designed and uniquely positioned for the purpose of freeing beings.
So I’m in the tank, and I become super relaxed – the head and legs let go. Normally these areas are tensed for self-defense. I completely let go of them, in a sense saying that I want relaxation more than saving this body.
So of course, the second I do so, various tensions grab my attention. It starts with being 100% certain that I am being electrocuted in the tank. And so I make some efforts to get out, but I cannot move my head or arms. Then reason kicks in and says: “if you were really electrocuted, you would be dead by now”
So I manage to get out of the tank and start upstairs, but before I know it, I’m “drowning” in the tank – but then I realize – “even though I dont know which way is up, at least my mouth is getting water”
And I become aware of Patricia and her father.
Then I see a little Mexican boy and ask him how to get out. and he says: “I dont understand it” and raises a latch. Then, there is a huge black fencework that needs to be raised.
My man Clay came over at 9:30 to start his float. He’s going to midnight on his late night float… best time to float if you ask me.
In this document, we read how Harry Palmer used float intensives to develop Avatar.
From a float center in panama:
I've been diagnosed with PMR, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, an inflammatory disorder of the muscles that is thought to be the result of an immune disorder. Symptoms I've experienced are severe bodywide aching and stiffness of my muscles, extreme fatigue to the point of being bedridden for several days at a time, and when out of bed, a feeling of weakness. I just didn't ever feel well for the past two years. In addition to the PMR, I have arthritis, as well as, injuries to my neck and back from years of being an admitting psychologist in a state mental hospital. Prednisone is the drug of choice for this condition but the side effects are almost worse than the pain. No amount of Prednisone helped my symptoms. Had my wife not booked us both appointments at Driftaway Panama as a birthday present to both of us, I would not have made the effort to travel from Coronado to Panama City. After my first 1 hour session in floatation, I felt 95% relief of pain symptoms in my muscles and joints. Three days after that, the pain started to return, so I returned on the fourth day for another floatation. I have gone as long as 2 weeks between floatations without the return of the original pain. Another change after floatation was the feeling of well being, probably from the natural endorphins that have been studied and found to increase with REST. Marvin Turl, age 70, Coronado, RP – February 14, 2009 IL Licensed Clinical Psychologist
I got up to float this morning. Before I knew it, my mind was aware of a completely different place. I was nude and outside, but wanted to hide my body. I began to float high in the air, looking for something to cover myself with. I found a dirty towel — several of them in fact. I passed on them. I finally found a warm blue blanket.
I put it on.
As I did so, I was on the ground and it was pitch black. The walls were closing.
No way out.
I began to be sucked backwards by a power. Every once in awhile I felt a sphere between my feet (the sieve in the tank with me).
Interesting how the mind can see a total inner reality and yet weave outer reality with it as well.
Oleg climbed into the tank around 7pm a few days ago and 3.5 hours later, came out a happy man. We watched a bit of “Teenagers from Space” and chewed the fat about the local spiritual goings ons…
I am still experimenting with the inflatable neck pillow. You can get a setup which elongates the spine quite a bit and tucks the chin — Alexander Technique stuff. Or you can pull it down near your shoulders and get a serious S-curve going in the spine. All in all, this float did not take me anywhere though. I did a lot of meditation this morning with Buddhism Central Ohio and my mind has been expanded all day. That being said, the physical benefits of floating are tremendous and not to be scoffed at 🙂
I really like Biocomputer Zazen. It’s a fusion of Zazen and Lilly’s revelations about the human biocomputer. I describe it here.
Anyway, here is a new tank intensive schedule, designed to make sure that the transition from wake to sleep and sleep to wake are spent in the tank. If you need to opt out of a zazen session for something else, feel free:
We may as well use enumeration and let the numbers represent what we do in military time: