The Deep Self

Today, I felt like skipping my float session. I was feeling quite open before the session. However a little altercation on the floattalk list left me with a bit of bitterness, so I decided to have the Epsom Salts melt it away.

When I entered the tank, I had very little work to do on the head and neck. They sank down to full relaxation almost immediately. It took awhile but my body began a series of “micro-stretches”, gently pulling apart muscles that were un-necessarily held in tension. Each micro stretch felt so nice.

Also, there were a lot of bubbles in this session. I have no idea why, perhaps viewing the healing video of Nicolai Levashov did it?

All in all, another worthwhile session.

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The heating element on the bottom will burn your booty… I need more water and salt. My butt was dragging the bottom. I had to turn down the heating element to keep from frying my behind.

The early essence of floating is unwinding. Removing locked muscle patterns. Un-necessary tension.

How nice to have a teacher. A perfect teacher. A teacher who never fails anyone. Who is always there should you simply get in the water.

Now time to run the filter system… let’s hope this works!

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It’s been 1 week since I floated. My futon feels like a cement block. My body is beginning to close up. I really need to float… I cant wait til Frank gets here to install my tank.

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I was stressed. Beyond stressed. I was going out of my mind. I grabbed all my clothes and shoved them in a suitcase and drove from Columbus to Chi-town in one day. Thank goodness Spacetime Tanks has been open for 26 years and booked me the same day.

On the first day, when I got into the water, I was struck by how different *I* was from the water. The water was calm, pure and gentle. I was hard like a rock. But then I began to merge, melt, slowly but surely.

The next day when I got in the water, I realized my arms were hunched up chronically to my neck… almost as if I was ever-ready to ward off a violent blow from behind. But over the hour session, this too began to drop away. 

The third day was my 4-hour session. My arms began to unroll and I started to trust the tank. Over a 4-hour period I actually began to allow my neck to release.

I did a final 4-hour session on Tuesday of last week. Here my perception began to trust extending out beyond my body… gradually, slowly a few times it happened.

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