[Workday Writings] Fake Float Tanks

Bathing in hot water isn’t the same as a float tank, but it’s close enough for the purpose of helping the body and mind. If I were able to have a float tank in my home, I would probably float daily after work or in the evening, maybe even sleeping in the float tank some nights. Since I can’t do that, currently, I think applying a similar mindset to bathing in hot water is acceptable.

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[Workday Writings] Bathing Means Saving

It’s 2:59pm and I have a full bottle of cold water next to me. I am in the fourth hour of a modest headache so I am now in a hot bath because I think I’ve realized why I’ve been getting more headaches at home than when I work. My headaches are typically caused by lower back tension. I showered briefly my-yesterday but I didn’t take an extended bath. Theory: hot baths help.

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 07

I’m working on this “floatbook” series of videos capturing the live-writing process to better showcase what float tanks actually are like. Float tanks, also known as sensory deprivation chambers, have a bad reputation in the media because of historical scares over infections in the waters, when psychonauts weren’t historically or during our times making them seem super weird. They’re just chambers with warm water and Epsom salts. Nothing crazy. Excellent for mental and physical health.

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 06

The float tank session I had my-today was the worst I’ve had in years. The results weren’t great for me and I’ve felt off all day. I think it’s important to document when these things happen, since although I can still sing the praises of floating, there are problems that happen occasionally. This problem was more physical – the water was too cold – along with expectations – someone was talking loudly in the lobby for about 20 minutes?

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 05

For my fifth float tank session in recent memory – I’d been floating for years before, but that was pre-broadcasting and pre-live-writing/live-recording – I wasn’t sure if I’d go because of all the ice on the road. My-Yesterday, I had to take off work. My-Today, before booking my float session, I went outside to see if the roads were icy to walk on. They weren’t. I’m glad I went since now my feet are significantly less swollen.

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 04

In this week’s floatbook thoughts live-writing essay, I did the float tank session and recording the day after your-last week’s episode. I went for a few reasons. First, I had a theory that my foot pain was more oriented in my hamstring and ankle than directly at my foot, and it’s in the arch of my foot on the upper part of the foot. I used this session to also brainstorm and sort some negativity.

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 03

In this third episode of live writing my thoughts about my float tank sessions, I came up with much more concrete ideas to act on regarding moving out of the apartment-mansion. The ideas were fairly straightforward an extension of the essay I’ll publish your-tomorrow about clearing out some space. Between these two essays, I will have meditated on quite a bit relating to moving out of the apartment-mansion and how I’ll do that in depth.

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 02

My-Today was my second float tank session in over two yearsAfter the first, I did a live-writing session where I wrote my thoughts for a little under one hour, recorded the whole time, and I felt that was a great way to talk through my thoughts while floating. This is not a rigorous medical case study, but rather a subjective “trip report,” that being said, there is medical research being done for float tanks.

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[Float Tank] Floatbook Thoughts 01

My-Today, I did my first float tank session since August 2020, days before my surgery. I stopped going because my physicality wasn’t great. I went today because my-tomorrow I start my first day of work in over two years. I went in with two questions. First, where did I stack up physically against where I was two or three years ago? The second was a question that I revealed this morning when I made a mistake.

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[Tripping On…] Floating Out Pain

The most painful thing about float tanks, perhaps, might be exploring those less comfortable areas of the mind. I’ve never had any significant problems with this, but I’ve talked to others that were apprehensive about the experience for that, or other reasons that were rooted in that unknown. Taking the time to float through traumatic, dramatic, or otherwise painful events in one’s life doesn’t seem terribly pleasurable, but I’ve found it’s helped me achieve serenity.

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