The healing benefits of flotation therapy The healing benefits of flotation therapy Flotation therapy has a mystique associated with it.
Flotation therapy is essentially a process of sensory isolation.
Dr. John C. Lilly, and American neuro-physiologist and psychoanalyst developed the sensory isolation tank in 1954. He was well known for his research into the relationship between dolphins and human beings. His experiments centered on the reaction of the human being to sensory deprivation. What he found was amazing. Instead of the brain going into a sleep state, he found that the mind in fact becomes more active and increases its imaginative and problem solving abilities.