My first blog that will be officially be called The Float Chronicles

What an incrediable journey (already) in just a short 6 weeks, having the float center and meeting some awesome people and hearing some awesome experiences they are having and utilizing in these wonderful yet mysterious float tanks, that I have come to love so dearly myself! Not only am I feeling better every day, but mentally I am becoming more focused,my memory improving, balance coming back,sleep becoming a normal (thing) again, and a huge kudos and victory for me........ Yesterday is the first time that I have worn my heels in over 2 long long long painful years, and holy bloody hell did my feet,calves and my left hip let me know it last night! BUT oh what a feeling that I never thought I would have back again ! A HUGE thanks to my children for seeking all options for me to have some sort of pain releif or pain free alternative and finding this huge spaceship looking thing that I (WAS) to be able to float in and get some pain relief! At this point in my life I didnt care if the little green purple people eater waved his hokey pokey , magic long fairy Godmother wand over my ass crack just to be able to have SOME releif from pain ! Was I going insane at that point.... I have no doubt ! Maybe I'll cover that another day, for now back to the space craft ad the floating ! Sure I told the kids...... I have an open mind , I'll go to Boulder to float ASAP and my journey began ! I make the appointment, able to get in ASAP and off we go. Hell I even talked hubby into floating...... what a great sport for trying it with me. We arrive, walk in and are greeted by the most awesome gal (liz), she takes us to our rooms, mine first ! WOW it really does look like a space craft,tank,BIG,ok ok ok I'll be fine I'll be fine..... breath breath .......I know whe must have seen my face... she asks me if I'm scared...... ahhhh DUH.... Claustraphobia... Im supposed to be inside of this???? In the meantime I am totally unaware she has taken hubby to his own private room with the TANK. She is very calming and reassuring to me that I am totally in control of everything about the floatation tank.... I get in... sit on the bottom..... stretch my arms out to feel the walls,..... the top of the roof....... I cant reach either end of the tank, it is to long...... OH HOLY HELL phew a light is on.... wow a nice calming blue light..... ok time to start laying down.... I can do this... I can do this...... OMG....... IM FLOATING !!!!!!!!!! WTH........... How is this possible????? Really floating????? OMG...... this...is..so..cool.....WAIT a min.... the claustrophobia isnt bothering me...hmmmmm

Ok time to see if I can even try to meditate in here. This is so strange, the floating, the calm blue light, NO noise whatsoever,just my heartbeat and breathing.I start to listen to my heartbeat and realize it is slowing down,not realizing Iam becoming so relaxed and floating !!! The next thing I remember is the tranquil movement of light bubbles surrounding me, my time is up, it is over.......ALREADY????? Dangit.

All dressed and return to lobby where we are offered hot tea and a place to journal. At this time I thought the journal was a very weird question to ask me?? I feel incredible and revived ! Like I've slept hours, instead of 90 mins. in the TANK. We decide to walk Pearl Street. Walking walking.... when all of a sudden ....I..... realize....WTH... NO PAIN??????? I say to hubby .... I.... HAVE ... NO...... PAIN.....!!!! He looks at me like I have REALLY finally flipped my lid... OMG, is this real? Im waiting for the needles of pain... where are they? What has happened? How, why,how could this be? What really is this thing I just got out of??? I am in total shock..... OK.. WE cant tell anybody right now, its like Im in the twilight zone, lets go home. The drive home. I feel so damn good. Sitting in the car. NO ice packs. Still no pain. How can this be. I am mezmerized and confused all at the same time. NO pain. We are home.... I dont need anything for pain, what the hell is going on? OH I havent slept that good since I cant remember. I felt refreshed and slept like a baby. Oh the coffee smell, the birds are singing and I feel incredible! OH wait.... NO pain??? Still???? This cant have happened. I want to play outside in my garden ,play on my skidsteer, and my mess that just got left when I became ill. But NOPE I have to get on google and search out this float tank thing.. what the hell is it, what is it for? You have got to be kidding me...... WHAT???? Been around since the 50's? Is just water and Epsom salts?So many many many testimonies and information about this thing! How could I have not ever heard of this thing before??? Why are these things not everywhere? My researrch and knowledge began from that point.

Day 4

Damn my pain is back.... I knew it was too good to be true! Im so depressed again... crying begins once again, will this ever go away, or why wont it go away? Drs. Now contribute my pain to Fibromyalgia..... yeah yeah I know the last thing they diagnois you with because they cant find anything else wrong now! Now just learn to deal with it. Im so damn depressed again. Pain on scale of 1 to 10 is again a miserble 18? Hubby tells me ... make another appointment in Boulder! WHAT??? REALLY?? BUT BUT honey it is $ 70.00 for the 90 minutes. PLUS gas, PLUS a motel if I cant handle the drive. I get the go ahead to make the appointment..... damn skippy I can get in the next day! Lets go !! We head out the next morning, arrive and I made sure I didnt take anything for pain, because I wanted to know if I was ready for the nut house or if it really worked, or what if, what if, what if......... This time no problem getting in, no claustophobia thought at all, just the thought of that FLOATING sensation.... OMG just pure bliss. once again I just listen to my heartbeat because thats all I could hear..lol I tried to see if I could really try and hear something. Nope just my heart and breathing. The floating ....... I cant rollover..lol can I lay on my side??? Nope. hmmmm ...ok just lay here and float just listen to my heartbeat, thats all. OH NOOOOOOOO those damn bubbles, which means my time is up... already??? 90 min gone like that ??? I want more !!!!!!! I dont want to get out !!! Damn it. Out in lobby again.... offered tea... offered that journal stuff again. Meet hubby outside, I dont even realize that once again ..........I....HAVE....NO.....PAIN......!!!!! UNREAL.... Now of course I cant shut my mouth the whole trip home, because I am just so amazed of this floating in JUST water and Epsom salts! I remember that no matter what we did as kids, that even if you had a sliver grandma told you to soak it in Epsom salts. This wonderful mineral that 98% of the population is lacking magnesium. I still have no pain for about a week that time. The more I floated ,the less my pain was! Then I told Hubby... WELL.... I am going to buy a TANK ! He agreed lol .. His eyes got really big when I told him >>>>>> NO 2 tanks and opening a business ! If this works this well for me.... it will work for the others like me. Then my research really began and I ordered my TANKS LOL>

Remember that journaling thing I was telling you all about ???? Well I had begun to find out, that everyones float was an experience totally different from anyone elses! Now I was intriged.....and now I could tell my clients to float their own boats.....

You see, at the time, I didnt know the all the benefits of floating, the ability to not hear noise and to actually relax. That 90 mins. in the float tank was the benefit of 4 hours of sleep. ( No wonder I felt incredible) The ability to just listen to your heartbeat would allow a deep meditatative state of beta and theta brain waves and the cause to total relaxations. At this time of the story, I dont want to tell you everything I have experienced in the tanks, but that I float as much as I can and That I am my own "I" story. That my friends have told me that they wish they had taken pictures of me in May of this year to Now Dec. of this year 2015, and the transformation that the FLOAT has been for me !!

My goal and mission is to help as many of you out there who need to FLOAT, because there are so many many reasons why besides my story of chronic pain. But am I so grateful to the man Dr. John C. Lilly for creating this wonderful spacecraft, ship, thing, tank, to my pain relief God sending grace for this woman's continuing jouney!

Blessings ~Namaste !

Alisa