The easiest hour of presence you will ever practise.
Mindfulness asks you to notice the present moment. The float tank removes everything else, so presence happens almost by itself.
Mindfulness is simple attention to the present moment, and the pod makes the present very easy to find. With the senses quiet, all that is left is breath and heartbeat. No technique, no app, no effort: the environment does the work that a practice usually has to.
Researchers describe floating as a form of effortless mindfulness. Brain imaging and self-report studies show that floating produces states of present-moment awareness and reduced mental chatter comparable to those reached by experienced meditators.
Time goes strange, in a good way. Minutes stretch, thoughts arrive slowly and one at a time, and you notice your own breathing like something new. That habit of noticing tends to follow you out of the tank.
Ten years of meditation apps could not get me where the tank gets me in twenty minutes.
Book a session at London's award-winning float centre and experience the difference an hour of true stillness makes.
