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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
David Adam

Could floating in a tank help wash away anxiety — without any drugs?

The water’s buoyancy is supposed to remove the sensation of a boundary between the body and the external world -

Floating in darkness, I forgot how old I was. It was the most curious sensation, a feeling that I could have opened the lid of the pod and emerged as a child or a much younger man into an outside world which would have reverted with me.

My experience, it turns out, was unusual but not rare.

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