It’s dark and quiet. Inside the pod, which is filled with salt water, the only thing left to focus on is yourself.
“Turning focus inward is like a muscle,” said Lee Ann Foster, a psychologist and health coach at NeuroSource in Cordova. “In this practice, we’re teaching people how to exercise that muscle.”
The saltwater tanks, called Floatation-Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy, or REST, have become increasingly common as a therapeutic practice.
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