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Benefits of True REST

Physical Benefits

  • Improves athletic performance and helps prevent sports injuries, speeds healing process
  • Decreases the production of Cortisol, ACTH, Lactic Acid, and Adrenaline
  • Increases the production of endorphins
  • Quickens rehabilitation and recovery
  • Relieves pain from arthritis, migraines, injuries, etc.
  • Boosts immune function
  • Improves circulation
  • Increases distribution of oxygen and nutrients
  • Reduces blood pressure, pulse, heart rate and oxygen consumption

General Well Being

  • Promotes total calm and peaceful relaxation
  • Eliminates fatigue and jet lag
  • Improves sleep
  • Alleviates stress (mental and physical)
  • Energizes, rejuvenates and revitalizes

Left/Right Brain Synchronization

  • Shifts brain waves from the Beta to Alpha, Theta and even Delta
  • Better mental clarity and alertness
  • Increases creativity and problem solving ability
  • Intensifies acuteness of all the senses
  • Accelerates learning
  • Diminishes depression, anxiety and fear
  • Facilitates freedom from habits, phobias and addictions
Research and Testimonials
True Rest
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Lucid Dreaming Workshop - Day 6

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Lucid Dreaming Workshop - Day 6 - I had the most vivid dreams last night. They felt very real. I did a few realty checks to test whether or not I was dreaming, but failed. The dream seemed TOO REAL so I didn’t realize I was dreaming. Still remember them as clear as day… I’m getting very close to Lucidity (Nick)

True Rest
Friday, November 20, 2009

REST helps Chronic Pain

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Health and Clinical Psychology magazine (1985 By Thomas H. Fine & John W. Turner, Jr., Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, USA


In the past decade relaxation training has been one of a number of behavioral approaches to the treatment of chronic pain. Recently, flotation REST (Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy), which consists of floating in buoyant liquid kept at skin surface temperature in a sound-proof, light-free enclosure, has been used to induce deep states of relaxation and assist in the relaxation training process. This report presents data on patients receiving multimodal treatment for chronic pain, including REST-assisted relaxation training. The patients received individual stress-oriented psychotherapy, biofeedback-assisted relaxation training and REST assisted relaxation training. The use of flotation REST will be discussed through a comparison of the subjective effects of REST relaxation of biofeedback assisted relaxation specifically regarding the perception of pain.


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True Rest
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Relief of Chronic Stress

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Treatment in the form of floating in huge tanks of saltwater, so-called ‘floating,’ is effective for chronic stress-related pain. This is shown in a study at Karlstad University, Sweden, led by Professor Torsten Norlander.


The research study shows that individuals suffering from stress-related health problems such as chronic pain, depression, or anxiety are often helped a great deal by floating. The effect remains four months after the treatment period. A control group, which did not participate in floating, experienced no improvement in their health. The study is part of a series at the Human Performance Laboratory and is research project run in collaboration with the Vormland County Council.


The patients who were treated with floating had had health problems for a long time. Several of them had been diagnosed with ‘burn-out.’ They had various stress-related symptoms like pain, exhaustion, depression, and anxiety.



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