Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 40 million adults in the U.S. age 18 or older, or 18.1% of the population every year. While anxiety disorders can take many forms, 30% of cases can manifest physically through panic attacks. Victims in the throes of a panic attack describe becoming a prisoner trapped in their own body with their joints locking up, their vision tunneling as their chest tightens to the point they feel their heartbeat pulsing in their temples, their breathing constricting, and fight or flight unfolding.

Entrepreneur Magazine named True REST Float Spa as the seventh Top New Franchise Concept in its Franchise 500 list. True REST Float Spa is the industry’s largest float spa brand with a franchise footprint of over 78 awarded locations, including 32 open locations and another 15 opening this year.

Imagine lying on your back in a small tank of water. Your body is weightless as you drift into a sleep-like state; sore spots or injuries are magically relieved of pain and the worries of your day are stripped from your mind, at least for this moment.

Time magazine features the Float Pod and explores the potential of floatation therapy.

True REST Float Spa, a franchise that offers hour-long float therapy sessions in just 10 inches of water, will open a location in Roseville. Advocates of float therapy cite benefits such as relaxation, pain relief and improved sleep quality.

When I would tell people that I was going to try this new place where you float in a tank in total darkness and complete silence for 90 minutes, I would get two reactions: That sounds blissful, or that sounds torturous.

The busier your life gets the more important it is to take care of your health, both physically and mentally and one way to do that is to try the latest trend: “floating”!

I'm not going to tell you something crazy, like that I remember being in my mother's womb or anything. My memory isn't that good.

What I can tell you from my short experience: this is unlike anything I’ve ever tried. You get into a pod, close a lid and float in a foot of water. (Imagine a baby pool in a dark, enclosed space.) Sound like fun?

In the short term, you'll likely emerge the same person, in other words, with runner's knee and no huge mental gains for your normal 'Candy Crush Saga'-playing life. Still, the modern-day float tank – all grown-up from the Lilly era – is worth a shot for whatever ails you, or to get wherever you're hoping to go.