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Despite advances in technology and labour-saving devices, chronic time pressure, or the sense that you do not have enough time, is increasing globally. The implications of this for health and wellbeing are poorly understood. This study aimed to examine the impact of chronic time pressure on experiences of symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress in a European sample.
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Floatation-REST (Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy) minimizes stimulation of the nervous system by immersing subjects in an environment without sound or light while they effortlessly float in thermoneutral water supersaturated with Epsom salt. Here we investigated the relationship between altered states of consciousness (ASC) and its association with the affective changes induced by Floatation-REST. Using a within-subject crossover design, 50 healthy subjects were randomized to 60 min of Floatation-REST or 60 min of Bed-REST (an active control condition that entailed lying supine on a warm waterbed in a dark and quiet room). Following Floatation-REST, subjects felt significantly more relaxed, less anxious, and less tired than after Bed-REST. Floatation-REST also induced significantly more pronounced ASC characterized by the dissolution of body boundaries and the distortion of subjective time. The loss of body boundaries mediated the loss of anxiety, revealing a novel mechanism by which Floatation-REST exerts its anxiolytic effect.
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- Wittmann (2)
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- Anxiety
- Adult (1)
- Altered states of consciousness (1)
- Bed Rest (1)
- Body boundaries (1)
- *Consciousness/physiology (1)
- Cross-Over Studies (1)
- Depression (1)
- Female (1)
- Floatation-REST (1)
- Humans (1)
- Male (1)
- Relaxation (1)
- Rest/physiology (1)
- Stress (1)
- Time perception (1)
- Time Pressure (1)
- Wellbeing (1)
- Young Adult (1)