about FLO
To reduce stress using FLO, the person lies in the unit as shown. Before entering, all metal items such as jewelry are removed from the person. One of the copper bars is removable for ease of entry. The person then lies on the foam mattress, and silver pads are attached to the soles of both feet (keeping socks on is fine). A hexagonal structure, which silently projects the information component of the dynamic field that is derived from music, is then positioned above the torso of the person.
While reclining in FLO, the person can choose to meditate, to sleep or to observe sensations that they may perceive. Despite the non-physical character of information fields, some individuals perceive the presence of the information field within FLO as a mild and pleasant tingling, which appears to circulate through them in a pattern emerging at either their head or feet and being conducted back again via the copper bars. Three small speakers positioned in the upper right quadrant of the FLO unit allow the subject the option of hearing the music from which the information is being derived if they so choose.
According to the American Institute of Stress, 75-90% of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related problems. Just as stress appears to compromise an individual’s innate self-healing capacities, de-stressing appears to restore them. De-stressing also tends to restore a sense of wellness, balance and motivation that pervades our activity.
Detailed Description of De-Stressing Phenomenon
Certain consciousness effects facilitated by the environment created within the FLO unit precipitate the de-stressing results experienced by individuals spending one or more sessions within it. The following is a more detailed explanation of how and why this occurs.
The human biofield is an information field whose information content is comprised of ideas or thought forms derived from both the waking (or rational) and subconscious levels of consciousness or awareness. Information inputs to this field from the rational level occur continually as thought and emotion occurs within that level of consciousness, creating content that tends to be transient, except to the extent adopted by the subconscious as part of its evolving self-identity and belief systems.
Information inputs to the biofield from the subconscious level tend to be more long term in their tenure in the field, representing fundamental attitudes and convictions adopted by the subconscious concerning the individual’s self-identity and worldview. Stress in an individual occurs as a result of: (a) negative experiences which are not resolved and are adopted as part of an individual’s self-identity as beliefs of having been somehow injured, and (b) the exposure of an individual to fears and ideas of limitation about themselves which they do not reject but to which they have come to believe themselves to be subject, and accept as part of their self-identity. Such adopted negative aspects of identity (stress) are then reflected on an extended basis in the information field of the individual as disharmonious information content.
The individual’s biofield is the medium by which the consciousness of an individual communicates with and directs the cellular and biophysical activity that creates and maintains the individual’s physical presence. When disharmonious information content (stress) appears in the biofield on other than a transient basis, it becomes part of the instructions that direct the creation and maintenance of the individual’s physical body, and becomes manifested as physical disharmony in the form of disease and dysfunction. Disease and dysfunction can be seen, therefore, as the efforts of one level of consciousness (the subconscious) trying (by means of physically manifested disharmony) to get the attention of another level of consciousness (the waking, or rational, level) to get it to recognize and resolve (heal, or discharge) a corruption of the harmony of the individual’s self-identity.
Effects of Stesss on the Body
The phenomenon of aging is similarly a result of stress, representing a combination of the accumulation of unresolved emotional issues and negative experiences, together with the adoption of the prevailing worldview as to the inevitability of progressive physical degeneration (which in actuality is not fundamentally inevitable). Such limited ideas once adopted are reflected in the information content of the biofield, and are dutifully manifested physically by cellular activity as physical aging symptoms and degeneration. In short, the physical body may be viewed as the “report card” of what we have come to believe to be true about ourselves.
When one enters the very powerful and harmonious information field existing within the FLO environment, the subconscious of the individual becomes instantly aware of that field, as well as that field’s greater degree of harmony as compared with the field that the individual has himself or herself created. This awareness causes a response in the individual in which the level of their subconscious then connects with the level of their superconscious (the highest level of their awareness, which is omniscient), in order to try to understand what is occurring.
During that connection, the subconscious becomes aware of the specific elements of disharmony that it has adopted as part of its identity and projected into its biofield, and begins to eliminate those disharmonies issue by issue, resulting in the de-stressing of the individual. As stress disappears from the field of the individual over a series of de-stressing sessions, they naturally progressively resume a more harmonious physical and mental state, as their innate self-healing mechanisms operate unimpeded by accumulated stress.
Essentially, the FLO unit creates a facilitating environment where the individual is starting to remember their perfect state devoid of the accumulation of disharmonious experiences and limitations, progressively jettisoning aspects of self-image that do not fit harmoniously. This is often one of the goals of meditators, namely to silence their lower levels of awareness and connect with their highest levels of awareness to become more aware of harmony. Indeed, it has been observed by individuals experienced in regular meditation that being in the FLO environment is “like meditating with the static removed,” and that following even a single session in the harmonious FLO environment that achieving meditative states thereafter seems easier than before.
A key aspect of the FLO technology is that it presents an environment where de-stressing of an individual occurs quite naturally, without the need for outside intervention.
The informational changes necessary to de-stress the individual are coming directly from within one's own highest level of consciousness, which is omniscient and therefore incapable of causing any harm.
An individual lies on the mattress within the FLO unit for a session averaging about 1 hour. Following the session, the client will often afterward report perceptions of tingling or other sensations in the body, and perhaps colors, visions, or other forms of information observed mentally. Upon emerging from the FLO unit, feelings of renewal and revitalization are commonly reported.
Subsequent observations of later self-healings are often reported by clients as well, believed to be the result of innate self-healing abilities restored by virtue of de-stressing. Occasionally increased abilities are later reported by the client to be manifesting, such as the ability to perceive information fields visually as colors, spontaneous receiving of correct but previously unknown information, premonitions, and increased awareness.
A characteristic of an individual’s information field is that it has both right-handed and left-handed elements, and circulates within and surrounding an individual’s physical body. Disharmonious information contained in this biofield manifests as blockages in the normal flow of the field. The progressive abandonment of negative elements of self-identity by the individual’s subconscious as a result of connecting with their superconscious in the FLO environment appears to inherently result in the removal of blockages to the flow of the individual’s biofield.