Quantum Wellness

Why I Opened Quantum Floats?

In the computer industry, there is a saying “garbage in, garbage out.” The saying makes a good point. If the inputs you use in your program are faulty, the results will also be faulty. The same thing applies to any business. The ability of a business to achieve its objectives depends on the thoughts used to conduct the business. Business results have a direct correlation to thoughts. You could say that business results are the byproduct of the thoughts used in the business. To see that this is so, consider that our thoughts guide how we perceive our business, how we plan our business activities and how we conduct our business. As such, thoughts may be the biggest contributing factor to success or failure in business. But what are those thoughts and where do they reside in our thinking, and are we even aware of them? These would seem to be pretty good questions for any business to answer. Yet, for the most part, they go answered.

For me, I spent most of 30 years as a corporate lawyer never questioning the thoughts I used to practice law. That is, until 2011. In 2011, I attended a business networking event and a woman at the event introduced me to Elise Cummiskey who owned a floatation tank in the basement of her home in Chester NJ. The thought of floating seemed strange to me. Before trying it, I wondered whether it would be pointless to just spend an hour floating in a tank. But something interesting happens when you spend time in a float tank devoid of any external inputs. What happens is that you’ve got all of this extra brain power to examine your own thoughts, especially the ones that lie deep down in our thinking. Even better, the examination happens naturally. I didn’t have to step into the float tank and say “today I’m going to examine my deepest thoughts”. It just happens because without any external inputs (no light, no sound, no gravity, no temperature differential), you’re left with just your thoughts.

Floating opened a door for me - a door to an awareness of the thoughts that shape how I perceive the world and how I relate to people and how I conduct business.

Another interesting thing that happened when I started to float. I started to notice patterns in my life. Patterns as in doing the same things over and over again. I also saw patterns of the same results showing up everywhere. One of the patterns you could call “sweeping things under the carpet”. I was pretty much expert at this. If there was something I didn’t want to deal with because I thought dealing with it would require having a conversation I didn’t want to have, I just avoided it. That was also the rule of how I did business and the rule of my marriage. Problems, however, do not go away when you sweep them under the carpet. They actually fester and result in bigger problems. Seeing these patterns was eye-opening, but I was still lacking the skills to change those thought patterns.

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