 Hello everybody and thanks for voting me in. I'm going to give you a little background on my whole floating journey. Back in 79 I was travelling around in India and I imported some microorganisms with me back and was really sick actually for many years and started to search ways to heal myself. And in 86 I found floating. I went down to the south of Sweden and floated in a Samadhi tank. I went in there and I stayed there for 3-4 hours and had quite a tough time actually because all my inner universe opened up to me and I saw what was going on with this unbalance. So it was tough hours but on the other hand I realised that I'm at the right place. This is where I should be and really go inside myself and try to help my healing qualities. So I decided to start a float centre in Stockholm with two friends and we were able to find two second hand Samadhi tanks. It was not many people knew anything about floating in Sweden at that time. So it was quite hard to get people to come there to pay their rent actually. But it was wonderful to have the opportunity to float as much as you liked. We were all enthusiastic floaters of course. So yeah, we did a lot of floating and a lot of experimentation in the tank. We got a lot of ideas of building our own product. Yeah, we sold the Samadhi tanks and put our own product in our centre. Then my friends decided that they had to focus on other things. So I took over the business and at that time too, when I floated a lot, I started to appreciate simplicity more and more and I wanted to have more quiet surroundings. So I moved out from Stockholm, which was where we started the place, out into the archipelago in Vaxholm, you know. Very quiet and nice place. I also built a tank in my bedroom out there and started to experiment even more with floating. And my perspective on myself shifted a lot, as most people probably find when they start to float a lot. I began to see myself as the sort of higher intelligence, maybe you could say, for my body and started to be more motivated to really take care of myself in a better way. In 1994, it was a milestone for me and maybe for floating in Sweden because Olympic support bought the tank from me and all the Swedish top athletes started to float, not all but many of them, in preparation for the Olympics then. And I think many found it to be really beneficial. They usually, the comment I got a lot is that they liked that they could train much more without having risk of injuries, greater risks of injuries. The rumor spread more and more about my product and people more and more came and asked me to build tanks for them. And I had this idea when I started to build tanks, I had this idea to really try to keep it as simple as possible because to me, floating is really the most simple thing you can do. It's simplicity really. 2001, I really started to build a lot of tanks but I've never promoted my tanks because it's a lot of work to build them and I do everything, nearly everything myself so it's just spread by word of mouth actually. After a while, I started to combine floating with vibration training and that's the thing that you sometimes find on the gyms. It's a super active thing. You stand on a thing and you choose frequency and then it shakes your body very powerfully. And I found out that it's a wonderful combination to have this super active thing with a super passive thing. And for me it was also a lot about having pain, having had pain for such so many years. I had shut down my body quite a lot. So floating was a way for me to regain my body to get contact, the inner contact back. And the vibration plate is a fantastic thing to really find your way deeply, deeply into your body. And then when you go into the tank, they work so well together, they enhance each other. Then the furthest I've sold the tank is down to Mallorca. I went down there to build floating in 05. And this, I mean this is the title of my speech really. And yeah, you see sanctuary is a word derived from the Latin sanctuary, which is like most words ending in aria, a container for keeping something in. In this case, holy things or perhaps holy people. And I more and more come to think about the float tank as a sanctuary. Because for me it's, I more and more have the feeling that I am the god for my own inner universe. And when you realize that it's, you get more motivated to, yeah, to really take care of yourself. So this is, I make tanks from wood which is a little bit uncommon maybe. And yeah, I've had this idea all the time that floating is simple, keep the tanks as simple as possible. So there's no high tech things on my tanks. It's only heaters, a pump, a submersible pump that's in the corner. And you can see that the filter sticking out there. So it's, I love it of course and it's really simple to keep it running. Not many things I can break down. So I've just, in Stockholm when we started, we had a little bigger place with two tanks. But then when I went out to Waxholm, you know, knowing how hard it is when the costs are too high every month, I just kept it very, very simple and easy on myself, you know. So now I have just a small place with one tank and I don't promote it. Some people find their way there. I can float and the people who come have wonderful experiences when you float a lot. I mean, your inner universe opens up to you and more and more new ideas, of course, surface in there. And there's been a lot of talk about a lot of researchers here. And I feel that every floater is a researcher and you've got to do research on yourself. You're going to do it. And I mean, your whole history is inside of you. It's all recorded in there and maybe more. So there's so many answers to be found by focusing inward. And to me that is what a sanctuary is. It's a safe place for you to find out more about yourself and your relationship to all else. And this, we all know that it's bliss to float, how wonderful it can be. But also, if you really go in there and take a deep look around, there are other things to be found too. And I don't know if Eckhart Tolle is familiar to you, but he talks a lot about the pain body and there's not only bliss inside. There's a lot of pain too. And from my experience, when you float a lot, you are going to go through these quite tough layers in there. And you're going to have to deal with a lot of quite tough things actually. And I mean, we are all, I think we're all linked together on a deep level. And these facts that 360 kids start to death every hour on Mother Earth is going to affect us all. And we're going to meet this when we go deep inside. And there, but it's, I mean, it's the float tank is, the float sanctuary is a fantastic place to really address this issues and to meditate deeply on what's going on also outside on Mother Earth at the moment. And there are so many, when I was working on healing myself, I was going through a lot of frozen zones in myself because I had so much pain. So I had turned a lot of parts of my inner self off. And that was a really tough job to first to realize that this was the fact. And then to start to try to melt these frozen zones. And I found working with my voice using sound to get in there was very, very efficient. And of course, using my breath, the breath is a fantastic tool to to you can super oxenite your whole body. And you can use it also as a kind of massage from inside. And yeah, and especially in the tank, where you you hang freely, you can get a fantastic rhythm going. And if you combine it with sound, you really can do anything in there. It's sound is really interesting. I've been I was doing a lot of screaming in the tank and trying to sound like different animals. And the the weird sound that that that a human being can can make. It's it's incredible. And it can bring up a lot of suppressed feelings in you. And it's nice to know to do it in a space where you know that no one else hears it. I mean, Mr. Lily, he he mentioned in in his book, Programming and Meta Programming. He's talking at some place he talks about taboo programs and how to how hard it can be to access those taboo programs. And of course, relaxation is the key to to go in there. And I mean, you have to to to be in a space where you feel really safe to go in and take a look at those programs. And and talking about being a good god for your universe. Yeah, you have all of these wonderful techniques that you probably many of you is using already. And that's that's one thing with the flotation tank, the flotation sanctuary that that it's a it's a perfect tool for integration. So you get more out of any other techniques that you're practicing, you will get much more out of when you float regularly. I found in there in the tank that this this with having a free will, there's one aspect of this that is quite simple. And it is that you can choose to live or you can choose to die. You can choose to do things that enhances your your health. And you can do things that are destructive to you. And more and more, I've started started pondering on what's why is the world so so so tough, because I find a lot of phenomena out there that is that scares me really. And what what programs is it that we deny to look at? How can I find an explanation to all all the violence and all the negativity that's going on? And I feel when I look out into the world, I feel that there are many most things that people do has something to do with wanting to stretch out your life into the future, wanting to live. And and probably just go on doing that. I mean, who wants to die? Really? And if you if you want to die, when do you want to die? Most of us want to live for a little while longer anyway. And and I started to to I started to ponder on this. And then I found this, there is a program that says you can't live more than I mean, what's normal in the society, maybe 85 years is normal. And most people agree on this. If you if you start talking about that, maybe maybe you you can become a really good God for your inner universe and take care of your body in a manner that the cells will renew themselves perfectly. And and it's not I feel that not many people think about this that it might be possible. And as evolution goes on, things changes. And I can't help when I see the world around me and I see for me an immortality project that is very, very popular is to gather money as much money as possible. It's it's many people does this and and it doesn't make you live forever, no matter how much money you gather. It seems it doesn't seem to work, actually. So I've been wondering what would happen if if if a if quite a big group of people would start meditating on well, maybe maybe it's possible to to take care of your body in such a way that the cells renew themselves perfectly. What would this mean? If if many people learn how to do that, how would it change the way we we we go around on Mother Earth? It might be it might be that the culture I mean we as the speeches are ready to start to you know play around with these ideas and and see what happens because to me when I look around me I see I see a lot of irrational things happening all the time. And it's very hard to understand why I mean we have all these resources and most of us are quite decent people. So why why is it like this that 360 kids start to death every every hour and it maybe should be the number one priority to do something about it but it doesn't seem to be that. So so and also from from sustained what's the English word sustainability this is maybe a little bit morbid but when you look at how many people dying on earth every second and 277 pounds of dead humans have to be taken care of every second and most of us it is rather poisonous. To me you know it blows my mind when I think about it. How did we get there that we are you know risk we are we poison ourselves and and it seems like that it seems like that most of us believe that we are immortal and we don't have to ponder on these things. We push it into the future. When you as I did when I when I had my really bad unbalance in my body I was slowed down really and I started to see all the old people around me I didn't see them before and and maybe the sick people in wheelchairs and things and and my whole perspective on life changed. I was quite fast before and I you know I had a lot of activities going on so I never thought about these things but when life slows you down things change but but to me I find that I don't know what Mr. Lilly meant about taboo programs maybe he thought about programs about sexuality too which seems to be a little bit taboo too but talking about death and dying and growing old and maybe feeling that it's it's it's not a fun thing you know it's a little bit taboo and and to talk about something a little bit else it's I find the the the flotation sanctuary to be it's it's a perfect place also to to break the cultural trends that we're in I have a feeling that there's so much information coming and the speed is so high which it's it's really easy to get dragged into this this very high speed and also this trans state it's like we unclutch from other nature and we forget that we are a part of nature and and maybe in this immortality context you know it it would be wise to to create a personal relationship to deepen our personal relationship to the sun for example where the energy comes from it's the sun runs this show in in in many ways I mean when you when we're out driving our cars the petrol everything comes from the sun and maybe maybe if you focus on this and meditate on this you will get guidance how to how to live your life and how to be a positive change on earth