 I am so glad to start this early morning for your part of the world with my talk in this beautiful conference. First of all, I'm really glad to know that some people I know already will participate who helped so much for us to start the flotation history in Russia. It was over 12 years ago and with great love and warmth, I remember these contacts in the U.S. who helped that, Paul Shoshana-Libner and Dan and Lee and Perry, whom I talked to, without their support, it wouldn't be able to realize here. And now the flotation story is already on certain stage better than it was before in spite of pandemic problem. So here in Russia, we have already plenty of centers appeared. Actually, we have a community and we have our meetings, also annual meetings. Last year, we had the first international conference in Moscow and Ashkan and Graham visited us. We were very happy to see them here. So today is the next step for us to feel ourselves integrated to the global community. And I think, yes, coronavirus is a big problem, but at the same time, at the other hand, it helps for us to feel us connected, which is great. I will start my short presentation and after that, my colleagues will continue our Russian block of presentations. They will be free presentations. First, will be dedicated more to psychological aspects of work with flotation in the context of coronavirus. The next one will be more about medical aspect of that, especially immune system. And then our great friend and brilliant scientist in field of sport, Jan, will share his opinion and vision how flotation can be better used and integrated with the work with athletes. He is very keen on that. There is a chat. I won't be able right now to see it and reply fast, but I will definitely send all the replies later in the message box. So I will start the presentation. And again, it's a great pleasure to participate in the conference and feel it's really global this time. Today, I would like to share that the world is a little changed or maybe not a little. And we need to face it, cope it, and learn how to stay in balance and not to lose this beautiful center of cyclone stage, which was named by Jan Lili in his book. And we need special needs and special cases when we work with people at our float center. And we try different things, how to be more efficient and to be more satisfying in the months. So I'm also a psychologist and I work in the paradigm of transactional analysis, all together with emotional focus therapy. And it's interesting how to combine these kind of techniques in work with floatation experience. I will show it a little bit. So first of all, first of all, seems that my slides are not being listed correctly. Sorry about this day. Yeah, technical things. And yeah, well, I'm not sure what's going on. So for me, it will be the personal way to practice my columns and stay relaxed. This. Okay, I'm not sure that I will be able right now to share with you this presentation. It will not happen that way. I will do it using my phone. Some say maybe I'm not clicked on the keynote. No, I'm sharing something short. All right. So definitely we see that there is a global increase of anxiety and depression all over the world because of the coronavirus. It was increasing even before coronavirus. But now this process is double, at least. And it creates the special tension and atmosphere that we should consider. I have a few statistic data from your part of the world from the US. And comparing to other periods of last year, we see that this increases very significant. Pretty sure that you meet it also every day in your closed senses when you work with the people. I'll try to change the slide. Hope it will work better now. Yeah. And it's not only the feeling and self reporting people that they're more depressed and they have less emotional and psychological stability, but the sales of medications to cope with this kind of problems also indicate that this problem is strong and big and anti-excited medication increased for almost 35%, which is a lot. So people trying to do something with their attention and with their fears. And here medication is not that popular. I know that in recent 10 years, the market of anti-depressants and this kind of medications in the US grown for 400%. 400%. That's amazing. We don't have it here. And it has both side, good and bad. Good that people still trying to find more ecological and holistic ways to get rid of stress like floating. But another thing, we don't have much of efficient methods to help people to stay more balanced and in harmony. So we meet it in society. We see the growing amount of aggression and people actually quite scared. Considering the specific groups, this unsafe environment is more difficult for groups that were already unstable or didn't find the support to cope with the modern reality. And pregnant women and new mothers are also showing growing level of anxiety and depression. And these people are also coming to our center. So we're especially glad that we can help to specific groups that need our support. Talking about the statistics in Russia, actually, we have less official data than you have in internet about US market. For example, but still we see that most of the people, not less than 71%, which is a lot, are in the state of anxiety. And we think that the problem didn't pass yet and expecting worse times than it was before. Recently in 2000, this year, actually, in 2020, a relatively big study was issued by American scientists from the university in Penza, which is a city in Siberia. And they investigated the growing fear of coronavirus, which is growing in Russia and neighbor countries, for example, the Belarusian. And 850 participants were in this study, a different education level, different social areas and groups. But in general, we see that the increase of fear of COVID is big, it is growing. And comparing to Belarus, for example, in Russia, it's even bigger. So it's good, hopefully the Belarusian nation is better prepared for the things they need to pass right now, which is definitely awful. Talking about the gender description here, we see that females are more affected by the fear of COVID than male at our side of the world, which is also helping us to focus on our clients, female clients, and put more attention to work with them. What's going on? The pandemic atmosphere is very specific. It's something new for people. And the problem is the specific problem that this enemy cannot be seen, it's invisible. And you're on the street, you're contact with people more or less, and you cannot estimate where the danger is, you cannot figure out whom to avoid, are you infected or not, and many things like that. And this complicates the ability to use the common sense and develop the rational things to be protected and feel more safe. This atmosphere of invisible enemy, which is everywhere, but you can see it creates a special tension and fear in society. And since it's impossible to rationally deal with that, then some new systems appear and it brings people to the increase of the magical thinking. So we see that a lot of conspiracy and new theories like 5G communication and influence and many, many, many things that you meet here put people to even worse position because they're trying to lose this support on a common sense. And yes, it brings more people to flotation. You know that our auditorium is very wide and a huge part of it is very interesting and strange people in a way. But this rational thinking is very important to feel orientated and safe. So we need to compensate this invisible enemy to offer people more transparent and clear and rational support, which we do in our center. Actually, this invisible enemy already, we know these kind of reactions in the past in 80s and 90s when we met this nuclear fear. The radiation is also invisible and there were a lot of myths, different kind explaining what can happen with the planet, the feel of permanent danger, unexpected danger. So it's invisible, it's unpredictable in its level and these things increase tension a lot. So we have a question how to feel more safe in this environment and to avoid panic, but amount of panic attacks are growing. And it's important here to understand that it's totally impossible to have any kind of solid control of the situation. You really, no matter how smart you are, how rich you are, are you trained or not, will not help you to be totally safe because this environment is unpredictable. And yes, we're here and I think you too waiting for the second and third and maybe more waves of increase of this coronavirus activity. So it's important to understand that through control, we can bring ourselves to the balance and relaxed state. We need to find other things to work with our psychological aspects more than controlling the outer reality. And I would like to focus on the thing named self-trust, trust to one's ability to find a solution in this unpredictable reality. That brings me to one of my favorite psychologists, my like a lot, the Eric Eriksson, who offered the term the basic trust, which is very early formed or not along the human development. He said it happens in very early ages just for postpartum from zero to one year old. And it gives you a feeling that environment is safe, supporting and the green light for the person is on. So person feels that he can go and get nice life with realization, achievements and success with support of ours. Or the opposite thing is when environment is dangerous and you should be prepared to protect yourself from the environment and it gives totally different mode of existence. Here, obviously we cannot say that environment is safe, especially during the pandemic. But it's important not to lose this basic trust, not to environment, but to our ability to cope with that. And here, we see that there are different approaches to the upbringing. And I know more about Russian culture, but pretty sure that it's bigger or less is presented all over the globe. Even when we have the nice family, supporting family who care about children, the parents are playing important role in this growing up process. And it forms the certain attitude toward ourselves when we already grown up, when we are adults. We have this kind of internalization of the attitude that our parents showed to us in our childhood. We have this attitude inside us toward ourselves when we already adult. And here, even when family is supporting, still very important aspects that is not so easy to handle with. I use, with my work with clients here and what I want to offer to you as also an instrument, the Eric Byrne very simple structure of parent, adult and child. Eric Byrne tested it all over the globe and there were clinical tests as well. And myself, I had a chance last year to work with the Chinese group of patients in Beijing and saw that the principles of transactional analysis are working very well there too. So when our parents giving us support and they create our position, our agro-state, as Eric Byrne called it, the parent state inside us. And the question is giving us support, not only controlling but giving support. This kind of upbringing creates with us trust to our ability. When we are alone, when we have no auto control, do we trust ourselves that we can find the best solution, that we will not be dead of hunger or something else or coronavirus? And we'll do all possible with all our power and skills and this is enough for us to be safe. Of course there is no warranty that it definitely will happen but the feeling that we can do always necessary what we can in these circumstances is enough, is very important to feel not stressed and avoid the fear. When we work with the clients, I will not explain in details what is this parent, adult and child system. I think you know it pretty well already. If not, I will direct you to Eric Byrne books. I can send you the links about that. But for us, the most important is cultivate and develop this feeling of the client that he really can do his best and it will be enough for the best behavior in this difficult environment. When the client come to us, we are working with him from the position of the nursing parent and offer him the play, child play. So we are not talking about the situation in the country, the risks, the danger, the current rates and these kind of things which is about adults. No, we give support to his inner child, the natural child that he really is doing well, that he is really a nice person no matter who he is, what are his achievements and so on. So we send him this joy to meet him with the idea that he is accepted. And same time, in a very informal way, we play with him a little bit, bringing the child energy to this communication. In this structure, it supports his inner child due to the lack of depression from the feared controlling Byrne. And then, starting this process, we offer him to continue that during the float session. So we want him to focus on certain things when he will be in the tank. I will remind that he came with a fear and tension and we need to somehow to switch his process to a totally different one. We want his nurturing parents to support his natural child when he will be in the tank, especially in the beginning. And we found that this kind of dynamic helps him to go deeper to the floatation experience and relaxation mode. Literally, we give him instruction to praise himself, to tell himself in words when he is in a tank that it's so great to be myself without any efforts, without any terms, and to enjoy this sensation letting him go as he is without any efforts. The position, like, well done. You're doing well from the inner nurturing parent to his natural child. It might sound very, very simple and even silly. And Eric Byrne, when he created this system, he said that he will put this in words for eight-year-old child can understand it. So that's why, in spite it's simple, it really works. And it leads to the deep feeling of letting go an increase of self-trust along the floatation. Then, the person has experience in the tank as he has. We respect a lot this important state of John Leely and that I heard from Lee Perry and from Shoshana that we shall not anyhow construct or direct the floatation experience of the person. It's his own sacred and private thing. But this start we found in these circumstances is working very well for a person to go deeper to good floating experience. When the person comes out, it's important to support the state that he achieved. And we created this special zone, like a buffer zone in our center, where we're meeting the client in the terms of transactional analysis, give him the support of his trust of himself that he achieved along the session. And it's important to make a bridge between the floatation tank to our buffer zone and then from our buffer zone to the city. Then the person goes to the world like this. Actually, this is our aim. This is what we want for a person to feel when he goes out. Like this boy, he is running to live. He wants to live further and he is not thinking about, oh, maybe there are cars on the road, maybe it's dangerous. I don't know the weather can change or something else. No, that's a feeling that maybe it's not safe. But I'm ready. I can do what I want. I want to live with joy and interest and pleasure. But there's a question, how it can be realized? To say in words is not easy. And then we found that it can be quite interesting paradigm to work with the client using the words, not as a main instrument, to make the setting of the client, but to use our neural neurons and focus our work on that. So we use a lot of empathy, acceptance, and we give no scripts for our staff to communicate with the client. Otherwise, it goes to very official money, service, and that's it. No, we change it totally. So your center is as efficient as your staff, inner state is good. And it's, of course, more difficult to organize. But we see it's possible to make when we make the difference between staff and not staff. Our clients almost disappeared. Same things, empathy, acceptance, and no script, what we practice here with our staff, we respect. And we support this inner child stage of our staff, not only staff, actually, for myself too, I have a lot of support for our team. And this is interesting aspect. We see that people here start to feel that they're not in a normal one of many centers where they have different services. But it gives another thing, it gives the reinforcement of internal support. And they use us like a base to bring themselves to this internal support with the environment we appreciate it and can provide. And we see that it is reflected in our results, the amount of people who return to us after the first flotation session is growing up to 25% and we're growing more. Maybe it's not that big, maybe have bigger, but we appreciate this result. And we will keep focusing our work on this approach to share the state, what we can, what we do our best to keep in ourselves and share it with the clients and use flotation is an instrument to make it assimilated by a person. So just giving a few words in the end. Yes, the world is not safe. It's obvious. But what we can do is we can trust and focus that we can, we have an ability to cope with that, do our best. And then to help others with that. So thank you, everybody. Hope it will be useful for you. I will be happy to see your inputs and questions. And I wish everybody and myself to self-trust and confidence. Thank you so much.