I’ve included a list of helpful miscellaneous tools and healers below. Many people use ASMR videos to aid them with calming down and unwinding after a long day to kicking addictive patterns to mild substances.

“ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response; a term used to describe a tingling, static-like, or goosebumps sensation in response to specific triggering audio or visual stimuli.”

(Nebraska Medicine 2022)

“Preliminary research suggests that ASMR shares sensory pathways with experiences like becoming elated by a piece of music or feeling a shiver of delight at something aesthetically pleasing. One study used magnetic resonance imaging to visualize the brains of people experiencing ASMR. The researchers reported seeing significant spikes in neural activity in the regions of the brain associated with emotion and reward.

They found interesting physiological differences between the two experiences as well. Where aesthetic “chills” were found to raise heart rate and respiration, ASMR did the opposite. An ASMR study in 2017 found participants’ heart rates and breathing slowed, as occurs in relaxation techniques like meditation and yoga… Whether ASMR is a physiological oddity or may be a potential therapeutic tool remains to be seen.” (UCLA Health)