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Mental Health
What is ASMR?
I was clueless until I tried it, and now I can’t get enough of it!
I got on Pixabay for artwork for “ASMR”. Three photos. All tiles such as this one. The others spelled out ‘relax’, ‘tingles’, and ‘sleep’. Talk about coming up short. It’s so much more than that.
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
It’s more common than you think. For years I always had the same experience when I’d go to the salon to have my hair done. I sit, I’d relax, I’d chat it up with the lady doing my hair. The next thing I’d know, I was out like a light. On at least one occasion she had to literally wake me up because my head had bobbed off to the right! I’m just glad I wasn’t snoring.
Same thing with a pedicure. Socks and shoes off. Warm watering running and bubbling. Toes in and ahhhhhhhhh. My head goes back. My eyes close. My body is riding the massaging vibrations of the chair they’ve placed me in. And I’m gone. Checked out. Elvis has left the building.
I had always just assumed it was because I was sitting still for longer than to drive or go to the bathroom. I was actually sitting still and letting someone else take care of me for a change. I wasn’t wrong. I just didn’t know that there was a name for it.
