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Top 5 ASMR Trends That Can Help Sooth Your Anxiety

Top trends of ASMR have surfaced and lately, ASMR has been getting more and more popular for things that people...

T op trends of ASMR have surfaced and lately, ASMR has been getting more and more popular for things that people did not really anticipate. It helps people with insomnia as well as people with other problems which are alleviated by the help of very advanced techniques!

What Is ASMR?

ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and it is a relaxing exercise. It is almost a sedative for people who need it and it begins as a tingling sensation starting from the head and moving towards the rest of the body. It is also known as brain massage and is proven to be triggered by soothing sights, cracks, and small voices, which help people relax.

This term was used for the first time in 2010 by Jennifer Allen whose starting point was a Facebook group. It quickly got popular as a lot of people were feeling soothed by this method.

Top 10 ASMR Trends 

Whispering And Blowing

Whispering is a strong ASMR trend and is also known as a trigger. Slow whispering in gentle tones can make our brains release happy chemicals, which make us feel calm and safe. It is a very popular trend of ASMR, especially in 2021. Every ASMR artist is using this trend to try to gain recognition.

Packaging ASMR

Food packaging is also a form of ASMR in which the artist goes ahead and slowly peels the food open, which makes satisfying crinkling sounds. This makes the ASMR all the more helpful. Many people get relaxed by this specific trend and it helps people get calm and soothes them.

Eating ASMR

In this trend of ASMR, people eat on the microphone, usually on video and the sounds are magnified sometimes through different applications. In this type, people eat various types of food, fried, greasy, boiled, with pasta, and more. It has been proven to be a helpful trend for people who find it hard to eat as a result of an illness.

Visual ASMR

In this trend, calming videos are used such as mixing paints or using beautifully textured pastels, which make a person's brain calm and soothe it.

Crushing ASMR

In this type of ASMR, artists crush things on the microphone for the satisfaction of people who watch and hear their videos. An example is crushing ice or chewing it and it proves to be a form of therapy that no doctors can really explain how this process takes place.

Tactile ASMR

This trend involves videos with physical touch and tickling, which helps distract a person from whatever is troubling them, helping them feel calm and secure in an environment they are able to control.

Page Turning ASMR

This is very self-sufficient in explaining what happens. The artist slowly turns the pages into the microphone and may or may not speak throughout this ordeal. This is proven to have made people calm down their anger and slowly come back to normal breathing.

Role Play ASMR

In this kind, the artist resumes some kind of role as if they personally know their audience such as that of a doctor or a hairdresser, which further strengthens the bond of trust and security between them.

Massage ASMR

Even if you can't afford a massage yourself, watching someone else get a massage can alleviate sudden feelings of anxiety as it gives your mind the illusion of relaxation and your muscles feel as if they're being worked on.

Squishing ASMR

In this type, people squish around things such as slime to make the listener feel better, and is one of the favorites of people who specifically search for this!

Uses Of ASMR

  • ASMR has been proven to help people with anxiety issues and soothe them down without any kind of medication, hence decreasing the need for medication, which obviously has side effects in the long run.
  • People who suffer from panic disorder find these videos very calming and this helps deflect the attack.
  • When suffering from depression, life seems meaningless but somehow these videos help people feel some sort of happiness even for a little while although science is not sure why this happens.
  • ASMR helps people with ADHD when they are overwhelmed and unable to focus on anything at all.

ASMR is a non-traditional way of helping people with various kinds of ailments or just those who are having a hard time living a life they choose for themselves. These are the top 10 trends of ASMR and we hope you enjoyed reading them! 

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