This week I was thinking about voice resources that are not on YouTube and realised that I am receiving updates about writing which include an entry which is recorded rather than written. For example, this one:
I thought this was a great occasion for you to try something that was neither specifically meditation (which tends to be a subject I often write about), nor is it on YouTube (although this writer is on YouTube, for example):
I have not done a great deal more sleep course study of late. However I did have a summary from my last session which was:
- It is not possible to replace sleep that you have missed.
- The quality of sleep is more important than the quantity.
- A well-rested person learns more easily.
- Our brains are busy during sleep.
- Tiredness in the daytime does not necessarily mean that you need more sleep.
- Adults need 7 – 9 hours sleep.
- Many people struggle with sleep.
Which more or less reinforces the purpose of this blog, in fact.
The Calm resource this week is this one:
https://www.calm.com/app/player/fC0ND-4Ldm
Daily Calm
Volume
NARRATOR
Tamara Levitt
AUTHOR
Tamara Levitt
How to lower the volume on distracting thoughts. I am still nervous about including material from this site as Calm is not free. You can probably tell, as I tend to keep this section short.
The professional ASMR video this week is from a channel I cannot remember ever having reviewed before, so this one is as new to me as no doubt it is to you. The channel is ASMRmania. This has 276k subscribers, three hundred and fifty-six videos, but only six playlists. A number of these videos seem to be in Russian, for example:
I occasionally do cover ASMR in another language taking into account that I have no idea what is being said, and so there is a risk I am reviewing something that is rude or political.
The notes on the channel are the habitual level of comprehensive:
“ASMRmania
Description ASMR relaxation, ASMR role play, personal attention, ASMR triggers, ASMR sounds ear to ear, ASMR whisper, soft spoken and relaxing voice for sleep. My name is Olesya. A Russian girl from St. Petersburg. I love to create calming ASMR videos which can help people with insomnia or feeling stress, for relaxation and to trigger ASMR tingles. ASMRmania”
I almost hacked about those notes as they feel a bit long.
The video (which is in English) is this one:
ASMR. Doctor Roleplay. Medical exam. Test. Neurologist. Relaxing for Sleep. Whisper. Russian Accent.
I feel safer listening in English; given the state of YouTube, the person could be saying anything at all if I can’t understand the language.
The video also has notes, which are surprisingly brief for a professional ASMR artist:
” 508,422 views 20 Jun 2014
ASMR. Doctor Roleplay. ASMR Medical exam. ASMR Test. Neurologist. Relaxing for Sleep. ASMR Whisper. Russian Accent. Medicine video ASMR. Amazing Sound 3D. ASMR Role Play.
ASMR Video: A Russian girl in English. Russian accent. ASMR soft spoken. ASMR relaxing female voice for a relaxation and good sleep.
Sorry for my English :))
АСМР Видео на английском: Ролевая игра. Я буду в роли доктора невролога.
What is ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomo…
ASMRmania – ASMR, relax, role play, whisper…”
Nice to have video notes that I do not have to lay about with a scythe.
Comments are permitted and a large number of the commentators seem impressed; this bodes well for us.
The video is just less than thirty-eight minutes in length and so slightly longer (in terms of length) than other professional ASMR videos that we have seen of late.
There is music at the start which seems to go on a bit and I would prefer wasn’t there at all. There are some paper-related noises and then Olesya starts to talk and Heaven be praised she is not whispering. I like the Russian accent. Some of the enunciation is a little strange but I thought this to be part of its charm (and it is substantially more advanced than my Russian – which is non-existent). The pace is nicely slow. The voice is very good.
There are pencil noises and the rustling associated with clothing moving. However, there are no background noises at all, not even those we would normally associate with air conditioning use.
There is that mouth clucking/clicking sound so beloved of professional ASMR artists. Some parts of the presentation veer towards breathiness. I love the care in moving equipment; habitually a video is accompanied with clunking from offscreen equipment being moved around. There are very few noises of any sort here that do not seem deliberately placed to form part of the video experience.
The setting seems to be a desk in a corridor with the very wide wooden rubbing strips I associate with trolley use. It might be that some hospitals have this detail as part of the office décor possibly. There is then a brief outro which is a bit louder but fortunately does not last long.
It’s a warm day but I found myself nodding to this one. I take that as a very good sign. Why not review it for yourself.
The inadvertent ASMR material has been in blog posts from me since I started the blog up again in 2023. So, I consider it a mainstay.
This week’s selection is this one:
Focused Respiratory Physical Assessment Head-to-Toe
It is from the channel Nursing School Explained this has 48.5k subscribers, six hundred and sixty eight videos, forty five playlists so this is a very hard-working channel.
The channel has notes: ” Description
This channel helps nursing students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to understand a variety of healthcare-related topics. These include disease processes, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, risk factors, treatment options, related laboratory and diagnostic findings as well as nursing care. It aims to clarify these topics by breaking them down into simple terms and concepts so students can gain a better understanding of the topic.
Clinical skills are demonstrated in an easy-to-follow format and rationales for nursing actions are being provided.
It further delivers resources for clinical rotations, commonly used mediations, and test success.”
Which are encyclopaedic.
The video’s are even more so: ” 92,566 views 7 Mar 2022 #nursingschool #nursingskills #nursing
Physical assessment is the baseline of everything we do in nursing and is the first step in the nursing process. This video includes a focused respiratory assessment in a head-to-toe fashion. It details the examination and hones in on inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation of the patients’ chest. It further includes a demonstration of chest excursion. You may also find these other videos in my the PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT PLAYLIST of my channel Nursing School explained helpful: Head-to-toe vs. Focused Assessment: 
There are relatively few comments all of which are complimentary. None from ASMR fans though, which may not be a good thing.
The video is a little longer than twelve and a half minutes so not an immense one by any means. It starts without music but it does have a pronounced background hiss. The presenter starts loud – one to thumb the volume down a bit. There is a bit of stutter early on, this appears to be an error as the presenter laughs about it. During the actual assessment the presenter still starts loud. It is possible to tell how loud by the fact that the patient is substantially quieter.
The medical professional introduces herself as Petra. The patient could be Steve Jones but it is so hard to hear that the captions do not capture it at all.
As the assessment progresses the presenter starts to quieten and I can hear the point of this one for our purposes. This is the usual problem, recording equipment is quite sensitive, it is not necessary to come at it like an opera singer. Talking normally, even quietly, is all captured without effort. I notice many people when they are in presenter mode seem to feel they need to talk loudly as if to an auditorium.
This one never seems to get very quiet, I seem to have come across a few of these of late. Must try harder.
On that basis, just one, video this time.
That’s it on this occasion, more next time.
See you again next week.
The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:
The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:
I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.
The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:
I can’t be bothered to stop my listening to log on, this interrupts the experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.
I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.
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Until next time.
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