Nursing made easy – The Procrastination Pen

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I get age verification in my operating system. As if to reinforce it, age verification on YouTube became even more strident, indeed, positively insistent. I wouldn’t mind but I do not wish to be reviewing material that is unsuitable for a three-year-old. I would think, therefore, that no age verification should be necessary.

I suspect there is more involved to this age verification business than is being stated and so I am not in a hurry to comply. My mission to find resources for ASMR outside of YouTube just got a boost and that can only be to the good.

To which end: Elisha Goldstein has to be about as famous a meditator as it is feasible to get. Are there any resources for Elisha that do not involve my straying into YouTube territory (we can be assured there are many, many videos on YouTube featuring Elisha). Fortunately, a number of meditations are available here: https://www.mindfullivingla.org/elisha-goldstein/. These stretch from five minutes to thirty minutes and as such should act as a reasonable distraction in your snoozing moments. Not a single age verification challenge did I receive (which I hope means that not one item of age-inappropriate content is therein contained).

This week’s ASMR from an ASMR professional. It is a true blast from the past. I used to listen to this one some years ago now. Before I really started listening to inadvertent ASMR material in any quantity.

It is this one:

🌿 Relaxing Naturopath Visit 🌿 ASMR 🌿 Doctor RP

And it comes from one of the titans of professional ASMR artists. Often justifiably so I have found as she has a great voice.

The URL of the video is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmhmKEhnIpA

The channel is Gentle Whispering ASMR and anyone who listens to ASMR must surely have come across this artist. To give you an idea, the channel has 2.42m subscribers, eight hundred and forty-three videos. With statistics like that it makes me wish I’d paid more attention in school and grown up to be a successful ASMR artist.

Surprisingly, there are only fourteen playlists with only the one playlist on theme for the medical ASMR material which I have been featuring on this blog of late:

Today’s video has notes – of course it does. However, surprisingly, these are moderately on the succinct side for a professional ASMR artist: “8,082,246 views 16 Jan 2018

Hello sweetheart! 🙂 Today I welcome you to my naturopathic medicine practice 🌿 I will shortly give you an overview of your visit then at 03:00 I will perform a check-up of your hair, your ears 06:30 , I’ll put on my gloves and examine your skin 08:50 , your sinuses 11:25 , your lymph nodes 13:03 , neck muscles check 14:10 , I’ll gently test your eyes reflexes with a flashlight 16:56 , I’ll tell you about Eyeology 19:29 and check your eyes 22:26 , then I will perform a check of your tongue 29:55 after I explain how you can read your health by your tongue 27:47 , I’ll tell you a bit about tension headache that you’ve been experiencing and how to deal with it 32:32 , I’ll recommend you some essential oils 34:34 , and herbal supplements 36:16 that even sound good and at the end I will relax you deeper with gentle hand movements to help you doze off 38:29 . Enjoy ♥ Thank you for watching! 🙂 “

Still, the notes are on the long side though you notice (ASMR professionals do so love their notes). I have edited them a little or you’d never have time to read it all.

There are comments and, sheesh, people do so love to comment. Lots and lots of appreciative comments and a fair few off-the-wall ones as well. No surprises there then.

The video is forty one and a half minutes long and so it is lengthy compared to those we have listened to of late. It starts without music and straight away we realise that the focus is going to be at the whispering level of delivery. Not a bad thing, but also a fairly common approach to ASMR. I do like it when I find a non-whispery one.

Some of the words I could not make out, but I think the overall delivery may not be intended to deliver meaning so much as a relaxing effect on the audience. In which case I would say that the video is a good one. The voice really is that good.

It is calm, quiet, and the intonation is well-nigh perfect. Presumably over two million people would agree. There is that strange clucking come mouth-clicking sound beloved of ASMR artists. This is not something I am trying to find in a video (a lot of people must disagree).

Of course, there are some non-vocal related noises but not too many I notice, mainly clicks and rustles. There is also the tendency for the delivery to vie towards the breathy side. I am not really into breathy personally, but it would appear that a great many ASMR fans are. There is also some clicking from a plastic valerian tablet bottle which did not appeal to me (but must appeal to someone). There is also the grinding sound of a pestle on mortar which is not unpleasant or distracting in my opinion. All told an excellent video and I can remember why I used to listen to it.

Today’s Calm offering came via a recommendation (from Calm). It is this one:

Daily Calm

Tiny Choices

https://www.calm.com/player/-82hIZWhE5

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

A person with possibly my favourite voice on Calm but who I only encounter on the Calm dailies. These daily offerings are around ten minutes in length (as here) and so probably not long enough for you to drop off to in themselves. The other disadvantage to the majority of readers of this blog is that Calm access is not free; you will have to pay a subscription if you want access.

This is about the big effects that small choices can make. Regular repetition of habitual choices can have a big effect. It is important to have awareness of the choices that we unconsciously have made in the past, giving the facility to change such choices in the future.

This week’s inadvertent ASMR is this one:

02.01 General Assessment Physical assessment

and comes from the channel Nursing made easy with 2.68k subscribers and one hundred and seventy-two videos. There are six playlists all of which are in some way related to the medical theme I’ve been pursuing for a while (and given the title of the channel, unsurprisingly).

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The video is just a little over two minutes, blink and it’s gone, it has no notes and no comments and sadly starts with quite loud startup music.

The narration is from a voice which is nicely calm. There is a medical examination which is featured visually but we cannot hear the participants. Thankfully there is no tail-end music. So, it is a reasonable one but also a rather brief one this week.

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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Sleeping With ASMR

I think I can conclude, after quite a few ASMR articles, that nursing is an absolute gift to the ASMR community. There are nursing students who post assessment videos. There are various nursing disciplines that require additional training. Much of that training apparently needs videos. Then there are the tuition videos designed to help nurses improve their expertise and log continuing professional development hours.

With nursing, GPs, and physicians we have videos which are commonly dedicated to medical examination material and this can be quite restful.

In my one blog post per week, I have hardly scraped the surface of everything that seems to be out there in this area. I may, one day, happen upon an even more productive area (paediatrics currently is a little explored area for example). But for the moment thank God for all the nurses out there and the efforts that they put in.

Today’s is from a channel dedicated to nursing it is this:

01.03 The 5 Minute Assessment Physical assessment

Despite the claims of its title the video is nearly six minutes in length.

There are no notes, which is unusual for a professionally produced video. Comments are permitted. Mostly these are unhelpful, but they do lead me to suspect that a number of people listening to this video are ASMR fans.

Oh no introductory music. Thankfully though, it is brief and unsurprisingly, for a video that declares it is all going to happen in five minutes, the pace sets off pretty rapidly and perhaps not as quietly as I would like.

The patient self-identifies as, I think, “Tammy Hawes” but that is probably misspelled. Once the examination begins things start to quieten down, but the pace certainly does not slow any.

The channel is “Nursing made easy” this has one hundred and seventy-two videos at the time I am looking at it and eight hundred and ninety-nine subscribers. That is rather a lot of videos/subscribers.

There are six playlists. One of these has seventy-four videos in it.

However examining the videos in overview, it appears that the titles denote a series. Posted one year ago are four videos with titles ranging from 01.02 to 01.05.

A quick scan of the remainder reveals that few if any will be suitable for our purposes.

The first is this one:

01.02 Barriers to Health Assessment

At just less than eight and a half minutes, the title doesn’t obviously sound like one for us. There are, again, no notes but this time no comments either. There is introductory music again. Then that frenetic pace of presentation (but this time in roadrunner proportions).

I imagine people actually play this one on half speed if they are trying to study it properly.

This really isn’t for the Procrastination Pen playlist.

01.03 is where we came in of course.

01.04 Adult Vital Signs

This is just less than five and a half minutes so another short one. Again, there are no notes and, perhaps thankfully, no comments either. That, accursed, introductory music of course. But after that start the pace is somewhat slower than with the previous two videos. It still isn’t what you would call slow though.

In this one neither patient nor the nurse doing the examination actually get to say anything, it is all about the narrator.

I think the videos in this particular blog article are probably all borderline restful. They are just good enough for the Procrastination Pen playlist but potentially liable to weeding on subsequent review.

The last video in this particular set is this one:

01.05 Pediatric Vital Signs

This is a bit of a segue in fact; the numbering system obviously linking more to the originating course than to the people delivering the examination, the patient, or even the specific subject area.

This one is just less than six and a quarter minutes long. As before there are no notes and no comments. As before the annoying start up music. As before the pace is pretty fast.

This is more a course-delivery video than a medical-examination video. It is not especially restful (although I’m sure if you are on the specific course, it is very informative).

This is not really for the Procrastination Pen playlist

The Nursing made easy playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here: