Worry – The Procrastination Pen

Today marks one year since I started blogging on ASMR. To celebrate I thought we would both have a treat and get some ASMR from a recognised ASMR professional.

This is like a kiddie being found with a hand in the sweetie jar. This is not at all in the theme of medical examinations. It has been assembled by a famous ASMR artist (so definitely fabricated). At 4.59 million subscribers (as I am looking at it) this is a channel that is fantastically popular.

I have strayed from the true path of the blog with this video but we will return to unintentional ASMR in due course. However, if this kind of post turns out to be popular, I may consider professional ASMR artists in the future.

YouTube has some algorithms in it. When you (as I have) start exploring items that have an ASMR theme, other items get recommended as the next video to view. This is one of those recommendations and I have to confess I really like this one.

Gibi ASMR is so famous that she has a Wikipedia entry.

I did not know about her prior to finding this channel. As you’d imagine the Gibi ASMR channel has quite a few videos, so many I have no idea how to count them all.

There are forty-seven playlists, some of them with a very large number of videos in.

Todays’ video is this one:

ASMR | Professional Worry Removal

As expected, this is professional, polished, great intonation, great voice but then I’m cheating and we’d be kind of upset if a professional ASMR artist could not do that, wouldn’t we?

As it turns out one of the Gibi ASMR playlists is Gibi ASMR | Worry Removals of which this is the first video.

There are seven videos in total and just for a change we’re not finding any hidden ones.

I suspect there are many advantages with just going with a professional ASMR artist and judging by the comments Gibi ASMR has many loyal fans.

I think as I am starting into review of professional ASMR artists (of which this is perhaps the only one – dependent upon how this is received) I am going to create a new Procrastination Pen playlist called “Sweetie Jar” for all such videos. These videos can be placed in that list without guilt that I am diluting the Procrastination Pen playlist which is designated for videos which contain inadvertent ASMR content.

Given the first one is so excellent what are we going to find with video two?

ASMR | Another Professional Worry Removal

As before the character is spot on in my opinion. Sybil is just right in terms of the way she speaks. No doubt this is the outcome of a great deal of time making ASMR videos.

ASMR | Professional Worry Removal & Spa Double Relaxation Treatment [1 Hour]

I really didn’t like the Luna character here. Given there is so much great material with Sybil, I don’t see the point in including it in the playlist.

ASMR | Sybil Gives You a Soothing Manicure

Sybil comes in at three and a half minutes into the video. Three and a half minutes of advertising to start the video. It is bad enough dismissing the YouTube adverts outside of the video itself without the sponsors messages in the video itself. I can’t put this one in the playlist either.

ASMR | Professional Worry Removal for the New Year

This is good; however, it is only going to be valid at the New Year. I’m not certain that isn’t going to be jarring at other times of year. However, the presentation is still great so on balance I think it should be included. (I can always weed jarring videos to the archive in the future.)

ASMR | Professionally Removing Your Anxiety & Stress in 2023

This applies in 2023 only, and as I am posting this in 2024 I am sure it also should not be in the playlist.

You may have noticed that I rushed through this blog entry. I am a bit guilty about straying from the norm of medical exams. However, having heard how good some of these are I thought I should at least cover them.

I will try to avoid coming back to professional ASMR for a while unless there is demand for it.

The Gibi playlist on The Procrastination Pen is here:

The new “Sweetie Jar” playlist for professional ASMR videos is here:

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

I am not adding “Sweetie Jar” videos to this overall playlist as they are off-topic for the theme of the blog posts so far.

The archive playlist of videos that were in the above playlist but found after repeated review not to make the grade, is here:

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 experience to log on, this interrupts the listening 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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I’ve used this technique myself with clients. It is a good creative technique to use with people who worry excessively or are anxious. Sometimes it is good to use techniques other than talking (and listening) in the room. Visual techniques are helpful in that they display to the client where their current thinking style/behaviour is taking them. It also can help them to clearly see changes that they need to make.

Everyone in the world has two seeds. There is a happy seed and a worry seed. You can do what you like with either seed – there is no instruction book. However the way you behave towards these two seeds is not without consequences.

This exercise is to show what happens when you pay attention to one or other seed.

Draw a happy seed and a worry seed at the bottom of a large piece of paper.

The client can pay attention to either seed. They must first nominate one as the happy seed and one as the worry seed. (Draw a label clearly at the base of the paper so that there is no doubt which one is which).

They can pay attention to either seed. Each seed needs feeding and watering so that it can grow.

If the client is prone to worry it is usually easier for them to pay attention to the worry seed. If a worry comes to mind have them draw a shoot from the worry seed. Have them attach a leaf to this shoot labelled with that worry.

At this stage the worry seed is developing into a plant. The happy seed is still just a seed. The client has free rein to add shoots to either seed. Have them add more shoots with whatever comes to mind.

Their predominant thinking style will rise to the surface. Someone who worries draws more worries.

Dependent upon how much the client has to bring up it might be that you will need a very large piece of paper for this. (Plain wallpaper for example is good).

As you watch what the client is doing you can see that they have a tendency to water and feed one particular plant dependent upon their thinking style.

This can continue for as long as you have time designated to this. However a definite pattern will have emerged.

Eventually the client will run out of things to add – or will have added as much as they can within the time you allotted for this activity. There will usually be an asymmetry between the two plants:

At which point you can point out to them that in life there is only one pot of time. They can pay attention to anything that they like but only one thing at a time. If they pay attention to the worry seed – they care for it, water it and it will start to grow.

A first worry leaf develops. With further attention to the worry seed another leaf pops up. If they keep caring for the worry seed in time a tree of worries will fill the page.

Their life will be full of worries and there will be no space left for happy.

They can’t care for the worry seed and at the same time pay attention to the happy seed. With no attention to the happy seed they concentrate all their energy on worry.

The worry tree becomes so huge that it is overwhelming. By comparison the stunted happy tree is undeveloped. In fact the happy tree is completely overshadowed by the worry tree and is not going to grow properly.

Get them then to consider how life would be different if they spent at least some time on the happy seed.

Better still if they watered and cared for the happy seed at the expense of the worry seed. How much different would life be then.

The intention is for them to seek out the parts of their lives that are happy and to minimise the time they spend worrying.

Thanks to my counsellor Rachel http://www.elyhypnotherapy.com/ for suggesting this technique.

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