I tried watching some ASMR videos never having come across them before and they made me feel rage — within less than a minute it had increased to the point of wanting to annihilate the woman, which is a bit extreme. I do get the relaxed sensations sometimes too with ASMR but it seems like I can fall either on the relaxed side or the aggression side.

I was doing some major healthy aggression work at the time, having just had a situation which was a repeat of previous major medical trauma, and I guess the ASMR videos triggered it. I know I’ve completed a procedural memory since then because the constant fight energy I used to have simmering away below the surface has gone. Interestingly, now when I watch the same videos there’s no rage at all and I find them relaxing.

All sorts of things that used to irritate/stress/anger me don’t anymore, I’m so much less reactive, this is a really profound change on so many levels with so much peace in my system. The training and Q&A calls were a massive resource not just for the content, but because you’re both so noticeably regulated in them, they really helped me regulate. I can see my children are becoming more regulated as I am. So massive yay!

I’m a psychologist and it’s definitely the most powerful tool along with Internal Family Systems. One of the traumas I had at start of SBSM was getting Covid really badly… I just did intensive SBSM stuff for weeks because I knew it was crucial to avoid long Covid complications. I got my blood pressure and heart rate down and POTS under control again within a month — it would have taken me many months, possibly even years, without SBSM. And now I’m on much less medication than before I got Covid!