How a 14-Minute Video on Posture Changed My Life

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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How a 14-Minute Video on Posture Changed My Life    The world is loud and full of interruptions, from the phone buzzing in your pocket to the garbage truck backing up outside your window. It’s rare to find yourself in an environment that is totally tranquil — rarer still to be in a head space where you’re able to dissolve into that bubble of peace. I crave this feeling, which I associate with sitting in a darkened eye doctor’s office, listening to the soft click of the phoropter. I think of doing homework alone in the dining room of a childhood piano teacher’s house on winter evenings, waiting for my sister to finish her lesson. Or, more recently, of the windowless phone booths in the newsroom where I used to work, which I’d sometimes use not to conduct an interview but to sit on the floor when I was feeling overwhelmed. The trouble with these real-life spaces is that the bubble will inevitably burst. The eye exam will end. It will be your turn for the piano lesson, and it will emerge that you absolutely did not practice last week. You will grow paranoid that your boss has clocked your absence from your desk. A library is perhaps the ideal version of a physical space that is peaceful in the way I’m chasing: It’s definitionally quiet, and if you don’t have too much going on, you can stay for as long as you want, or at least until it closes. There is another avenue for finding environments that have a swaddling effect on the mind, and that is the sprawling and wildly popular world of ASMR videos on YouTube. ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, a term coined in 2010 to describe a pleasant brain-tingling feeling that some people experience when exposed to triggers like tapping fingernails, crinkling fabric and whispered conversation. Many ASMR videos involve role play, with a YouTuber taking on a specific identity to simulate a one-on-one prom-dress fitting or lice check. While ASMR videos can prompt that nice prickly feeling, they have the broader aim of soothing viewers, many of whom often watch them as a stress-management tool or sleep aid. Continued here

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