How ASMR Can Heal Touch Starvation
What is Touch Starvation?
Touch is fundamental for the development of a healthy human psyche. Babies can’t survive without physical affection and care from a dedicated caretaker. In early childhood, touch promotes social bonding and strengthens emotional security. Even cuddling a pet can help reduce anxiety. To humans, there is likely no other comparable currency like touch.
So what happens when you are devoid of physical contact with other living things? Constantly lacking regular human contact can lead to states of chronic stress, which may weaken your immune system and increasingly harm your emotional wellbeing over time. Touch deprivation may occur to those living in affection-free childhood homes, experiencing neglectful relationships, or isolated from the outside world due to lifestyle and/or emotional illnesses.
How Can ASMR Help?
Arguably the most fulfilling part of life is connection. Many believe that the rise of the internet is to blame for so many abandoning the outside world in favor of virtual connections. Quietly growing in popularity alongside livestreams, “mukbangs,” and podcasts following the COVID-19 pandemic, were ASMR content creators, or ASMRtists. ASMRtists have learned how to transmit the feeling gained from in-person touch into a virtual medium, and the healing effects are noticeable. By simulating realistic interactions and personalizing them to provide personal attention and human care, people not only receive the physical benefits of ASMR “tingles” - but the emotional benefits as well.
ASMR by Mathilde provides in-person ASMR for people in the Greater Boston area. By incorporating sound healing and gentle physical touch with the intention to guide deep relaxation, in-person ASMR is a one of a kind experience that aids in restlessness and anxiety, while directly healing touch deprivation. ASMR by Mathilde specializes in using sound healing tools with hair play, upper body brushing, and more to encourage the release of oxytocin hormones in the body. In-person ASMR is different from other means of touch deprivation healing, such as massage therapy, because it equally targets the emotional side of personal care along with the physical, offering a whole body and mind experience for your healing journey.
