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Hi, Leander Caney here, editor and publisher of CultOfMac.com and this is Caney's Corner
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Okay, this week I want to talk about something that I'm really into that in fact has become
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something of an obsession. I was talking the other day with my co-worker Lewis about Bob Ross, the painter on public
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TV and how I used to get this tingling sensation when I watched his TV show and then Lewis
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informed me that in fact there's a bunch of videos on YouTube that are designed to
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induce this sensation which is known as ASML, ASMP, god f**king stinking f**k
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ASMP is a strange phenomenon because it's not actually scientifically or medically proven
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it's purely anecdotal and some people don't get it. I mean there's a lot of people who don't get this beautiful tingling sensation but those
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that do get it usually by certain triggers. So there's five or six things that will trigger it and whispering is one of them
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Another one is gentle tapping, also crinkling of paper, turning pages or just doing something
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like folding towels or putting on a tie or a scarf. My favorite is Maria, she's a woman from the East Coast who has a YouTube channel, an incredibly
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popular YouTube channel called Gentle Whisperer or Gentle Whispering, sorry Maria, and she
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is this woman from Russia who just whispers into the camera and it's incredibly, incredibly relaxing
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I've checked out a bunch of others and I haven't found anyone who's quite as good as her and so Maria makes these videos, sometimes about an hour long, where she does nothing but folds
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some towels and gently taps her fingers on her box and just talks in a whisper and it's
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complete drivel but it's incredibly relaxing, it puts you into this state of deep, almost
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like meditation. I can sometimes feel as though my chair is tipping up and I get this out of body experience
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and I can see myself from a different angle and my head and neck is tingling, it's absolutely glorious
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