Stress Meter - Glass Tube Thermometer simple, fast way to Test for Stress

Stress Meter - Glass Tube Thermometer simple, fast way to Test for Stress

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Stress Meter. This was my first "invention" for Biofeedback back in the early 1970's. 

I adapted a small cardboard thermometer and redesigned it for biofeedback use. It was very popular until the late 1980s when biofeedback in general declined due to HMOs taking over American health care.

It is an excellent feedback tool since it measures the full range of stress as shown in hand temperature. The red bulb is extended below the card backing so the tube can easily be taped to the finger print to measure hand temperature.

This is our in stock, ready to ship Stress Meter ST77.

This simple, reusable Glass Tube thermometer shows 1 degree F. changes in the bright red, Non-Toxic, Oil Based Liquid. Simply tape or hold the exposed red bulb of the thermometer to your fingertip. Each person reads Stress Number Value, e.g. - 72, 83 or 92. Ideal for class or training group. Hold or tape red bulb to fingertip - Caution Glass with Non-toxic oil based liquid. Measures full range of temperature from 60 F to 98 F.

How Hand Temperature Relates To Stress - Under stress muscles tense and blood flow is restricted to the main body and shut down from the hands and feet. Stress Level Rule - Warm Hands Relaxed, Cold Hands Tense. Hand/foot temperature ranges over 40 degrees from a low of 60 degrees to as high as 99 degrees F. Changes of 5 degrees or more can take place in seconds.

Mood Cards, Stress Squares and Biodots measure temperature in a 10 degree range - Not the full 40 degrees.

So the Stress Meter is a better biofeedback tool. The major disadvantage is that it has a Glass Tube and that is breakable. It is filled with a non-toxic fluid. Not recommended for young children. Should be used under supervision and a competent trainer.

There is also the Plain Stress Meter ST60 that only has the thermometer scale with no information about stress.

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Why are patients hands warm on Stress Thermometer when they are feeling stressed?

 Why are patients hands warm on Stress Thermometer when they are feeling stressed?

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"I bought your stress thermometer for my practice, I own a Psychotherapy n Stress Management practice.  I Have been using it on my clients and some to the reading do not correspond with how they are feeling.  Can you please explain this to me, because it is hard to explain how the thermometer works when it reads 93.4 but the client is telling me that they are angry and stressed."

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Jeff
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Hi Jeff

There are several factors that may come into play here.

Hand Temperature Changes that show stress

1. Hand temperature is only one way stress is measured in the body. Not everyone responds with wide changes in the Autonomic Nervous System or ANS. The changes maybe very slight - just a few degrees - and yet those slight changes of a few degrees are very important.
Stress Thermometer, Stress Card, Mood Card, Stress Squares, Stress Meter can detect changes and provide important feedback.
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Tense Muscles in neck, shoulders and face - especially jaw and forehead

2. Muscle Tension - some people show greater changes in muscle tension as a reflection of their stress level.
EMG Biofeedback is the best feedback device.The forehead is an excellent location to measure general muscle tension. Either shoulder at the top or right in the middle of the spine at the top of your shoulders is another good location.

Stomach Tension - acid reflux,

3. Stomach Tension - Acidity - this is tricky as there is no specific biofeedback device to measure acidity levels in the stomach. It would be helpful although I am not sure you could control it on a moment to moment basis. With this problem I start with Progressive Relaxation and advance through the Stress Control Series with Stress Thermometer as feedback to reduce whole body stress.

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Help! My Mood Card or Stress Square or Biodot stays BLACK

Help! My Mood Card or 

Stress Square or Biodot stays BLACK

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No you are not dead if you Mood Card, Stress Square or Biodot stay Black and do not change color.......... your hands are cold. They are too cold to show a color. All these tools to measure stress only measure over a 10 degree range. We could make several chips that could each measure a different 10 degree range but the total cost would increase significantly. So we chose just a mid stress range for most people in room temp of around 70 degrees F.

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So do not fret or beat yourself up. If you do, your hands will stay cold. Hand temperature is influenced by your mood. So you want to send warmth to your hands. We have some great relaxation audio CDs that can teach you how to do that.

115H, 101H, 102H, 103H - Stress Control Series

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Or recall some very pleasant memories like soaking in a hot bath, lying down feeling the warm sun on your whole body............. things like that.

Remember this is a new skill your are learning. It will take time and practice. No matter how long it takes, you will be healthier and happier because with this skill you will make yourself that way!

Sweetttttttttttttt

Dr Tim 

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5 Science-Backed Health Benefits Of Hypnosis

5 Science-Backed Health 

Benefits Of Hypnosis

The Huffington Post  | By Sarah Klein

Posted: 07/02/2014 8:19 am EDT 

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It sounds like the work of sorcerers and scam artists, but hypnosis can play a very real role in protecting and promoting health.
This isn't the “You are getting very sleepy..." hypnosis you're used to seeing in pop culture references, but a clinical procedure used in conjunction with other therapies and treatments, according to the American Psychological Association. Hypnosis for health benefits "should be conducted only by properly trained and credentialed health care professionals (e.g. psychologists) who also have been trained in the use of hypnosis and who are working within the limits of their professional expertise,” according to the APA's website.
The "state of inner absorption, concentration and focused attention” brought on by hypnosis may help us use our minds more powerfully, according to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. And harnessing the powers of the mind has inspired researchers and clinicians in various fields to explore the use of hypnosis in a number of health outcomes.
Medical hypnosis, sometimes called hypnotherapy, uses verbal repetition and/or mental imagery (facilitated by a hypnotherapist or one's self) to induce a "trance-like state" of increased focus. It's typically described as feeling calm and relaxing and usually opens people up to the power of suggestion, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Once disregarded as a parlor trick, hypnosis is increasingly believed to improve many of those outcomes. The American Medical Association approved hypnosis as a therapy in 1958, and the APA followed suit three years later, according to Harvard Medical School. That's not to say it's a panacea: In fact, more research is needed to prove lasting benefits of hypnosis for certain facets of health, such as weight loss or smoking cessation. But more promising results exist in other areas of study. Here are a few of the science-backed benefits of hypnosis to consider.
Hypnosis can help improve deep sleep.
In previous studies of the effects of hypnosis on sleep, study participants were simply asked to report back on how well (or poorly!) they felt they slept after hypnosis. But in a recent study, Swiss researchers were able to measure its effects by monitoring brain activity in a group of healthy, young women as they took a 90-minute nap after listening to a hypnotic suggestion tape. The women who were deemed the most susceptible to hypnosis spent 80 percent more time in slow-wave sleep (the deep, restorative phase of our shut-eye) after listening to the hypnosis tape than they did after listening to a neutral spoken text. "[T]he results may be of major importance for patients with sleep problems and for older adults," lead researcher Maren Cordi of the University of Zurich said in a statement. "In contrast to many sleep-inducing drugs, hypnosis has no adverse side effects."
It can ease symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
In a 2003 study, 71 percent of 204 irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients reported improved symptoms after 12 weekly hour-long hypnosis sessions, the APA reported. Of those who reported improvements, 81 percent continued to feel better up to six years after the hypnosis treatment had ended, according to the study. In a 2012 study, 85 percent of IBS patients who reported improvement after hypnosis still felt better up to seven years later. "The conclusion is that hypnotherapy could reduce both the consumption of healthcare and the cost to society, and that hypnosis therefore belongs in the arsenal of treatments for IBS," researcher Magnus Simrén said in a statement.
Hypnosis can quell hot flashes.
Among postmenopausal women who reported at least 50 hot flashes a week, five weekly hypnosis sessions cut hot flashes by 74 percent 12 weeks later, a 2013 study found. Meanwhile, women who did not receive hypnosis but instead had weekly sessions with a clinician only experienced a 17 percent drop in hot flashes.
It can ease pain.
Hypnosis is perhaps most well-researched in the context of managing pain. Two meta-analyses of existing pain and hypnosis research, published in 2000 and 2009, deemed hypnosis effective at lowering pain associated with a number of conditions, including fibromyalgia, arthritis and cancer, but noted that few psychologists were using it, and those who were had little standardization in administering hypnotherapy.
Hypnosis can calm nerves.
Because of its ability to harness the powers of the mind, hypnosis is often employed to relieve anxieties related to other medical procedures, like surgery, scans or even giving birth, called state anxiety. "The mechanism may be similar to the placebo effect -- in which patients' expectations play a major role in how they feel," Melinda Beck wrote for the Wall Street Journal in 2012. "Hypnosis, in turn, can help patients adjust those expectations to minimize pain, fear and disability." More research is needed to determine if hypnosis might alleviate generalized anxiety disorder or what's called trait anxiety, or anxiety relating to personality rather than a specific event, according to a 2010 review of the research. Preliminary studies have started to examine hypnosis in depression treatment as well, but more research is needed.

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In the past 12 to 24 months, which of the following major life events have taken place in your life.

Make down the points for each event that you have experienced this year.

When you're done looking at the whole list, add up the points for each event.

Check your score at the bottom.

    _____ 100 Death of Spouse
    _____ 73 Divorce
    _____ 65 Marital Separation or from relationship partner
    _____ 63 Jail Term
    _____ 63 Death of close family member
    _____ 53 Personal injury or illness
    _____ 50 Marriage
    _____ 47 Fired from work
    _____ 45 Marital reconciliation
    _____ 45 Retirement
    _____ 44 Change in family member's health
    _____ 40 Pregnancy
    _____ 39 Sex difficulties
    _____ 39 Addition to family
    _____ 39 Business readjustment
    _____ 38 Change in financial status
    _____ 37 Death of close friend
    _____ 36 Change to a different line of work
    _____ 35 Change in number of marital arguments
    _____ 31 Mortgage or loan over $30,000
    _____ 30 Foreclosure of mortgage or loan
    _____ 29Change in work responsibilities
    _____ 29 Trouble with in-laws
    _____ 28 Outstanding personal achievement
    _____ 26 Spouse begins or stops work
    _____ 26 Starting or finishing school
    _____ 25 Change in living conditions
    _____ 24 Revision of personal habits
    _____ 23 Trouble with boss
    _____ 20 Change in work hours, conditions
    _____ 20 Change in residence
    _____ 20 Change in schools
    _____ 19 Change in recreational habits
    _____ 19 Change in church activities
    _____ 18 Change in social activities
    _____ 17 Mortgage or loan under $20,000
    _____ 16 Change in sleeping habits
    _____ 15 Change in number of family gatherings
    _____ 15 Change in eating habits
    _____ 13 Vacation
    _____ 12 Christmas season
    _____ 11 Minor violations of the law

    ______ Your Total Score

This scale shows the kind of life pressure that you are facing. Depending on your coping skills or the lack thereof, this scale can predict the likelihood that you will fall victim to a stress related illness. The illness could be mild - frequent tension headaches, acid indigestion, loss of sleep to very serious illness like ulcers, cancer, migraines and the like.
LIFE STRESS SCORES
0-149 Low susceptibility to stress-related illness
150-299 Medium susceptibility to stress-related illness.
Learn and practice relaxation and stress management skills and a healthy well life style.
300 and over High susceptibility to stress-related illness
Daily practice of relaxation skills is very important for your wellness. Take care of it now before a serious illness erupts or an affliction becomes worse.

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FREE 5 Second STRESS TEST - Touch Your Neck

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Each of us reacts to stress differently. Some of us tighten our muscles, others dump more acid into their stomach, still others have freezing cold hands or feet, can't sleep, headaches, ......... That's the bad news and, of course, it gets even worse as things get out of hand. Stress, unchecked, can make you ill and can even kill. Not news to you, I'm sure. What you can do is learn to detect your own level of stress accurately. Even more impressive is when you learn to master your own response to stress. Don't panic, kids learn this easily and so can you.

This is a simple test of your stress level. Not all stress or tension is bad. You need to have some to drive a car safely down a city freeway or watch a two year old at the playground. But too much stress can slowly build like a kettle on the stove. Within minutes it is hissing. After a few more minutes it is bubbling with the lid rattling. This can happen in a few minutes, a few years or over a life time. Now you can learn to check your body to get an idea of the Stress Factor.
STRESS TEST

Body temperature is the simplest way to determine your level of stress . To better understand the relationship of stress and body temperature read - STRESS AND BODY TEMPERATURE.

PART 1 FINGER & NECK STRESS TEST

A simple way to test your stress level is by comparing your hand temperature to your neck temperature. Neck temperature is typically around the high 80's to low 90's F. Hand temperature can vary from 60 degrees to 99 degrees in a normal room temperature. So you can test your hand temperature by touching your neck with the fingertips of both hands.

FREE 5 Second STRESS TEST - Touch Your Neck

Do your fingers feel colder than your neck? How much colder? Allot or just slightly?

Do your fingers feel warm like your neck?

Remember "Warm Hands are Relaxed, Cold Hands are Tense!"

Warm Hands are Relaxed

Cold Hands are Tense

If your fingers feel really cold, then you are showing extra tension perhaps too much stress.

If your fingers feel cool, then you are showing some tension.

If your fingers are warm like your neck, then you may be relaxed and comfortable.

If your fingers feel hotter than your neck, then you may be deeply relaxed.

This is a simple test. Some people feel stress in muscle tension, sweaty hands or other ways that may be more apparent than hand temperature.

PART 2 MAKE YOURSELF TENSE

    Close your eyes and check your finger/neck temperature again.

Make yourself Stressed Out! Now sit and think of something really upsetting - a divorce, problems at work, a death, children problems, a bad experience in childhood, credit card bills, loneliness, etc. Really think about that problem for 3 minutes until you can feel your body change and react to that pressure.

    Check your finger/neck temperature again.

Did your fingers get colder? What else happened inside your body?

If were not able to make yourself feel tense then try this. Sit and imagine putting your hands in ICE COLD WATER. Feel the ice cubes rubbing against your fingers. Hear the freezing cold cubes clang against the glass bowl. Or imagine making snowballs or a snowman [person] with NO GLOVES. Imagine this for 3 minutes.

    Check your finger/neck temperature again.

Did your fingers get colder? What else happened inside your body?

PART 3 MAKE YOURSELF RELAXED

    Close your eyes and check your finger/neck temperature again.

Now let us test to see how well you can relax and make your hands warmer. Sit with your eyes closed. Take long, slow, deep breaths. For 3 minutes imagine that you are laying in the warm sunshine or under a heavy blanket in front of a fireplace. Feel the warmth flowing down your arms and into your hands. Feel the warmth pulsing and throbbing over your entire body.

    Check your finger/neck temperature again.

Did your fingers get warmer? What else happened inside your body?

By doing this simple test and then practicing 5 minutes of deep relaxation, I have had people report that headahces left, pain subsided and they felt much better. Years later people still use this simple method to relieve pain and pressure!

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