Stress, Anxiety, Biofeedback, Relaxation Skills: Mood Pencil, Stress Pencil

Mood Pencil, Stress Pencil - A Fast, Simple Test for Stress

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by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2016

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PRINT ON MOOD PENCIL READS: Warm Hands are Relaxed, Cold Hands are Tense. To RELAX, close your eyes & breathe in deeply, count to 10, breathe out, count to 10.
PRINT ON MOOD PENCIL READS: Pencil changes color when you are relaxed. Take 10 minute rest break each day. Breathe like this during stress.

Warm hands cause color of pencil to change to indicate relaxation. Catch stress before it builds into a headache or worse
Assorted color on pencil barrels - Mixed Colors - Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, etc.
Pencil measures stress by color change. Pencil barrel color changes when Relaxed Hands warm to 90F or so

Print on Mood Pencil reads:

Warm Hands are Relaxed, Cold Hands are Tense.
To RELAX, close your eyes & breathe in deeply, count to 10, breathe out, count to 10. Pencil changes color when you are relaxed. Take 10 minute rest break each day. Breathe like this during stress.

When your hands heat up to about 90 degrees F or 32.2 C, the color on the Mood Pencil changes to a noticeably lighter color. So your warm fingers will leave marks on the Mood Pencil. Hands temperatures above 90 F is a sign of calm and relaxation. Below 90 F the Mood Pencil ink barrel color will NOT change and will be the same color all over.

It is a handy reminder to look down during the day and get a reading of your stress level by checking the color of the outside of your Mood Pencil. If it is all the same color, it can encourage you to relax during a stressful day. Take a few moments to close your eyes, drop muscle tension as you breath deeply while you imagine warmth flowing down into your hands as you relax deeper and deeper.

If your hands are warmer than 90 F or 32.2 C, then you will see lighters spots of color on the outside of the Mood Pencil where ever your hand has touched it. Mood Pencil color change can be a good sign that you maintaining a healthy balance of both alertness and calm. You blood pressure can be normal and you are less risk of headaches and other stress illnesses.

These make a great handout for schools, health clinics, HR, EAP, any business, etc. People love to use pens and pencils to have friends and others check their stress level.

• Pen barrel changes color – warm hands cause color of pencil barrel to change to indicate relaxation, VIOLET pencil changes to PINK. It is a fun, easy and quick way to check your stress level. Color change occurs around 90F – Calm and early stages of Relaxation.
• Quality wood pencil
• Black ferrule and black eraser
• #2 graphite lead

Hand temperature under stress has a much wider range of temperature. Body Temperature changes under 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° from a low of 60° to as high as 99° F. Changes of 5° or more can take place in seconds.

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