One Hand Warmer than the Other - What's Going On?

One Hand Warmer than the Other - What's Going On?

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  by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2015

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Amazon customer asked, "I bought these [stress squares] and showed them to my son. he tried one in each hand. one was green the other black. he laughed and walked off. they work? don't work?"

He is asking about Stress Squares that we sell on Amazon and our website.

It seems really confusing at first glance. But in fact the temperature can be different from one hand to the other. Most often I see this when someone is "trying" to make their right hand warmer. Often it will cool down. Check the left hand, and it will be warmer. Warmer because of passive or "allowing" relaxtion to happen.

I have even seen temperature differences from one finger to the other. To some degree, we all suffer from a bit of performance anxiety. In this case the anxiety is over the pressure to heat up your hands and relax.

Training with scientific relaxation will build confidence and experience in how to relax the body and mind. Take time, it is like learning any new skill. With feedback you can track your progress. The Stress Thermometer kit is a very good basic introduction.

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Stress Thermometer kit

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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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by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2014

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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.

We can customize the Personalized Stress Meter PST77 with your organization Logo and Address.

You can purchase them from our website
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Dr. Weil - Ten Ways to Reduce Stress

Dr. Weil - Ten Ways to Reduce Stress

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1) Breathing strongly influences mind, body and moods. By simply focusing your attention on your breathing, and without doing anything to change it, you move in the direction of relaxation. 

2) Progressive relaxation is a way of releasing tension in muscles. Often taught in yoga and exercise classes, on self-help tapes and by various instructors - from massage therapists to psychologists - there are many variations of progressive relaxation. 

Deep Muscle Relaxation

5) Visualization and guided imagery. While we all look at our internal images from time to time, especially when we daydream or fantasize, few of us have learned how to develop our imaging capacity and take advantage of its ability to affect our minds and bodies.

Guided Imagery Relaxation

6) Biofeedback. The idea of biofeedback is clever and simple: by using technology to help you learn faster relaxation, you can develop sensory awareness of an involuntary function and learn to change it. In a common biofeedback setup, temperature sensors are connected to your fingers, and skin temperature is converted to an audible signal, perhaps a beep tone: the faster the beeps, the higher the temperature. Your job is to make the beeps go faster by raising your skin temperature. The tone gives your ears and brain feedback from a body function that is ordinarily unconscious and beyond the reach of your will. Skin temperature is a measure of blood flow into the hands, and that is determined by the size of little arteries. The autonomic nervous system regulates this flow by causing arteries to constrict (sympathetic influence) or dilate (parasympathetic influence). In order to raise your skin temperature you have to relax your sympathetic nervous system. Unless you do this on a regular basis, you will have wasted your time and money, because the point is to incorporate what you learn into daily life. Ideally you should spend 15 to 20 minutes a day at this practice, preferably after a few minutes of progressive relaxation, visualization or meditation to set the stage.

Biofeedback works best for people whose tension is expressed in bodily complaints such as migraines, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, ulcers, chronic intestinal problems, Raynaud's disease and bruxism. It may also benefit those who feel they need outside help in learning to reduce anxiety and internal stress, or who doubt they can do it on their own. A typical biofeedback training program consists of 10 hour-long sessions, often spaced a week apart.

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Stress - Free book to teach you how to manage Stress

Stress - Free book teaches how to manage Stress

by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2015

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  Okay so you have read all those articles with catchy headlines - 5 Ways to Beat Stress, 15 things You Can Do To Throw Away Stress Now, etc. And you still feel tense, nervous, uptight, your stomach burns from too much acid, you toss and turn unable to get a good nights sleep ... This book is a Real solution, not just a catchy title on a website ... Here are the key points.

• Understanding how your body reacts to stress
• Quick 10 second stress test
• Tools you can use to measure stress
• Guidelines for Deep Rest
• Relaxation and Stress Temperature Test
• Body Outline to mark where stress hides in your body
• Basic advice on Relaxation
• Relaxation Journal – keeping a diary about your training
• Spot Stress Checks
• Strategies for coping with stress

Body Stress Check - X where you find stress

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For many years this book was printed and sold to schools, universities and major corporations as training tool to teach stress management. Now we no longer have the expense of printing and mailing - you can download a Free copy.

Quick Stress Check you can test anytime, anywhere

BOOK SUMMARY

FREE Book. Be Stress Wise is an excellent, basic training guide about stress – for yourself, students, employees, EAP, wellness programs.  You will learn practical scientifically tested methods to both understand stress and to master your reactions to life.  This book is like taking a mini-stress workshop taught by Dr. Tim Lowenstein, international expert on stress since 1976. Learn a quick 10 second stress test. Find out how to heat your hands and feet to relax. Learn how to drop into Deep Rest. Use a Body Stress Chart to discover hidden tension in your body. Keep a Relaxation Journal. You will learn to measure your stress and you will be able to chart your progress to be more relaxed from temperature readings and from reviewing your Relaxation Training Journal. This book includes a demonstration and a listing of the many simple devices and tools that Dr. Lowenstein has designed to measure stress and teach biofeedback, stress management and relaxation. Millions of people all over the world use Dr. Lowenstein’s stress training materials. Please distribute freely.



Timothy J. Lowenstein, Ph.D.

An international authority on Stress Management, Biofeedback and Relaxation, Dr. Tim Lowenstein is a pioneer researcher, renowned author and inventor. Dr. Lowenstein began his work as a graduate student at Kansas State University in 1972. His Ph.D. is in Counseling and his M.S. is in Family and Child Development. He helped develop the first biofeedback/relaxation program in a university counseling center. Based on his research and personal experience of training thousands, Dr. Lowenstein developed a range of devices and materials to measure stress and teach biofeedback and relaxation skills. Dr. Lowenstein is president of Stress Market, Inc. which offers his materials and instruments via the internet and a consortium of distributors including Amazon.
Dr. Lowenstein has published over 40 audio CDs and 6 books on this topic.

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Stress Thermometer Testing for Broken Sensor

Stress Thermometer Testing for Broken Sensor

by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2015

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FREE Book - Be Stress Wise, by Dr Tim Lowenstein
Go to
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and download your copy. Feel Free to share with friends.

How to trouble shoot a Stress Thermometer if it looks like your are not getting Hand Temperature feedback.

Is this a brand new unit? There is a label on the back of the unit with Month and Year of manufacture. This should be checked.

If it is Used.

If it has been used for some time, the tiny wires by the Thermistor or Temperature Sensor may have been broken through use and abuse. You cannot tell this by looking at the tip - it might be broken under plastic. A broken tip is not repairable or more accurately it is not cost effective to repair it. It will need to be replaced. See links below or above to order a new unit.

If it is New.

1. Remove the battery from the back of the unit. Slide the battery door off and the battery should pop up or you can carefully use a paper clip.
2. Wait one minute.
3. Reinstall the battery and close the battery door.
4. Try switching between Room and Body.
5. Swith to Body and Put the Thermistor under your arm for 1 minute. Temperature will read be in low 90s if the unit is working.
6. Then switch unit to Room and see if the temp is different. It should be lower in most room environments.

It is possible to have a Body temperature reading that is the same or similar to Room temperature. This above test will determine if the unit is working properly.

If it is a new unit and within the 30 day warranty, contact us for a return and replacement. We have an extremely low failure rate on new units but it does happen on rare occasion.

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Be Stress Wise by Dr Tim Lowenstein - Now on Amazon Kindle

 Be Stress Wise by Dr Tim Lowenstein 

- Now on Amazon Kindle

Link: http://amzn.com/B00V3Q8IM2

Get your copy on Amazon - Only 99 cents

Stress Market - Your Stress Education Store

Or Download your free book here - http://www.bestresswisebook.com/

• Understanding how your body reacts to stress
• Quick 10 second stress test
• Tools you can use to measure stress
• Guidelines for Deep Rest
• Relaxation and Stress Temperature Test
• Body Outline to mark where stress hides in your body
• Basic advice on Relaxation
• Relaxation Journal – keeping a diary about your training
• Spot Stress Checks
• Strategies for coping with stress

http://www.bestresswisebook.com/     Get your free copy NOW.

BOOK SUMMARY

FREE Book. Be Stress Wise is an excellent, basic training guide about stress – for yourself, students, employees, EAP, wellness programs.  You will learn practical scientifically tested methods to both understand stress and to master your reactions to life.  This book is like taking a mini-stress workshop taught by Dr. Tim Lowenstein, international expert on stress since 1976. Learn a quick 10 second stress test. Find out how to heat your hands and feet to relax. Learn how to drop into Deep Rest. Use a Body Stress Chart to discover hidden tension in your body. Keep a Relaxation Journal. You will learn to measure your stress and you will be able to chart your progress to be more relaxed from temperature readings and from reviewing your Relaxation Training Journal. This book includes a demonstration and a listing of the many simple devices and tools that Dr. Lowenstein has designed to measure stress and teach biofeedback, stress management and relaxation. Millions of people all over the world use Dr. Lowenstein’s stress training materials. Please distribute freely.



Timothy J. Lowenstein, Ph.D.

An international authority on Stress Management, Biofeedback and Relaxation, Dr. Tim Lowenstein is a pioneer researcher, renowned author and inventor. Dr. Lowenstein began his work as a graduate student at Kansas State University in 1972. His Ph.D. is in Counseling and his M.S. is in Family and Child Development. He helped develop the first biofeedback/relaxation program in a university counseling center. Based on his research and personal experience of training thousands, Dr. Lowenstein developed a range of devices and materials to measure stress and teach biofeedback and relaxation skills. Dr. Lowenstein is president of Stress Market, Inc. which offers his materials and instruments via the internet and a consortium of distributors including Amazon.
Dr. Lowenstein has published over 40 audio CDs and 6 books on this topic.

www.cliving.org
Our Products on Amazon.com

stressmarket.com, P.O. Box 127, Port Angeles,WA 98362 , USA

Orders 1.800.578.7377 | Local 360.457.9223 | Fax 360.457.9466

Email us at info@stressmarket.com
DBA  Stress Market, Inc.