Stress Card - The Business Card People Refuse to Throw Away

Stress Card - The Business Card People Refuse to Throw Away

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  by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2016

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I got a panic call one beautiful Fall day. Barbara from CA called and she was in a panic. Someone stole her Stress Card from her office drawer. She wanted a replacement fast. She said she used the card everday to test and check her stress level. Who would steal such a thing she asked? We shot some replacement cards out to her. She was planning on sharing cards around the office to prevent her stress card from being taken.

stress card - fast stress test with color readout

This is a stress card. It can be printed on Heavy Cardstock or Plastic. Business card size or credit card size. The Stress Test part is a Stress Chip = plastic film with liquid crystal that is reactive and changes color from heat. By placing your thumb on the Stress Chip, you can test the temperature of your finger.

Stress Hand Temperature - Warm Relaxed, Cold Tense

The stress chip changes color as it measures your fingertip temperature.  The color change gives you a reading of your stress level. Use the color bar on the card to gauge your stress level.

Stress Card measures stress by changing color

Below is one of our most popular Stress Cards or Mood Cards. You can buy them from our website or in our Amazon store. We offer lots of different designs. Some allow you to personalize them with your address sticker.

Stres Card from Stress Market

Custom printed Stress Card or Mood Card. Choose heavy cardstock or plastic, we will print the Front and Back in Full Color for one low price.

Stress Card for LA School District

You can even customize one of our in stock designs.

Stress Card - Breathe and Relax

One of the best introductions is to order our Sample Pak. You will get a wide selection of our products to compare and test for yourself.
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Biodots - Small Circles Test Your Stress by Measuring Hand Temperature

Biodots - Small Circles Test Your Stress by Measuring Hand Temperature 

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Biodots are small, liquid crystal circles that CHANGE COLORS as temperature changes. Use adhesive back to stick the Stress Point to tense areas. Inexpensive and unbreakable, 10 degree range from 79.6° F. to 89.6° F. Great handout at fairs, lectures and groups. Some people refer to these as Biodots, Biodot Skin Thermometer, bio-dots, stress dots. They are quite small - 1/4" circle = 6.35 mm. Stress Points/Biodots instruction sheet

Stress - Warm hands Relaxed, Cold hand Stressed

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.

Stress Thermometer - skin temperature biofeedback

The Stress Thermometer is an inexpensive, digital thermometer that provides professional feedback of the full range of the over 40 degree temperature change in hand temperature. This is critical feedback to raise awareness of subtle or small changes in hand temperature.  The feedback is very important to practice the skill of relaxation and see the responding increase in hand temperature.

Free Instruction Guide to Biodots

Specifically, for migraine headaches this feedback is important in 2 respects.

1. Simple and small temperature drops start very slowly. The drop in hand temperature is the beginning onset of a migraine. If it is not stopped, that drop in hand temperature will increase until the migraine rages making normal life very difficult.

2. Practicing scientific methods of relaxation, the Stress Thermometer will show any success in stopping the drop in temperature. With additional mastery, you learn to relax so that more blood flows out to the hands. This reverses the progression of the building migraine headache.

From the simple Biodot to the more sophisticated, Stress Thermometer, you can learn to relax and control stress. We are here to help.

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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.

Biofeedback Machine

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Marines or Army have stress cards???

Marines or Army have stress cards???

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by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2015

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Do the Marines or Army have stress cards? I have read this in a number of blogs and forums. There are 2 possible cards that may be used here. One is a business size card that is like a Get Out of Stress Free card that can be handed to instructors when the pressure is too great without getting into serious trouble. I have no clue if this ever really existed. There seems to be lots of speculation if it ever existed and if such a card would weaken military training.

Black Stress Chip measures stress.

Stress Card or Mood Card measure and test for stress. Yes, this does exist and is used quite frequently by all branches of the military - Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force as well as the VA and the Coast Guard. In fact the card above is the one most commonly used for training. We offer a huge variety of cards. We can also custom imprint a stress card or mood card to fit your specific training program. See link below.

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Stress Cards use a stress chip that changes color. The stress card or mood card measures changes in hand temperature. Warm hands are relaxed, Cold hands are tense. Cold, tension is black on the stress card. Nervous is red. Green is Calm. When you are relaxed, the stress chip changes to Blue. The stress card or biofeedback card shows how tension affects the body. To reduce anxiety, to fall asleep, to get rid of text anxiety, to get rid of a headache, relax and heat your hands to measure blue.

Learning to manage stress on a daily basis will empower personell to be healthier and perform at a higher level. Under combat or severe stress, keeping stress levels low, will enable optimal functioning - Quick Thinking, Quick Acting, Superior Accuracy, etc.

Port Angeles, WA VA custom stress card FRONT

Port Angeles, WA VA custom mood card BACK

PTSD is also a concern for those you have been in combat or severe stress. We supply stress cards to the VA as well. See below.

Custom Stress Card, Mood Card

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Stress Thermometer Testing for Broken Sensor

Stress Thermometer Testing for Broken Sensor

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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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Biodots or Stress Points and Stress Squares - which is better?

Biodots or Stress Points and Stress Squares

- Which is Better?

by Dr. Tim Lowenstein (c) 2014

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Both Biodots and Stress Squares
Description: Plastic squares or circles change color as temperature of the skin warms up or cools down. Peel off paper and the adhesive back will stick to skin, or letter, or photo ID, or other surface.
Pro: Cheap, easy to use and understand.
Con: Only measures 10 degrees. No actual number measurement for record keeping or understanding stress more accurately.
Biodot Instruction Sheet

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.

Biodots

Biodots have been around for years. They change color as a measure of hand temperature. They have a wide color range. They are quite small - 1/4" circle = 6.35 mm.

• Stress Level Rule - Warm Hands Relaxed, Cold Hands Tense. Great for learning hand warming, quick stress reduction. An ideal tool for learning to transfer and generalize relaxation skills to real-life.
• Biodots keep changing color as your skin temperature - stress changes. They can be used over and over for years.
• Package of 100 Biodots - 2 sheets of 50 biodots each, 100 stress sensing Biodots comes with ONE color interpretation card and ONE instruction sheet. Color Change Interpretation Chart card. 10
• degree range from 79.6° F. to 89.6° F. Perfect for Wellness, Health presentations, Health Fairs, Science Class, Conventions.
• Instruction Sheet - How to use, use over and over again. Buy More Biodot Instruction Cards - amzn.com/B003NYTJ8E

Stress Squares

Stress Squares are recommmended by Dr Lowestein because they are larger than biodots, have better adhesive [more surface area] and are easy to read by young and old. Biodots only 1/4" round while Stress Squares are 1/2" square.
 StressSquare Instruction sheet

• Learn to heat your hands up to release a tension headache, avoid a migraine and fall asleep quickly. Buy More Stress Square Instruction Cards - Link: http://amzn.com/B007MELM4K.
• 1/2" by 1/2" square temperature sensitive material with strong adhesive
• 10 degree range from 81 F to 91 F. Perfect for Wellness, Health presentations, conventions.
• CHANGE COLORS as hand temperature changes - BLACK, RED, GREEN, BLUE. Constantly changes and updates. Lasts for years.
• Stress Level Rule - Warm Hands Relaxed, Cold Hands Tense. Great for learning hand warming, quick stress reduction. An ideal tool for learning to transfer and generalize relaxation skills to real-life.

Either will serve as a good, simple biofeedback tool measuring stress.

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