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The SPC StressBiofeedback Card |
a key element in all SPC Products & Services
The US Navy has ordered over a quarter
of a million
SPC Biofeedback Cards for its alcohol and drug abuse program,
underscoring the card's effectiveness
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What is it?
The SPC Biofeedback Card is a temperature-sensitive biofeedback device. It measures tension by responding to the temperature of your fingertips. This is based on the physiological principle that threatening or stressful situations, and situations where you are not in control, cause the blood to surge inward to the vital organs, away from your extremities, causing cold hands and feet. If you use your SPC Biofeedback Card at this point, it will register black or red (cold hands), indicating that you are stressed. When you relax, and believe you are in control of a situation, the circulation in your hands and feet returns to normal and your hands should be warm. The SPC Biofeedback Card will now register blue (warm hands).
How does it work?
First of all, as a stress monitor, the SPC Biofeedback Card will help you to become more aware of when you are stressed or less in control. Test yourself at random times of the day, and at times you have an urge or need for a habit that you wish to change. Many people are actually unaware of how stressed they are. They seem to stay at a high level of stress so much of the time that they come to accept it as normal and are surprised when they repeatedly register black.
Secondly, and much more important, the SPC Biofeedback Card also acts as a stress control device. Whenever you feel stressed, or lack of control, and the card registers black, go through one of the relaxation tips given on the back of the card until your card registers blue! The nice thing about these tips is that they take only seconds, can be done just about anywhere, and they work! They may be used quite effectively to manage stress, regain your sense of control and to substitute new habits when faced with the urge for an old habit that you wish to change.
Why is it so effective?
The fact that you can see immediate results in terms of the color change acts as a tremendous reinforcement toward regaining control and conditioning in the relaxation response. Immediate reinforcement is the basic principle behind biofeedback training.
