Stress test at the dentist
Here comes the free translation of my German post with added corrections in bold to increase the understanding. I hope the free translation does not cause too much stress for you 
I tested it yesterday once. In the self-attempt. With a tooth root sacrificed. The attempt arrangement: I at the dentist. In the shirt pocket - and also in the dentist chair to reach: -) - my “Mood Card” of stress Check Ltd with which I can test my stress levels. A card of the size of a credit card, with a temperature sensitive area, in which after putting on the thumb - for 10 seconds - the stress levels farblich is indicated. Blue = relaxed (relaxes), green = calm (quietly), orange = nervous (nervously) and blackly = tense (tensely). The card was given to all participants at the end of the Servant leadership training in Vienna where stress and stress mastering was a large subject. Yesterday afternoon, after arrival in the practice, the first test in the waiting room: The result: Blue = relaxes. That felt also subjectively so: -) the 2nd attempt on the dentist chair while the dentist helper prepares me for the small OP and the dentist is still in the neighbor room at work. The result: Blue = relaxes. Felt more like green. Then the boss comes. Short greeting. He pulls its tool and/or the anesthetic syringe, I pull the stress card a last time before the OP. The result: blue!? At the same time I do not feel relaxed at all . It felt more like green/red, but measured became blue. Perhaps I am cooler than I thought. Operation successfully concludes. Root out. Mouth sloping. Home may go. In the elevator once more a Stresscheck: blue - what else? I wonder whether the card can indicate also something else? Just one more test in the office while writing this contribution: Green! Well, it can show also other colors: -) However what tells that now to me: Does office work make me more stress than a Zahnziehen (puling out a tooth)? or the card functions not correctly? or the stress theory behind is incorrect? or… Permanent stress is always live-endangering, therefore dealing with stress is a very important subject . I will try with the stress card more often and see, what kind of picture resulting. But I do not have so many teeth left to sacrifice: -)
Author: admin
Perhaps you should spend more time at the dentist. It is clearly more relaxing than the office!
Hi Thorsten,
I came back home from Italy to Albania, on Monday Sept 22, but my suitcase didn’t come. I was so much hopping my suitcase with “my lovely clothes” and many other things I had in the suitcase would not get lost somewhere in Italy. For men, maybe clothes are not that important, but for me… I can write 100 articles, about clothes and what they can give to a human body giving all possible arguments in the world. Anyway, the next day I received a phone call to go and take my suitcase. I said Praise the Lord, is not lost. When I saw my suitcase… burned in the back side and half of my beautiful clothes(some bought in Germany in July) were damaged. Imagine me… while filling the papers for reimbursement. I had to remind myself of the stress releases exercises, some sure I could not do it in front of other people, so i waited until I went to the parking lot and I thought, this is the time to try my stress card. I looked everywhere in little bag inside the suitcase and around, but I could not find it. Maybe is being used by stressed people in Rome, airport, or is lost somewhere, together with some of my beautiful clothes. As for myself, I thought, “God maybe does not want me to measure the stress of today.”, so I turned to max the volume in my car and enjoyed worshiping God, as loudy as I could. 30 min later I was home and everyone (people that know me and my love for clothes so well) was so surprised, I was so relaxed, keeping in my hands my poor half burned suitcase, but having my heart so full of Joy for the eternal things none can take away from me.
So this is the short life of my stress card and a little experience of dealing with stress.
I am responsible for introducing the ‘Mood Card’. I brought the concept of the ‘Stress Dot’ to Europe in 1989 and an entrepreneur I knew immediately bought the European and Far- Eastern rights to the product. I missed a trick there I think. Anyway, the dot is made of stable temperature sensitive material that measures, by colour, the skin temp. at your extremities. The extremities change temp. quickly in response to stress.
I thoroughly tested the stress dot myself and with many others and found that it worked well and I trained myself with it to know about my stress levels. I found the product to be really helpful and a serious tool.
When preparing my recent Servant Leader 3 day training, I knew that I would include training on understanding stress and thought I would give a stress dot card to everyone as a gift and an incentive to learn about stress levels. I went to my friends company to get my privileged price (since I introduced the product) and found that he had sold the company on (I did miss a trick didn’t I?). No more discounts for me, so I found the gift idea very expensive but…….they had a one card deal supposed to be made from the same tested material, which I knew worked, ‘The Mood Card’, which I bought for attendees at the SLT.
Thorsten, having something of a research background, tested the card well..and it didn’t work. I have now tested the card in many stressful circumstances and I remain….blue….at peace…restful….even when I am about to explode. So…..let me know how it works for you and based on these views I will approach the company and tell them that their product fails and then, hopefully,…..extract a discount on the stress dots for you all. Until such magic works, blessings and happy moods to you all….Colin….