The Ultimate Stress Buster: The "Stress Eraser"

I'm sure you've used many stress releaving techniques. There are lots of them: counting backwards to eleven, ground techniques like cooking and housekeeping, meditation techniques like repeating the word "peace" (p-e-e-a-a-a-c-c-c-e-e-e) or "calm", focusing techniques and of course erasing stress and tension techniques like breathing into a paper bag. Well, if you really want to get the mental demons out of your head, you could also try the Stress Eraser: a handheld device that guides you through a series of breathing exercises that are designed to relax your body and calm your mind (and also heal your inner child).

The portable biofeedback device trains you to optimize your breathing. The tiny LCD "Breath Wave" display includes some data visualization graphics for you to synchronize your breathing with in order to stimulate specific nerves. So, follow the indicators using two easy steps. First, place your finger in the pulse sensor, then synchronize your breathing with the screen's graphics. If you do that for fifteen minutes a night, you're supposed to feel relaxed and mind calmed (even if the batteries die during a session).

The gizmo should be used when you find yourself in highly stressful situations or right before going to bed. It also comes with a timer that lets you preset a time limit for your sessions and it can also be used in both darkness and mentally imagined darkness. It remembers your session scores over days, months (and years maybe) so you can compare different relaxation techniques and track your performance up to 999 sessions.

This FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulated device also comes with leather carrying case with a magnetic clasp, 4 AAA batteries (only 2 are needed). Firststreetonline sells this for 299$.

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