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The Journey to the Wild Divine/Meditation/Healing

You may have your goals to live simply and step lightly on this planet but some days still feel very stressed out and challenged. You may read you favorite philosophers and watch inspiring movies to get you back on track. Or maybe you talk with a friend that is on the same path as you. For years the masters have been recommending the ancient art of meditation to help the mind focus and relax. In more recent years science has offered us biofeedback to help us be conscious of how our mind works.

With that in mind, here is valuable information about an interactive product that combines the best of meditation and biofeedback. Welcome to The Journey of the Wild Divine:

Relaxation Techniques-Meditation, slow and easy abdominal breathing, and connecting with positive emotions are three methods for getting the desired pattern of both strength and balance. Our Healing Rhythms guided meditations lead you step by step, clearly showing your progress. Meditating is associated with balance and relaxation, and our products are perfect for learning to meditate (for meditation beginners), or for taking your meditation practice to a new level. By synchronizing your heart rate with the breath (two skills that can be gained through practices in our Healing Rhythms Guided Meditation Program), you can quite easily reach your goals. The benefits of mediation are many. Meditation helps us reach a state of balance.

Guided Meditations with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Dean Ornish, and others. Learn with expert guided meditation mentors, who will walk you, step-by-step, through deep breathing exercises, guided meditations, and an inspirational journey towards aiding you in taking control of your emotions and state of happiness. These amazing guided training modules are based on the work that comes from years of experience in mind/body applications, and will provide you with hours of inspiration and motivation as you head down the path toward greater happiness in your life. Learn about our expert guides featured in Healing Rhythms. Our guided breathing training programs are also available in an engaging game format, The Passage: Journey to the Wild Divine, along with the expansion pack, Wisdom Quest, featuring Dr. Deepak Chopra as your personal guide.

Frequently Asked Questions About The Wild Divine

1. Welcome to The Wild Divine! Wild Divine manufactures and sells hardware (The Iom) along with interactive software that allows users to explore the mind-body connection in real time. The Iom is a consumer electronic device that uses finger sensors to transmit, in real-time, your levels of stress, tension, excitement, or calmness to the software installed on your PC or Mac. Depending on the desired outcome, your thoughts, emotions, levels of stress, tension, or excitement cause things to change on the computer screen. Some training events may require you to meditate and relax, others will ask you to raise your energy level. Training your mind and body to adapt to different desired states is called “Adaptive Coherence”.

2. What is the Iom? The Iom is cutting edge feedback technology. (about the size of an iPod). Three comfortable fingertip sensors connects the Iom to PC or Mac via a USB port.

3. What software programs are available that work with the Iom? We have three software programs for use with the Iom. The first is our original (which has been inducted into the Macworld Hall of Fame), Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage. Presented in an adventure game format, in which you travel the Sun Realm, learning and performing feedback exercises along the way. The second product is Wisdom Quest, featuring Deepak Chopra, which is an expansion pack for The Passage. Our third, and current, flagship product is Healing Rhythms, a 15-step guided training program featuring Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Andrew Weil, and other leaders in the Health & Wellness industry. Our feedback hardware works with all three programs.

4. What is the difference between The Passage, Wisdom Quest, and Healing Rhythms? The Passage is an adventure “gaming” style format, and Wisdom Quest is an expansion pack for The Passage. Healing Rhythms is a guided training program, where you are lead through 15 steps by experts who explain the concepts, guide you through practices, and then you can use the feedback hardware to put your knowledge into action.

5. What was the Lightstone? The lightstone was the first version of our feedback hardware, and has been replaced with The Iom. All Wild Divine software works with both the Iom and Lightstone, but the Lightstone has been discontinued in favor of the Iom, and is not longer available.

6. Are there any new software titles in production? We are currently working on a new Wild Divine software title for the Iom that we are very excited about, to be relased in 2010. It is tenatively titled “Deepak Chopra’s Secrets of Meditation”. If you’re signed up for our newsletter, you’ll be getting details as they are available.

7. What are the benefits of using programs offered by The Wild Divine? The feedback programs can give you more awareness of your own internal states of consciousness. Other possible benefits include the potential for a clearer state of mind, heightened powers of imagination, greater understanding of the mind/body connection, reduced stress, and more energy and relaxation, and focus.

8. How was the feedback system developed? The feedback portion of the Iom hardware has a well-proven scientific basis. It was developed in collaboration with some of the best feedback experts in the country, in particular, we chose those whose work empahsized optimal human performance, such as Liana Mattulich, M.D., Dr. Bob Whitehouse, and Sunny Turner. According to Dr. Bob Whitehouse, psychologist and biofeedback expert, who consulted on the game, feedback uses electronic equipment to monitor people’s internal physiological states and gives feedback that helps the recipient learn how to control these states, to activate balance, release or to recover from them. Others that contributed to The Wild Divine are Jean Houston, a pioneer researcher in human capacities, Nawang Khechog, a former Buddhist monk and one of Tibet’s foremost world music composers and musicians.