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Item Description:
Welcome to The Journey to Wild Divine, the first in a series of ?Inner-Active? computer adventures to combine the science of biofeedback with a beautiful, enchanting and entertaining multimedia experience. The Journey to Wild Divine is an enchanting adventure for mind, body and spirit that links special biofeedback equipment with your computer to create a truly enlightening and entertaining multi-media experience. Adventure through a mythical world of towering palaces, sacred temples, sumptuous gardens and wise mentors where you are challenged to deepen your self-awareness with every step you take. The innovative hardware platform measures skin conductance level (SCL) and heart rate variability through the three 'Magic Ring' sensors gently attached to your fingers. The measurements are registered through the 'Light Stone' and fed back to you through biofeedback 'events' on the screen. Characters within The Journey help you learn to control your body's reactions. By increasing, decreasing or synchronizing body rhythms, through techniques the characters will teach you techniques like the 'Heart Breath' - you'll quickly learn to master the 'events' and progress in the game. The knowledge you gain will help enhance your personal growth and well-being. On your quest, you will master a whole new purpose and discover a whole new direction. The lessons you learn will become your own unique tools to be used outside the game - at any time, in any place and in any situation. Through The Journey to Wild Divine, you will be given the opportunity to reach a level of awareness you might not have thought possible. There are many secrets still to be told, and there are many stories that have yet to unfold. Free your mind as you begin this passage to discovery. Skills learned from playing The Journey can become priceless tools to be used in every day life. Package includes Game ('The Passage') software for Mac and Windows, Hardware, USB cable, Deepak Chopra & 'Soul Flight' CDs.

Amazon.com Item Description:
The Journey to Wild Divine is the first 'inner-active' computer adventure that combines ancient breathing and meditation with modern biofeedback technology for total mind-body wellness. Progress through the realm using the power of your thoughts, feelings, breath and awareness. The Journey to Wild Divine is not just a game, it's a tool to reduce stress and improve physical and mental health.

The unique biofeedback hardware in The Journey to Wild Divine helps you learn to balance your physical and emotional responses to life.

The 'LightStone' and biofeedback finger sensors are the link between you and The Journey to Wild Divine.

Wearing three finger sensors that track your body's heart rate variability and skin conductance, you move through enchanting and mystical landscapes using the power of your thoughts, feelings, breath and awareness. Wise mentors guide you throughout the realm, empowering you with yoga, breathing and meditation skills needed to complete over 40 biofeedback 'energy' events. Build stairways with your breath, open doors with meditation, juggle balls with your laughter, and so much more. The Journey makes biofeedback, a popular method of alternative healthcare, easily accessible and empowers you to take mind-body wellness, literally into your own hands.

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Balancing health, wellness, and technology to enhance your life, The Journey to Wild Divine is a stunning and life-changing computer program that teaches breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques for great living. Using proprietary biofeedback technology, The Journey to Wild Divine provides instant, visual feedback that reflects the state of your mind and body. Learn practical skills that teach you how to self-regulate your responses, whether in everyday situations or stressful events.

Wise mentors will guide you through The Journey's dramatic and breath-taking scenes. Practice your new skills by juggling balls with your laughter, building stairways with your breath and opening doors with meditation. The visual impact of each activity will leave long-lasting impressions that you can recall again and again to bring what you are learning into your daily experience.

Zen Archery requires a steady mind. You'll know you've reached your moment of zen when you're able to aim the arrow at the target's center through concentration and focus.

As your breath moves in cadence with the 'Breathing Tree' you'll build a stairway across the sky and learn to increase your level of relaxation.

What is Biofeedback?
Biofeedback is scientifically proven to have a powerful, positive effect on your emotional and physical well-being by teaching you to alter your blood pressure, physical tension, heart rate and other critical bodily functions.Wearing three finger sensors connected to your computer, The Journey tracks your body's heart rate variability and skin conductance levels. You'll learn to do meditation and breathing exercises while your body's physical and emotional responses are played back to you through real-time changes on the screen. Take The Journey to Wild Divine and put the road to total mind-body wellness, literally, into your own hands.

With the optional Wild Divine Grapher Expansion Pack, you can actually see the dramatic physical changes that occur when you play the game. Take a closer look.

The package includes everything you need to get started, and it installs easily in minutes.

Testimonials


'The Journey to Wild Divine shows you how just a few minutes of concentrated deep breathing can have long lasting health benefits.'

--Deepak Chopra, M.D., Author of the new release, The Book of Secrets

'The Journey to Wild Divine takes important stress-reducing elements necessary for general good health, and wraps them into a form of entertainment that can easily become a part of day-to-day life and can ultimately lead to long-term health benefits.'

--Dean Ornish, M.D., Author of five best-selling books, including New York Times' bestsellers Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less, and Love & Survival

What's Included


CD-ROM Software that features:

• Spectacular high-definition 3-D graphics and video
• More than 40 unique energy and breathing 'Events'
• Guidance from your Virtual Mentors
• Install disks for both PC and Macintosh

Hardware platform that features:

• Three biofeedback sensors
• Unique 'Light Stone' energy translator

Plus:

• Original Soul Flight music CD
• Bonus CD that includes interview with Deepak Chopra, M.D.
• Companion Guide and User's Manual

System Requirements

• 1.5 GB of disk space
• 256 MB free available system RAM
• 800 X 600, 24-bit color display
• CD-Rom drive
• QuickTime 6.3 or higher
• Available USB port

PC

• Intel Pentium III, 800 Mhz processor or higher
• Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• 16 MB video card

Macintosh

• G3 or G4 or G5, running at 500 Mghz or more
• Mac OSX v10.2 or later

Accessories:
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Accessories:

• The Journey to Wild Divine Biofeedback Software Expansion Pack for PC & Mac: Wisdom Quest
• The Journey to Wild Divine Grapher Expansion Pack CD-ROM
• Seventh Generation Bathroom Tissue, 2-Ply Sheets, 500-Sheet Rolls (Pack of 48)
• Healing Rhythms from the Wild Divine Project (Biofeedback Software and Hardware for PC and Mac)
• Nature's Path Organic Pumpkin FlaxPlus Granola, 11.5 Ounce Box (Pack of 6)

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Rating: - * Biofeeback Peaceful Fun and Knowledge!! ... This is a fascinating game. Not your typical kill,kill,kill computer game. It's a game that very effectively shows you how to control involuntary body functions. Through a series of biofeedback challenges, you move on to discover more, and more about this mystical land called the Sun Realm. Some of the biofeedback challenges are very difficult and others are easy. That, however, may be just a personal evaluation. Meaning, easy things for me, might be difficult for someone else and vice a versa. I have had the game for about 30 days and have completed all the tasks and in doing so have learned a lot about biofeedback and how I can help myself relax in normal everyday stressful situations. Though the game is expensive, it's worth it. I would buy it again! I fully encourage anyone who is interested in biofeedback to buy this game. Al Rating: - * The Passage ... Little more than entertainment. Did not seem to accomplish it's purpose. At times confusing to operate. Rating: - * Best meditation assistant I've ever owned ... I bought this product because I had a dr. accuse me of being anxious and depressed. While I would agree I suffer from white coat anxiety, I didn't agree with the dr. otherwise. I figured, though, that if the dr was right, a biofeedback game would be the perfect help. I had wanted to try Journey, anyway, and this gave me an excellent excuse to buy it. I bought it for myself for Christmas. I have probably spent hundreds of dollars on meditation tapes, meditation books, classes - you name it, I've tried it. I do an excellent job of falling asleep using any of them. Journey to the Wild has been wonderful for me. I am finally experiencing the powerful benefits of meditation without falling asleep. I am given different experiences to entice me to keep trying, keep going - and stay awake. I am sustaining a feeling of happiness and life satisfaction. The only negative would be coming from my husband. He thinks I'm hogging the computer now. I've started timing myself so that I don't stay on too long. Who would have ever thought that a person who has found no computer games she liked previously would have to time herself so that she doesn't become so wrapped up she does nothing else? If you are looking for an adventure game, you won't like this. If you are looking for a meditation assistant, I think you'll love it. Rating: - * If you're going to use it, it's great ... My mother got me this program when I was suffering from stress-caused lockjaw and tension problems with my back, as well as headaches. I found installation to not be a problem, and once I got the "magic rings" in the right spot, I haven't had any more probelms with them. I found that it works well, and I feel that it really manages to show me how tense I am, and helps me to feel my energy a lot more, and it has attuned me to the subtlety of my own energy. I am a little frustrated because there is not a whole lot of guidance concerning what you need to do next in the game. That was very frustrating for me. The game kept telling me to get a mentor, but I could not figure out how the heck I was supposed to do that. I started the game over, and I got him the second time. I found the scenery to be beautiful, and the music soothing, though a little repetative after a long time. I would recommend this program to anyone who wants to explore biofeedback as an option for stress relief. But I would also warn you to follow the sequence of the program, or go to the chapter by chapter part, because otherwise you can lose your place and then it is very difficult to find it again. Rating: - * Loving it! ... I found this game at Whole Foods, of all places. I'd heard about these sorts of games but didn't know they were available mainstream. Found it just in time for Christmas! I'd read the other reviews so I did have some concerns. I'm running Windows Vista, but the install process went as smooth as could be, and quick. I've had absolutely no problem with signal transmission through the rings. Minor repositioning here and there, and I like to check the "system" option on the menu to make sure it's optimal. I've only been playing 3 days now, but I'm noticing how much easier some of the exercises are getting; however some are easier or harder depending on the day, which makes sense. This game is great for me. I know the benefits of meditation, but I tend not to do them without someone leading me through; my impatience and busyness take over. This gives me motivation through the game aspect to keep me going on my own, as well as the visual feedback that helps me know I really am affecting myself. I am loving the Chakra visualizations! At this point the only thing more I could wish for is a few more options on the start menu, such as a volume adjustment. Navigating around through the start area can be a little confusing at first, the map isn't ideal, but there are links to home-made ones in the forum as well. Enough gush, I'm going back to my game!