Biofeedback

Biofeedback is scientifically proven to have a powerful, positive effect on your emotional and physical well-being by teaching you to alter your brain activity, blood pressure, muscle tension, heart rate and other critical bodily functions. For more information about biofeedback, Read Dr. Bob Whitehouse's article on the Science of Biofeedback or visit the Mayo Clinic's Complimentary & Alternative Health Center.

 

 

Biofeedback is a treatment technique in which people are trained to improve their health by using signals from their own bodies. Physical therapists use biofeedback to help stroke victims regain movement in paralyzed muscles. Psychologists use it to help tense and anxious clients learn to relax. Specialists in many different fields use biofeedback to help their patients cope with pain.

Chances are you have used biofeedback yourself. You've used it if you have ever taken your temperature or stepped on a scale. The thermometer tells you whether you're running a fever, the scale whether you've gained weight. Both devices "feed back" information about your body's condition. Armed with this information, you can take steps you've learned to improve the condition. When you're running a fever, you go to bed and drink plenty of fluids. When you've gained weight, you resolve to eat less and sometimes you do.
Clinicians reply on complicated biofeedback machines in somewhat the same way that you rely on your scale or thermometer. Their machines can detect a person's internal bodily functions with far greater sensitivity and precision than a person can alone. This information may be valuable. Both patients and therapists use it to gauge and direct the progress of treatment.
For patients, the biofeedback machine acts as a kind of sixth sense which allows them to "see" or "hear" activity inside their bodies. One commonly used type of machine, for example, picks up electrical signals in the muscles. It translates these signals into a form that patients can detect: It triggers a flashing light bulb, perhaps, or activates a beeper every time muscles grow more tense. If patients want to relax tense muscles, they try to slow down the flashing or beeping.
Like a pitcher learning to throw a ball across a home plate, the biofeedback trainee, in an attempt to improve a skill, monitors the performance. When a pitch is off the mark, the ballplayer adjusts the delivery so that he performs better the next time he tries. When the light flashes or the beeper beeps too often, the biofeedback trainee makes internal adjustments which alter the signals. The biofeedback therapist acts as a coach, standing at the sidelines setting goals and limits on what to expect and giving hints on how to improve performance.

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Wild Divine

Journey to the WildDivine is a biofeedback video game system promoting new age ideals. It is an unusual video game, since meditation and relaxation are required solve its puzzles. The graphics and interface resemble Myst. Many users refer to Journey to Wild Divine with the terms "program" or, as called on the Wild Divine website, "biofeedback software", to avoid using the term "game".

Journey to Wild Divineis planned as a trilogy, published by the Wild Divine Project , a company founded by Kurt Smith, an entrepreneur who started several medical device startup companies.

The first program in the series, The Journey To Wild Divine: The Passage , comes with a USB-based biofeedback reader. The device attaches to three fingers, and measured heartrate and skin conductivity. The user must adjust these levels in his own body to move through the game. The purpose is to develop meditation skills and to gain greater control of unconscious bodily processes by observing and reacting to the changes in the game's various activities, which reflect the body's current state. Successive titles use the same hardware.

 

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Wild Divine Testimonials

"The Wild Divine is helping to transform our mass consciousness to one of peace and harmony through a very practical program that allows people to get in intimate touch with the innermost core of their being. To know that they have more power than they have ever realized, to know that they can influence what is happening in their body, in their mind, in their emotions, as well as in the world that they create everyday."

Buy Healing Rhythms "One of the most important tools you can incorporate into your daily life to effect not only the longevity of your life, but the quality of your life, is a deeper, slower breathing practice. The exercises in Healing Rhythms do just that."

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

Buy The Journey to the Wild Divine "His Holiness the Dalai Lama thanks you for sending Him as a gift your interactive computer game for teaching compassion. He is pleased to know that modern technology is being used for the purpose of teaching compassion.
"We are happy that you have sought the guidance of Nawang Khechog in producing this computer game."

Best wishes,
Tenzin Geyche Tethong, Secretary to
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama

Buy The Journey to the Wild Divine “The Journey to Wild Divine trains people to think and feel in new ways. To be more creative, more imaginative, and to inspire to a much larger awareness, one that is superbly equipped to deal with the complex changes of modern life.”

Jean Houston, Ph.D.,
Author, The Possible Human

 

Buy The Journey to the WildDivine "The Journey to Wild Divine is more than a game, it’s a tool for the Mind-Body work we value. It certainly has proven so with me – and it’s a hit with my patients. It’s an outstanding product and since it’s amazingly inexpensive, I encourage my patients to use it as home practice. It’s complex and challenging enough that no one has gotten tired of using it."

Thomas M. Brod, MD, Sr. Fellow, BCIA,
American Board, Psychiatry & Neurology

 

Buy The Journey to the WildDivine "The Journey to Wild Divine, a new adventure game series that teaches self-awareness through biofeedback and visualizations, turns the quest for calm into entertainment.
Buy The Journey to the WildDivine "The anti-video game . . . a game where you get to be the Dalai Lama."

- Discover Magazine

 

Buy The Journey to the WildDivine "Healing Rhythms uses biofeedback to access your innate healing abilities to restore your physical, mental and spiritual health."

Dr. Andrew Weil

 

 

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Dean Ornish, M.D.excerpt from Healing Rhythms
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