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If you’re like most people, much of your holiday shopping takes place in the days leading up to December 25th. To help you give the gift of wellness that is The Journey to Wild Divine to a friend or loved one in a timely fashion, we are offering Free Express Shipping onThe Wild Divine Bundle Pack (that's both The Passage and Wisdom Quest for only $199!), The Passage or Wisdom Quest. Orders placed between now and December 21, 2005 at 6 pm MST will arrive by Dec 24, 2005.

The Passage is our introductory meditation and mind-body training tool. Including both hardware and software (for Mac and PC), The Passage takes you through 40+ activities spread across lush landscapes to teach you how to reduce stress and manage your physiology for total wellness. Use it every day and it will improve your life as you develop enhanced mind-body connectedness. Wisdom Quest is our new, more advanced tool that takes your mind-body awareness to the next level. Featuring all new activities, inviting new settings and exciting new guides — including Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D. — Wisdom Quest will captivate you as it teaches you how to manage your physiology in more complex and challenging ways.

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Spiritual Cinema Circle

A Free Month of Movies from The Spiritual Cinema Circle

The Spiritual Cinema Circle is a one-of-a-kind DVD-of-the-month club, with thousands of devoted members in more than 70 countries, that delivers soulful, enlightening movies right to your door. The Circle's December volume includes several wonderful movies, including the metaphysical time travel adventure, AN ANGEL FOR MAY, starring Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson.

To celebrate this inspiring collection of films, The Circle has kindly agreed to offer members of the Wild Divine community a free introductory month of movies! For a limited time, you can join The Spiritual Cinema Circle for free (all you pay is the shipping & handling). Don't miss this chance to try out The Circle for free, and discover the magic of movies that entertain, enlighten and inspire.

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December 2005, Issue 13

Wishing You A Healthy Life, A Happy Mind and a Hearty Holiday

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Welcome to a time of giving, sharing and cramming of a lot of activity into a short but rewarding holiday season. As you double-check your shopping list while simultaneously looking back on what was hopefully a rewarding year, the Wild Divine is here to provide you with the health and wellness that comes from mind-body connectedness. Hopefully the information in this month’s newsletter—along with the rewards of experiencing part or all of The Journey—will leave you well-prepared for this busy month.

This month, we are excited to feature an article from Ingrid Bacci, Ph.D. Ingrid is a respected author and counselor, and she offers sage advice below about the connection between achieving and receiving. In a month when we want to accomplish a lot while opening ourselves up to friends and loved ones, Ingrid’s article should put you in the right frame of mind for an optimal holiday. In the Mind-Body Matters section, we’ve included an exciting report from Wild Divine CEO Kurt Smith about an important event, the Mind-Life Conference, that he attended last month in Washington, DC. To encourage you to give the gift of wellness this holiday to yourselves and others, we’re extending a special offer of free expedited shipping to guarantee that your Wild Divine presents arrive on time; see the Exclusive Offers section to the left to learn how to take advantage of this limited offer. You’ll also find another meditation tip from Dr. Dean Ornish and a new breathing tip from Anna Coy; both Dean and Anna serve as guides within Wisdom Quest, and through the end of the year you can also save $15 on Anna’s Whole Body Breathing Series (see the “Shopping” section below). As always, we’ve also provided training tips to help you apply The Passage to your daily life, along with this month’s letter from Deepak Chopra. Check out the Things We Love section to the left to find out about a special offer from our friends over at the Spiritual Cinema Circle.

As always, we appreciate your support and hope everyone has a joyful, stress-free holiday, with best wishes for a healthy and happy 2006.
 

Main Story

Your Power to Achieve is Your Power to Receive

Ingrid Bacci

Ours is a doing society. We want to do. We want to achieve. After all, achieving gives us a sense of worth, of fulfillment. But unfortunately, sometimes the way we strive to achieve actually distances us from what we want, forcing us to struggle toward our goals in a manner that can be exhausting and debilitating. Unconsciously, we sometimes put the brakes on and sabotage ourselves at the very same time that we race towards our goal. Why is this? And how can we change the situation?

Let’s tackle the first question first. Why and how do we sometimes sabotage ourselves in the process of trying to achieve our goals? We sabotage or undermine ourselves when we are driven by a feeling of lack.

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Mind-Body Matters

A Report From the Mind-Life Conference in Washington, D.C.

Kurt Smith

I recently had the distinct honor, along with Corwin Bell, the co-founder of The Wild Divine Project, of attending the Mind & Life Conference held at the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall just steps away from the White House. What a precipitous venue for this important conference for humans everywhere. The Mind and Life Conference was initiated twenty years ago by a group of scientists with a sense of spirituality and a group of Buddhists with a sense of science. Importantly, this initial group included perhaps the greatest spiritual leader of our time, the XIV Dalai Lama. Why would the Dalai Lama be interested in conferencing with a group of scientists, or for that matter why in the world would a scientist of any merit want to conference with the Dalai Lama? Attending the Mind and Life conference made it clear that there are many enthusiastic researchers that accept the importance of science and spirituality as a hand-in-hand partnership as we strive to find meaning in our lives and for the human race.

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Whether you’ve been waiting to give the gift of wellness to yourself, or if you want to share all or part of The Journey with your friends, the Holiday Bundle lets you save $20 when buy both the first release and the expansion pack together. Discover the wellness that comes from using The Passage, and then take your mind-body skills to the next level with Wisdom Quest.

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Wisdom Quest

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The second release from The Wild Divine Project will help you take your mind-body connectedness to the next level. Choose from different modes and different degrees of difficulty, and work with Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish and other new mentors to increase your skills of meditation, relaxation and stress management. It’s the perfect addition to your daily wellness practice for a healthier life!

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Anna Coy's Breathe CD Series
Save $20 On Anna Coy's Whole Body Breathing Series for the Holidays!
Now you can save $20 when you buy Anna Coy's Whole Body Breathing Series for yourself and your loved ones. The Series takes you through four stages of breath, and includes the "Breathe for the Health of It" booklet and four CDs that teach you step-by-step how to gently expand and re-train specific muscle groups within your respiratory system.
Universal Love CD
Deva Premal's Love is Space Features Six Sacred Mantras to Enhance Your Life
The music of Deva Premal runs throughout Wisdom Quest. Love Is Space, Deva Premal's second solo album, contains six sacred mantras,including Gatè Gatè, the heart sutra of Buddha, and Om Mani Padme Hum, the ancient Tibetan invocation. Also included is the exquisitely performed West African chant, Idè Werê Werê. The sound texture is rich and expansive, with Deva's beautiful voice calling us all on to higher ground, and into the sanctuary of our own hearts.

 

Meditation Tip
Dean Ornish, MD DeanOrnish, MD

In most forms of meditation, you repeat a sound, or a phrase, or a verse from a prayer. Over and over and over again. You can focus on a sacred object such as rosary beads or a picture or icon. You can focus on a favorite prayer. It can be secular; for example, you can simply observe your breathing. In and out. Over and over.

Certain sounds have been found to be very soothing, and they are very similar in different cultures.

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Breathing Tip
Anna Coy Anna Coy

A true gift is something that lives on in your heart as a piece of you. What is the one gift you will give yourself this holiday? How much of your time are you willing to put in to receiving that gift? Toast to this passing year and appreciate your growth and gifts!

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Training Tip:
The Passage
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Yoga Passage

Try this: When you find yourself on the other side of a closed door, whether it’s a particularly difficult coworker, a cranky spouse, or a situation you simply can’t seem to crack, try backing off completely. Release the tension and stress that’s building up inside of you. Allow the heat of your frustration to cool and slowly detach while you focus on your breath. Watch how, when you make the decision to enter into the greatest challenges with a clear mind and a calm heart, one after another, doors begin to open themselves to you.

Letter from Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra, MD

The flow of life is nothing other than the harmonious interaction of all the elements and forces that structure the field of existence. This harmonious interaction of elements and forces in your life operates as the Law of Giving. Because your body and your mind and the universe are in constant and dynamic exchange, stopping the circulation of energy is like stopping the flow of blood. Whenever blood stops flowing it begins to clot, to coagulate, to stagnate. That is why you must give and receive in order to keep wealth and affluence—or anything you want in your life—circulating in your life.

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