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February 2006 Newsletter
Welcome to the Wild Divine

Exclusive Offer

For a Limited Time: Get the Grapher Expansion Pack FREE with Any Order of The Passage or Wisdom Quest!

Wisdom Quest

Have you ever wondered what your biofeedback data looks like after you’ve spent time on The Journey to Wild Divine? The Wild Divine Grapher Expansion Pack lets you review the Skin Conductance Level (SCL), Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Raw Heart Data amassed during each session. It also lets you view this data while using other stimuli outside of The Journey as a real time biofeedback device!

The Wild Divine Grapher Expansion Pack saves user session data in ASCII format, includes the Chapter Tour, and works on PC and Mac. For a limited time, we are offering the downloadable version of the Grapher for FREE to anyone who purchases The Passage, Wisdom Quest, or The Bundle Pack. This offer expires February 28, 2006.

To receive your FREE DOWNLOADABLE GRAPHER with the purchase of either The Passage or Wisdom Quest use Coupon Code FEBGRAPH at checkout.The Grapher, a $39.95 value, will automatically be sent to you via email.

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Things We Love

Dr. Weil's Toolkit

Dr. Andrew Weil’s Mind-Body Tool Kit

If you’ve experienced The Passage, you know that you can tap the power of your mind to directly influence your health. With Dr. Andrew Weil’s Mind-Body Tool Kit, listeners train with the best-selling author to experience a potent prescription of self-healing practices. This information-packed “integrative medicine chest” includes an in-depth 52-page interactive workbook and 25 Mind-Training Cards designed to support a daily practice.

Step by step, you’ll move through an empowering four-part series that focuses on Breathing, Meditation, Guided Imagery and Sound Therapy. Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert on medicinal herbs, mind-body interactions, and integrative medicine. He is the author of nine books, including such bestsellers as Spontaneous Healing, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, and Eating Well for Optimum Health. Start optimizing your health today with Dr. Andrew Weil's Mind-Body Tool Kit.

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It's All Happening

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The Wild Divine Rocks CES with Intel!

We are very excited to be partnering with Intel. At last month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the huge Intel booth featured our products. Here’s Intel’s report from the show floor:

Intel Corporation, the leading manufacturer of microprocessors that power personal computers, demonstrated The Journey to Wild Divine at CES in Las Vegas January 5th through 9th. In an amazingly loud and raucous atmosphere, show attendees lined up sometimes four- and five-deep to try controlling their breathing and focusing their thoughts to successfully complete exercises in the software on screen. A researcher at a major auto manufacturer wondered aloud if similar technology could be implemented in automobiles to help “those stress-filled commutes.” He also suggested that biofeedback could be a key to helping drivers keep their cool and control frayed tempers. Overall, many show attendees approached skeptical, but left the demo with a better understanding of biofeedback technology and their own mind-body connection.

 

 

February 2006, Issue 15

A Healthy Heart is a Happy Heart

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Welcome to the February edition of the Wild Divine newsletter. Although February is most often associated with Valentine’s Day, whose symbol is a heart, we all know that a happy heart is about much more than just being with your true love (although that’s a great start). The happiest heart is a healthy heart, one that is not only loved by others, but by you. Loving your heart means treating it with care and respect. Nutrition, exercise, and meditation are all important components of heart health. With that in mind, this month we focus on providing you with assistance in achieving a truly happy heart.

Our first article this month comes from Susan Marque. Susan is an author and a food coach, and her article explains how to look at food as energy and recognize the benefits of eating right; she’s also included in a recipe for Japanese-style Kinpira. This month’s Mind-Body Matters section includes information about our friends at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. For those readers interested in exploring the science supporting the benefits of meditation, the Institute maintains a comprehensive library of published research and articles. We also want to remind you about our new contest where you can suggest stores that should be selling the Wild Divine’s products; help us find new outlets, and you might win a $250 SpaFinder gift certificate!

This month’s newsletter also contains a very special offer. For a limited time, we are offering our free downloadable Grapher to buyers of The Passage and/or Wisdom Quest. See the Exclusive Offers section to the left for details. In the Things We Love section, you’ll find information about Dr. Andrew Weil’s Mind-Body Tool Kit. Check out the It’s All Happening section for information on our exciting partnership with Intel. We’ve also included an article on the benefits of meditation tip by Dr. Dean Ornish and a new breathing tip from Anna Coy; both Dean and Anna serve as guides within Wisdom Quest. Finally, you’ll find another training tip to help you apply The Passage to your daily life, as well as a message from Deepak Chopra.
 

Main Story

Understanding the Energy of Food

By Susan Marque

Susan Marque

I love good tools for whatever I am doing. Having just the right tool can make such a big difference! Have you ever tried to fix a sink with just a pencil or write a letter with a hammer? It sounds silly, yet many people eat foods that drain their energy and deplete their immunity on a regular basis without even being aware of it. When a person eats randomly or purely for pleasure without knowing the effect the food is having, they are not free. Tools offer more freedom. Learning how energy is working is a great tool. Everything is made up of energy, and food is no exception. Each food has an energetic quality that it offers us, as well as the cooking styles we use. I learned about food in order to heal myself; it started with a journey to London almost twenty years ago, and I continue to discover more and more.

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Wild Divine Contest

Help Us Spread The Journey & Win a $250 SpaFinder Gift Certificate!

To help us find new places to carry our products, we are encouraging our community to give us the names of stores that they think would be a good fit for The Journey to Wild Divine. As an incentive, we're offering a $250 SpaFinder gift certificate to three people who submit information about retailers whom they think should be stocking us. We'll select the winners in a drawing from all entrants.

For details on how to qualify for the drawing, click here >


Mind-Body Matters

The Science of Meditation

Kurt Smith

You already know about the benefits to your health and wellness from the practice of meditation, but did you know that substantive research is being done to prove and quantify these benefits in scientific terms? The best resource for this research comes from our friends at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The Institute conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. Click below for more information about the Institute’s research, publications and events.

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Shopping

The Bundle

The Journey to Wild Divine Bundle Pack
Now you can save $20 when you buy The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage and The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest at the same time! The Passage is your introduction to mind-body connectedness, and includes our biofeedback hardware. Wisdom Quest takes your mind-body awareness to the next level, and features MDs Deepak Chopra and Dean Ornish as new mentors.
The Journey Game
Journey To Wild Divine: The Passage, with Bonus CD-Rom
Get the first in The Journey to Wild Divine series, The Passage. Includes bonus CD-Rom featuring Deepak Chopra, M.D., with exclusive interviews and animated excerpts from his "Book of Secrets" and a preview of Wisdom Quest.
Wisdom Quest
The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest, new from The Wild Divine Project
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!
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

When you meditate, a number of desirable things begin to happen--slowly at first, and deepening over time:

First, when you focus your awareness, you gain more power. When you concentrate any form of energy, including mental energy, you gain power. This power may come in many forms. For example, when you focus your mind, you concentrate better. When you concentrate better, you perform better. You can accomplish more, whether in the classroom, in the boardroom, or in the athletic arena. Whatever you do, you do it more effectively when you meditate.

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Breathing Tip
Anna Coy Anna Coy

I only have one question for you this month: Can you truly say that you love yourself more this year than you did on Valentines Day 2005?

If your answer is “No,” then you may still have some serious inner work to do. Start by reviewing your excuses for not loving yourself, and face these excuses head on.

Do you know what love is? Love is the web holding all things within your periphery together.

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Training Tip:
The Passage
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The Stairway of the Breathing Tree

Try this: Every day this week, take five minutes to practice the heart breath – either by doing this event, or by sitting somewhere quiet where you won’t be disturbed. To enhance your awareness of the heart breath, put both hands on your heart and feel its gentle rise and fall as you fill your lungs slowly from the bottom to the top, letting your belly relax. Imagine warmth and compassion radiating out from your heart center with each breath.

Letter from Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra, MD

Dear Friends,

There is a center in the body where love and spirit are joined, and that center is the heart. It is your heart that aches or swells with love, that feels compassion and trust, that seems empty or full. Within the heart is a subtler center that experiences spirit, but spirit is not felt as an emotion or physical sensation. How, then, can you contact it? According to the masters, spirit is experienced first as the absence of what is not spirit.

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