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 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.

Wild Divine's innovative biofeedback hardware platform measures heart rate variability (HRV) skin conductance level (SCL). Heart rate variability is the pattern that emerges from tracking the time between each beat of your heart.

When your doctor tells you what your heart rate is, that is only an average of the number of beats that occur each minute. However, medical research has now proven that what we really need to know is what is happening between each beat, your HRV. The more variation you have between beats, the healthier you are, both physically and mentally. Chronic stress is a leading factor in the reduction of your HRV, while breathing and relaxation techniques can greatly improve your HRV.

In addition, our biofeedback hardware also measures your skin conductance levels (SCL). SCL measures your body's physical and mental stress through the fluxuation of the sweat gland activity on your finger tips. An increased state of relaxation is measured by a decrease in your SCL.

Healing Rhythms obtains these measurements via the three fingers sensors and registers them through our proprietary "iom" biofeedback hardware. Then, they are fed back to you through beautiful, interactive biofeedback activities on the screen.

Throughout the program, you will learn to control your body's reactions and improve your HRV through various levels of breathing, relaxation, and meditation techniques. You'll quickly learn to master these activities and begin using these techniques everyday throughout your life to manage stress and improve your total physical and mental health.

This graph illustrates the dramatic physical changes that occur to both your heart rate variability (the purple line) and your skin conductance (the pink line) when using Healing Rhythms. Graphing capability is included in the Healing Rhythms program or you can upgrade the games in The Journey to Wild Divine to include graphing capabilities by purchasing The Wild Divine Expansion Pack.


This graph from Healing Rhythms depicts a smooth and variable heart rate
(portrayed by the blue bars) as well as a decrease in skin conductance.


The WILD DIVINE GRAPHER Expansion Pack (included in Healing Rhythms and required only as an add-on for The Passage or Wisdom Quest) is available as a downloadable program or as a CD-ROM.
· Produces realtime graphs of SCL, HRV, and Raw Heart biometrics
· Saves data in ASCII.dat format
· Includes Chapter Tour
· Downloads quickly and easily to your PC or Mac.

System Requirements for The Wild Divine Grapher:
10 K or more of available RAM
800 X 600, 24-bit color display or higher

PC
Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz or higher
20 MB of disk space.
Windows 2000 or Windows XP

Macintosh
G3, G4, or G5 600 MHz or higher
10 MB of disk space
Mac OSX v10.2 or later