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September 2006: Press Release
The Wild Project and World Leaders in Mind-Body Health Announce the Creation and Availability of Healing Rhythms
Andrew Weil, MD, Deepak Chopra, MD and Dean Ornish, MD Join Together For the First Time on One Unique Product to Teach Users to Manage Stress
September 15, 2006, Boulder, Colo. A recent Gallup Poll found that 80 percent of workers feel stress on the job, and nearly half reported that they need help in learning how to manage it. What’s more, nearly 90 percent of doctor visits today are stress related.
In response, three of the most renowned leaders in mind-body health, Andrew Weil, M.D., Deepak Chopra, M.D., and Dean Ornish, M.D., joined together for the first time to help create Healing Rhythms, a 15 Step Guided Training Program that teaches consumers to manage stress, improve their mind-body health and achieve a more balanced life. This beautifully, interactive computer tool was developed by The Wild Divine Project, creators of wellness products that help people of all ages learn to live healthier, more balanced lives.
Healing Rhythms’ hardware houses three biofeedback sensors that gently attach to the fingers to display consumer’s skin conductance levels and heart rate variability. Biofeedback monitors your physical and emotional response to stress and provides feedback that helps the user learn how to active, balance, release and recover from them for optimal health. More than 30 years of research has proven the positive impact of biofeedback on health in areas relating to migraine headaches, chronic pain, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, ADHD, depression and obesity.
Drs. Chopra, Ornish and Weil, along with several other leading experts in the field of health and wellness, offer their guidance on over 30 mind-body exercises while users perform short meditation and breathing techniques, essential to mental and physical well-being. During each exercise, users receive real-time feedback on their progress in the form of engaging visuals as well as through the on-screen graphing program, which monitors and tracks their biofeedback statistics.
 
The 15-Step Training Program was designed to teach the user to reduce stress by increasing their mind-body awareness and their state of mindfulness, two essential elements to overall health. Once they master a particular skill (meaning their heart rate and skin conductance hit the targeted level for that activity), users can progress to the next level of training.
 
“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,” said Weil who teaches patients how to quiet the mind, increase relaxation, observe thoughts and create a greater sense of well being.
 
Dr. Ornish, whose San Francisco cardiology practice has helped thousands both recover and improve their heart health through his own program of diet, exercise and meditation, shares his proven techniques throughout the program “Meditation along with biofeedback is the perfect tool to help train you to return to your natural state of balance and wholeness,” said Ornish.
 
The Healing Rhythms Iom™ includes both hardware and software program and will sell for $295. The product will be available through www.wilddivine.com, and preferred online and retail outlets nationwide including Amazon.com, Whole Foods Markets and Pharmaca Integrated Pharmacies.
 
The Wild Divine Project is also the creator of the Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage and Wisdom Quest, products that help users explore their mind-body connection using biofeedback in a game-like adventure. Researchers from renowned medical centers across the country are now looking at how The Wild Divine Project’s products can be used to treat migraine headaches, chronic pain, autism, post traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, ADHD, depression and obesity. One study underway at New York University is being conducted to determine how using biofeedback will affect acute pain following surgery. More than 20 medical and research organizations are conducting clinical studies or other research using The Journey to Wild Divine.
 
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