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Healing Rhythms from the Wild Divine Project (Biofeedback Software and Hardware for PC and Mac)
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| Price: | $299.00 |
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Product Description
A whole body wellness program featuring biofeedback training and expert guidance from leaders in the field of wellness including Deepak Chopra, M.D., Dean Ornish, M.D. and Andrew Weil, M.D. Deepak Chopra says "Healing Rhythms uses biofeedback to access your innate healing abilities to restore your physical, mental and spiritual health." Dean Ornish says "Meditation along with biofeedback is a perfect tool to help train you to return to your natural state of balance and wholeness. Andrew Weil says One of the most important tools you can incorporate into your 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 help you do just that.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #13924 in Health and Beauty
- Brand: Wild Divine Project
- Model: Healing Rythms
- Released on: 2006-10-01
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x 2.00" w x 10.00" l, 1.70 pounds
Features
- Whole body wellness program featuring biofeedback training and expert guidance
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Increases heart health and a more balanced and fulfilling lifestyle
- Improves the quality of life
- Includes new iom biofeedback hardware and finger sensors
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
In the busy world, there's not a human on the planet that doesn't face the challenges of dealing with stress. It is now considered common knowledge that stress pressures the body and takes its toll on an individual's physical and mental well-being. Healing Rhythms from Wild Divine Project is an entirely unique, whole-body wellness program designed to help you uncover your body's own natural ability to counter the wear and tear that everyday stress has on your health. Combining biofeedback technology with guidance from world-renowned leaders in wellness, Healing Rhythms teaches you practical meditation and breathing exercises that are designed to relax, relieve and restore your life's balance. With just a few minutes a day, you'll improve your energy level and your ability to connect with the world around you. In short, you'll begin to wake up to your life in new and profound ways. Experience the benefits of active well-being with Healing Rhythms. The key to a happy mind and healthy body is your hands.
 The biofeedback in Healing Rhythms lets you see your mind and body responding together on-screen as you learn skills to reduce stress and increase relaxation. |
 Practice your new skills as you learn to build stairways with your breath, juggle balls with laughter, balance rock gardens through meditation and so much more. View larger. |
Healing Rhythms is a whole body wellness program featuring biofeedback training and expert guidance from leaders in the field of wellness, including Deepak Chopra, M.D., Dean Ornish, M.D., and Andrew Weil, M.D. You'll learn proven techniques to restore your body's natural rhythms, relieve stress, experience deep states of relaxation and enjoy a renewed sense of well-being. The program includes new iom biofeedback hardware and finger sensors that allow you to track your heart's coherence both on the hardware itself (through a colored light) and through the iom Grapher screen. With this powerful software and hardware at your fingertips you'll be ready to move towards a healthier, happier lifestyle. To get started you can choose either the 15-Step Guided Training with full-color, 90-page training manual, or create your own custom program in Self Exploration Mode. Both options allow you to work at your own pace to access over 45 mind-body practices.
Testimonials
"Healing Rhythms uses biofeedback to access your innate healing abilities to restore your physical, mental and spiritual health."
--Deepak Chopra, M.D."Meditation along with biofeedback is a perfect tool to help train you to return to your natural state of balance and wholeness."
--Dean Ornish, M.D."One of the most important tools you can incorporate into your 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 help you do just that."
--Andrew Weil, M.D.
About Biofeedback
What you will experience with Healing Rhythms is an entirely unique and interactive program that uses biofeedback to help you achieve a deeper sense of well-being, to relieve stress, and to live a stronger, more balanced life. Biofeedback monitors your physical and emotional response to stress and provides feedback that helps you learn how to activate, balance, release and recover from stress to achieve optimal health. Healing Rhythms artfully combines beautiful biofeedback activities with effective meditation and breathing techniques to help you undo and even prevent the negative effects that stress has on your health. By following the 15-Step Guided Training Program, you'll begin to see life-changing results from the very first step. At each level you'll develop skills that will help you become more present and more mindful -- two essential elements to your overall health. Once you've mastered an activity, you'll find yourself returning to it again and again -- not only to refine your skill, but to experience the pure relaxation and joy it creates. Rediscover your body's natural healing abilities with Healing Rhythms.
"A very special journey that will take you deep inside the inner workings of your mind and body and give you keys to a healthier, happier life."
--Dean Ornish, M.D.
 "Healing Rhythms uses biofeedback to access your innate healing abilities to restore your physical, mental and spiritual health." --Deepak Chopra, M.D. |  "Meditation along with biofeedback is a perfect tool to help train you to return to your natural state of balance and wholeness." --Dean Ornish, M.D. |  "One of the most important tools you can incorporate into your life ... is a deeper, slower breathing practice. The exercises in Healing Rhythms help you do just that." --Andrew Weil, M.D. |
- 800 MB disk space; 256 MB available RAM; CD-ROM or DVD drive
- 800 x 600, 24-bit color display; available USB port
- Intel Pentium III or higher (PC); G4 or higher (Mac)
- 800 MHz processor (minimum, PC and Mac)
- 1.25 GHz processor (recommended, PC and Mac)
- Windows 2000 or XP (PC); Max OSX v10.2.8 or higher (Mac)
- QuickTime 6.5 or higher (QuickTime 7.0 included for PC; not included for Mac)
- 3ivx video codec (included, PC and Mac)
Wild Divine Project Healing Rhythms iom biofeedback software and sensors, over 40 guided meditation and breathing practices, full-color, 90-page training guide and user's manual, and installation disks for PC and Mac.
Customer Reviews
A great investment for anyone, but especially those who need to learn to slow down and relax
I am a former Physiology Teaching Fellow, biochemist and current personal growth coach and organizational consultant. In addition, I have a background in psychology and work with biofeedack in my practice. I familiar with many of the products that are out there and this one certainly is not a toy.
This software utilized two primary physiological measurements in novel ways that help you to develop skills that increase your resilience and ability to relax. Practicing as little as two times for 12 minutes a day can make a tremendous difference in your health and well being.
Also, there is a lot of value-added material included with this package. It is being marketed hard, but it really is an economical way to take advantage of biofeedback technology.
FreezeFramer is also an excellent product with a great user interface. The primary difference between the two is that this products also tracks skin conductance which correlates with sympathetic nervous system arousal i.e. your state anxiety. Seeing both of these together has a lot of value and the different ways learning to manipulate your body through different practices is imaginative. The activities for FreezeFramer are less interesting, but it is a very solid program too which focuses on heart rate variablity and does it in-depth including frequency distributions which also correlate with well being.
I don't think you can go wrong with either package. However, you probably don't need both. Read about them and see which one makes the most sense for your needs. If you're primary issue is anxiety, this may be a better way to go. Also, budgetary concerns can be an issue for some. Read my review of FreezeFramer, compare prices and look at the book HeartMath and see what product fits your needs and budget most closely. If you found this review helpful, I would appreciate you letting me know and also providing your comments as I will revise it at different points based on feedback that I receive.
Finally, this is a pretty high price point and if you wanted to you could pick up a skin conductance or skin temperature sensor for a small amount of money used or new from various vendors. This is another way that you can go if you don't want or need the integrated package or value-added content. If you go this route, you can buy FreezeFramer and get the skin conductance functionality separately. However, it's very nice to have it all intergrated together and certainly more convenient.
It Is Truly Healing
I've had this program about 3 weeks and have finished the 15 steps, now I'm ready to go back and do my favorite meditation/breathing exercises.
I look forward to doing the program nightly and it has re-sparked my commitment to meditation. I like that you can spend as long as you like in meditation, although sometimes the words of wisdom/guidance seem too short in the beginning of the meditation, and I yearn for more. A lot of focus on breath in the exercises. I also have Wild Divine's "The Passage" an am using the biofeedback sensors from that program. I much prefer "Healing Rhythms" because of the focus on meditation. "The Passage" has short bouts of breathing exercises and you have to keep your hand on the mouse quite a bit-plus it's very visually stimulationg, which keeps me from creating my own mental pictures. "Healing Rhythms" is much more soothing and healing and I've had some great visions and dreams as a result of the program.
Very Soothing
Last year I bought Journey to Wild Divine, which was an interesting game that uses biofeedback. Although I liked it, it quickly became tiresome having to wade through the game over and over to try and get to places I hadn't discovered yet.
Healing Rhythms combines the biofeedback device with a set of 15 guided exercises. It basically centers around learning to meditate and breathe. The interface is easy to use, and you can either select guided instruction, or go directly to the events.
The biofeedback unit attaches to 3 fingers, and measures skin conductivity and heartbeat.
Since I already had the biofeedback hardware, the software only cost $80. I don't know if I'd pay almost $300 for the package, but the software put my already purchased hardware to good use.
I am pleased with this purchase.
