The Journey to Wild Divine Biofeedback Software Expansion Pack for PC & Mac: Wisdom Quest

by Wild Divine Project

Product Features

• Balancing health, wellness, and technology to enhance your life
• Teaches breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques for great living
• Provides instant, visual feedback that reflects the state of your mind and body
• Reduce stress, increase mental and physical performance, improve overall health

Product Description

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Balancing health, wellness, and technology to enhance your life, The Journey to Wild Divine is a stunning and life-changing computer program that teaches breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques for great living. Using proprietary biofeedback technology, The Journey to Wild Divine provides instant, visual feedback that reflects the state of your mind and body.

Deepak Chopra, M.D, is your mentor throughout Wisdom Quest, helping you discover key practices for body and mind that will help you to become a peacemaker, both within the world and within yourself. View larger

Dean Ornish, M.D, guides you with insight into what makes us sick and what makes us well, what makes us happy and what causes sadness, and what can lead us to healing. View larger

Learn practical skills that teach you how to self-regulate your responses, whether in everyday situations or stressful events. The Journey is an effective tool to help you learn to reduce stress and anxiety, increase relaxation and balance, become more present and aware, enhance creativity and focus, and improve mental and physical performance.

And now there's another chapter in the adventure, The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest. Take the next step on your path to a balanced, peaceful state of being with Wisdom Quest. The second in a series of biofeedback training adventures from The Wild Divine Project, Wisdom Quest will challenge you to reach greater levels of physical, mental and emotional wellness.

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Wisdom Quest builds upon the skills you acquired in The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, by teaching you new meditation and breathing techniques for advanced training. Featuring insight and guidance from best-selling authors Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D., you will learn many new and valuable lessons to integrate this wisdom into your daily life. Choose varying levels of difficulty and tailor your experience to fit your most effective learning style. Experiment with advanced biofeedback techniques as you enjoy breath-taking three-dimensional landscapes, soothing music and inspiring visuals. Wisdom Quest will help you to develop and maintain a state of mindfulness that is focused, relaxed and purposeful, so you can achieve the healthy lifestyle you desire. It's the perfect addition to your personal wellness program!

Key new features of Wisdom Quest include a "Game Quest" and Guided Activity" modes. Guided Activity mode provides instant access to 20 biofeedback activities for profound and effective wellness training. This mode comes with a dedicated training manual to help deepen your skills. In Game Quest mode you'll travel in search of the seven precious stones that will heal and restore inner peace, both in the Sun Realm and in yourself. Discover more than 40 biofeedback activities that will challenge you at each turn. Wisdom Quest also features the music of Deva Premal, Shanti Shanti and more. Plus installation disks for both Mac and PC are provided, as is a user's manual.

Guided Activity mode provides instant access to 20 biofeedback activities for profound and effective wellness training and comes with a dedicated training manual.

In Quest Mode, those who prefer the adventure of discovery can uncover over 40 new biofeedback events by navigating around the realm. View larger

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 blood pressure, physical tension, heart rate and other critical bodily functions.Wearing three finger sensors connected to your computer, The Journey tracks your body's heart rate variability and skin conductance levels. You'll learn to do meditation and breathing exercises while your body's physical and emotional responses are played back to you through real-time changes on the screen. Take The Journey to Wild Divine and put the road to total mind-body wellness, literally, into your own hands.

The unique biofeedback hardware in The Journey to Wild Divine helps you learn to balance your physical and emotional responses to life.

The "LightStone" and biofeedback finger sensors are the link between you and The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom Quest. (LightStone not included, requires purchase of The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage)

Testimonials

"The Journey to Wild Divine shows you how just a few minutes of concentrated deep breathing can have long lasting health benefits."

--Deepak Chopra, M.D., Author of the new release, The Book of Secrets

"The Journey to Wild Divine takes important stress-reducing elements necessary for general good health, and wraps them into a form of entertainment that can easily become a part of day-to-day life and can ultimately lead to long-term health benefits."

--Dean Ornish, M.D., Author of five best-selling books, including New York Times' bestsellers Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less, and Love & Survival

System Requirements

• 1.5 GB of disk space
• 256 MB free available system RAM
• 800 X 600, 24-bit color display
• CD-Rom drive
• QuickTime 6.3 or higher
• Available USB port

PC

• Intel Pentium III, 800 Mhz processor or higher
• Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• 16 MB video card

Macintosh

• G3 or G4 or G5, running at 500 Mhz or more
• Mac OSX v10.2 or later

Note: The biofeedback hardware required to play Wisdom Quest is not included in this product. Biofeedback hardware is packaged and sold separately with The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage

Product Description

Take the next step on your path to a balanced, peaceful state of being with The Journey to Wild Divine: Wisdom QuestTM. The second in a series of biofeedback training adventures from The Wild Divine Project, Wisdom Quest will challenge you to reach greater levels of physical, mental and emotional wellness. Wisdom Quest builds upon the skills you acquired in The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, by teaching you new meditation and breathing techniques for advanced training. Featuring insight and guidance from best-selling authors Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Dean Ornish, M.D., you will learn many new and valuable lessons to integrate this wisdom into your daily life. Choose varying levels of difficulty and tailor your experience to fit your most effective learning style. Experiment with advanced biofeedback techniques as you enjoy breath-taking three-dimensional landscapes, soothing music and inspiring visuals. Wisdom Quest will help you to develop and maintain a state of mindfulness that is focused, relaxed and purposeful, so you can achieve the healthy lifestyle you desire. It's the perfect addition to your personal wellness program!

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 3 x 10 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AXYE54
• UPC: 829054401034
• Item model number: Wisdom Quest
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,307 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent new adventure - plus Quicktime info, January 21, 2006

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Nikki Fay (Ashland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Journey to Wild Divine Biofeedback Software Expansion Pack for PC & Mac: Wisdom Quest (Health and Beauty)

First of all, here is the official word from the FAQs at Wild Divine site re the Quicktime problem:
QuickTime 7.0 is a beta version program and they have not worked out all the bugs yet with different software programs. They are working on this and you should expect to find a downloadable driver here soon to correct this problem.
That being said, it seems like (from the review just below mine) the Quicktime problem is "solved" now with the newest Quicktime update. NEVER trust a beta (wink).

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It's here and definitely worth the wait. I am enjoying Wisdom Quest even more than The Passage. While I took pleasure in the latest installment first as a game, I now use Wisdom Quest in Guided mode as an ongoing "energy training" tool.

I am very pleased to have worked my way up to the extra hard level in just a month -- enjoying both the challenge and the accomplishment. I am sure I will return to game mode again in the future. It is always a pleasure to retreat to The Wild Divine.

Wisdom Quest builds on skills and characters in the original Wild Divine -The Passage. While some of the many new features include 360 degree panning, guided activity mode (a click and pick selection of some of the more popular events) and LEVELS of difficult (Thank you Wild Divine!), the biggest improvement in my mind is the scope of the adventure.

There is so much more to explore. The details seem richer, the vistas broader and the journey more expansive. Most of us were thrilled with the original Wild Divine and Wisdom Quest is definitely a worthwhile successor. There is more to do, new mentors to meet and old friends to reacquaint with. Help is available along the way for asking and if you really miss something an optional fairy will give you some hints.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great New Expansion Pack -- Works with Quicktime 7.0.4, January 13, 2006

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Samuel Zane (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Journey to Wild Divine Biofeedback Software Expansion Pack for PC & Mac: Wisdom Quest (Health and Beauty)

So, after a few months of enjoying The Passage--the first release from The Wild Divine Project--I decided to check out this new release, which uses the same biofeedback hardware (you have to have The Passage's hardware to use Wisdom Quest). I am very happy with my decision.

Wisdom Quest is kind of a continuation of The Passage, but several of the events are a little more challenging. The graphics are just as stunning as those in the first game, and there are a bunch of new mentors, including Deepak Chopra and Dean Ornish. One of the new mentors is a very cute, very helpful little girl. All in all, it's safe to say that if you liked The Passage, you'll like this release. The Wild Divine is definitely onto something, specifically marrying modern technology with an application that's both fun and good for you!

Re: Quicktime, I'm using Wisdom Quest with Version 7.0.4, and having no problems. I'm not sure about past versions, but since 7.0.4 is free, it would appear that this compatibility issue is moot.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom Quest impressions, January 13, 2007

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Ed Wordsmith "Ned" (Southworth, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Journey to Wild Divine Biofeedback Software Expansion Pack for PC & Mac: Wisdom Quest (Health and Beauty)

I am not especially devoted to computer games, but everyone in my family is so I know what it means to be. In fact, I've played only a few PC games (Myst, for example) that I thought were worth my time at all. Then came The Journey to Wild Divine, which was recommended in Dr Daniel Amen's "Brain in the News" email newsletter. I am hear to say that this is the PC game I have been waiting for. I can't find the words to say how perfect it is--the screens are fabulously rendered in minute colorful detail (Journey and Wisdom Quest are honestly a visual treat), and the soundtrack has music so lovely that it leaves me speechless.

The game itself is totally unique in my experience. I am no stranger to the idea of biofeedback and I've always wanted to use it, but now it is really here for me to do! I sit there and control the game play with my thoughts! OMG, it is like future shock--my family sits around with Nintendo controllers and keyboards manically blasting bad guys, while I sit there placidly challenged to lower or raise the actual energy level of my mnd/body. The game screen shows me what I need to do. For instance, the Journey and Wisdom Quest both put me in the first-person role of an archer. I use the mouse to draw back the arrow and release it, but I *mentally* control where the bow is pointed. In Journey, this archery skill is designed to help the player learn the mind and body 'language' for interacting with the game, but in Wisdom Quest, the archery task is harder, and progress through the game depends on it.

Wisdom Quest has a way to set the play for easy/medium/or hard.