Joyful Business Blog: Journey of the Wild Divine

I want to share with you a really cool computer game! Yes, a computer game. As I may have mentioned, I am over in England visiting my partner, Marc. He has this fantastic biofeedback game called the Journey to The Wild Divine. Biofeedback, you ask? It's just a technical name for these gizmos that plug into your computer and on the end it has 3 sensors that you put on your finger tips. They measure your heart beat and blood pressure, etc.

If you are familiar with Deepak Chopra, he is a major endorser of this game to help you learn how much power you have to create your reality - through being stressed or changing your breathing and changing your life. One magazine quotes and says "In this game you get to be the Dali Lama"...curious? It is pretty powerful!

The game takes place in this beautiful magical setting of the Sun Realm with lots of stones, trees, castle/fairy/eastern type buildings, archways, fountains, fabrics....actually it is so beautiful that I am finding it hard to describe.

Throughout your exploration you are given various tasks that include learning breathing techniques to reduce stress but you learn to do this by juggling these little balls in the air in the courtyard. You practice being aware of your heart rate and raising it by thinking joyful thoughts (!no wonder I love this!). You lower the elevator (or as Marc says...the lift), by relaxing and lowering your heart rate. It's a very fun way to learn meditation techniques vs. just sitting and doing "nothing" method, which as a busy entrepreneur & mom I find more stressing than relaxing on most days.

It's fascinating to learn what your natural rates are and how they vary during the day. Sometimes I can just summon the "joy" energy and the balls juggle effortlessly. During some of the games you have to vary your heart rate - raise it and then lower it and do this over and over again to successfully accomplish the task. There is an archery game where you use your breath to raise or lower the bow in order to aim it properly at the target. I seem to be playing this late at night when I'm relaxed so lowering the bow is fairly easy with some focus. Raising the bow has been challenging. What's funny is that Marc will come back into the room to check on me and as soon as he is close...my energy shoots up! Guess that's the impact of love...

And like any other game, the more you learn the techniques and the better you get at it, the more the game unfolds new levels, new places and new tasks.

I'm finding I am at lost for words to describe how beautiful and relaxing the music and the graphics are in this....probably because I'm thinking about signing off for now and going to ride the magic carpet and figure out what I am suppose to do at the frog fountain! :)

This is a really great gift for someone you love who you wish would learn how to relax (maybe that's YOU!), or even the whole family. Marc's boys have really enjoyed it as well. The youngest one just smiles and with no effort or much time, just has the balls juggling, the lift going up and down and the balloons soaring smoothly....for the rest of us....we're practicing our breathing......

Then again, we'll be doing that the rest of our lives...might as well have fun while we are at it!

Relax and enjoy.....!
Laura