Video Games As Alternative Medicine?
Wild Divine is a biofeedback-controlled video-game that teaches mastery of mental and physical processes. A scientist, specializing…
Wild Divine is a biofeedback-controlled video-game that teaches mastery of mental and physical processes. A scientist, specializing in biomedical engineering, explored alternative, integrative and complementary medical care and has created a video game that requires users to manipulate their heart rate and other body functions to navigate the game. To succeed in the game, according to Whitehouse, players have to learn certain principles, which basically require what he calls an 'allowing attitude'--a kind of passive will. [...] In biofeedback terms, the game is set up so that players might actually have to raise either their sweat gland activity or heart rate in order to get through one particular barrier, while moving into a more balanced, or even calmer, state to successfully navigate another area. [...] 'At some point in the game, if a player has learned how to control their internal states to a degree, they can have an internal shift--something akin to an 'aha' experience, where they just know how to do things.' via boing boing