Bio-games like Space Pilot and Pachyderm teach relaxation techniques. The greater your level of relaxation, the better your game performance. Such training translates into real lifewhen facing a stressful situation, it's better to deal with it calmly than to lose control. Doyle's games have several advantages over conventional biofeedback training. Using games, it takes less time to learn deep relaxation.
Games are user-friendly and nonthreatening to children.
They are great ice-breakers for reluctant therapy patients. Psychologists Doyle and Tobie Oidtmann, Doyle's associate, use a combination of biofeedback and standard psychotherapy techniques in their counseling sessions. Even clinically depressed patients benefit from playing bio-games. When you calm your mind, the depression lifts, said Doyle. Bio-games can also be used to lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients.