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The Impact of Twin Hearts Meditation on Mood, Cognitive Functioning, and EEG Dynamics

NCT07005830 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2025-06-05

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the impact of a specific guided meditation (Twin Hearts Meditation; THM) on cognitive functioning and EEG dynamics in experienced and inexperienced meditators.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Will the experienced meditators outperform inexperienced meditators on the attention control tasks (Flanker, Trails A \& B) at baseline (pre-meditation)?
* Will both groups show improvements in performance after meditation associated with mood and physiological state changes?
* Will the experienced meditators show an overall mood profile of higher positive mood states and less negative mood states (Brunel Mood Scale subscale difference) at baseline (pre-meditation)?
* Will both groups show mood state improvements after meditation?
* Will the experienced meditators show differences in electrophysiological characteristics compared to inexperienced meditators?
* Will inexperienced meditators exhibit shifts from their baseline resting-state EEG towards being more similar to the EEG characteristics of experienced meditators at baseline?
* Will experienced meditators demonstrate differences in P300 latencies and amplitudes on the auditory oddball paradigm.

Participants will:

* Take a series of pre-meditation surveys.
* Complete pre-meditation P300 auditory oddball task.
* Complete pre-meditation cognitive behavioral task set.
* Continuous 19-channel EEG recording before and after pre-recorded guided THM.
* Take a series of post-meditation surveys.
* Complete post-session P300 auditory oddball task.
* Complete post-session cognitive behavioral task set.

Conditions

  • Positive Mood States
  • Negative Mood States
  • Cognitive Processing Speed
  • Cognitive Flexibility

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Twin Hearts Meditation

Twin Hearts Meditation (THM) is a 21-minute guided meditation practice developed by Master Choa Kok Sui as part of Pranic Healing \& Arhatic Yoga (Sui, 2005).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • NeuroMeditation Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeremy Viczko, PhD

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-21
Primary Completion
2024-11-07
Completion
2024-11-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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