Meditation
Intervention: Study participants arrived at baseline and listened to a guided meditation for ten minutes and a Ted Talk for ten minutes. They were instructed to perform one guided meditation on their own later in the week. The control group listened to two Ted Talks back to back for a total of 20 minutes. The participants returned 7 days from baseline to repeat the tasks from baseline.
Aim: To assess the impact of guided meditation on interoception, stress, dietary habits, and cortical recruitment. Secondly, to determine which participants are more likely to respond to the effects of meditation. To determine this, we are assessing personality characteristics, interoceptive awareness, dietary traits, and blood metabolites.