Scientific Evidence: Twin Hearts Meditation – Potential effects on short- to long-term cognition

Meditation has been gaining space in scientific research because it promotes benefits in brain health, especially in the P300 wave, as it is a component for measuring mental efficiency and cognitive evaluation. P300 is a single brain electrical stimulus measured by electroencephalography, interpreted by its latency (ability to recognize new stimuli) and amplitude (determined by the speed of response), so people with cognitive impairment tend to have lower values of amplitude and higher latency of the P300 component.

In a survey by Jeffrey M. Tarrant and colleagues published in the 2019 Integrative Medicine Journalheld at NeuroMeditation Institute in Corvallis, Oregon, 24 individuals (12 meditators and 12 non-meditators) evaluated the activity of the P300 through cognitive tests with electroencephalogram and found a significant increase in the amplitude of the P300 (that is, there was an increase in the speed of response to brain stimuli) of non-meditators after hearing the Twin Hearts Meditation.

Therefore, a single session of the Twin Hearts meditation was able to promote significant improvements in cognition (Amplitude, speed of response to new stimuli) in non-practitioners. And when the groups (meditators vs. non-meditators) were compared, the meditators had lower latency (greater ability to recognize new stimuli) of the P300 compared to the non-meditators, so we can see that in the long run meditation tends to improve brain efficiency.

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