“healing attempt #2”: a brief, digital music-based mindfulness intervention for stress and anxiety

Anxiety is a major health problem, yet there is a dearth of scalable interventions to address this issue. Thus, we created “healing attempt #2,” a brief (~40 minute), digital music-based mindfulness intervention consisting of originally-composed meditations, songs, and poetry. The intervention features contributions from world-renowned collaborators such as esperanza spalding (all lowercase) (five-time Grammy-award winning musician), Lama Rod Owens (renowned meditation teacher), and Terry Edmonds (former presidential speechwriter). The goal of this project is to further develop this intervention and assess whether it can elicit lasting improvements in trait (i.e., persisting) anxiety, mindfulness, and self-compassion; we will also assess whether music streaming platforms (e.g., Spotify) represent a feasible pathway for implementing the intervention. We will conduct a preliminary feasibility trial (Aim 1) and a feasibility of implementation study (Aim 2) towards these ends. Overall, this project can herald an accessible treatment for an impairing mental health condition.