The meditation only showed a 3.5-point (9.8%) decrease in Trait-Anxiety (t = -2.47, p = 0.04). The psychiatry-only group showed a 4.2-point (8.4%) decrease in State-Anxiety (t = -2.20, p = 0.05) and a 7.0-point (6.9%) decrease in Total Anxiety (t = -2.61, p = 0.02). Of the 20 outpatients who took part in the study, nine used the meditations as planned, whereas 11 did not for various reasons (could not download, forgot, did not have time, etc.), resulting in the formation of three treatment groups: psychiatry + meditation (n = 8), psychiatry only (n = 10), and meditation only (n = 8).

The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory scores were measured in all participants over the course of the study. Twenty psychiatric outpatients with anxiety disorder and eight individuals (nonpatients) in the healing professions were given the opportunity to use this meditation technology over the course of 2 weeks to 2 months. The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of a novel binaural beat meditation technology for the treatment of anxiety symptoms in both psychiatric outpatients and nonpatients.

Punishment binaural beats meditation