Impact of Vibrational Frequencies on State Mood and Mindfulness

Abstract

Vibration is a part of everyday life, whether we are aware of it or not. Everyone experiences vibration in a variety of different ways: intentionally with music and speech, environmentally by cars, computers, phones, etc., and unconsciously, because there are many vibrational frequencies that are not audible to the human ear. Previous studies have focused on whether vibrational exposure impacts mood or impacts mindfulness, but the aim of the current study was to examine whether exposure to vibration of high and low frequencies has any impact on state mood and mindfulness levels together. Participants (n = 28) were assigned to listen to either high frequencies (20,000Hz and above) or low frequencies (50Hz or below). Regardless of intervention, participants completed the State Mindfulness Survey (SMS) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) questionnaires before and after their retrospective intervention. A repeated measures MANOVA was conducted to examine group differences on mood and affect. There was no significant time by condition interactions for any of the dependent variables. There were various limitations in this study that may have led to no significant results, such as insufficient sample size combined with low amplitude levels and short frequency exposure times during intervention.