Transforming Adolescent Perception and Mental Health Through Meditation and Cognitive Reappraisal A Mixed Method Study

Inclusion Criteria: * Individuals between15-18 years of age * Ability to understand study instructions and provide informed consent/assent. (parental consent for minors) * Access to internet and a device to complete online study activities * Currently residing in the United States * Willing and able to travel to the hospital location in Boston for study procedures. Exclusion Criteria: * Non-English speaking (Justification: the intervention and assessment instruments are not validated in a sufficient range of languages, and the research team lacks polylingual capabilities or the financial resources to hire interpreters for the duration of all proposed assessments.) * Practicing meditation regularly in the past 6 months (4 or more times per week for 4 weeks or more in the past 6 months) * History of psychiatric illness such as severe anxiety, severe depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder * Current use of cognition enhancing drugs * Current management for chronic pain * History (within past 5 years) of seizure, brain surgery or any condition causing cognitive decline. * Active history (within the last 5 years) of alcohol or drug abuse. * Current pregnancy or planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months * Currently enrolled in another interventional study that could impact the primary outcome, as determined by the PI * Significant visual impairment * Subject has previously learned the intervention. * Subject has contraindication…