<qa>  What is the MAD DASH intervention likely to improve health behaviors due to integration?3 Background and significance The investigators hypothesize that the MAD DASH intervention will improve the participants neural brain processing through diet education and self-monitoring and the emotional brain processing level through meditation, deep breathing, and monitoring emotions to promote prehypertension self-management behaviors diet, self-monitoring, managing emotions, and physical activity. The investigators further hypothesize that these behaviors will lead to a reduction in blood pressure mediated through the HPA axis functioning and stress response systematic inflammatory effects, cognitive mediators self-efficacy, decision-making, motivation, health information, and activation, and contextual factors social support, demographics, allostatic load to modify the effects of interventions on proximal increased fruits and vegetables, decreased sodium intake, increased physical activity and distal BP, sodium, HRQoL, cost outcomes. These mechanisms are hypothesized to lead to performance of self-management behaviors, which in turn are expected to lead to subsequent reductions in sodium intake, BP, and improved HRQoL The MAD DASH intervention is likely to improve health behaviors due to integration Mindfulness practice is a non-judgmental self-awareness of emotions, sensations, and cognitions. Mindfulness is believed to affect self-management through self-regulation of responses, acceptance of emotions e.g., stress, anxiety, and depression, and self-control of emotions---that interfere with the persons ability to practice health behavior management. Improvements in HRQoL are also associated with mindfulness practices. The MAD DASH eight-session intervention will include body scan exercise lying down or sitting with eyes closed to deliberately focus on sensations within the body, sitting meditation, and yoga exercises along with self-management education self-monitoring of sodium intake, physical activity to incorporate strategies to reduce sodium intake, manage emotions, and increase physical activity. There may no direct benefit to subjects, however participation may provide data which will provide insight into ways African Americans can reduce their blood pressure and improve their overall health. Understanding both the biological and psychosocial factors contributing to blood pressure control in African American adults is timely as the population is expected to grow over 9.9 million by 2050 and substantial disparities in health outcomes exist in this population. Findings from this study have the potential to elucidate factors contributing to these disparities in health outcomes in African Americans by better characterization of the neurobiological mechanisms for self-management of prehypertension. 