A majority of the benefits are mental and emotional. You begin to value yourself more, you don’t feel like a victim of your state of mind, you sleep better, and so on. People who meditate regularly have less hospital visits and doctor visits than other people.
Your immune system is strengthened when you’re happy, when you’re peaceful and when you have loving feelings. You have resilience to illness.
If you have highly fluctuating moods and a chronic lack of self value, if you’re always putting yourself down; if you’re feeling fearful and anxious about people and situations in your life, if your mind is in overdrive, if you can’t sleep well, if you don’t know how to stop.
Meditation is also a good way for people to explore their deeper purpose in life.