Meditation have many physiologycal and psychological benefits, here are some:
2. Improves concentration and intelligence: Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body–mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training.
3.- Improves immune function: In a study of twenty five subjects under 8 weeks of mindfulness meditation, the subjects were vaccinated with influenza vaccine, the meditation group produced more antibody titers against the non meditator group.
4.- Better sleep: 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program on the sleep quality of a heterogeneous sample of 63 cancer patients. Overall sleep disturbance was significantly reduced and participants reported that their sleep quality had improved . There was also a significant reduction in stress , mood disturbance , and fatigue. The associations among these changes and implications for improving quality of life of cancer patients are discussed.