What does meditation do for you for you?

Answer 1

Mindfulness Meditation helps you to calm your body as well as mind, with these practices we can control our mind and let go of negativity. It’s meant to live in the present moment and control your emotions.

Answer 2

Meditation has benefits on the body, mind and emotions. Some believe it has spiritual benefits too.

Body

Reduces tension in muscles, reduces chronic pain, reduces stress which enables faster healing process generally

Mind

Makes the mind sharper and clearer, improves memory, makes the mind calmer and more relaxed, increases creativity

Emotions

Increases positive emotions, helps to reduce negative emotions such as depression and anxiety

Spirit/Purpose

Gives you a greater sense of purpose and greater sense of meaning to life.

Meditation Can Be Used to Re-balance Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and Para-Sympathetic Nervous System (PNS)

Stress results from excess firing of the SNS and the failure of the PNS to bring the system into balance. The results of this are complex and multi-factored. At the grossest level it results in an over-excited/over-excitable nervous system and retained muscle tension. More subtly it results in emotional 'touchiness', anxiety and accumulated psychological trauma. Sitting very still 'frees up' the system to allow the PNS to work better at restoring this balance. Manipulating the breath more directly stimulates the PNS. Other yogic techniques aid this process.

Another aspect to meditation is the gradual bringing of propriocepton into conscious awareness. This allows direct sensing of the internal effects of stress and more effective use of meditation techniques. This also allows a person to sense how some processes in the body relate to processes in the mind. Meditation techniques using the mind have a physical effect and vice versa - hence the terms psycho-physical, somatics and Mind/Body methods.

People with a high degree of proprioceptive awareness can make psycho-physical adjustments to their system that affect their emotional processes in beneficial ways.

People with extreme proprioceptive awareness sense things which are termed 'mystical'. They tend to have much less negative emotion than normal people.

A very complex set of processes are involved but the most generally reported thing meditation does for you is make you happier.