Peace of mind
Clarity of thoughts
Emotional stability
Physical wellbeing
The contemporary understanding on the benefits of meditation are very broad, and can often be found, as listed below.
Erase self-imposed limitations
Experience improved relationship
Expand confidence and motivation
Experience decrease level of anxieties
Experience greater spiritual connection
Experience immense level of inner peace
Experience freedom from physical suffering
Experience freedom from chronic depression
Experience deep profound silence within the mind
Experience significant reduction of your stress level
Experience freedom from mental (emotional) suffering
Experience freedom from worry, fear, grief and sadness
Experience freedom from anger, hatred, ill will, jealousy and animosity
Experience immediately, a change within your body, literally, physiologically
Experience immense level of inner happiness free from expectations, judgment or fear
Experience immediately the changes of brainwave (high beta - stress mode, to alpha, theta, delta - deep calm mode)
Begin to understand the true Law of Nature
Begin to skyrocket your mental capacities and abilities
Begin to free yourself from the grips of mental agitations
Begin to understand your ego and the volition of your mind
Begin to cultivate a wholesome mind filled only with wholesome thoughts and intentions
Begins to see through you own ignorance about reality within the framework of your own mind
Begin to learn to truly forgive and begin to experience the opening of the heart space filled with pure love
Begin to develop Loving Kindness, Peace, Harmony, Good Will, Unconditional Love and Pure Compassion
However, the true purpose of meditation is to strengthen the faculty of one's Awareness and Equanimity and thus allowing one to achieve a true purification of the mind!
This purification will then help free one's mind of all the impurities and defilements within, which is often, the root cause of one's mental agitations and sufferings.
It is important to note though, that these benefits can only be experienced when meditation is done correctly, with
Right Effort,
Right Awareness,
Right Concentration,
Right Thought,
Right Understanding,
whilst observing all platforms of moralities.
Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent
and with this 'insights', one will not be overwhelmed by all of life's vicissitudes!
When inner balance is being retained, one will naturally choose to act in ways that create happiness for one and for others!