The longer an individual practices meditation, the greater the likelihood that his or her goals and efforts will shift toward personal and spiritual growth. Many individuals who initially learn meditation for its self-regulatory aspects find that as their practice deepens they are drawn more and more into the realm of the spiritual. In her work with many cancer and AIDS patients,

Dr. Borysenko has observed that many are most interested in meditation as a way of becoming more attuned to the spiritual dimension of life. She reports that many die healed, in a state of compassionate self-awareness and self-acceptance.

Meditation is path to became a spiritual,meditation is nothing but to find yourself many people says that to find the god, yes this god is nothing but you are in pure form,and hence the meditation is nothing but to vanish the impurity in yourself, by concentrating your mind from those thoughts which are pushing to you towards frustrations & depressions ,in meditation you go dipper dipper & dipper...

The results certainly suggested that participants had improvements in subjective sleep quality. The meditation group experienced improvements in sleep quality and quantity, according to their sleep diaries.

They also took less time to fall asleep, slept longer, woke fewer times, over all had better sleep quality and had fewer symptoms of depression.
Findings of this study were presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

Another new report gives further evidence to support that Meditation may reduce depression for people struggling with severe depression, practicing meditation may offer mood-lifting benefits. In a recent pilot study, researchers randomly assigned 28 people dealing with depression (all of whom had previous depression episodes and thoughts of suicide) to two groups: One group continued their usual treatment, while the other paired standard care with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (or MBCT, a healing approach that combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive behavior therapy).