Though it's 'net upvotes' right now, I can understand people's apprehensions about this. A lot of people still think it's some sort of a quackery or just plain useless, but a considerable amount of actual research has gone into it by some of the top universities and most have found only benefits.

This article is from a famous and long time Stanford Researcher on the same (who's also studying the effects of meditation on war veterans for quite some time along with other studies):

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-it/201309/20-sc...