Meditation is a practice that trains your attention and awareness while cultivating mental and emotional clarity and peace. Meditation has been found to decrease heart rate, blood pressure, lactic acid in the blood (which increases anxiety, increase in electrical resistance of the skin (associated with deep relaxation), increase in alpha brain wave activity.  The continued study of meditation has been found to reduce chronic anxiety, worry, and prevent relapses of  three or more episodes depression (Segal, Williams, and Teasdale 2002).  Other long range benefits include: increased focus, increase energy level and productivity, decrease of self criticism, increase accessibility of emotions, heightened self esteem and sense of identity.  So the real question is….why not?