Abstract: Meditation is a kind of methods of spiritual practices. In recent years, the meditation, particularly the research of the effect of the meditation has become more and more popular. This paper summarizes the research finding of the meditation effect of western psychology in this decade. The research of the meditation effect focuses on the meditation of the mental effect, physiological effect and the clinical effect. A lot of researches indicate that the meditation is not only religion phenomena, but also science phenomena. The meditation will play a more and more important role in the western psychology in the future, and become a new trend in the field of the psychological therapy.

Key words: meditation, mental effect, physiological effect, clinical effect