The teacher in the team games branch in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Girls, University of Baghdad, Asst. Lect. Mariam Abdul-Jabbar, held a scientific symposium for undergraduate students entitled (Conscious Meditation and Mental Health), as Mrs. Maryam explained the concept of conscious meditation, which is a mental training to improve psychological and physical performance. Where meditation is about the practice of focusing attention on the present moment and accepting it without distraction or judgment, and therefore by receiving the mind training that includes directing thinking to what is happening at that time towards all that a person can experience such as emotions, thoughts, and sensations.
She also explained that conscious meditation techniques help improve physical health through several ways, including protecting the body from heart disease, lowering high blood pressure, relieving chronic pain, aiding sleep, reducing digestive disorders and bowel problems, and removing tension, which is a major cause. For many previous diseases, as well as its contribution to improving mental health as an important component in treating a number of problems and diseases such as depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
She mentioned the importance of practicing the benefits of meditation exercises that contribute to reducing stress, anxiety, pain / insomnia, depression, in addition to practicing some conscious meditation exercises while walking, sitting position, and body meditation.
She noted the advantages of conscious meditation on mental health, the most important of which is the extinction resulting from self-observation, positive cognitive change, activation of self-management processes, and acceptance.
