10-MONTH COURSE ON CHRISTIAN MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (CCMM)

This course provides a comprehensive, and inclusive education about the Science of Christian Mindfulness Meditation, enabling one to integrate its teachings into daily life and achieve mental resilience, equanimity, creativity, commitment, and self-transformation. The intent of the course is to reconstruct the concept of Mindfulness Meditation within a Biblical framework with new noetical categories, operational strategies and mechanisms.

CCMM 10 is an intensive training for those who are seriously seeking God through mindfulness meditation and the scientific underpinning of contemplative prayer.

COURSE CURRICULUM AND STRUCTURE

CCMM 10 will have 6 modules and each module consists of the following components:

Module 1 Mindfulness Meditation in contemporary settings and in Biblical dimensions, its practical definition, taxonomy, structure and steps, M-1 covers both, a meditation manual and theoretical lessons for mindfulness. Added to it, meditation workshops and practice.

Module 2 Mindfulness Meditation as the source of energy, for direction, motivation, relatedness and competency. M-2 covers lessons on self-direction theory (SDT); Hedge, Winepress, Tower Disciplines (HWTD) as meditation recipe.

Module 3 Biblical teachings on the obstacles to meditation. M-3 includes mental crowds (W & W), calcification of the mind, no-wine, no-oil, no-wedding robes, five husbands, Camel, Fat- calves and Oxen (Fs and Bs) etc. The scientific solutions such as: Integrative Body Mind Training (IBMT), Proactive Preparation Mode (PPM), Reactive Solution Mode (RSM). Cognitive Restructuring (CR) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and their role in rewiring the mind.

Module 4 Meditation and human mind based on research from philosophy, biology, genetics, neuroscience, environment, culture, and religion. M-4 Includes Weed management, Epigenetic mechanisms and modification of gene activity, anatomy of seed, soil interaction and germination

Module 5 Mindfulness Meditation and Metacognition (“thinking about thought”)
M-5 explores two clusters of mental activities:

I. knowledge about cognition, i.e., recognizing what is happening in the mental realm, more precisely, the traffic of thoughts, the mental converse, the thought that stirs and creates ruckus in the mind, its sequence, context, time and duration.
II. Regulation of cognition, i.e., by monitoring and regulating thoughts and their process, namely, prosbole (“suggestion”), syndiasmos (“dialogue” or “converse”), pale (“combat” or “struggle”) and synkatathesis (“consent”). In addition, 6 metacognition meditation workshops based on Biblical texts.

Module 6 Mindfulness Meditation and Mysticism. M-6 deals with mindfulness as an outcome, that is with the union of the three aspects of the soul (logistikon, epithymitikon, thymikon) with the DIVINE. It includes the results such as opulence of superior quality wine, love, happiness, peace, joy, resilience, equanimity, compassion, neuroplasticity (shaping of the brain) etc.