CSPH 5225: Meditation: Integrating Body and Mind

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the intellectual background of meditation,
  reading sources from religious traditions, indigenous sources, from contemporary
  practitioners, and from current scientific work linking meditation with wellbeing.
• Demonstrate the ability to assume a strong, stable, and relaxed physical posture
  sitting on cushions, benches, or chairs.
• Demonstrate the ability to calm the breath through a focus on deep, diaphragm
  breathing.
• Demonstrate the ability to dwell in steady consciousness of consciousness itself,
  allowing emotions and thoughts to rise and fall in calm awareness.
• Describe and discuss some of the many scientific, philosophical, existential, and
  spiritual questions that arise concerning the nature of human consciousness.