 They give you a secretive and unique Sanskrit word.

Go ahead and pick it from the

list that the TM teachers use.
 repeat this for two hours until you break. The reason for giving you a word that you
don’t understand is because it prevents your mind from wandering and it prevents
you from picturing that word.
 do this for 4 days in a row
 after the 4 days, do this in two sessions a day for 20 minutes
 Choose a mantra like “Om Namah Shivaya” or “Om Mani Padme Hum” or one
Sanskrit or Tibetan word like “Ayma”

Use headspace or Calm app

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2954785.htm
https://sanskritstudies.org/the-vibrational-world-of-sanskrit
When you can completely relax your body and remain conscious, this is the
realm where the unknown and the mystical happens.”

The party doesn’t start until you leave.”

It’s not about clearing your mind it’s about forgiving yourself
when your mind wanders

 You need to build a hole new personality, new thoughts, new choices,
new behaviours, new experiences, new emotions

1. Sit in a comfortable chair with your feet on the ground and

hands in your lap. Leave your legs and arms uncrossed.
2. Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths to relax the body.
3. Open your eyes, and then close them again. Your eyes will
remain closed during the 20-minute practice.
4. Repeat a mantra in your mind. This is typically a Sanskrit
sound learned from a TM teacher.
5. When you recognize that you're having a thought, simply
return to the mantra.
6. After 20 minutes, begin to move your fingers and toes to ease
yourself back to the world.
7. Open your eyes.
8. Sit for a few more minutes until you feel ready to continue with
your day.

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IT’S A TREAT YOU GIVE YOURSELF TWICE A DAY.

Rosenthal found that a habit of meditation affects the daily consciousness, unlocking
this super mind state
I now think that all high performers have in common, knowingly or unknowingly, qualities
and characteristics of the Super Mind. That is, they are calm under pressure and
uncannily resilient to stress. They choose their projects carefully, keep the big picture in
mind and ignore trifling details," Rosenthal writes.
"It is not necessary, however, to be a super performer in order to develop your Super
Mind. What matters is to reach your own potential, not some idealized standard."
One of the challenges for me is that as meditation got better and better, so did these
thoughts. I didn’t want to put them away! I wanted to have a pad and pen next to me to
write them down. [But if I stopped to write them down, I’d stop meditating]. It was
almost like the way it’s hard to hold onto a dream

"I think it will because I think TM helps in general, no matter what you want to do,
whether it’s manage money, teach, be a doctor. If you think clearer in life, you’re going
to make better decisions. When you’re stressed out and emotional, you’re not going to
make the proper decisions," Axelowitz says.
To master investing you need to master your emotions. You cannot get emotional in
making investment decisions. And the same applies in life every day, with regard to all
kinds of decisions: Should I cross the street right now? Should I run across the street
because I’m late for an appointment? If you make an emotional decision because you’re
late and you run across the street when the light is red, you can get killed. So I think TM
helps you think and see clearer, and certainly with investments."

“Trading is a mental game, and anything that gives you even a slight
edge is valuable.”
Friedberg is also drawn to this invigorating sensory deprivation that is
so elusive to Wall Streeters. “I never leave a session where I don’t feel
energised,” he told me. “I’ve almost never had a meditation session
where I didn’t get a good idea.”
BENEFITS

 You go into a transcendental state/consciousness. This is simply a very pleasant state

when you are conscious and alert, but there’s nothing specific that you are thinking about.
This is very unusual to be aware and alert but not have any content to your consciousness.
And at the same time that you’re aware and alert you’re also very calm and it feels very
pleasant, you’re relaxed
 Now this transcendental state that initially only happened when you meditate over time
starts to infuse in your daily living. And in doing so changes you as a person.
 Makes you nicer, happier, more effective, more creative, more productive, reduces stress.
 Can surge protect you from stress spikes.
 Allows you to be willing to start taking risks and making mistakes, even you couldn’t do
this beforehand. Mistakes are just steps in learning to becoming a more fuller person.
 

RICK RUBIN

Talk a little about your daily TM practice.

Typically, I’ll wake up, sit up in bed, and do 20 minutes. When I wake up in the morning,
usually the remnants of dreams are still very present in me, and it takes me a minute to get
to be me again. I’m a little lost when I wake up. TM helps me center and ground myself.
When possible, I do it again before dinner. Then the evening starts as more of its own time,
and not just a continuation of the busy work day. Although sometimes it’s a busy night
Ray Dalio & Gary Vaynerchuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX9vX7YzfSo

https://vimeo.com/50999847

 Twice a day 20min sessions morning & evening

 Process:
o You repeat your mantra (‘a word that doesn’t mean anything’) over and over again,
and what it does is it takes you into your subconscious mind. You’re not conscious,
you’re not unconscious, you’re in your subconscious mind. It makes a connection
between your conscious and sub conscious mind. This is where your creativity
comes from. It’s like you can’t muscle creativity through brute force, instead you
take a shower and then the ideas come to you. Creativity comes from your
subconscious mind. Everything is in equanimity, You’re like a ninja, you can sit back
things come at you & everything seems slower, more in control.
You cannot be in this state constantly.
 Meditation allows you to look at things without the emotional hijacking, the ego.
 Also gives you open-mindness because the experience itself is very open minding. There’s no
thoughts just clarity, just absence.
 As I’m meditating/observing these thoughts/ideas come passing through and the good ones
a grab and keep for later.
 Allows you to rise above things, no matter what happens. Failure is apart of an evolutionary
process. You need to be able to put both failure and success in the right perspective to move
forward. To handle everything in the right way. THIS IS ULTIMATELY THE SUCCESS!

 I don’t have time for meditation/My motivation has waned

o You have to face this challenge
o If anyone has meditated for more than max of 6 months, you never stop.
 Because it feels terrific at the time and they carry it through the day. It’s
such an unbelievable investment.
 To be able to separate yourself from the emotional reaction to having a weakness or making
a mistake and to look at it objectively is a very powerful thing. So this level of effectiveness is
apprarent in people who medititate
 Most important emotions in life: Love, caring about people, communities, meaningful work
and meaningful relationships
 It’s very important not to be hijacked by your emotions
  We all have the ability to calm ourselves down and have thoughtful discusions on difficult
things.

STANDARD 4 MINUTE MEDITATION

https://www.fourminutesaday.org/yin-yoga/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ruthblatt/2014/04/28/how-super-producer-rick-rubin-gets-people-
to-do-their-best-work/#4cdd875312b7

Sitting Meditation

 Focus & follow your breath. Meditation is the act of letting the mind go away from the
breathe, observing this and then coming back to your breath.

Meditation

 You accept that reality brings you things you want and things you don’t want and you can
accept them both.
 Observe the addictive way that you might be defining something. Observe where you have
addictive relationships. These aren’t absolute, you can learn how to transform your
relationship to these.
o You can change your relationship to pain or fear

How to Meditate During the Day

 Take deep breathes. Eg take 6 deep breathes and really feel what is happening
 Allow yourself a 1/2min pause during work

See the beauty in suffering and in pain because there’s incredible room for growth through these
experiences.
To Watch: http://dlf.tv/

https://tmhome.com/experiences/david-lynch-foundation-powered-by-and-for-transcendental-
meditation/

Also, since its very inception in 2005, the David Lynch Foundation has
been working towards a goal of raising $7 billion to establish “Universities
of World Peace” in seven different countries. Those universities – based on
the example of the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa
– would incorporate Transcendental Meditation in their curriculum and
therefore train “professional peacemakers”.

https://tmhome.com/experiences/david-lynch-on-meditation/

David Lynch, the

movie director who
harnesses the
transformative power
of meditation
May 18, 2017

“I always wondered if Transcendental Meditation would make

someone just so calm that they didn’t want to do anything,” says
David Lynch, the iconic film director of Twin
Peaks and Mulholland Drive.

It is understandable why this question has seemed so central for Lynch, a

man who has made his living in the intensely competitive Hollywood movie
industry.

“I wondered if, by meditating, they’d just become a bland person and only
want to eat nuts and raisins. But it’s not that way,” says Lynch. Practicing
meditation twice a day for the last 45 years has not put a plug on his
creativity.

As his newly released Twin Peaks: The Return (18 episodes, starting from
May 22) testifies, it might have had a rather opposite effect.

How it all started: “Diving deep within”

“I guess people start meditation for many different reasons, but each
person who starts will get the benefit they are looking for, and many other
benefits as well,” says David Lynch.

Before Lynch started meditating, he was struggling with anger and

depression.

“I heard a phrase, ‘True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies
within.’ And this phrase had a ring of truth to me, but the phrase doesn’t
tell you where the within is, nor how to get there.

One day it hit me that meditation would be the way to go within.”

A MULTI-TALENTED CREATOR: Besides being an author and

celebrated movie director, David Lynch is also a musician and a visual
artist. This experimental self-portrait was shot by Lynch for The New
York Timesin 2013. “Stress is like a vise grip on the creativity of people,”
Lynch says. “Give them a tool to reduce their stress and wake up their
brain, and there’s no limit to what they can create.”

So, when his younger sister suggested he learn Transcendental Meditation,

Lynch plunged in.

“Down within I went. It was so beautiful, so profoundly beautiful. I said,

‘Where has this experience been?’”

There was also immediate relief to his angst.

“I felt the suffocating rubber clown suit of negativitydissolving, and it was

such a feeling of bright freedom.”

Since that morning in 1973, Lynch has not missed his twice a day 20 minute
meditation sessions once.

“You say goodbye to the garbage and infusing gold. The long and short of it
is that you get happy and feel good being alive.”

And Lynch certainly does not hold back when describing the bliss of
transcending:

“It’s a field that is so beautiful, so powerful, it’s eternal, it’s immortal, it’s
immutable, it’s infinite, it’s unbounded.

“For me, I got more and more happiness in the doing of things, ideas
seemed to flow more freely. I felt more energy for the work and I began to
see other people as people I liked more and more. I felt healthier and more
comfortable in my body. The whole world suddenly looked better.

You start really enjoy life. You look around and everything looks better.
People don’t look like enemies, they look like friends. Things that used to
stress you, don’t stress you so much, sometimes they make you giggle.

You feel good, you wanna buy a bunch of people coffees. You want to put
your arm around people. You wanna enjoy life.”
Breaking from the inner skeptic: “It’s
ignorance that keeps us in that boat of
suffering”
The movie director is aware that meditation might not be an easy pill to
swallow for many reasons. All kinds of fears lurk underneath the
skepticism: Is this too esoteric, overly cranky? And what if one loses the
creative edge, the passion for doing things?

Yet as Lynch says, these fears and anxieties will simply fade away as
unfounded.

“I grew up in the Northwest, and if you couldn’t see it, feel it, touch it or
kick it then it didn’t exist. But as a kid I would dream and I would feel, and I
knew that something more was going on, but I didn’t think about it all the
time.

And when you grow up then you start getting anxieties, you start getting
fears; things happen and you start getting angry, you get confused.

I had darkness and confusion, and it’s tough being a human being – but it
shouldn’t be. It’s ignorance that keeps us in that boat of suffering. That’s
not the way it’s supposed to be.”

For David Lynch, the spiritual has increasingly become to mean truthful. It
is only an honest look into oneself and our daily existence which can bring
about a deeper transformation.

“The torment is inside the people,” he says.

“And you can’t change that unless you get down on a deeper level. So we are
all like detectives trying to find that truth.”

The wellspring of creativity: “There are

billions of ideas!”
We all have it, Lynch suggests. The film maker who has become one of the
symbols of the unexpected and the original refuses to see something
exclusive in his creative capacity.
The really important question, Lynch explains, is not how to find your
missing inspiration. It is always there, naturally ever present. The real issue
is, rather: What are the factors that are blocking it, not letting me soar high
and free?

“Ideas flow through a conduit. Stress squeezes that conduit. Tension,

depression, hate, Anger squeezes it,” Lynch says.

“A lot of artists say: I don’t want to get a technique that makes me like
everybody else and makes me calm and I lose my drive, my edge. I don’t
have any more power of individuality any more.

This is what I thought too.

CATCHING THE BIG FISH: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch
little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch big
fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and
more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” An
excerpt from David Lynch’s book “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation,
Consciousness, and Creativity”

Au contraire, you get more of you! More energy to do the things. There are
billions of ideas and you find the ones you love. We start transcending that
conduit widens out and you start enjoying things and love the doing.”
Lynch has created some of the most haunting and eerie moments in the
history of film making. Yet to do that, Lynch reveals, there is no need for
him to suffer.

In other words, you don’t have to be evil to show evil on screen.

“Stories are always going to be stories, and worlds that we can go into
where there’s suffering, there’s confusion, there’s darkness, there’s tension,
there’s anger, there’s murder, and so on.

But the filmmaker or the author doesn’t have to suffer in order to show
that. In fact, and this is common sense too, the more the artist suffers the
less creative he or she is going to be. And the less likely [the artist is] going
to enjoy [his or her] work or be able to do really do good work.

Fear and anger and tension, anxieties and stress and depression – these
things strangle creativity. And you can’t think your way out of it, you can’t
wish for a glass of water when you’re thirsty – you’ve got to have real water.
You can’t pretend you’re happy if you aren’t.”

So, every morning and every evening, Lynch closes his eyes and dives deep
into himself.

“The more your consciousness, your awareness is expanded, the deeper you
go toward the source and the bigger ideas you can catch,” he muses.

“What I’ve discovered is that the practice of diving within in meditation

makes ideas easier to catch and the enjoyment of the doing increases
exponentially and you appreciate people more – you seem to almost
recognize everyone. It becomes fun to work. It’s not the kind of thing that
you even think about, it just grows naturally. You can still get angry, but
you can’t hold onto that anger. You can still get sad, but you can’t hold onto
it.
David Lynch’s hand-drawn illustration about the functioning of
meditation. Click on image to enlarge

So many people do stuff but don’t enjoy doing it.

I say, that’s your life going by. It’s important to enjoy the doing of
something.”

Film industry: “It can be really close to

hell”
But how to truly enjoy your life as a film director in Hollywood? Glamour,
fame and freedom of self-expression that we tend to associate with the job
are just one side of the coin. The movie industry also means aggressive
competition, envy, greed, and lots of simmering anger.

For Lynch, the answer to the problem begins with an honest look at things.
No covering up, no polishing over.

“I once noticed an article about somebody here in Hollywood who ran his
whole business on fear, like it was a macho, cool thing. Now to me, it’s like
that person is an idiot. Not only that, but he’s probably riddled with fear
himself, broadcasting it and needing to give more of it to others.

So, it’s common sense that if a guy goes to work and he’s always afraid of
losing his position or his whole job, or being humiliated publicly, his fear
will often turn to anger. And a person becomes ultimately angry at his
work. And then he begins to hate.

And this is the kind of life that this person in Hollywood, and probably
many, many others who run the show, give to their employees.
And it’s real close to hell. And you don’t get people to go that extra mile for
you. They can probably hardly wait to get away from you and away from
their work. And the creativity is cramped – negativity cramps creativity.”

When one sees this truth, one is bound to respond to it naturally. It is then
no wonder that, while widely acclaimed and loved by the audience, Lynch
has also earned plenty of affection from the people working with him on the
set.

There seems to be something original not only about his completed oeuvre,
but in his whole work process as such.

Mädchen Amick, cast both in Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The
Return, reflects on David Lynch as one-of-a-kind Hollywood director.
“There’s so much flow of energy around him,” Amick says. “Every single
person on set is valued and every single one of them is invited into the
creative process.”

As Twin Peaks happened to be Amick’s first introduction to Hollywood, she

took this kind and open ambience for an obvious industry norm. After 25
years in town and many contrasting experiences later, she knows better.
“It’s this really beautiful environment that, now that I’ve worked in the
business, I appreciate even more for how unique and special it is.”

The TM technique: “Any human being

who can think can learn this”
The catalogue of Lynch’s feature length movies is not so terribly long. But
nearly every one of these is a masterpiece in its own right. Next to the TV
series Twin Peaks there stand Academy Award winning titles
like Mulholland Drive (2001), The Elephant Man (1980) or Blue
Velvet (1986). There is his first full movie, Eraserhead (1977), which
became a cult film and launched Lynch’s commercial career, and the Inland
Empire (2006), a strange, hauntingly other-wordly journey even by the
director’s own elevated standards of strangeness.

All these works were created after Lynch started meditating.

In one of the opening scenes of his documentary Meditation, Creativity,

Peace (2012), we see Lynch – a self-confessed dessert connoisseur –
holding up a donut.
“You don’t know how sweet and how good it is until you have tasted it,”
Lynch drawls out pensively. “Meditation gives an experience much sweeter
than this donut. It gives the experience of the sweetest nectar of life: pure
bliss consciousness.”

He is talking here about the specific meditation practice called

Transcendental Meditation, or TM for short.

“The beauty of Transcendental Meditation is that it gives effortless

transcending. It is not a trying form of meditation, not concentration, nor
contemplation,” Lynch describes the beauty of the technique.

“This act of diving within in TM is so easy because it’s just natural – the
mind wants to go into fields of greater happiness. The deeper you go, the
more there is, until you hit pure bliss. Transcendental Meditation is the
vehicle that takes you there, but it’s the experience that does everything.

Any human being who can think can learn this technique.

You don’t have to believe it and it will still work. It’s like the X-ray machine.
You can say till the cows come home: it can’t see my bones. You step in
front of the X-ray machine, there your bones are. You do this technique,
you are going to transcend,” Lynch confirms.

The David Lynch Foundation: “I’m

really getting sick of all the suffering and
negativity in this world, it’s time to get
the word out”
Over the last decade, Lynch has spent much of his time and money helping
low-income families, veterans, homeless people and other high-stress
groups learn Transcendental Meditation.

Back in 2005, he created The David Lynch Foundation, which has

sponsored meditation programs for half a million children in places as far-
flung as Congo, South America and the West Bank.

Much of the money has come from fund-raising events headlined by stars
like Katy Perry, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Sting.
“I hate speaking in public,” Lynch says.

“But I look at the world and I say if people only knew that it’s true that
happiness comes from inside, or to use another expression: “The world is as
you are.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, uses

the analogy that if you have dark green, dirty glasses on, that’s the world
you see, that’s your experience. But if you start meditating, you take the
natural dive into pure consciousness.”

Schools, especially those located in the inner city areas of big cities, have
become one focal point for the David Lynch Foundation. Lynch, the 2016
winner of the American Ingenuity Award in Education, explains the
reasoning.

“Students now have so much stress, so much torment inside and they are
asked to learn all these things.

People are trying to help them—more one-on-one with teacher, prettier

rooms, better books, computers, but it’s not addressing the torment inside.”

The DLF was set up to do exactly that: address the stress and anxiety which
block all meaningful progress. In many schools like Visitacion Valley in San
Francisco where the DLF brought TM into the curriculum, the
breakthrough has been quick and astounding.

“It used to be one of the worsts schools in the area, with fights breaking out
daily and so on,” Lynch recalls.

“But within one year of introducing the Transcendental Meditation

program to students and the staff, the fighting stopped. So, let’s say it was
way more positive [than] I thought it would be.”

“For students things are tough, there’s so much pressure. They’re sitting
right on the brink wondering, “What am I gonna do in life? How is it gonna
go? And I gotta get this, I gotta get that, I gotta get this.”

It’s just like a steamroller. And then there’s also a lot of partying. So, it’s
confusing to have all this stuff rolling along. But with meditation, it’s like
you’re partying, and you’ll enjoy things more, and have the clarity, the
ability to focus, and the ease in gaining knowledge. And you may not even
realize it, but the people around you who obviously know you, your family
and friends, they see it. It’s the weirdest thing.”
However, it’s not that Lynch expects everyone to jump on board. In spite of
all his surreal images and twisted plot sequences, the director is ultimately
someone based in sane realism. He knows that the world is not going to
change overnight.

“At the schools where Transcendental Meditation has been introduced, the
feeling in the class rooms each night is very good. Realistically speaking, at
least half might have said, “Well, Lynch is a cool guy and all, but meditation
is not for me.” Or maybe, “He’s not a cool guy and meditation is not for
me.”

But one girl said, “I’ve been waiting my whole life to hear this.” So it’s a
range.

And even if one person got something and started really blossoming
because of it, it’s a good thing.”

“To say it’s easy is not even correct. It’s an effortless technique that brings
your tension level down, so obviously it would be great for veterans.”

“If you are agitated, you cannot hear anyone but yourself. TM brings it
down from a boil to a simmer, so that might help.”

“Starting seven or eight years ago, there are very few top athletes or
top business people who don’t have any meditation technique,” said Jerry
Seinfield who has been practicing Transcendental Meditation every day
since 1972. “Everybody has something now.”

The problem is there’s no drug or medicine that any of us can take to

prevent stress or cure it. We certainly mask it with alcohol and coffee or
other drugs, but nothing that gets to the core of it. … The solution is not just
to take more Ambien, Xanax, Klonopin. 80 percent of all illnesses are said
to be caused by stress,” Roth emphasized the severity of the issue.

Hence the reason DLF works tirelessly to restore the peace of mind of the
populations most vulnerable to the perils of stress.

“Transcendental Meditation is a very simple, easily-learned meditation

technique that’s considered the gold standard of meditations right now,”
Roth explained.
TM is the most medically-sound, evidence-based. … There are hundreds of
research studies published in top journals by the American Medical
Association and funded by the National Institutes of Health that show that
this particular meditation is as effective, if not more effective, than any
medicine you could ever take to address this problem.”