“Sporten helpt ook om je hoofd leeg te maken en stress te verminderen, maar soms is dat niet genoeg. Daarom doe ik sinds kort ook aan transcendente meditatie. Twee keer per dag, twintig minuten om mijn geest tot rust te brengen. Daardoor slaap ik ook beter.”

“You won’t catch me getting angry in traffic anymore.”

“I’ve been doing it for years, though sadly not nearly often enough. I really ought to do it every day; after all, a session only takes 20 minutes of your time. The benefits are that it calms you down – the technique offers greater depth than sleep and, at the same time, gives you energy. It refreshes you.”

“TM helps you sink into a deep state of relaxation. You could compare it to sleep, but you remain fully alert. I’ve been doing it for 20 minutes every day for the past 8 months now and couldn’t do without it. I’m now much better at coping with stress and putting things into perspective.”

“I took a private course in Transcendental Meditation and have started meditating. I make a point of doing twenty minutes of Transcendental Meditation every morning, before I start my day.”

“I’ve been practising transcendental meditation for a few years now. Ideally, I’d do it twice a day for twenty minutes, but I don’t always manage that.”

“George Lucas learned the Transcendent Meditation technique more than 40 years ago. The internet is full of rumors that the concept of “The Force”, in his Star Wars films, was inspired by Maharishi’s “Science of Creative Intelligence”, the more theoretical background behind the Transcendental Meditation technique. George Lucas has recently given his full support to the initiatives of the David Lynch Foundation. A video was recently published on the website of his Edutopia project (the George Lucas Educational Foundation) about the exceptional success of Transcendental Meditation (Quiet Time) in a school in San Francisco see TM Edutopia Video.

The main editor of Edutopia, after his visit to a school in San Francisco where TM was practiced, said: “Every once in a while, when visiting a successful school, you see something that makes your jaw drop, something so extraordinary, you have to stop and make sure what you saw is actually what it appears to be.””

“I started doing that towards the end of *In De Wulf*, because I felt I was struggling to be creative, even though I’m actually a very creative cook. That meditation feels like you’re sleeping very deeply for a while: you come out of it feeling much clearer-headed. It means I often suddenly see situations or problems much more clearly and can come up with solutions.”

“Over the past few years David Lynch has done more to bring the Transcendental Meditation technique to people’s attention than anyone else. He has practiced the technique for over 37 years and says he has never missed a meditation. He ascribes his legendary creativity to his TM practice. A few years ago he attended a theater play in the Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa, and was so impressed by the students that he decided to devote his life to offering more children the opportunity to deploy their full creative potential. In 2005 He founded the David Lynch Foundation (DLF) which offers financial support to learn the TM technique to those that need it most. Since then the foundation has brought TM to over 250.000 students, war veterans, prisoners and people suffering from PTSD around the world.”

“It has made me feel calmer, and I find it easier to let things go now. The aim is to do it for twenty minutes twice a day, but I rarely manage that. I try not to put too much pressure on myself about that either.”