These are two dear friends of  the David
Lynch foundation
dear friends of mine and great
human beings and they practice
Transcendental Meditation.
Ray for over 45 years, 40 years
and Marty for, since 2008? - Yes every day
every day twice a day as much as I can
twice a day.
The thing about it is that there's a kind of a
peacefulness that
I don't think I've ever achieved before really
I and I must say it you know it has made
a major difference because particularly
in the morning
particularly in the morning because the amount
things have to be done and things you have
to worry about and this
suddenly it just comes together and you stop.
I find I can't do without it
that way literally. -  I started in 1968 or 69
and it changed my life because...
like I was a very
ordinary or sub ordinary student. Uhm
and it just, it brought me a
clarity and
made me independent, made me
free-flowing
made me it just gave me lots of gifts. -
I remember doing
uhm the film called Hugo
which is a film shot in three dimensions
and it took about an hour to get there
to the studio in the morning I I would
get up maybe forty five minutes earlier
to do meditation before I was able to
face that set
(laughs) with children actors I
can only work for like a minute
grant a dog that was listening Sasha
Baron Cohen was improvising everything
 
and everything in 3d (laughs) and over
schedule and over budget
so you know, God there is only one
thing you can do is
calm it down and get into it and deal
with the realities
if there is something on my mind if
there is something I'm really worried
about
in terms of character development or
particularly
a thematic issue
 or just trying to get a shot done.
Literally we just can't do that, we don't
have a hallway
it's gonna be tracked down a hallway we
have no hall, now what?
Well, what is it about it's about his face alright, and so you just forget it
and you go into meditation that's it and
somehow something came out
I said damnit (Laughs) 
that's exactly, that's exactly what it's like right
- Yeah. - Cuz you go into that place and and
actually the physiology of the brain
is because that comes from the sub
conscious that's where your
inventiveness creativity inspiration
come from
so just go in there and somehow you
come out with the answer. - That's it that really is.
Through brain imaging they show that
 there are too big effects the first is
that
your amygdala the part that is
causing you the stress
are calms down and their prefrontal
cortex lights up
and so that brings you an equinimity
- If I don't do it, I tend to waste
the time the energy the
franticness
and things can be very very frantic and
that
20-25 minutes whatever that is, is a
God send. - The thing to convey is also
how it compounds
so that it keeps getting better whatever
amount that you're meditating
on next year will be better in your
after that'll be better
so on and meditate 20 minutes a day
except for got a busy day
then I meditate 40 minutes (audience laughs)
So, experience it yourself just I mean
how much convincing do you need?
