

There was also immediate relief to his angst.

I said, ‘Where has this experience been?’” It was so beautiful, so profoundly beautiful.

So, when his younger sister suggested he learn Transcendental Meditation, Lynch plunged in. “Give them a tool to reduce their stress and wake up their brain, and there’s no limit to what they can create.” “Stress is like a vise grip on the creativity of people,” Lynch says. This experimental self-portrait was shot by Lynch for The New York Times in 2013. One day it hit me that meditation would be the way to go within.”Ī MULTI-TALENTED CREATOR: Besides being an author and celebrated movie director, David Lynch is also a musician and a visual artist.
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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. “I heard a phrase, ‘True happiness is not out there. “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.īefore Lynch started meditating, he was struggling with anger and depression. WATCH VIDEO: David Lynch touts Transcendental Meditation from the atmospheric set of Twin Peaks: The Return Practicing meditation twice a day for the last 45 years has not put a plug on his creativity.Īs one of his latest series Twin Peaks: The Return testifies, it might have had a rather opposite effect. “I wondered if, by meditating, they’d just become a bland person and only want to eat nuts and raisins. 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 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.
