Transcendental Meditation For Men in Their 20s

 

 

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They give you a secretive and unique Sanskrit word. Go ahead and pick it from  from  the list  that the TM teachers use. list 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 “ Om Namah Shivaya” Shivaya” or “Om Mani Padme Hum” or one  Sanskrit or Tibetan word like “Ayma”  

Use headspace or Calm app

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

  You n need eed to build a hole n new ew persona personality, lity, new thoughts, new choices, new behaviours, new experiences, new emotions

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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 this super mind state 

habit of meditation affects

the daily consciousness, unlocking

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, howeve however, r, toyour be aown super performer order to develop your Super Mind. What matters is to reach potential, not in some idealized standard." One of the challenges for me is that as meditation m editation 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, em otional, 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 t he 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.”  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 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.

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  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.

 

 

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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. dinner. Then the evening 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 night   Ray Dalio & Gary Vaynerchuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX9vX7YzfSo   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX9vX7YzfSo https://vimeo.com/50999847 https://vimeo.com/50999847  

  Twice a day 20min sessions morning & evening   Process: o  You repeat your mantra (‘a word wor d 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 creat creativity ivity 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 fr from om 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. 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

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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 If anyone has meditated for more than max of 6 months, you never stop. o    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

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  It’s very important not to be hijacked by your emotions  emotions 

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  We all have the ability to calm ourselves down and have thoughtful discusions on difficult things.

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STANDARD 4 MINUTE MEDITATION https://www.fourminutesaday.org/yin-yoga/   https://www.fourminutesaday.org/yin-yoga/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ruthblatt/2014/04/28/how-super-producer-rick-rubin-gets-peopleto-do-their-best-work/#4cdd875312b7   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.

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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. relationships. These aren’t absolute, you can learn how to transform your relationship to these. You can change your relationship to pain or fear o 

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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

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See the beauty in suffering and in pain because there’s incredible room for growth through these experiences.

 

To Watch: http://dlf.tv/ Watch: http://dlf.tv/

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

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David Lynch, the movie director who harnesses the transformative power of meditation  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 and Mulholland  Mulholland Drive. 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. 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 Return (18 episodes, starting from May 22) testifies, it might have had a rather opposite effect.

How it all started: “Diving deep within”  within”  “I guess people start meditation for f or 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. 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.’  wit hin.’ And this phrase had a ring of truth to me, but the t he 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.”  within.” 

 A MULTI-TALENTED CREATOR: CREATOR: Besides  Besides being an author and celebrated movie director, David Lynch is  is also a musician  musician and a visual

 

artist. This experimental self-portrait was shot by Lynch for  for  The New York Timesi  Timesi n 2013. “Stress is like a vise grip on the creativity of people,”  Lynch says. “Give them a tool to to reduce their 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?’”  been?’”  There was also immediate relief to his angst. “I felt the  the suffocating rubber clown suit of negativitydissolving, negativitydissolving, and it was such a feeling of bright freedom.”  freedom.”  Since that morning in 1973, Lynch has not missed m issed 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.”  alive.”   And Lynch certainly does does not hold back when describing 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.  unbounded.  “For me, I got more m ore 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 mo re 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 and everything looks better. People don’t look like enemies, they look  like  like friends. Things that used to stress you, don’t stress you so much, sometimes they make you giggle.  giggle.    You feel good, you wanna buy a bunch of people coffees. coffees. You want to put  your arm around people. You wanna wanna enjoy life.”  life.” 

 

Breaking from the inner skeptic: “It’s ignorance that keeps us in that boat of suffering”   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 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 then you start getting anxieties, you start getting fears; things happen and you start getting get ting angry, you get confused. I had darkness and confusion, and it’s tough being a human being – but – 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.”  be.”  For David Lynch, the spiritual has increasingly become to mean mea n 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.  says.   “And you can’t change that unless you get down on a deeper level. So we are all like detectives detectives trying to find that truth.”  truth.” 

The wellspring of creativity: “There are  billions of ideas!”  ideas!”   We all have it, Lynch suggests. suggests. The film maker who has become 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 al ways 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.  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 edg edge. e. I don’t have any more power of individuality any more. This is what I thought too.

CATCHING THE BIG FISH:  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  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 ones you love. We start transcending transcending that conduit widens out and you start st art enjoying things and love the doing.” 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.  screen.  “Stories are always going to be stories, and worlds that we can go into  where there’s suffering, there’s there’s confusion, there’s darkness, darkness, there’s tension, there’s anger, there’s murder, and so on.  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  you’ve got to have real water.  You can’t pretend you’re happy happy if you aren’t.”  aren’t.”  So, every morning and every evening, Lynch closes his eyes and dives deep into himself. “The more your consciousness, your awareness is expa expanded, nded, the deeper you go toward the source and the bigger ideas you can catch,” he muses.  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 about, it just grows You canbut still get angry, but but  you even can’t think hold onto that anger. Younaturally. can still get can sad, you you   can’t hold onto it.

 

   David Lynch’s hand -drawn -drawn illustration about the functioning of meditation. Click on image to enlarge  enlarge  So many people do stuff but don’t enjoy doing it.  it.  I say, that’s your life going by. It’s important to enjoy the doing of something.”   something.”

Film industry: “It can be really close to hell”   hell” But how to truly enjoy your life as a film director in Hollywood? Glamour, fame and freedom of self-expression 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  wholee business on fear, like it was a macho, cool thing. Now to me, it’s like  whol 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 at his  work. And then he begins to hate.  And this is the kind who of life that person person and probably probably many, many others run thethis s how, show, givein toHollywood, 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 probably hardly wait to get away from you and away away from their work. And the creativity is cramped – negativity cramps creativity.”  creativity.”   When one sees this truth, one one is bound to respond to it naturally. naturally. It is then no wonder that, while widely acclaimed and loved by the audience, Lynch has also earned plenty of affection from f rom the people working with him on the set. There seems to be something original o riginal not only about his completed oeuvre,  but in his whole work process process as such. Mädchen Amick, cast both in Twin Peaks and 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.”  process.”   As Twin happened to be Amick’s introduction Holly   wood, took this Peaks kind and open ambience for anfirst obvious industryto norm. After 25she  years in town and many contrasting contrasting experiences experiences later, she knows better. “It’s this really beautiful environment that, now that I’ve worked in the  business, I appreciate appreciate even more for how unique and special it is.” is.”  

The TM technique: “Any human being  who can think can can learn this”  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 like  Mulholland Drive (2001), The Elephant Man (1980) or Blue or Blue Velvet (1986). There is his first full movie, Eraserhead movie,  Eraserhead (1977), which  became a cult film and launched launched Lynch’s commercial commercial career, and the the Inland  Inland  Empire (2006), a strange, hauntingly other-wordly journey even by the director’s own elevated standards of strangeness.  strangeness.   All these works were created created after Lynch started meditating. meditating. In one of the opening scenes s cenes of his documentary  Meditation,  Meditation, Creativity,  Peace  (2012), we see Lynch – a self-confessed dessert connoisseur –   Peace 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.”  consciousness.”  He is talking here about the specific meditation practice called Transcendental Meditation, or TM for short. “The beauty of  Transcendental Meditation  Meditation is that it gives effortless transcending. It is not a trying try ing form of meditation, not concentration, nor contemplation,” contemplation ,” Lynch describes the beauty of the technique.  technique.  “This act of diving within in TM is so easy because it’s just natural – the –  the mind wants to go into fields of greater happiness. The deeper you go, the t he more there is, until you hit pure bliss. Transcendental Meditation is the  vehicle that takes you there, but it’s the experience experience that does everything.  everything.   Any human being who who can think can learn learn this technique.  You don’t have to believe it and and it will still work. It’s like the X-ray 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, t echnique,  you are going to transcend,” Lynch Lynch confirms.  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”  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  created  The David Lynch Foundation, Foundation, which has sponsored meditation programs for half a million children in places as farflung as Congo, South America and the t he 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.  says.   “But I look at the world and I say if people only knew that it’s true that  that   happiness comes from inside, or to use another expression: “The world is as  you are.”  are.”  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, uses the analogy that if you ha ve dark green, dirty glasses on, that’s the world  you see, that’s your experience. experience. But if you start meditating, you take the natural dive into pure consciousness.”  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, 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 t hem— —more one-on-one with teacher, prettier rooms, better books, computers, but it’s not addressing the torment inside.”  inside.”  The DLF  DLF was  was set up to do exactly that: address address the stress and anxiety anxiety which  block all meaningful progress. In many schools like Visitacion Valley in San San Francisco where the DLF brought TM into the curriculum, the  breakthrough has been been quick and astounding. astounding. “It used used to be one of the t he worsts schools in the area, with fights breaking out daily and so on,” Lynch recalls.  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.”  be.”  “For students things are tough, there’s there’s so much pressure. pressure. They’re sitting right on the brink wondering, “What am I gonna g onna do in life? How is it gonna go? And I gotta get this, I gotta get that, I gotta get this.”  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 things more, and have the clarity, the ability to focus, and the th e 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.”  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 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.”   me.” But one girl said, “I’ve been waiting my  whole  whole life to hear this.” So So it’s a range.  And even if one person person got something and started really blossoming blossoming  because of it, it’s a good thing.”  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.”  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.”  help.”  “Starting seven or eight years ago, there are very few  top  top athletes  athletes or top  business  business people  people who  who don’t have any meditation technique,” said Jerry top Seinfield who has been practicing Transcendental T ranscendental Meditation every day since 1972. “Everybody has something now.”  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 …  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.  issue.  Hence the reason DLF works tirelessly to restore restor e the peace of mind of the populations most vulnerable to the perils of stress. “Transcendental Meditation is a very simple, easily -learned -learned meditation technique that’s considered the gold standard of meditations medit ations right now,” Roth explained.

 

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