The Lynchian Effect
“Things like traumatic stress and anxiety and tension and sorrow and depression and hate and bitter, selfish anger and fear start to lift away. And that’s a huge sense of freedom when that heavy weight of negativity begins to lift. So it’s like gold flowing in from within and garbage going out. The things in life that used to almost kill you, stress you, depress you, make you sad, make you afraid — they have less and less power. It’s like you’re building up a flak jacket of protection. You’re starting to glow with this from within.”
For the stressed-out and ever-busy city man like yourself, we know how hard leading the high-octane urban life can get. It can all be very simple actually. Take a leaf from the books of cinematic great, David Lynch. For just 20 minutes twice a day, try his trademarked practice of Transcendental Meditation, a form of relaxation that involves sitting quietly and saying a mantra to yourself. A contrast from his dark, disturbing films, he reveals that meditation actually helps him be more creative and to come up with better, more visceral stories…
Read about it here.
Tags: David Lynch, Inspiration, Life, Meditation, Personality
April 11th, 2013