- I signed up to do two months of meditation.

- I don't really know much about meditation in general.

- So we're going to meditate for about two months every day

and see how it goes.

- Transcendental meditation is one thing.

It's a mental technique.

We always describe it as simple, natural, and effortless.

Easy to do.

And what you're doing is,

a mental technique which allows your mind and your body

to slow down.

- I'm not a real focused person.

When I was younger, it was even worse.

I couldn't even get through a magazine article

without losing my concentration.

- I think I've gotten recently

way more attached to my phone.

The time that I used to spend

just with myself and my thoughts

I now am like, oh I have some phone time now.

And so I think it'll just cut out from my phone time,

which is great.

- I have big anxiety issue.

I'm basically hoping that meditation

would help me boost my self-confidence.

- I have a resting nice face but a lot of times behind it,

it's just like panic.

So my expectation is to be calmer

and for my mind to race less, if I could do this.

- I'm very excited.

- I really want it to work.

- I have to do it.

- We're here at the David Lynch Foundation,

about to start our first day of training.

- I'm nervous, anxious.

- Last moment says just base,

terrible human beings.

- I just got my mantra and, yeah, I feel really calm.

- I definitely feel tingly.

- It felt like such a release,

I actually started to cry a little bit.

- It felt like I was on the bottom of a pool at a party,

watching the party go on above

and being super calm and chilled out underneath the party.

- That was really interesting,

I didn't expect to go as deep as I did right away.

- I was thinking very visual,

and there's one point where

I was, I felt like I was flying in the wind.

- I think I'm going to try drinking less caffeine,

because I feel like when I have caffeine in my system

it makes me harder to slow down my breathing.

- Then I saw a guy with a huge mouth.

- I'm hopeful, I have to say I'm hopeful,

and that feels really good.

- I just went into his mouth and went inside.

And it was just pitch black.

- It's only been two days,

so very curious to see the changes

that could take place over two months.

- I've been pretty good. I've been really good.

- Probably some of the best weeks of my life.

- I'm a little bit more chipper.

- My mid-afternoon stress headaches went away.

- I feel much less anxious and I feel much more like myself,

like I'm not faking being relaxed, I actually am relaxed.

- And I especially love meditating with my cat.

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- So last week I went camping by myself in Joshua Tree.

I went off trails and I started climbing boulders.

I got to the top of really high boulders,

but one time I could not go back down.

Just pretty fucking scary.

And I started to panic.

This drop...

I just couldn't find a place to put my hands or my feet

and I couldn't go down.

And if I just jumped down, I'm gonna die.

My heart's beating really fast, I could feel it,

and I was really scared.

And I told myself, relax, go meditate.

So literally I'm meditating on top of the boulder.

Couple minutes later I open my eyes and I felt so calm.

And easily, I got back down.

It really relieved my stress and my worry.

It definitely helped save my life.

- I feel really good about transcendental meditation.

- Meditation had a very positive impact on my life

- I'm sad when I don't meditate.

- It makes me aware of my own company,

that I can be alone and have a fulfilling time with myself.

- When I meditate, I'm much more in the now.

- It kinda puts more distance between

me finding something out and me freaking out.

There's another option besides freak out and be stressed.

- You know, I was shy, not very confident.

- My anxiety is diminished,

and my ability to focus on the task at hand is increased.

- I think I used to fill time with trash content,

like Instagram, or Twitter,

or just constantly stimulating myself with filler.

- I think that I will continue doing this indefinitely,

at least I hope I do.

- I wanna keep doing it.

- It's just become so normal to me, so part of my routine.

- I'm spreading the gospel of meditation to everybody.

- It's just there and I love it.