WELLNESS THE DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION
I star ted to teach the technique to kids in the inner city, to death row inmates as well as to
people in the business world at companies l ike Apple and General Motors
Did you always want to be a teacher? Actually no. I was heading for a career in politics – I had worked for senator Robert Kennedy during his 1968 presidential primary campaign. But after he was assassinated and the more I learnt about it, the more I saw corruption and greed. So I switched my focus to education.
Along the way, I learned to meditate and in 1972 I attended a teacher training course by TM founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Europe with 2,000 others. I returned to San Francisco where I
started to teach the technique to kids in the inner city, to death row inmates as well as to people in the business world at companies like Apple and General Motors.
How do you teach TM? Well, it’s not mass meditation – it can’t be taught to a crowd of 50 people. It works best when it’s taught individually over four consecutive days, for an hour at a time. The first session must be one-to-one with a teacher, while subsequent sessions can be in smaller groups. If we’re going into a school with 3,000 kids we might initially send in 25 teachers so that each and every child gets an individual first hour.
How has your work helped people? There are so many transformational stories. There’s one about a young girl who arrived at school with red paint splattered all over her dress. The teacher told her
she had to go home and change – until it transpired that the little girl had just witnessed the shooting of her uncle and those red stains were his blood. She’d run to school for a safe haven and because she didn’t want to miss her TM class. Then there’s the [war] veteran mother
who returned to her family from active service and was unable to sleep for three months. All she was offered was a handful of pills that didn’t work. She learned TM and within a few days she was able to sleep through the night – and she still continues to sleep through the night now, four months after learning to meditate. And the best thing, she says, is that her children got a loving mother back!
A service-disabled combat veteran lets go of anger
and stress after learning TM and can fi nally sleep again
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