I was happily surprised when my professor quoted David Lynch in our class last week. Yes, the man who brought us Twin Peaks was quoted in my graduate studies course. I was delighted. The David Lynch Foundation: for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace focuses on transcendental meditation.
www.davidlynchfoundation.org
David Lynch on Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain (Transcendental Meditation)
According to the foundation's website, they provide funds for students to learn to meditate through Transcendental Meditation centers, hospital-sponsored wellness programs, boys and girls clubs, before- and after-school programs and in schools when invited by the administration. Instruction is voluntary and is provided to a child with the permission of a parent and at no cost to the family, organization or school. In the past year, the Foundation has provided millions of dollars for thousands of students, teachers, and parents to learn to meditate. The Foundation also provides funds for independent research institutions to assess the effects of the program on creativity, intelligence, brain functioning, academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
ADHD: Medication or Transcendental Meditation?
There have been several high level fundraiser events for the this cause. The events have included Donovan, members of the Beatles, Eddie Vedder, etc., etc.. Here is a lovely clip of Donovan performing a slightly different version of "The Hurdy Gurdy Man".
At the end of September, the foundation is the sponsor for the International Conference, Building a Healthy, Sustainable American Indian Community: Innovative approach includes meditation, preventive medicine, wind and solar technologies, and organic greenhouses. The website has an interesting video about the effects of transcendental meditation on diabetes and high blood pressure in indigenous communities. www.americanindiansustainableconference.org
My professor focuses on neuroplasticity. Here is Norman Doidge discussing the brain and neuroplasticity:
Perhaps, now I'll spend the rest of my Labor Day, drinking PBR and watch the lime green box set I still haven't finished watching.
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Wow! Thanks for posting the piece on ADHD and Transcendental Meditation in addition to all the other cool stuff that's up via your posting Winona! It was cool to see and has a special place in my heart as I also sit after having many challenges in my world. (It does do wonders mos'def! (;o)
ReplyDeleteDavid Lynch's piece was also quite great. He is, as "they" say, the man in my book as well.