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How David Lynch Helped Me Embrace Meditation

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The famed director, a longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, convinced a skeptical writer of its life-changing powers.

By Claire Hoffman Claire Hoffman View all posts by Claire Hoffman January 18, 2025 Lynch, speaking about meditation at a press conference in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2003. Alex Wong/Getty Images On a summer morning in 2012, I was very pregnant in the back seat of a limo with David Lynch , being chauffered along Mulholland Drive. Lynch was 66 years old at the time. He was handsome and sharply dressed in his uniform: blazer, white shirt, American Spirits in his breast pocket, white hair, swooped in a faux-hawk. It was 100 degrees outside, the radio murmured from the speakers, and the air condition

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