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Paul McCartney In Concert For Meditation Fund
January 27, 2009 by Ray Baskerville
To fund meditation classes for school children, David Lynch has organized a "Global Benefit" concert in New York on April 14. Paul McCartney is headlining, Donovan, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Sheryl Crow, Paul Horn,and Moby are among the other stars to perform at the Radio City music hall.
The money raised will be for the David Lynch Foundation, with the goal of teaching Transcendental Meditation to 1 million children world wide. Lynch believes that achieving this goal will lead to a dramatic change in the world. In the past year, the Foundation has provided millions of dollars for thousands of students, teachers, and parents to learn to meditate.
Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted on the benefits of the Transcendental Meditation program at more than 200 independent universities and research institutions worldwide in the past 35 years, and the National Institutes of Health has awarded over $20 million to research the prevention-oriented health benefits of the TM program. Findings have been published in leading, peer-reviewed scientific journals, including The American Journal of Cardiology and the American Heart Association’s Hypertension and Stroke.
Published research on the Transcendental Meditation program in educational settings has shown a wide range of practical benefits for both students and teachers. Benefits for students include decreased stress and stress-related disorders, reduced substance abuse, increased intelligence, increased learning ability, improved memory, improved academic performance, and improved standardized test scores. Benefits for teachers include decreased stress and stress-related disorders, decreased anxiety, reduced substance abuse, increased creativity, improved job satisfaction, improved interpersonal relationships, and reduced health care utilization and costs.
Lynch himself has been practising TM fo rover 30 years. He says Someday, hopefully very soon, “diving within” as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum. The stresses of today’s world are taking an enormous toll on our children right now. There are hundreds of schools, with thousands of students, who are eager to relieve this stress and bring out the full potential of every student by providing this Consciousness-Based education today.
Find out more about the concert and the Foundations work at http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
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It’s great that big name artists are supporting the David Lynch Foundation’s efforts to teach 1 million children TM. I’ve been practicing TM for a while now, and it has transformed my life. I feel happy and capable of fulfilling my desires; whereas previously I didn’t. And I’m not alone in these results. The DLF was created because so many people worldwide have benefitted from TM. See Transcendental Meditation & Classroom Stress This concert will help a million young people to receive these advantages in their own lives.
Hats off to Sir Paul, Donovan, and David Lynch, for bringing such a great thing to our schools! For 8 years, my children attended a school where Transcendental Meditation is part of the curriculum, and they absolutely blossomed there. My husband and I are very thankful for the greater health, clarity of mind and inner stability that they gained. It was the best investment we could make for their future. I recommend http://www.tmeducation.org/ as a great resource for anyone wanting to know more.
Thank you Damru and Kay for adding further resources to this story, and thank you Kay for the affirmation from your personal experience.