[Tom Hanks] I'm at a thing, like a backstage thing, a show business thing. I meet Jerry Seinfeld.
He said to me: "So, what are you up to now?"
And I said: "actually, uh, I just finished a job and I'm gonna take a year off".
I'd been working a lot for about six years.
So I'm going to purposely, you know, stay off the clock here for a while.
and he says: "really, a year off?"
I said: "well, you know, I'm just, I have to tell you, I'm fatigued. I'm spent. I'm tired.
I need to be quiet for a while. I need to rest."
"so you're tired?" I said: "yeah, I'm beat".
"Well, don't you do TM?" And so I did it.
[Amy Shumer] I meditate. I do TM.
[Oprah] Isn't meditation...?
It's a life changer. I know. Especially for an introvert.
How long have you been doing it?
Six years. I started doing it,... And especially if you're on a set or something.
It's just, it's like getting a great night of sleep in the middle of the day.
And then because yeah, you go back to work and it's not just doing your work
It's also saying hi to everyone on set asking the cameraman how his daughter's soccer tournament went
and, you know, really showing up for people because if it's your set, if it's your place of work,
you obviously set the tone for how everyone's going to treat each other. So you can't be in a bad mood.
And then that takes away the right from anyone else to come and be crabby.
Right. So what has it done for you, do you think, meditation?
Given me great ideas. I've had amazing realisations. And just given me energy. Made me healthier.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's one of the most life enhancing things I ever did, was to learn how to meditate.
[Jerry Seinfeld] I love having too much work, too many kids,
too many social things my wife wants to do.
But I like that. Now here's the problem. Here's the problem:
if you don't have a technique to recover yourself
You're you're going to fall apart,
either physically, emotionally, health-wise or just your work is going to suck.
Because, I don't care who you are, if you're tired when you do your work, your work sucks.
Okay, so that's why TM is the greatest tool for work.
And that's why, when I meet New Yorkers, or you know people that are very, very into achieving,
That's the way I talk to them about it.
I go: "forget whatever you think this is. Do you like to work hard? Do you want to kill it?
Do you want to do great? You have to have this gun in your holster? You have to have it."
[Katy Perry] Can I tell you some of the benefits for me? 20 minutes feels like two hours of real deep rest.
Sometimes I teach like, ... Single moms will learn to meditate,
working moms, and they'll say: "well I don't know how I'm gonna find the time to meditate."
So this one woman said she used to come back from work and she said:
"my kids are never gonna let me meditate when I get home".
And I called her two weeks later. I said: "how's it going?"
She said: "now when I come in, my kids say: "mommy have you meditated yet?"
Oh, I love that.
Because they get their mom back and they'll give her 20 minutes because then they get the loving mum.
I tell you, any time I'm crabby, and I can be crabby, ...
No
Yeah, because sometimes when you get pulled in 7000 directions, you just need your own time.
Yeah
And sometimes you have to stomp your feet to get it.
But I have been crabby many times and I'll just say: "look, I'm in a really bad mood. I need 20 minutes to reset."
I come back. My mood has changed 100%. Good for you.
It's just this amazing tool that I wish the whole world could access and I know that they can.
[Ken Gunsberger] I'm a financial adviser for wealthy families. It's a very stressful job.
There's a lot of competition. The markets are always moving.
I had a lot of things going on over the summer. I was in the middle of a custody battle with my daughter.
The markets were going up and down. I was having a very difficult time.
So I called a friend of mine and he's a financial advisor as well, very successful.
And I noticed in the last few years, a lot of things had been going very well for him,
not only at work, but at home.
I called him up and he said: "a few years ago, I started TM meditation and it has literally changed my life."
Because of the TM, it has enabled me to do a much better job, all across the board.
Not only did I have my best month in the business 2.5 months after I started TM, the best month in 25 years,
but I believe that my relationship with my daughter is the best that it's ever been.
[Lesley Seymour] I meditate on the train. You're going to think I'm crazy.
I meditate in MRI machines. I meditate in bad flight and I'm a "2-a-day-er".
If I don't get the 2 [meditations per day], I say to people:
"I'm like a really cranky, mean person.
You gotta let me go over here and do it and I'm a really nice person when I come out of it."
You know, I'm a really nervous, jumpy person and that has really like completely changed it.
Once that went away, I'm clearer. I'm faster. I can do...
I'm also getting my graduate degree of Colombia in the evenings, right?
What are you getting your degree in?
In sustainability management. And so people say: "are you out of your mind?
How do you do that, having a full-time job, the family and you commute?"
Meditation. Yes. It gives you the time to do it.
But again, I was the last person on earth as well because I couldn't even sit still during anything.
So we now know that if we have something we want to come to you with,
we have to get you right after you've meditated because you're really nice then. Yes.