[Katy Perry] To me it's the most rest, it's like the most power nap you could ever get.
My life is so crazy, it really is. It's extreme, you know. I'm zig zagging all over the world.
I'm on a plane more than I am on ground
and this tool helps me find moments of peace because I don't have a whole lot of time,
that extend my day so I can live my fullest capacity - like it gives me two days in one day.
It just gives me this power you know, and I do it before I write a song sometimes,
definitely before I get on stage and it's just such an incredible, useful, simple tool
that has made such an impact on me.
[Jerry Seinfeld] Do you know how three days a year you get a good night's sleep
and you wake up and feel like, oh, this is how I should feel all the time.
With TM you can have that every day.
That every day you're just, the bar on the cell phone is all the way up.
TM is like you have a cell phone and someone gives you the charger and you go oh!
This is now, I can keep using this thing.
When you're sleeping, look at your bed when you get out of it. What does it look like?
It looks like a war went on in there and that's not restful!
All you did was stop and you took the fight from your day into the bed
But you're fighting all day, you're fighting all night. You need a break folks, you need a break.
That's what TM is.
[Liv Tyler] It was like a week's worth of sleep. From that moment forward, it was like a new day in a way.
I felt like my whole sort of nervous system reacted differently:
I felt much less panicked and anxious and calm about things,
but I also felt sort of deeply centered and rested. From that moment on
I've never been that frazzled ever again or that tired ever again.
It was like it sort of restored my body on such a deep level.
[Howard Stern] So everyone in my life meditates.
I am a big proponent of meditation and for radio I feel it added tremendous creativity
and having that morning and afternoon - in fact, to this day, after I do the radio show,
my head is pounding so bad from the headphones and the loud noise
and five hours of headphones and talking I mean it's exhausting.
I go in and meditate and I walk out and have the whole rest of my day and it's - I'm a new person.
I don't think I could really live without it.
I'll say my greatest regret. I didn't know the importance of that morning TM in those days.
If I had two TM's, I'd still be doing the show now.
I did not have the energy, I was exhausted, painfully exhausted all the time.
I remember I would rehearse all day with the actors and then sit down with Larry and start writing the script.
[Oprah Winfrey] I'd been hearing about TM for years so, this summer I decided to learn it along with my staff
in Chicago, LA and New York. I talked about it when I was on Dr. Oz's show.
You can't imagine what's happened in the company, people who used to have migraines don't,
people are sleeping better, people have better relationships, people interact with other people better
It's been fantastic!
[George Stephanopoulos] It's the equivalent of a couple hours more sleep each day. Part of the reason it's
easier for me to get up at 2:30 every day, is that I'm actually getting up to rest and meditate to start the day
and then it provides the same kind of boost in the middle of the day
that's a very practical thing it provides. I haven't missed a day since the day I started
and it has you know, made a tremendous difference in my life.
I mean I was always overtired, always rushed,
feeling that kind of the constant low-level impatience
that's always ready to kind of burst out and I didn't like it.
[Arianna Huffington] I think what you said about technology though, is so key,
how we've all become better at taking care of our smartphones than taking care of ourselves.
You know I bet practically everybody here knows approximately how much battery remains on your smartphone
and if it gets below 13 percent you get anxious and you know, you look around for a recharging shrine.
Well, in a way I see meditation as my way to recharge that battery
and to become better and better at seeing the warning signs when that battery is not recharged
because of course I wasn't always good at that, or in fact I was terrible at that,
eight years ago I collapsed from sleep deprivation burnout and yet if you had asked me that morning
How are you? I would have said fine because
being exhausted and being burnt-out has become the new normal.