Being a crazy, ADHD-ed out person, I was always looking for something to calm me down. Making art would do that, but right away when I’m not doing that, I’d get crazy, I’d get super anxious.

In middle school, grade school, I was force fed Ritalin, Adoral, for more than 10 years. I wouldn’t even want to take it. Every morning my mom would wake me up and be like, “Aaron, open your mouth!” and she’d just shove down Adoral, because I had such bad ADHD, ADD and she just wanted to calm me down. But Adoral is like speed. And it got to a point where it was kind of taking over my life.

I was always trying to find ways to calm down without using drugs. So I found out about TM – Transcendental Meditation – and it’s like medicine. It’s self-healing, it’s amazing. It’s definitely calmed me down. I found what I was looking for.

I think everybody should have some sort of meditation practice. It just balances you out and you learn how to deal with emotions, bad things, good things, things that get you angry. It really teaches you how to center yourself, strip you of your own ego, and deal with the world and yourself a little better. And the David Lynch Foundation is amazing, there should be a larger footprint throughout the world.

My life was a little weird, and it still is a little weird. I still have my ups and downs because I’m crazy like that, I still have that ADD, ADHD kind of thing, but it’s definitely helped a lot. It’s the only thing that’s helped.”

http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/ Since 2005 the David Lynch Foundation has shared Transcendental Meditation with our most stressed populations. If you are inspired by this video please make a donation using the Donate button on the right. The David Lynch Foundation runs entirely on donations and there is a long list of schools and organizations eager to participate. Change begins within!

 
Directed and Produced
Torie Zalben

Cinematography and Editing
Ron Moon

“The minute you walk in the door you’re jumping on a moving train. Students quickly learn that if they’re going to get the work done they need to they typically are not going to sleep.” – Kevin Kline, Transportation Design Student

“When I came out of my first meditation I knew right away that it was going to be something that I would carry with me for the rest of my life.” – Chelsea Richer, Film Student

“I started noticing in the first week that ideas started flowing again. Things were coming naturally. I didn’t have to force ideas they were just sort of flowing in.” – Esther Rubyan, Photography Student

“the main thing about [TM] that I liked was that it was going to provide students with a way to become more resourceful and reliant on themselves in how to deal with stress, or difficult situations that are going on in their life, on their own… and if we could figure out a way to teach our students that while they’re here at CCS… I just thought that would be an amazing thing.” – Michael Coleman, Director of Student Life

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The David Lynch Foundation’s mission is to bring the scientifically-validated stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique to at-risk populations such as veterans suffering with PTSD, inner-city school kids, homeless men in re-entry programs, Native Americans with diabetes, and children who have been rescued from life on the streets.

“My name is Jason Aviles, I was born in the Bronx, I lived there almost all my life. I think the most difficult thing about growing up in the city is that there’s so many influences that do so many things, and everyone’s telling you what to do, who to be, how to do it. And it was confusing. I mean, growing up in this type of environment I wanted to follow this person because this person was cool, or I wanted to follow this person because they brought the girls, or I wanted to wear this jewelry because it brought this type of crowd. It’s very easy to get caught up in that. And I did get caught up in that.

And I felt, there has to be a way inside of myself to kind of kill the noise, to kind of bring the noise down so I can actually start hearing myself. For me meditation has just allowed me to unveil who I am. It has allowed me to really be creative, but not by force – naturally, effortlessly – just ideas, my imagination is always going, it’s always vibrant and it’s always wanting to do that next and better thing that’s for me. It’s a way that we can just come back home and just kind of show us the world that’s in front of us.

Meditation is for everyone. I lived in the projects for over ten years, I did a lot of things I wasn’t supposed to do, and I’m telling you it’s effortless because it’s already there. It’s just a way, it’s a path to get right back to it. Meditation for me has been an absolute vital tool that I’m going to use for the rest of my life.”

For more information on how to learn Transcendental Meditation, please visit http://www.tm.org?leadsource=CRM1262

“I deal with pain every day. I have nerve problems in my leg and the PTSD that the doctors diagnosed me with… functioning becomes impossible, lack of sleep, your work ethic sucks, you can’t focus at work, you can’t do anything, everybody pisses you off… it’s different for everybody. Memories saturate your mind… for me every day is a constant reminder — you relive the same crap over and over and over.” – Sgt James Thrasher, USMC

“I myself have been deployed eight times and been to combat four times. I was diagnosed with PTSD, depression, insomnia. We fight through whatever problems we have, we suck it up, and I did that for many many years. The trauma that I’ve seen the situations that I’ve been through… you take all of that stuff and you put it in a bag and we keep filling up our bag with all these problems rather than dealing with them. – GySgt Richard Wilson, USMC

TRAINING FROM THE INSIDE – Treating PTSD with Transcendental Meditation

“What peaked my interest in TM was all the research that’s been done and how incredibly effective it is for trauma, stress… the evidence now is that in combat stress the trauma actually changes the brain so that the ability to self regulate isn’t there. Meditation helps with information processing, helps with self regulation. Here we have another tool that is fabulous and they can do for themselves.” – Anna Benson, PhD, Clinical Psychologist

“I was interested in the TM program but I was skeptical at the same time. The power of the TM meditation… it really came out fast and it was surprising to me. Having that inner peace after meditation really really emboldened me to deal with things that I’d been just kind of stuffing away. So to be able to have relief from agitation, have relief from anger, frustration, sleeplessness, alcoholism, drug addiction… that’s huge.” – Sgt James Thrasher, USMC

For more information on the David Lynch Foundation’s in-school Quiet Time program please visit http://davidlynchfoundation.org/schools

To find out how you can help, please visit http://davidlynchfoundation/donate

For more information on how to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique please visit http://www.tm.org?leadsource=CRM1262

DLF.TV has had the great pleasure of getting to know Miya and spending time with her in her studio in New York. We are so excited to have her as a great supporter of The David Lynch Foundation. Stay tuned for her complete artist profile, coming soon!

Music for this video comes from the talented l-young.com

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Song Credits:
Written by Adrien Daller and Philip Rabalais
Vocals by Adrien Daller
Produced by Philip Rabalais
Additional Engineering by Aaron Shier

Video Credits:
Writing, Direction, Camera, Editing, VFX: Geoff Boothby
Costume Design: Hilary Nelson
Additional VFX: Ace Boothby
Additional Crew: Isaac Winkler, Ace Boothby

Featuring (in order of appearance):
Adrien Daller
Philip Rabalais
Chloe Hennesy
Zef Hennesy
Jason Hennesy
Melissa Gurney
Andrew Perry
Geoff Boothby
John Humphreys

Filmed on location in Fairfield, Iowa and the Carnegie Historical Museum

DLF.TV went behind the scenes to document their unique style of creating music, their genius pianist Eric Hurlin hard at work, and their knack of mixing and performing almost every genre of music to create their own personalized sound.

On September 17, 2011 the girls reunited in their hometown of Fairfield, Iowa for two concerts, giving their dedicated fans one more chance to experience that effervescent feeling they exude — that feeling which comes from people who truly love creating music together.

You can purchase Rock, Paper, Scissors’ album on DLF.TV. A portion of the proceeds will go to support the David Lynch Foundation.