can you explain what transcendental is? not really familiar with it
Oh, boy! ...I'm so sorry - it's been some years since I've looked into it, but if you do a simple search on Youtube or Google, I'm sure a ton of stuff will come up, and I said, or was saying. . . There's a lot of celebrity clientele` which is why it has, or was for a time, anyway popular or en vogue! : ) I believe that the film maker that I know of who swears by it, has been practicing it for a very long time (like maybe several decades, or apx. even the length of his career in movies?). But it basically is like a quiet (however long it is, let's say a half hour, for instance) two sessions a day, I think, maybe three? But it might be morning, noon & night. . . & then you do the meditation (however that one works) & it's supposed to help you free yourself of a lot of your mental health problems like anxiety & maybe even depression (it's been too long). But it calms and relaxes you, and I guess eases your mind, maybe, such that you're able to let go of, or take a break from the other stressors and chaotic nature of things going on in your life. I want to say people like Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, Martin Scorsese (not the one I'm talking about)... & a whole host of others subscribe to it (or did?). I know like over a decade ago, they used to have clinics that maybe lasted the weekend or a little more. You could register for them and I was close to doing so once when it was only a/one state away (here in the U. S.) & my movie guy was even going to be speaking at that one. Or maybe they were called seminars? Anyway ~~ (sorry if that was not overly, "helpful!"). And as May has just said, they may have fallen on some hard(er) times??? So, I really don't know how or what to advise for sure. One things for certain, now more than ever, I should probably start looking into it. So, one thing the guy I keep talking about mentions, even in more recent interviews is, that he gets his ideas often springing from these meditative sessions. As opposed to maybe when you're more sometimes sitting down setting pen to paper (though I've seen how he writes screenplays in his office & at least the time I saw, it was more visualized, or spoken into a recorder - what you'd be typing in your script). And I don't think he was meditating there - in his office chair, beside his desk, but he'd had his arms with elbows on both knees, bending forward and resting his head in between his hands, and eyes closed, concentrating or thinking. . . imagining, I guess~