Laura Dern Quotes

Meditation has changed so many aspects of my health that when I don't do it, I feel awful.

I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.

I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

I'm a big advocate of meditation.

Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

I always used to be like, 'I don't need to meditate.' And it's not true.

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.