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>> David Lync looked inside, I was hollow in the happiness department, and I said, "I gotta get that." And so I started Transcendental Meditation. [gentle music] >> Woma year ago this month, I was suicidal. I felt so low, that I wanted to just not be here. >> Young Woma got pregnant at 13. >> Young Woma y mom, she got deported two years ago. Sometimes I cry, cause it's just too much tension. >> Vietnam Vetera e were attacked, at this place called Bura. the first night, I killed fourteen people. >> Reporte he number of women and girls who are raped and tortured and killed in war torn areas around the globe is literally beyond comprehension. >> Prisone always thought I sort of had a low grade depression here but it really was, ever since probably ten years old, I had just really been miserable with being myself. >> Homeless Ma was just so frustrated and full of misguided anger, I didn't know where to direct it to. >> Native American Ma lost four members of my family to diabetes. I don't want that to happen to my people. >> David Lync orrow, anxiety, traumatic stress, depression, hate, anger, rage, fear start to lift away. Life just gets better and better and better. >> Russell Simmon hen it's calm and still, even ? struggle becomes beauty. >> Young Woma used to say, I'm gonna get my grades up, I'm gonna do better. But yet it was just what I said, it never happened. Until I started meditating. >> Superintenden think every barrio, ghetto school in America has to have the fundamental right of having an opportunity to do this type of thing. [applause] >> David Lync tay regular in you meditation, don't let anybody take it away, and you will unfold your full potential. >> Paul McCartne he kids love it. The kids in the West Bank love it. The kids in Brazil love it. I think this is what people need. They don't need high-minded talk, so much as results. >> Dr. Mehmet O peaking as a scientist, the amazing thing about Transcendental Meditation is the very well-established research showing that the technique impacts things that we didn't think were changeable. >> Native American Ma ince I started T.M., my sugar's been where it should be, so I'm sold on T.M. >> Candy Crowle he initial research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation in treating ptsd offers so much hope, better than many things being tried [and] at far less a cost. >> Woma ranscendental Meditation saved my life. Today, I can say "I am a meditator." >> Jerry Seinfel 've been meditating thirty-seven years. >> Clint Eastwoo 've been using it for almost forty years. >> Ellen Degenere t is the only time I have that stillness long enough that I open my eyes and I'm sad that it's twenty minutes later. >> Young Ma f we take our time and just meditate, and just let everything go, it'll free your mind. Everything will come together. >> Prisone ust this last month, I've felt so much energy, it's been amazing. >> Vietnam Vetera ll that feeling of heaviness, I can feel it melt away. It was absolutely transformational. >>Russell Bran 've found that there is an ever-present sanctuary within me. >> Homeless Ma eople tell me, "You know, you look very calm, you look very relaxed." And there's not a whole lot of crazy, I'm just sittin' there, calm. You know, it's surprising, even to me. >> Young Woma have a lot of problems in my life, and T.M. came into my life and gave me like this open door to something that I never knew I would be. >> American Soldie t comes back to the core of who you are as a person, and what you're made of and it has to give yourself a chance. >> David Lync eal change for the good truly begins within. >> Woma ranscendental Meditation can save lives, and it's gonna save some more lives, and we just gotta make sure everyone's aware.