Please welcome
Cameron Diaz!
Thanks, Bob!
Why did you decide to learn Transcendental Meditation?
What was it in your life at that time that you thought
"Oh! This is something that would be good for me!"?
I'm like a lot of people who now do TM
or who are looking to find a meditation that works for them
I would try meditations because I knew that there was something there for me in meditation,
but every time I would try to do it I just was like: "I can not meditate,
I'm incapable of meditating apparently I can not do it "
and my girlfriend Jessica Seinfeld said to me one day, she said:
"You are going to learn to meditate!
You better be ready!"
I said: "Ok!", and so I learned and it was was exactly,
exactly what I needed, and the thing that blew me away the most about it
was that it was the easiest thing that I had ever done,
not the easiest meditation but the easiest thing I have ever learned.
I learn a lot of things that's my job,
you know, I go out there and I learn it!
I spend months learning something and this took me
an hour the first time and it's...
also what you get out of it, the fact that it's so simple to learn,
it's so simple to practice,
and yet you get, the amount of restoration that comes to you,
the benefit across your life. It has changed everything.
I just had my family and my boyfriend's family
meet together for the first time over Thanksgiving, everybody in my apartment for five days
and let me tell you something:
it can benefit...
relationships! And I got them all to learn!
So it was the most dynamic holiday I think everybody had, in the best way
because everyone all of a sudden had this new tool that they never had before
with dealing with this sort of moment that could possibly be a little stressful
and instead we all sat and meditated with one another, every morning for four days
and it was beautiful! It really bonded everyone and it was really a special time.
Also the thing I love about T.M.
is that it's not something, you don't have to convince somebody to believe in something,
you don't have to get them to understand a different faith or spirituality.
T.M. is helping you tap into something that's already inside you.
That's you, in essence, and that's something that I think that was super
empowering for me once I really grasped that
it's not just something that you go outside of yourself to obtain and then bring back in to you,
it's actually the deepest part of you,
it's a part of you that exists that you've never had the tool
of opening and accessing and so
to have that tool now, and to be able to go inside
to the deepest part of myself and to access that and to recharge my battery
internally within myself, I feel so badass!
I really do! I think it's so awesome! I feel so empowered
that I actually possess that.
And then to show the people that you love
and with what you're doing at the foundation, to show so many people who need
to know that they have that ability, to me is just
it's so gratifying to let people in on it and allow them to
really heal themselves, to regenerate themselves, to restore themselves.
We're working to bring meditation all over the world so,
we wanna start here in New York!
We can make it happen here!
We can change the world!
Cameron, thank you!