Getting Better With Age: Clint Eastwood And Transcendental Meditation

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People who age well are an inspirationespecially for me since I just turned 60.

Clint Eastwood is certainly a prime example. At 62-years-old, Mr. Eastwood won his first Oscar for the film, Unforgiven. Then, as many film-making professionals believe, he only got stronger and better with age, going on a stunning run of creative successes.

Eastwood is now 79, and since his first Oscar he has made 15 moviesthree of which have been nominated for Best Picture. (His most recent movie, Invictus, had two Academy-Award nominations.) Mr. Eastwood has also been nominated for Best Director or Best Actor four additional times. And he often collaborates on the music for his films.

Of course I like to think that his Transcendental Meditation practice has had something to do with it. In a recent issue of GQ magazine Clint Eastwood was asked about his TM practice.

Do you still meditate?
Twice a day.

How does that work for you?
It works great. Im religious about it when Im working.
I believe in whatever self-help you can give yourself.
So meditation with me was just a self-reliant thing. Ive been doing it almost forty years.

Eastwood went public in the 1970s about his daily TM routine when he appeared on the Merv Griffin Show with the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Hes quietly kept enjoying his daily TM practice ever since.

I think its amazing how many people practice Transcendental Meditation every day, year after year. I think I know how they feel, and why they spend the time transcending every daybecause it makes them feel more alive, more together, and better able to keep going and growing.

It reminds me of something Maharishi wrote in his book, The Science of Being and Art of Living:

Expansion of happiness is the purpose of life, and evolution is the process through which it is fulfilled.
If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life. If one not constantly developing his intelligence, power, creativity, peace and happiness, then he has lost the very purpose of life. Life is not meant to be lived in dullness, idleness, and suffering; these do not belong to the essential nature of life.

About the Author:
Mario Orsatti is the director of special projects for the David Lynch Foundation. He has been a teacher of the TM since 1973. He is working in New York directing a project that provides training in the TM technique for a 1000 homeless men participating in a one-year re-entry program. He helped direct a $1.2M research study of the effects TM on student brain development and academic performance in Washington, DC. which was published in several major journals.



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