Twin Peaks director David Lynch thinks the world will be a kinder place after the coronavirus pandemic as his transcendental meditation foundation offers free help to exhausted medical workers.

Lynch, 74, believes COVID-19 is a sign the world has gone down a wrong path. I have a feeling that Mother Nature is running the show on this, and said, Lets just hold on and stop this crazy world for a while so that people can reflect and think about what we are doing as human beings on this planet,' he told Page Six.

I think the world is going to be different when this virus goes, it is going to take with it a lot of the old and the new is going to be better a kinder place. I think it is already bringing the world together.

The David Lynch Foundation launched Heal The Healers Now to provide free transcendental meditation training to medics to cope with the stress surrounding the pandemic and protect against burnout.

Transcendental Meditation has been said to reduce stress-related disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and decrease anxiety and depression. Celebrities such as Katie Couric, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Roberts and hedge fund billionaire Dan Loeb have all practiced TM.

A pilot study of physicians in the Emergency Medicine Department at New Yorks Weill Cornell Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital one of the busiest hospitals in the US in the fight against COVID-19 found significant reductions in burnout, insomnia, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress over a three-month period in those practicing TM.

Lynch, who also wrote and directed Mulholland Drive, explained, They say that this is like a war, the enemy is the virus. The doctors and nurses are on the front line they are under a lot of stress and some of them, when the war is over, they will be like soldiers coming back from war.

Urging medics to go to the David Lynch Foundation website to find a TM teacher, he continued, the David Lynch Foundation will work in any way it can to get it to them for free and they can walk away from suffering and stress and infuse the happiness and creativity, energy and peace, that lies within every human being.

Lynch has been home in Los Angeles during the lockdown, building lamps in his woodshop. And unlike many others, he is enjoying the isolation. I love it, I love it so much, I love thinking about things and working on small projects I am running a little low on food right now, but thats cool, Ive got coffee, Ive got materials in the woodshop and Ive got my transcendental meditation.

I have a couple of houses that are close to each other, and I have my family in one and Im in the other. So we see each other from a distance, and we blow each other kisses.

He added, This is a chance to reflect, a great time to meditate, dive within and unfold that treasury. It will lead to great ideas, great solutions to problems, great relationships It is a brand new world.

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