Celebrities who meditate Telegraph, 28 June 2011 Celebrities have been espousing the benefits of meditation for decades. By George Thompson … David Lynch Not only has the director been meditating for over thirty-five years but he's also written a book about it, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. Last year he launched the David Lynch Foundation, "dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to learn how to meditate". Russell Simmons The entrepreneur, impresario and author has been meditating for over twelve years. Simmons says the following about meditation: "It has given me energy, strength, health, wisdom, and access to my own inner stillness, inner silence, inner bliss. It is my connection to myself; it is my connection to the universe." … Sting Sting and his wife Trudie Styler both practice yoga and meditation. The singer said: “Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs”. George Harrison The 'quiet Beatle', George Harrison became a great admirer and follower of Indian mysticism. He practiced meditation avidly himself and even introduced it to the other Beatles. ... “I still practise Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Maharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.”