Katy Perry Talks Transcendental Meditation

During a recent chat with Audacy, Katy Perry shared how the use of transcendental meditation has changed her life and bettered her mental health.

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00:00My biggest life hack is Transcendental Meditation.

00:07It's a specific type of meditation that you learn and anyone can learn it.

00:11It's available to everyone.

00:13You can go to TranscendentalMeditation.org.

00:16There's people and places and centers that teach everyone and I learned about 15 years

00:22ago and it changed my life.

00:23It is the biggest hack for me for anxiety, depression, mood swings, jet lag, hangover

00:29and it's where I get some of my best creative ideas.

00:32And it's like you just, once you really lock into it, you don't have to do it like twice

00:37a day, every day.

00:39It's suggested but everybody gets so like anxious about having the time.

00:42It's like just try, just go into the gym and lift one weight.

00:46You know, just do one thing like for yourself and it's really helped me with my mental health.

00:51I mean it just flips the switch and it's a hack because you do it for 20 minutes.

00:56They suggest twice a day, once in the morning, once in the evening.

00:59I typically do it supplementary, you know, I do it once every couple of days.

01:05Like after I finish these interviews, right before I go to rehearsal for all these big

01:09shows I have coming up, I'm going to go and do a TM for 20 minutes and it will feel like

01:13I had a two hour nap.

01:16And last night I only had four hours of sleep on the clock but I do this thing, I meditate

01:22myself to sleep and literally I go into the deepest sleep cycle.

01:27So that's taping my mouth shut when I sleep.

01:30I need that.

01:31Yeah.

01:32I can tell.

01:33I wake up and I mean my jaw is like unhinged.

01:35So not like very, I'm just saying I have a mouth breather at night.

01:40So that's.

01:41That's what we do.

01:42That's what we do.

01:43Like anyone, anyone that's looking for a tool.

01:46It's a life tool.

01:47It's such a hack.

01:48It's such a hack.

01:49And for everything I've been through, it's just like, it is the control alt delete to

01:53this program.