As an actor, filmmaker, screen acting coach, writer, and composer,

meditation has always played a role in my creative life, but honestly, I didn’t always enjoy it. I’d be chasing those rare “breakthrough” sessions, but most left me restless or flat. Over time, the practice would slip.

Still, I believed

in what David Lynch calls “Catching the Big Fish”, the idea that when we drop into meditation, we gain access to a deep well of ideas that don’t come from the surface mind.

Then I stumbled across a simple technique that changed everything.

I accessed states I hadn’t reached before, and the wildest part was what came after. Hours later, I’d feel a surge of deep relaxation and inspiration moving through me like something bigger had cracked open.

I learned I could use it with eyes open

...even while walking, and suddenly, I was practicing it in everyday life: on set, in rehearsals, walking to work. People noticed something had shifted.

My energy was different. My presence.

Here’s the paradox:

To access flow, your brain needs to drop into low-beta or alpha brain wave states. But creative pressure, the adrenaline, the focus, pushes you into high-beta, a survival state. From there, flow is impossible. You end up tense, in your head, disconnected.

One day on set,

I was thrown off mid-scene by a last-minute note. I felt my brain spike into stress. I paused. Used the method. Within seconds, I dropped back into flow, on cue...