Ep 87 - That's a Wrap!
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
In this, my final episode, I tell the story of how this whole project came about, as well as the second blessing the emerged... all from lockdown back in March of 2020.
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Ep 86 - Greatest Hits pt 3: Up
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
I want to tell you about a new platform called Wisdom. I’m going to be doing a live session this Thursday 12/16 at 4:30 PST so if you want a nice relaxing way to end your day, come find me.
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Ep. 85 - Greatest Hits Pt 3: Down
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
It’s time for another music block of three of my favorite down tempo songs from the past 6 months. We’re starting with "Tenderness", moving into “Partners” and finishing up with "Mountainside". There’s definitely an homage to my amazing wife Angelique in these three tracks, because I wrote Partners and Tenderness for her, and learned Mountainside while we were holed up in a cabin for a romantic long weekend. Enjoy!
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Ep 84 - Creating Harmony w/ Neil Cannon
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
On the first day of my Summit in August, something amazing happened. Every single presenter touched on one specific concept to help YOU begin to reduce stress: BREATH. Here’s the final interview of that day with my friend Neil Cannon. No matter what kind of day you are having, you can pause & take control of your breath, which instantly influences your nervous system. To learn more about Neil, go to www.vitalitysecret.com
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Ep 83 - Amplifying Humanity w/ Frank Fitzpatrick
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
In this episode, I had the joy of interviewing ambassador of music: Frank Fitzpatrick. Frank is a best selling-author, music producer, keynote speaker, social entrepreneur, and wellness expert. Frank’s mission is to amplify human potential at scale through the power of music, health, creativity and technology. His new book, Amplified, can be found at www.AmplifiedBook.com.
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Ep 82 - NEW TRACK: "Everlasting Love"
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
This is an adaptation of a hymn that I wrote in my 20s. It’s original title was "His Love is Everlasting," but I changed the title to better match my spirituality, which doesn’t include a male paternal figure, but more like an ever present, all encompassing energy of love. It now feels clear to me that no matter what, for eternity, there is one unifying energy that I will never be turned away from, and that is love.
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Ep 81 - Cooling Down w/ Josephine Worseck
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
This episode is an excerpt from my Reduce Your Stress Summit. I’ve been practicing cold showers and breathwork for a couple of years now which are two of the pillars of the teachings of a gentleman named Wim Hof. He’s quite a character, but his techniques are validated and results are amazing. I interviewed one of his chief trainers, Dr. Josephine Worseck about the benefits of cold exposure for stress reduction.
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Ep 80 - NEW TRACK: "Hero"
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
The Hero archetype is definitely one of the more prominent roles in society. What is it like to have a hero in your life? What is it like for you to BE a hero in someone else’s life? Get this… you may be a hero to someone and you don’t even know it. Just by being the best version of you can inspire those around you too. This week’s track was written with that in mind.
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Ep 79: Sound Healing w/ David Sonnenschein
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
In this episode I have the pleasure of interviewing David Sonnenschein about the intersection of sound, music, games, and learning. He’s CEO of iQsonics creating services & products that utilize music and audio for brain health. We trace his journey from music student to music healer and learn some powerful things about why music and sound are so powerful for our mood management.
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Ep 78 - NEW TRACK: "Tenderness"
Reduce Your Stress with Tim Ringgold
My wife and I are in that stage where it seems like we just run from day to day to keep up with the kids, the house & our two businesses… and I’ve come down with 'affection atrophy.' That’s when you’re so busy you forget to keep the original spark alive. I walked into the studio to record immediately after meditating on this, sat down, and thought, “what would tenderness or affection SOUND like?” Here’s what came out.
info_outlineNow before anyone starts throwing things at me... thought mastery does NOT imply thought perfection or control. It means understanding the nature of why and how you think so that you are not at the effect of your thoughts, but actually the master who decides what thoughts to heed, and what thoughts to ignore... and... what thoughts to consciously think yourself.
In my experience, it seems like a great many of my thoughts arise in and of their own making... like I am a spectator to them, not the author. I am the audience. If that is the case,
1) who am "I" and
2) where do "they" come from?
The way I might answer this may differ from how you might, but here's what I would say:
1) I am a spiritual being inhabiting a physical body
2) Thoughts come from a construct of that physical body known as 'the mind.'
So, given this understanding, I am not my mind, I have a mind. I am not my thoughts, I have thoughts. Those thoughts originate in the mind, and I observe them. However, I'll be honest, I don't live my life from that understanding. I forget this on a daily basis. Mastering my mindset is a life long journey, and there are several other podcasts that have helped me along the way (I shared a post about 5 of them HERE)
The game really changes when you can realize that you are not your thoughts, and this presentation by The Sober School founder Kate Bee will help you understand this at a deep level, and she'll show you ways to wrangle that mind of yours and not be wrangled by it!
Kate is an amazing, gentle soul to be with, and super smart and eloquent in her ability to articulate some potentially 'heady material.' She has a online coaching program that helps women to quit drinking or take a break from alcohol. It's a 6 week long class that runs a few times each year and the next one is coming up soon, in July. Head over to https://thesoberschool.com/