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September Chat with UROCK Peeps

This is the audio replay of the monthly Zoomy Zoom I do with my UROCK (Patreon) Peeps;

you can also watch the video here

SHOW NOTES:

CENTERING

Sensory Countdown (5 Sees, 4 Touches, 3 Sounds, 2 Smells, 1 Taste)

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Hidden Brain Podcast w/Shankar Vedantam: Reframing Your Reality

Reframing Your Reality: Part 1 | Hidden Brain Media

https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/reframing-your-reality-part-1/

Reframing Your Reality: Part 2 | Hidden Brain Media

https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/reframing-your-reality-part-2/

BOULDER

Conference Wrap up (Project wrap up? Weekly wrap up?)

Ponder: What do I want to be thinking about as I leave?

Connect: Who do I feel called to connect with to discuss this more?

Act: What actions could I take to put some of these ideas into action?

Ponder: To me, By me, Thru me, As me

Resource Links

Four Stages of Spiritual Growth, buy Jenny Dsouze (May 17, 2021)

https://lifeism.co/four-stages-of-spiritual-growth

(includes a link to a 90 second summary directly from Beckwith himself: https://youtu.be/TAfOGQwFJak )

4 Stages of Consciousness, by Gwen Allison (May 14, 2020)

https://www.myspiritualbutterfly.com/post/4-stages-of-consciousness

(the author of this article also unpacks the 4 stages in this 22 minute video: https://youtu.be/da4y0MH1EMM )

Conscious Leadership Group

applied these 4 stages to leadership and I really like some of what they developed:

PDF with overview and chart: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=LYRctalK

They also have a great 4-minute video summary: https://youtu.be/I2dxdwfZkG4

Paul's Slides

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This is the audio recording of our monthly Zoomy Zoom with my Patreon Peeps (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info).

If you'd prefer to watch the video replay, you can catch that here: https://youtu.be/ui_1TtgRvXc

The notes and links from the session are pasted below.

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Approach life advice not like immutable laws but rather like trying on clothes. Some advice will fit you well and flatter you. Other advice will not. Advice that may work great on one person may work terribly on the next. Pick and choose your advice to suit your personality and the occasion. Feel free to discard old advice any time it stops working for you.

-Mark Manson (6/5/23: https://markmanson.net/breakthrough/025-how-to-know-what-works-for-you)

BOULDER

"Ideas & Snippets" document/folder. The idea is that you have a single document (I use Evernote, but you could use any note taking app or even a word processing app like MS Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs, etc.) to create a single repository of all the links, articles, podcasts, and even random ideas you come up with. And then schedule time on your calendar (once a week? month? quarter?) to review the list and ponder, move info to relevant place, send to others, etc.

PONDER

1. 7 Things You Need to Do If You Want to Enjoy Life More, by Lori Deschene (6/20/23)

https://tinybuddha.com/blog/7-things-you-need-to-do-if-you-want-to-enjoy-life-more/

2. five steps to RESILIENCE as summarized by Eric Barker

https://bakadesuyo.com/2023/04/how-to-be-resilient-2/?ref=refind

3. How to Be Miserable and Ruin Your Life (Mark Manson) (6/1/23)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPQa0Ag85SE

4. Adam Grant says, "Don't TRUST your gut, TEST your gut." (April 1, 2023)

5. 3/14/23: Arthur Brooks Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay (choose to focus on what age gives you more than what it takes away, choose subtraction not addition) https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/05/midlife-crisis-choices-opportunities/638427/

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This is the audio recording of our monthly Zoomy Zoom with my Patreon Peeps (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info).

This month we shared different content in the two sessions, so this is PART ONE, recorded Tuesday, August 22, 2023

If you'd prefer to watch the video replay, you can catch that here:

https://youtu.be/k0tBii20MfY

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Approach life advice not like immutable laws but rather like trying on clothes. Some advice will fit you well and flatter you. Other advice will not. Advice that may work great on one person may work terribly on the next. Pick and choose your advice to suit your personality and the occasion. Feel free to discard old advice any time it stops working for you.

-Mark Manson (6/5/23: https://markmanson.net/breakthrough/025-how-to-know-what-works-for-you)

BOULDER

"Ideas & Snippets" document/folder. The idea is that you have a single document (I use Evernote, but you could use any note taking app or even a word processing app like MS Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs, etc.) to create a single repository of all the links, articles, podcasts, and even random ideas you come up with. And then schedule time on your calendar (once a week? month? quarter?) to review the list and ponder, move info to relevant place, send to others, etc.

PONDER LINKS:

1. 3/15/23: Debbie Ford's 10 Questions when making a choice

https://theinvisiblementor.com/review-of-the-right-questions-ten-essential-questions-to-guide-you-to-an-extraordinary-life-debbie-ford/

2. 9 Tips for Brain Health

https://hackspirit.com/little-things-to-do-every-day-to-keep-your-brain-healthy-and-sharp/

3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stronger-at-the-broken-places/201501/10-ways-to-overcome-fear-of-missing-out?ref=refind This has an awesome list of ways to get over FOMO (listed in SNIPPETS document under 4/3/23)

4. The question "Who are you, uninterupted?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1012763743219881

5. Deepak Chopra's 4 questions he asks himself each morning (Who am I? What do I want? What's my purpose? What am I grateful for?)

Deepak Chopra, in interview with Jesse Hempel

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hello-monday-with-jessi-hempel/id1453893304?i=1000599289163

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This is the audio recording of our monthly Zoomy Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community. Weshared several stories & ideas from my summer adventures. The notes and links from the session are pasted below. You can also watch the video replay here.

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Pixar's Inside Out 2 adds anxiety, embarrassment, ennui, envy, and a hint of nostalgia to the original team of emotions we got to know in the first movie: joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust. Trailer here.

BOULDER

3 sounds to stimulate the vagus nerve

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1004031721415676

1. hmmmmmm

2. ohm/aum

3. ha

PONDER

A. The Sonder of Musings...

I originally came across the word "sonder" in the mesmorizing 10 minute video called SOULFULLY BEAUTIFUL from Reflections of LIfe (who I first learned about from Grateful Living: https://grateful.org). I then learned the term SONDER, defined as "the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it. The word was coined by John Koenig, who compiled a compendium of created words in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and also created a short video just to unpack his special word Sonder.

B. Dementia is not a Death (Psyche.co article)

Dementia is not a death. For some, it marks a new beginning

C. 10+ Happy Songs

I originally stumbled upon a list of 10 songs that will make you happy based on research from a music psychologist

in articles in Inc. and Science Times. I put the 10 songs in a Pandora Playlist:

And then I stumbled upon this list on Spotify that also claimed to be "the 10 happiest songs" based on research.

D. Finally, the artwork I picked up from an adorable shop in downtown Frisco, Colorado called Stay Sunny Frisco

" It's all connected, you know.

Your gifts, your circumstances, your journey.

None of it is by chance.

Embrace it.

It's molding you."

~Ash Weisel

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