The Ripples Pondcast

De: Paul Wesselmann The Ripples Guy
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  • Join Paul Wesselmann, The Ripples Guy, who shares quick splashes of inspiration and explores how even our smallest actions can have an ongoing impact on our lives, the people we connect with and the whole world. Are you in? Ooh, I hope so!

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  • A Resilience Refresh
    Mar 13 2025

    Enjoy this replay of our March 2025 Monthly Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info) We followed our usual format:

    pebble (a resource that I've found useful in my work or life)

    boulder (and activity I'm using personally or professionally)

    ponder (a collection of information and ideas I've been pondering)


    The notes and links from the session are pasted below.

    You can also watch the video replay here: https://youtu.be/w9q6O6_HW1Y


    WARM UP

    Just for Now, by Danna Folds


    PEBBLE

    My Unsung Hero Podcast (via NPR’s Hidden Brain)

    Nice News

    $100k financial assistance for Olympic & Special Olympic athletes

    Owls in Towels


    BOULDER

    Don’t like to exercise? Try this simple, science-backed trick:

    “Fartleks” — meaning “speed play” in Swedish — are an effective way to add intensity to activities, which a growing body of science indicates can make your workouts more beneficial. Fartleks are an informal version of interval training. To start fartlek training, head outside, warm up for a few minutes at whatever activity you most enjoy — whether it’s walking, running, biking, unicycling or snowshoeing — and then pick a landmark a short distance ahead. It could be a tree, a colorful mailbox or an unusual rock formation. Pick up your pace until you reach it. Then, drop back to your original pace, let your heart rate and breathing slow, and look for another landmark. Vary the distance between these goals, and aim for perhaps 30 minutes of fartleks once a week to start.


    PONDER


    "Everything is horrific and along side it is hope.

    Everything is dark and along side it there is light.

    The question becomes, “How do we cultivate a practice of noticing so that we can also speak into existence the things that are going right?”

    When we have algorithms that are so tuned towards catastrophe, brains in fact that are so alarmous, such drama queens…

    that we forget the practice of noticing beauty.

    To rewire my brain and my heart is to speak aloud the things that I find beautiful.

    And that gives me hope. There’s such a smorgasbord of beauty around us, and we often feel guilty in naming it, as if that detracts or cancels out the severity of what we’re facing. I don’t think it does. What the universe is always asking us to do is to become bilingual."

    ~Alok Vaid-Menon, shared by Josh in New Hampshire

    lightly edited from these informal remarks


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    51 m
  • 2025 State of Ripples, State of Hope
    Jan 29 2025

    Enjoy this replay of our January 2025 Monthly Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community (https://www.patreon.com/RipplesGuy for more info) We followed our usual format:

    pebble (a resource that I've found useful in my work or life)

    boulder (and activity I'm using personally or professionally)

    ponder (a collection of information and ideas I've been pondering)


    The notes and links from the session are pasted below.

    You can also watch the video replay here.


    PEBBLE (resource)

    Volume Control: a guidebook for highly sensitive people in a loud & spiky world

    by Jen Butler



    BOULDER (activity)

    Buddha's Five Remembrances, often recited in Buddhist practice, are reflections on the nature of life and human existence. They are:

    1. I am of the nature to grow old.
    2. Aging is unavoidable.
    3. I am of the nature to experience illness.
    4. Illness is unavoidable.
    5. I am of the nature to die.
    6. Death is unavoidable.
    7. Everyone and everything I love will change,
    8. and I will be separated from them.
    9. My actions are my only true belongings.
    10. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
    11. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

    These remembrances serve as a reminder to live mindfully and ethically, accepting the impermanence of life.

    Here's the Dan Harris podcast episode I learned about this from, and here is a simple image of them I made for my iPhone


    Here's a link to the resource page of Depolarization Resources I mentioned, too.


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    39 m
  • Hope for the Holidays
    Dec 10 2024

    Enjoy this replay of our December 2024 Monthly Zoom with the Team Ripples Patreon Community

    We followed our usual format:

    pebble (a resource that I've found useful in my work or life)

    boulder (and activity I'm using personally or professionally)

    ponder (a collection of information and ideas I've been pondering)


    The notes and links from the session are pasted below.

    You can also watch the video replay.


    PEBBLE


    Spirited – Ripple (Cut Song) – Closing Credits Scene w/Lyrics

    https://youtu.be/SdjfxxxQmWo


    Spirited — “That Christmas Morning Feelin'” Lyric Video | Apple TV+

    https://youtu.be/lVirAsKISyc


    Spirited — “Do A Little Good” Lyric Video | Apple TV+

    https://youtu.be/As_Sp64ahlA


    RIPPLE (Cut Song) Lyrics

    https://genius.com/Will-ferrell-sunita-mani-tracy-morgan-patrick-page-and-the-spirited-ensemble-ripple-cut-song-lyrics



    BOULDER


    Thermostat of Expectations

    The Gift of Nostalgia

    Enough Nog

    Simple NO balls (SNO Balls)


    I am enough!

    I have enough!

    My effort is enough!

    My skill set is enough!!

    My current mood is enough!

    What others bring to

    the table is enough!

    My life is enough.

    Today is enough.

    I am enough!


    PONDER


    May we all be HEALTHY.

    May we all be SAFE.

    May we all be WISE.

    May we all be at PEACE.


    "I wish for you… a season in which there is room for the complexities that occur during this time. A season of complicated memories, of happiness and pain, of comfort and loss, of disappointment and fulfillment…. A season of joy which also has room for sadness, because gladness and sorrow take place together.”

    ~Bruce Marshall

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    37 m
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