Author Archives: Tim Ringgold

Before we get to the topic of functional music, last week you heard me announce my next free online summit is coming up. It’s called the Reduce Your Stress Summit for Healthcare Professionals and it runs August 9-13. My goal is to help as many people in my life heal the trauma they’ve been through, […]

Last weekend, we celebrated Angelique’s birthday “up the mountain” which means in the tiny town of Big Bear Lake, CA. Tucked alongside the lake itself, the town is a charming break from the sprawl and crawl of southern California. I brought my travel guitar and this melody just JUMPED out of my fingers. It’s from […]

When you think of partners, what comes to mind? This new track is a tribute to the amazing partner of mine who just had a special birthday. Angelique is not just my life partner, she’s my business partner as well. I know not all couples would dare to work and live together (and we work […]

Loving the Whole… meaning the whole… of me? Whew. That’s STILL something I struggle with… not gonna lie here. I’d love to say that I’ve learned to love the good and the bad, but part of my own challenge is that I still look at past experiences – especially things I either did or failed […]

Ride the wave Such a useful metaphor. Yes, I am actually going to tell you a story about surfing actual waves, but my experience surfing really helped me see how riding the metaphorical waves of life can go well, or poorly. There was a time in my life when I decided I was gonna learn […]

Music That Listens. Wait… what? I know. How does THAT work? Well in this interview with composer and technologist Aaron Labbé, co-founder of LUCID Technologies, Aaron describes his company’s amazing technology that actually listens to “where you’re at” emotionally, and curates custom musical experiences based on where you want to go emotionally. Interactive technology using […]

Calm Down. LOL. If you want me to ramp up, tell me to calm down. However, how do I calm down? What does that really mean? For me calming down is synonymous with turning off my stress response and resetting my nervous system from “React and Protect” to “Create and Connect.” In this BLOG POST […]

Mastery, not Control Now 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 […]

The challenge with releasing one track at a time on this podcast is that you, the listener, only get to hear one track at a time without having to sift through intros and outros on multiple episodes. Well, it’s time for a “Greatest Hits” episode where I pick THREE tracks from the past year and […]

Changing direction is one of the quintessential human strengths, however it takes more than strength to change. A while back over on the blog, I reviewed a seminal book called “Change Anything,” and in that book, the authors trace the change equation to three main influences: Our thoughts, our relationships, and our surroundings. In this […]