MindForge

How to Use Breathwork when Triggered

Everyone is triggered by something. One moment you are cool, calm, and collected and the next you're pissed off and ready give someone a piece of your mind. Just about anything can trigger someone--the stimuli can be external and internal. Meaning it can be another person or a figment of your imagination. But breathwork doesn't care what triggered you. It goes to work regardless of the source so long as you remember to do it. This episode covers what happens in your body when you're being triggered, how to use the breath to down regulate, and why breathwork works. P.S. I mistakenly call this episode 14 in the opening greeting.

How Yoga Boosts Interoception for Better Mindset Management

Most people with addictions suffer from nervous systems that are hardwired to provide an aggressive sympathetic response to a given stressor. The addiction is nothing more than an attempt to soothe the exaggerated sympathetic response. Enter yoga: an ancient practice that contains techniques for both increasing self-awareness--interoception--and for improving self-regulation, and the practice of which will slowly rebalance your nervous system and give you an edge in both interception and self-regulation.

5 Min Guided Gratitude Meditation (FULL)

This episode is a complete guided meditation that uses gratitude to shift your mindset.

How Gratitude Rewires your Brain

In this episode of the Mindforge, learn how giving daily thanks rewires your brain as we explore the spiritual and secular reasons for doing so. We all know expressing gratitude feels good, but have you ever wanted to better understand why?

The Buddha's Five Hinderances

Mindset management cannot be achieved over night. It is a life's work. There are ups and downs. Successes and failures. 2500 years ago a man sat under a Bodhi tree and meditated until he knew the mind and the nature of reality. He came up with five hinderances common to all who seek to manage their mind and thus live at peace with his or her nature and the Greater Nature. This episode covers, in brief, the five hinderances you will face as you master your mindset.