Alex Novaa discusses mindset management to drop addictions. We know mindset is everything, Don't we? I mean, there's gotta be over a million books on it. But why do we fail at changing our minds? Why can't we drop the craving? Join Alex as he combines ancient yogic and buddhist wisdom with modern science to break down mindset management into bitesize chunks. MindForge begins with the principle that the mind is our most powerful tool and aims to teach you how to sharpen it. Produced by Yogadelic, LLC. Visit our website at www.yogadelic.life/mindforge
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.
13 Nov 2025
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.
10 Nov 2025
5 Min Guided Gratitude Meditation (FULL)
This episode is a complete guided meditation that uses gratitude to shift your mindset.
7 Nov 2025
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?
27 Oct 2025
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.
24 Oct 2025
God and Mindset
This episode almost never happened. I had wanted to avoid the topic of God and Mindset in the hopes of avoiding a mess of baggage. However, as you will soon hear, there is no separating God from Mindset management. Not in the wisdom traditions of long ago and not today.
22 Oct 2025
What the Placebo Effect Means for Mindset
The placebo effect is common sense but does that mean people accept it as true for themselves? If it is indeed real, what does that mean for mindset management? And can the placebo effect be used to drop addictions?
You will be able to answer these questions by the end of the episode.
The placebo study referenced was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 2002, by Bruce Moseley.
20 Oct 2025
Fake it till you make it
Fake it till you make it is not just a pithy saying but a beginning mindset management tactic. In Episode 8, Alex explains how this relates to the science of mantra and positive affirmations. Included are practical tips for incorporating this into your mindset practice.
16 Oct 2025
Posture and Mindset
Learn the basics of posture dynamics: How the way that you hold your body effects your hormones, blood flow, energy levels, stress levels, and mindset. It's a lot packed into a short episode that is intended to nudge you into doing your own research. It also comes with a couple tips on how to use mindfulness and posture to begin overriding established addictions.
13 Oct 2025
Guided Meditation for Beginners
Listen to this once so you become familiar with the instructions. Afterwards, turn the podcast off, set a timer, and go through the instructions on your own.
Balanced breath for 2-3 minutes.
Observe the body breathing and perform the body scan and relaxation exercise.
Afterwards, return to observing the body breathing.
Everytime your mind wanders down a thought train, return to observing the breath.
9 Oct 2025
Quick Meditation Primer
A quick explanation of meditation that uses the hunter and prey metaphor.
5 Oct 2025
The Monkey Mind
The untamed mind is wild like a monkey. It jumps around and is easily distracted. It is reactive. It is not your friend. Yet, there are ways proven down through the ages to tame the mind. Would a hunter enter the forest without first learning the lay of the land? Why then do we expect our mind to be a sharpened tool without taking it to stone?
25 Sept 2025
Addiction and Meditation
Alex shares a little of his personal history with addiction in the effort to explain what an addiction is, how it relates to the mind and body, and how meditation is used to overcome it.
22 Sept 2025
What is the mind?
Alex Novaa shares his view that the mind is our very own superpower and dives into the yogic model of consciousness and the mind to explain the workings of the mind and why this matters to forging mindset.
20 Sept 2025
Introduction to MindForge
In this first episode, Host Alex Novaa answers what the MindForge's purpose is and the reason behind why he is talking about mindset.
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