During Challenging Times, "Manage Your Mindset."

May we never listen to the voices in our head that urge us to "Despair and die!"

I can never get through The Epoch Times without finding articles I want to clip and save or send to friends or just re-read and meditate on. Yesterday an article from an early November issue (I'm always behind!) caught my eye. Titled Managing Your Mindset, it reminded me that "No matter what life brings to your doorstep, you can choose your attitude and reactions." Spot on and a lesson that's good for me. 

Being a melancholic, I tend to get caught up in negative feelings and can easily begin hanging black crepe in the home of mind for a major pity party. I've been fighting that temptation most of my life and still have to flee the uninvited gloom and doom guests who invade my mental space and urge me to "Despair and die."

The Epoch Times Inspires a New Hobby!

Mia Huckman with her winning painting, titled “Our Last Roundup.” (Courtesy of Mia Huckman)

I love the Epoch Times! I especially appreciate the section on Life and Tradition. It is filled with articles on art, architecture, poetry, history, in fact, on anything related to culture. Today I was reading the March 8th edition. I'm always behind but generally stack up the weekly editions until I have a chance to read them. They've led me to a new hobby, "clip and send." I send many art articles to a darling granddaughter in Texas, a high school senior with a real talent for art. I've sent her articles on classic art, on an illustrator who depicted charming little fairies, and recently a story about a high school senior who won a rodeo art competition that led to her painting from last year's contest selling at auction for a quarter of a million dollars. Wow!