Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "Life is easier when you mind your own business.” Many times we distract ourselves from the things that need fixing in our own life by trying to fix what we think is wrong in others.  Focus on your own life and you will be busy enough. As long as they are not hurting anyone or anything, let people do what they need to do to make themselves happy.  How would you feel if every t...

Morning Mantra: "The best way to avoid unhappiness is to simply allow life to not be perfect. “  Accepting life as it can be difficult at times.  What screws us up the most is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.  But reality requires us to accept some things as they are, even if it’s not how we think they should be.  The quicker you can do that, the happier you'll be. Tir...

Morning Mantra: "You only have so much emotional energy each day, don't fight battles that don't matter." Unfortunately, things are very tense and emotional right now. People are arguing over things just to release their anxiety.  If you’re feeling highly emotional, try another route. Remind yourself that if nothing you can say or do will change the outcome, then you don't...

Morning Mantra: “What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.   It is the great disruptor of negative thoughts and emotions, of expecting life to be easy and thinking you are entitled.  In order to feel grateful, your ego has to take a backseat. Being grateful all the time isn’...

Morning Mantra: "Your perspective can be your power or your prison". Life is all about perspective and how you look at something.  If you change your perspective, you will change your experience.  Everyone has their own thoughts, views and interpretation. Your perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.  It’s not the things that happen but rather your inte...

Morning Mantra: "Compassion begins when judgement ends." It's easy to look at someone else's mess and think you'd handle things better. But the truth is, things look a lot easier when it's not your heart on the line. Judging others makes us blind, where loving others is illuminating. By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own problems and to the grace which othe...

Morning Mantra: “You are the sum of those you surround yourself with.” You are influenced by those you surround yourself with so don’t underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unsupportive, and critical friends. Your circle should align with your true self.  If you're not sure what that is then ask yourself if this is true... Your circle should want you to win.  Your circle should clap...

Morning Mantra: "Grow JOY like a weed... stubborn, wild, and impossible to kill." For those of you who are exhausted by life right now... I see you. I am you. There’s a lot going on in this country that’s infuriating. Heartbreaking. Exhausting. It’s easy to feel helpless. It's easy to lose your joy.  It's easy to feel guilty finding joy when others are suffering. But let’s be c...

Morning Mantra: "We fall. We break. We fail.  But then.  We rise. We heal. We overcome." Everyone, I repeat, Every. Single. Person. has times in their life when they fall, when they are broken, when they fail miserably.  But you must always get back up. Get back on the horse so to say. And try again.  The quality of your life depends on it. You have to get back up, unless you want to sur...

Morning Mantra: "If you don't like the road you are walking, start paving a new one." This quote by Dolly Parton pretty much sums up life's journey.  It's not as much about  where you are going, as it is about how you get there. It's ABOUT the journey. The road you take. The happiness you find along the way. And, if you are on a road that you don't like, you can...

Morning Mantra: "Saying 'Yes" to your well-being means saying 'No' sometimes." This one is hard.  Because we are raised to be helpful, accommodating, and to put the needs of others ahead of our own. I have found that you have to actually learn to say no. But learning to say no must be done without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is a healthy skill. You need to lear...

Morning Mantra: "People don't fake depression, they fake being okay." Times are hard right now.  People are struggling. So I'm going to make a habit of not judging someone by their appearance.  Because I don’t know what’s going on inside, what really is happening.  We never know what is beneath the surface. We never know what anyone is really going through.  Only they know thei...

Morning Mantra: "Hindsight happens after the lesson." Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified it.  It's the lesson you learn in hindsight that becomes clear. What looks inevitable in hindsight is often invisible with foresight. Often years after disappointments and painful circu...

Morning Mantra: "Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection." I’ve learned not to hold people hostage to who they used to be. We all carry versions of ourselves that no longer fit—the mistakes we made, the things we didn’t know, the pain we caused when we didn’t yet understand our own. I’ve seen how easily someone can be reduced to their worst moment, how quickly a past...

Morning Mantra: "You are allowed to change anytime you want to." You can wake up any day and decide that it’s time. It’s time to choose new experiences, new looks, new places, and if necessary, new people.  It's time to let go of anything that no longer makes you feel your best, anything that makes you feel less than, or keeps you from shining. It’s time to speak freely, walk more c...

Morning Mantra: "Stay anchored in love." In a world spiraling with so much noise, fear, and division, the greatest revolution is to stay anchored in love. According to the research of Dr. David Hawkins, “One individual who vibrates to the energy of pure love will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 who do not."  Vibrate in the energy of pure love, not passive, head-in-the-sand...

Morning Mantra: "There are two things we get at the start of each new day; A chance and a choice." Each morning you wake up with the chance to live your life the way you choose. Will you live with love, compassion, honesty, inclusion and gratitude?  Or will you choose to live it focused on what's wrong with you, your life, your job, or your relationships? If you choose to focus on w...

Morning Mantra: “We should be lifting each other up and cheering each other on, not trying to outshine one another. The sky would be really dark with just one star.” Maybe it's time to see how your life could change if you stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about the people you encounter. It’s really hard to do as humans are wired to be judgey. But it’s possible. This is especiall...

Morning Mantra: “Authenticity is just honesty, wrapped up in a little bravery." One of the most difficult things in our culture to do is to be your authentic self. To not doubt who you are. From an early age we feel the pressure to belong to this group or that group. This status or that. To fit in, conform, and change to please. To be who you truly are is scary, and with social media and the...

Morning Mantra: "Today I wake up with love." I hope you wake up a full of love. Love for life, love for others, and most importantly, love for yourself. Where there is love, there is life.  There is hope.  There is happiness.  There is kindness.  There is beauty.  There is absence of judgment. There is acceptance. And yes, there is loss. The only life worth living is a life full of love,...

Morning Mantra: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." If I could tell you just one thing, right now, I would say – I hope you do it.  I hope you reach towards the things you can’t stop thinking about. I hope you walk down the unknown path that scares you, but also holds the promise of something that feels honest and beautiful, and right.  I would tell you that this life is s...

Morning Mantra: “I trust the next chapter of my life because the author is me.” Isn’t it great that you get to write the story of your life? You get to decide the characters that are in it. You get to decide how the main character (you) will think, feel, act, and interact with the supporting characters. Sure, the plot may have some unexpected twists that surprise you, but you get to decide how the...

Morning Mantra: "Today's possibilities are endless." When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. See the positive possibilities in this day, you’ve done it before and you can do it now.  Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and disappointment and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable, determination.  Remember to n...

Morning Mantra: “Healing also means taking an honest look at the role you play in your own suffering.” Personal accountability is essential to growth. Understanding that you alone create and control your thoughts, emotions, actions and reactions. Sometimes you can play a role in your own suffering by standing by waiting for other people to change instead of holding them accountable and deciding wh...

Morning Mantra: "Shine so bright that others can see their way out of the dark." We are here to be a light. Not to be divisive, mean, angry, or bitter. We are here to show love and be loved. We are here to find the good in others, as well as the good within ourselves. Don’t for a moment let someone make you believe you are less than. That you are not a light of love. That you are unworth...