Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "Sometimes the hardest part of the healing journey is simply believing you’re worthy of the trip." This post today is just a reminder that childhood wounds run deep.  Those negative comments follow you through life.  I have heard from so many adult women how they were told they were “too sensitive, too much, dumb, fat, too loud, had too much energy, were lazy or would nev...

Morning Mantra: "I Am the Master of My Fate, I Am the Captain of My Soul." In life, there are a few things you can actually control, two of them are your effort and your attitude. When you have a set back you are in control of whether you succeed or accept defeat, whether you’ll get up and keep going or lay down and live as a victim.  It all starts with your reaction to what life hands y...

Morning Mantra: "Don't be pushed around by fears in your head, be led by the dreams in your heart." When you’re chasing your dreams, don’t consult your fears, consult your hopes about your future. Don’t think about your frustrations, think more about your unfulfilled potential. Don’t focus on what you tried and failed, but focus rather on what is still possible for you to do. Your d...

Morning Mantra: "One of the hardest things for us to do is to love someone where they’re at.  Especially when where they’re at is somewhere we don’t want them to be."  One of the greatest gifts we can give people is learning to accept where they are without adding our expectations to their burdens. It’s easy to love the people in your life that love you back, that take the high road, tha...

Morning Mantra: “My Dear, You are made of fire. Make sure to surround yourself with those who offer kindling rather than water.” There is nothing I like more than to hang out with like-minded people. Positive people who work towards their dreams. People who really want to live in this life.  People who are committed to self-growth, learning and developing. The people you hang out with today are sh...

Morning Mantra: “Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.” You are not your doubts, fears, limits, and frustrations. These are just feelings showing you areas of your life that need attention. Your doubt show you where you have a lack of confidence. Your fears show you where there’s not enough love.  Your limits show you where you need to grow. Your frustra...

Morning Mantra: “Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.” You are not your doubts, fears, limits, and frustrations. These are just feelings showing you areas of your life that need attention. Your doubt show you where you have a lack of confidence. Your fears show you where there’s not enough love.  Your limits show you where you need to grow. Your frustra...

Morning Mantra: "The Earth is what we have in common." This quote by Wendell Berry seems very appropriate on this Earth Day when we seem as a species to be so far apart from each other. So apart in what we value. When I began my company, Horse Hippie, I knew I wanted the brand to reflect what mattered to me as a life long Equestrian, as an environmental scientist, and as a peace loving h...

Morning Mantra: "Forgive who you were and celebrate who you are. It took a lot to get here." To wish you were any different in the past means that you have grown since then. You have healed some of the broken bits, you have become more compassionate, more confident, and value your time more. When you’re young you aren’t yet who you will become and you grow with your struggles and losses...

Morning Mantra: "Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves." Pay attention to yourself.  When your body asked for better fuel, more sleep, a slower pace – respect that.  When your intuition urges you to pull away from certain people and move closer to those who bring you peace – trust that.  When your heart sparks at...

Morning Mantra: "You are not defined by your past experiences, you are prepared by them." Your history does not determine whether or not you have the ability to become a decent human being. In fact, it can spur you on to break the cycle. You can grow up in chaos and become someone who creates peace.  You can grow up being hurt and become someone who looks  tenderly after the wounds of ot...

Morning Mantra: "The sun will come out tomorrow." No matter what kind of day you are having it's good to remember that there is always hope of a better tomorrow. Because hope is the one thing that can help us get through the darkest of times.   Hope it’s like the sun, which as we journey toward it, cast the shadow of our burdens behind us. Hope is important because it can make a pre...

Morning Mantra: “My life isn't perfect but I find ways to be happy about it.” Some people think happiness is a life without problems, but that doesn’t exist. EVERYONE has problems. Life is just a series of problems; from small ones like what you’ll have for dinner, to huge ones like an illness. To believe that happiness means no problems sets you up to be unhappy every time you have one. Whic...

Morning Mantra: "What the mind suppresses, the body expresses." Feeling emotions is a beautiful part of the human experience. Sometimes it serves us well to take a beat and learn how to deal with certain feelings, but suppressing your emotions long term can lead to physical issues. Unexpressed emotions such as anger, frustration, sadness, or disappointment can manifest in the body physic...

Morning Mantra: "Empathy allows us to be present without opinion." Opinions are really the lowest form of human knowledge. They require no accountability, or understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy. This requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires us to recognize that everyone has an opinion, and that many opinions are not based on actual...

Morning Mantra: “Life is too short to think you are unlovable because someone didn’t know how to love you.” Being rejected, neglected, misunderstood or ignored doesn’t mean that there is a problem with YOU. It doesn’t make you difficult, unwanted or unlovable. And it doesn’t mean you are inadequate, or unworthy of love. All it means is that the relationship wasn’t the right fit. Not everyone is go...

Morning Mantra: “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” Your ultimate goal should be to be at peace with yourself. To eliminate toxic feelings and energies from your life. To unlearn negative and harmful practices and thought patterns. To create space for yourself that fosters growth so that you may generate loving energy for yourself and for others. To nourish your soul. To ch...

Morning Mantra: "To protect my inner peace I must learn to observe not absorb." When I saw this quote by JB Copeland it was exactly what I needed to hear today. I spent a lot of yesterday very sad after I made the mistake of watching the news. Hearing how many tens of thousands of animals drowned in the floods in the US, plus the devastation in Myanmar, and the current state of our Count...

Morning Mantra: "At the end of the day, what really matters is that you've done your best and you're thankful for all you have." Starting today start appreciating yourself for who you are, where you are and what you were able to do.  Starting today, stop looking at your life with regret or criticism. Each day recite these mantras to yourself: I will start filling my own cup,  b...

Morning Mantra: “Stop venting and start praying. You don’t need sympathy you need strength.” It’s easy to get caught up in the “poor me” cycle but it does nothing to solve your problem. It just makes you feel worse while you still have the problem! It’s fine to express your frustration or disappointment, but don’t get stuck there. Get going. Start moving in the direction of change or acceptance. S...

Morning Mantra: “Start looking for all of the tiny glimmers in your life then witness how beautiful life can be.” Glimmers are everywhere but you must train yourself to look for them because humans are naturally wired to look for the negative. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. Triggers activate your stress response and dysregulate your nervous system. Glimmers activate a state of calm and hap...

Morning Mantra: “The healthiest response to life is joy.” Most people think happiness is attached to pleasure, but the truth is happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. These all result in temporary feelings that are outside of yourself. As quickly as they come, they can leave and so does your joy.  Which is why we are always searching for the next thing to "make&quot...

Morning Mantra: “Drama doesn’t just walk into your life. Either you create it, invite it or tolerate it.” While you can’t control someone’s negative behavior, you can control how long you participate in it. If you want more peace in your life, walk away from the drama. Refuse to entertain their negativity. Endless drama clouds the consciousness, overwhelms the senses, and creates stress in your bo...

Morning Mantra: "Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Healing happens through feeling it." Our natural tendency is to escape difficult feelings.  But don't push it away, pretend it's not there, or numb it because underneath those difficult feelings is your light, your power, your ability to get to the other side of it.  Learn to sit with that fear, sadness or anxiety you are...

Morning Mantra: “If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.” What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it’s not. A lot of the time, it’s what makes you great. Being different simply means you have something unique to offer the world. Don’t be afraid of being different, be afraid of being like everyone else. The fear of being different prev...