Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "Are you running towards life or away from death?" Whoa! That got my attention. Because there’s a BIG difference.  Run TOWARDS life don’t let fear fuel your choices. Live fearlessly. Run TOWARDS life. Don’t worry about what people will think. Trust me, it doesn’t matter. Rn TOWARDS life.  Focus on you. Be true to yourself. Be your own best friend. If the voice in your hea...

Morning Mantra: "Your ability to feel other people's pain doesn't mean it's your responsibility to fix it." Caring for other people and their feelings is honorable, letting their feelings be more important than yours is codependency.  Empathy becomes codependency when you take it upon yourself to do the work for someone who isn’t willing to do the work for themselves. I us...

Morning Mantra: “Some of the happiest people in the world are the ones with the most failures.” Grow through what you go through is the perfect way to look at this. Yes, as humans we will make mistakes, and if you find the lesson you grow. You keep trying. You figure things out. And each time you do, you learn, you expand, you recognize the opportunity to create your own happiness. If you focus on...

“Sometimes you get lost because you were meant to find a better way.” I have spoken to a lot of people lately that can only describe how they feel as "lost". Like there is something up with the collective consciousness and it’s weighing heavy on them. It makes me wonder if the reason things seem confusing now is to force us to find a better way. A better way of living on this planet. A b...

Morning Mantra: “Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with, you’re worth it.” Some people will improve your life by being in it. Other people will improve your life by staying out.  You get to decide who that is. You can decide to protect your energy and surround yourself with people that lift you up, that bring out the best in you, that will be honest with their feelings and intentions...

Morning Mantra:  I’m entering my “I’m not going to waste my time” era. Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back. Time is not something you want to waste on trivial things like gossiping, judging others, relationships that are going nowhere, habits that aren’t good for your physica...

Morning Mantra: You are worthy of the healthiest love.  For anyone who needs to hear this, there are still people who will sit and listen to you while you talk about something that bothered you.  There are still people out there who will take accountability and apologize, people who can be aware of their behavior and how it affected you.  There are people with whom you can grow. People who will ma...

Morning Mantra: “Learn to embrace change not resist it." Life changes. That's a fact. It seems like you get it all lined up just the way you like it and then something beyond your control comes along and bumps you off center. Every single experience you go through changes you in some way. Every moral dilemma or emotional experience you come up against changes you, it’s your job to decide...

Morning Mantra: “Today I will find joy everywhere.” Life is short and if you’re not careful, you’ll spend so much time doing everything you “have” to do that you’ll run out of time for things that bring you joy. Making space is rarely convenient, but it’s always worth it. Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler or better. Life will always be complicated. Look for small opportunities for happi...

Morning Mantra: “Don’t make a permanent decision for your temporary emotion." Of course, your feelings matter, but emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. The calmer you are, the clearer you think. Let your decisions come from a place of peace, not reaction. Your emotions need to be as educated as your intellect. It is important to feel, to respond, and to let life in, but also to...

Morning Mantra: “Let no day go by without counting your blessings.” Recognizing how grateful you are comes from within your own mind. It’s not something that comes from outside. You can think of a lot of things you might want in your life without even recognizing that if you get them it is YOU that has to generate the thought of gratitude. It doesn’t originate in these things. It originates in you...

Morning Mantra: “Stop making excuses for other people’s behavior.” There will be people, maybe there already is, that are toxic to your well-being. But not all toxic people are outwardly cruel and uncaring. Some of them actually love you dearly. Some of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to your well-being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force you to compromise y...

Morning Mantra: “Trauma teaches you to close your heart and armor up.  Healing teaches you to open your heart and boundary up.” The universe will keep handing you the same lessons, the same relationships, the same type of love and the same type of pain until you realize the common denominator is you. Until you’re finally tired of your own patterns. Until you finally love yourself enough to raise y...

Morning Mantra: “Accountability requires honesty and courage.” Personal accountability is essential to growth. Understanding that you alone create and control your thoughts, emotions, actions and reactions.  Remember that you must be an active participant in creating the changes you seek in life. Shift your perspective from blame to introspection, and from pain to choosing change. Sometimes you ca...

Morning Mantra: “Do more of what makes you happy.” This is a reminder to let you know that you are not here just to do stuff.  Just to perform duties and complete tasks. You are also here to feel happy, and content, and inspired and well within yourself. You are here to have some fun, create meaningful moments and find the sparkle in your eyes again. You are here to unravel the magic of being aliv...

Morning Mantra: "You never look good trying to make someone else look bad." The internet has made it possible for us to connect with others everywhere. It also has made it possible for people to feel they have the right to say anything.  I get this every single day in my business. It's difficult but you must vow not to engage. Don't waste time having imaginary arguments with im...

Morning Mantra: “Until I’m carried out, I will carry on.” The world isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. It can be a very mean and hurtful place.  It doesn’t care how tough you are. It will try to beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it.  And sometimes just carrying on can feel like a super human achievement. But you must.  Carry on. Carry on when you're tired. Car...

Morning Mantra: "Stay soft when the world feels hard. Be kind when the world feels cruel." Stay soft and be the person who cares.  Be the person who makes the effort, the person who loves without hesitation.  Be the person who bares it all, the person who never shies away from the depth of their feeling, or the intensity of their hope. Be the person who believes — in the softness of the...

Morning Mantra: "In quiet lives wisdom. In stillness you will find peace. In solitude you'll remember yourself." Solitude is a reminder that sometimes, stepping away from the buzz, the constant connections, the stimulation overload is not just a luxury, but a necessity to be brighter and stronger than before. Solitude isn’t about isolation or loneliness.  It’s a sacred space,  It’s...

Morning Mantra: “Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine any brighter.” Stealing someone’s thunder, judging, criticizing, manipulating, twisting the truth, all are ways that we dim someone's light. But why? Fear and fear-based insecurity. You must not allow your own insecurity to color the way you interpret someone else’s intention or behavior.  Their success does not diminis...

Morning Mantra: “One of the bravest things you can do is live the life you’ve always imagined.” You are the youngest you’ll ever again so be brave and be who you want to be. No matter what age you start, you’ll always wish you started younger, but it’s never too late to reinvent yourself.  When you decide to change yourself or your life, remember to focus on what you want, not on what you fear.  N...

Morning Mantra: “Stay the course, light a star, change the world wherever you are.” Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Not talent, not intelligence, not education. Nope, it’s the ones that never gave up that get there. The ones that keep going even when they feel like giving up. You just need to stay the course, and do what you need to do, and grow while you’re doing it. Even...

Morning Mantra: “If you only say one prayer, let it be, Thank You.” As you prepare the ingredients for your Thanksgiving meal today, make sure to throw in extra gratitude. Give thanks for every moment, even the difficult ones, for they teach us humility. Give thanks for every person, even the absent ones, for they teach us to appreciate those that are here. Give thanks for the times when things di...

Morning Mantra: "I pray you heal from things that no one ever apologized for." That's a tough one, the absent apology. It's difficult to move on after being hurt, but it's especially hard without the person that hurt you owning it, and asking for your forgiveness. Forgive them anyway. Many times the only person suffering is you. Either they don't realize how much they...

Morning Mantra: “It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd in the wrong direction.” Wherever your journey carries you, own it with love, courage and compassion. Remember that you can change your direction at any time because nothing is fixed, and we have free will. Try not to compare your journey to anyone else’s. That only brings judgement; either about your path or theirs. Theirs is theirs to...