Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “Open your mind. Your brain won’t fall out, but years of conditioning will.” Our reactions and thought patterns are conditioned responses. A conditioned mind is not free because it can never go beyond its own borders, beyond the barriers put there by parents, by teachers, by society, and by ourselves. Conditioning is a form of control; how you are supposed to act, how you are suppo...

Morning Mantra: “Make peace with your broken pieces.” Take a deep breath, now close your eyes and imagine the best possible version of yourself. That is who you really are. Let go and heal any part of you that doesn’t believe it. Self-love lays the foundation for everything you do, and every relationship you have. If you allow the cracks in this foundation to grow and to spread, it weakens it, mak...

Morning Mantra: “Don’t trust everything your mind is telling you.” It all begins and ends with your mind and what you think. If your mind tells you that you aren’t good enough you will begin to believe it. If your mind reacts with anxiety or fear in a stressful situation, you will be stressed and fearful. If you think you can’t do something, you’ll stay stuck. If you interpret someone’s behavior a...

Morning Mantra: “There is only one thing that makes someone change, their own realization that they need to do it.” No one changes unless they want to. Not if you beg them. Not if you shame them. Not if you use reason, emotion, or tough love. They must realize that they need to do it. And there is only one time it will happen, when THEY decide they are ready. Because they won't change if they...

Morning Mantra: “Little wins pave the way for bigger wins.” Can’t do all the dishes, wash a plate. Can't read the entire proposal, read the first page. Can't ride for an hour, just go to the barn and groom him. Can’t clean the whole house? Clean a room. Can’t get in the shower? Wash your face. Can’t walk a mile? Walk to your mailbox. Always look for the thing you CAN do with the energy a...

Morning Mantra: “Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions.” You have to learn to calm your own storm instead of venting to other people.  It would seem that telling other people all your problems would be therapeutic, but you are actually reinforcing your negative thoughts. Talking through finding solutions is one thing, but just complaining for the sake of complaining without th...

Morning Mantra: “If you only say one prayer, let it be, Thank You.” Start your day with an attitude of 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 didn’t work out, for they teach us how to adapt. Give thanks...

Morning Mantra: “Your power lies in choosing your responses not controlling their actions.” Sometimes the most empowering thing you can do is let them. Let them be wrong.  Let them misunderstand. Let them judge. Let them gossip. Let them overreact. Let them ignore you. Let them choose to create chaos. Your power lies in choice. Choosing to react indicates your boundaries are lost. Choosing to not...

Morning Mantra: “Your talents are God’s gift to you, but what you do with them, is your gift to God.” Everybody has magic, it’s just that most people either don’t know it or don’t believe it. Yes, even you have gifts that make you extraordinary. The talents you were gifted first become apparent in the interests you pursue. So, if you are wondering about your talents, make a list of the things you...

Morning Mantra: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Your life is shaped by your thoughts. Your ability to achieve a goal begins with the thought that you are capable of reaching it. If you believe that you can, you will take action that will lead you to it. Just as true is if you think you are NOT capable. If you think about all that is “wrong” with you, and the reas...

Morning Mantra: "If you don't recognize that perfect is the enemy of good, you'll miss a lot of joy." Stop trying to be perfect, it's not possible. It can actually have the reverse affect on your happiness. For no one and nothing is perfect, and if that is the standard you have set, you will constantly be unhappy, and you will miss the wonder in the average, or good enough...

Morning Mantra: “Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” Life is all about balance.  The fine art of holding on and letting go.  The choice to ignore the chaos in the outer world to restore peace in your inner self. Doing too much of this and not enough of that. When one thing takes too much of your time, you suffer. When a responsibility becomes a chore, you suffer. When th...

Morning Mantra: “Release yesterday, seize today.” Whatever you’re going through at this time of life will pass. It’s easy to think you are stuck here forever.  It’s easy to worry about repeating the past mistakes that got you here.  Learn from your past mistakes but don’t let them weigh you down. You’re not what you’ve done in the past, you are the person who emerged from it. You are much wiser no...

Morning Mantra: “You are not alone.” No matter how happy someone may seem, they have moments when they feel like they can’t go on.  No matter how confident someone may look, there are times when they feel unsure and insecure.  And no matter how strong someone may appear, they have days when they feel like they’re falling apart.  Never think for a moment you’re alone with your struggles. You’re not...

Morning Mantra: “Life is better lived when you don’t center it on what’s happening around you and you center it on what’s happening inside you instead.” I’m slowly learning that even if I react, it won’t change anything. It won’t make people suddenly love and respect me. It won’t magically change their minds.  Sometimes it’s better to... just let things be,  let people go,  don’t fight for closure...

Morning Mantra: “If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.” Giving up only accomplishes one thing, failure. Not that there’s anything wrong with failing, that’s always a part of reaching a goal.  It’s only a problem if you continue to fail the same thing, because you are quitting when it gets hard.  If you really want something, it’s going to cost you. Time, energy, money, confidence at ti...

Morning Mantra: “Aim to be a person that makes others feel seen, heard, loved, and valued.” Aim to be the person who asks, “what were you saying”? When someone is interrupted.  Aim to be the person who tries to generally understand people’s point of view.  Aim to be the person who smiles when people make eye contact with you.  Aim to be the person who actually cares to listen to the answer when yo...

Morning Mantra: “Despite how you feel about your life, get up, show up and never give up.” Studies show that even when you’re feeling down, if  you look for something positive, things will get better quicker. Just finding some little thing to feel good about can improve your attitude, which will improve your thinking, which will improve your behavior, which will increase the probability of positiv...

Morning Mantra: “I won’t let my forgiveness become my foolishness.” I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never let you get close enough to hurt me again. Forgiving someone doesn’t mean condoning their behavior. It doesn’t mean forgetting how they hurt you or giving that person room to hurt you again.  Forgiving someone means making peace with what happened. It means ack...

Morning Mantra: “Life is like the ocean with big waves of change, all we can do is go or flow.” Sometimes the sea is calm and other times everything can hit at once. You lose a relationship, change jobs, move, so old friends go. Life is up one day and down the next. You can feel like you have it all together on Monday and by Thursday you don’t have a clue. Then life gets easier again. You find a n...

Morning Mantra: “No one else can tell you to be happy or how to be happy." What you see on social media is rarely accurate. No one posts their bad days, mess ups, or just-doing-nothing photos. Everyone looks busy having fun! But the truth is there are always those days, for every single person. And that’s okay. You do you. They can do them. Your definition of happiness, or better yet contentm...

Morning Mantra: “Sometimes asking for help is the bravest thing you can do.” Some people aren’t good at asking for help because they’re so used to being ‘the helper’. Throughout their life they’ve experienced an unbalanced give and take, so their instinct is usually “I’ll do it on my own.” This is actually a trauma response. People that are afraid to ask for help have been let down by those that s...

Morning Mantra: “There is always a reason you meet certain people. Either you need them to change your life, or you’re the one that will change theirs.” Over the years I’ve asked myself why I have met certain people. Why did they come into my life at a particular time, what was the purpose of that relationship? Then l realized that there is a role for everyone you meet.  Some will test you, Some w...

Morning Mantra: "Just breathe and focus on the simplicity of the next step." When we get overwhelmed we tend to get spun up and think of every little detail of every thing you have facing you. Stop. Breathe. And take one small step. Think of it as a staircase. When you look at all the steps to reach the top it looks daunting, but if you take just the first step, then another, then the ne...

Morning Mantra: “Life is not a race to the finish line.” Take time to appreciate your life. Be thankful for everything you’ve been through. Love your life and what you’ve been given, it’s not accidental. Search for your purpose and do it as best you can.  Dream, it allows you to become what you aspire to be.  Laugh often, it’s really the best medicine. Notice and appreciate the little things, and...