Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters."   When everything is moving too fast, the pressure is piling on, and you are ready to explode, find stillness. The best thing to counter chaos is to find your way to the quiet sanctuary within you.  Inner stillness is the key to outer strength. So slow down, take a deep breath. Become fully aware of your breath e...

Morning Mantra: "Replace 'I have to...' with 'I get to...' and see how your day changes."  Most of your stress is self-created.  It comes from the way you respond to things, not the way life actually is. One simple way to help change this is to change your perspective about things you must do in your life. Instead of saying, "I HAVE to go to work", try sayin...

Morning Mantra: "Joy is less about what happens to us and more about what we intentionally invite into our lives." Joy exists inside all of us. We just have to nurture it until it becomes our natural default setting more often than not. Cultivating joy doesn’t mean pretending life is easy. It means making room for things that make us feel alive such as movement, fresh air, horses, sunshi...

Morning Mantra: "Always remember you are BRAVER than you believe, STRONGER than you seem, SMARTER than you think, and more BEAUTIFUL than you ever imagined." We are what we think we are - that's how powerful our thoughts can be.  They are the architects of our self image, our actions and our life. So if you change the way you think, you can change your life.    Think good thoughts a...

Morning Mantra: "As you age you'll find the biggest regrets are the things you didn't do." Your 80 year old self doesn't wish you had been more perfect.  She wishes you had been more honest about what you wanted, and brave enough to build your life around it. In our country we tend to focus on how we look and what we own thanks to a consumer driven culture.  They NEED us t...

Morning Mantra: "Show me how good it gets and how easy it can be." The Universe is energy.  Your attitude puts you in a certain frequency.   Negative, grumpy, ungrateful thoughts will keep you in a low vibration.   Positive thoughts and intentions will have you in a higher one. Positive begets positive.  You attract what you put out.  So start the day, and throughout the day, send out hi...

Morning Mantra: "What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.”   The best way to avoid unhappiness is to simply allow life to not be perfect. The quickest way to achieve inner peace is to accept the world as it is.  Tires will go flat, people will disrespect you, and things will happen for no logical reason.   That is life. Take a deep breath, smil...

Morning Mantra: "Once you accept your flaws, no one can use them against you."   Self-acceptance, self-love.  Both truly necessary for happiness.  Both very difficult to do at times. Owning your story and loving yourself through the process is the bravest thing you'll ever do.  It takes courage to face your darkness and find a way to shine your light.  We are quick to judge ourselve...

Morning Mantra: "Breathe. You got this."   For whoever needs this today…. Life can feel overwhelming at times. Just try and keep it in perspective and remember... You don't have to figure it out today. You don't have to solve your whole life tonight. You don't have to tackle everything at once. You just have to show up and try. You just have to focus on the moment in front...

Morning Mantra: "Some see a weed and some see a wish."     Perspective is everything.  It can be your prison or your passport. Since we do not see things as they are, we see things as WE are, we need to make sure we are open to the idea of a different perspective. What feels like the end, could be a beginning. What looks like nowhere could be now here. What feels like a mistake could be...

Morning Mantra: "If you stumble, make it part of the dance."   A mistake that makes you humble is as valuable as an achievement.  It teaches you to laugh at yourself.  To be real and to show you're human. It shows others that you are trying.  It's safer to not try something new and eliminate the risk of a "stumble" but that's not living. Letting people see your &...

Morning Mantra: "Beauty is a light that shines from the heart."    In this superficial culture we live in, we are quick to determine someone's value by how they look.   Let's switch that.  Let's start by complimenting others on their thoughts, words, actions, and progress. Let's stop comparing ourselves to others based on looks too. Choose self love over self judgemen...

Morning Mantra: "Always focus on how far you've come instead of how far you have to go."  There is a big difference between going slow and stopping completely. Even if you’re making just a little bit of progress, that’s better than being at a standstill or falling behind. Always checking for the finish line can be defeating when you are making smaller steps than you want to, so look...

Morning Mantra: "I am growing and healing."    We are all a work in progress. No matter who you are, or where you are, there is always an area of your life that can be better. Every day brings with it the opportunity for improvement. No life is without it's challenges and moments of pain.  We must learn to accept this fact and see them as opportunities for growth.   If we try to spa...

Morning Mantra: "The truth will always be the truth, even if no one believes it.  A lie is still a lie, even if everyone believes it."     You can try to cover it up, explain it away, run from it or rationalize against it, but in the end, if you go against the truth, you will lose.  Lies, deceit, half truths, rationalizations and justifications must constantly be defended. The truth rema...

Morning Mantra: "90% of success in life is just showing up."  We are so used to instant gratification in this society that we sometimes forget that the only true way to reach your dreams is through good old fashion work.   It doesn’t hurt to be smart, resourceful, or well connected, yet what matters most to any achievement is simply showing up and doing the work. Great big wonderful thin...

Morning Mantra: "We are all fragments of one light source."     If it wasn't apparent before, it should be very obvious now in the age of technology .....we are all in this together.   Each and every one of us is interconnected to each and every one of us. The vibration of each person is joined with that of others.   Each one of us shares the responsibility to lift each other up, to...

Morning Mantra: "In a world full of chaos, be soft rain."   There are therapeutic benefits to a nice long rain.  Not just for the Earth, but for us as well.  It is a steady presence that nourishes, calms and replenishes. Studies have found that when the sound of rain enters a person’s brain, the brain unconsciously relaxes and produces alpha waves, which are very close to the state of th...

Morning Mantra: "If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you've started a war with yourself."  As hard as it is, and believe me I KNOW it's hard, but you must speak your truth.  As difficult as confrontation is, you must not swallow your feelings to avoid it. Avoiding conflict IS conflict. The trick is to learn HOW to say your truth so it will be heard and received. How to con...

Morning Mantra: "You don't end up with a meaningful life, you create one."    Life is not something that HAS meaning, it's something we GIVE meaning to. Try to pay attention to what inspires you.  It is the Universe trying to communicate with you, that's why it's called inspiration- "in-spirit." Listen to it, believe it, act on it. Don't worry if you ha...

Morning Mantra: "Expectations are disappointments waiting to happen." When we expect people to act or say things the way we would we set ourselves up for disappointments. Rarely do they do what we expect them to, and frankly, it is not their job to please us.  Everyone is working their own way home to their best self, and most people's paths are winding. The only thing you can contr...

Morning Mantra: "Life is short.  Spend it with friends who make you laugh and feel loved." A good relationship is when two people accept each other’s past, support each other’s present, and love each other enough to encourage each other’s future. Find a friend who encourages you to grow, who will let you go out into the world and if things don't go as planned they will have your bac...

Morning Mantra: "You weren't born just to pay bills and die."    Sometimes it feels like the same day. Over. And Over. Again. We get up, go to work, come home, then do it all again the next day. One day you'll look back and wonder where your life went. All the plans. All the dreams. Maybe if we can see this earlier we can recognize that THIS is your LIFE. Right NOW. So... Live....

Morning Mantra: "I'm not going to rush through this moment." When something really matters, take your time.  There is no reason to race towards anything.  This moment holds so much breathtaking life for you. This moment- here and now.  So slow down, and allow yourself to breathe in this moment.  Slow down, and let yourself really see and feel all that is happening right now.  It&apo...

Morning Mantra: "Even the smallest light cuts a path through the deepest darkness." Each day life presents us with a variety of challenges. Every one of those challenges is an opportunity to confirm and intensify truth and goodness. Within each act of genuine goodness are fertile seeds of even greater goodness.  It's up to us to plant those seeds, to spread the light. Every day choo...