Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “If we resist our emotions, we resist being human.” Keep the honest moments close to your heart. The ones that are the most human. When you laugh until your ribs ache with your friends, when you feel stars, exploding inside of you from falling in love, when life breaks you open and tears of transformation poor from your soul.  Life is really quite simple. It’s basically learning ho...

Morning Mantra: “If you do not go after what you want, you’ll never have it.” Feeling confident, or pretending that you feel confident, is necessary to reach your goals. It sounds like a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered, they are seized.  Achieving a goal isn’t an accident. It’s hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, the courage to try. And try again,...

Morning Mantra: “You can’t change the past, but you can change your attitude towards it.” Don't waste your time thinking about what you could have done differently. You have to keep your eyes on the road ahead and do it differently now. You must stop wishing you could go back and change how you did something, that’s a waste of your time and energy that you could be using to change how things...

Morning Mantra: “Don't try to be perfect. Just be an excellent example of a human being.” If you feel “off track”, please remember there is no track. This is your life. It ebbs and flows and twist and turns and slows and speeds up. It all belongs. Stop trying to be a robot who is productive and perfect all the time. You’re not a robot. You’re a human. Be alive to it all. At its root perfectio...

Morning Mantra: “What screws us up the most is the picture in our head of how we think it’s supposed to be.” You thought you knew best, but things don’t always happen the way YOU think they should. So now you’re disappointed, in the situation, or in the outcome, or in life.  It can be very frustrating, or even heartbreaking, when you are disappointed. Negative thoughts will swim in your mind. It h...

Morning Mantra: “Keep shining, beautiful one, the world needs your light.” You may ask yourself, ”who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous”? And I would ask you, who are you NOT to be those things? When you play small, or dim your heart light, it does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are ALL me...

Morning Mantra: “Change is not an event, it’s a process.” Everyone understands that if you don’t like something you should change it.  And if you can’t change it, you have to accept it.  It’s easy to think that once you make the difficult decision to change something in your life that it’s done.  Now, everything is different, better, fixed. The decision to change is only the first step.  There are...

Morning Mantra: “Feelings are for feeling. Even the hard ones.” Your mind may be confused at times, but your emotions don’t lie. You don’t always have to put on a brave face and hold yourself together. You don’t have to be that kind of strong every single day. The more comfortable you are expressing negative your feelings, the easier it is to let them go. It’s perfectly acceptable to drop the armo...

Morning Mantra: “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” This quote encourages us to make the most of each day and to prioritize taking meaningful actions instead of just waiting around for time to pass. It encourages us to focus on the present moment, appreciating it, and making the most of it, rather than being consumed by regrets or worries about the past or future. It reminds us to stop wa...

Morning Mantra: “Be kind or be quiet.” It’s so unfortunate how comfortable people have become being mean. It’s good to remember that only people that are not happy with themselves are mean to others. You can’t take it personally because it says nothing about you, but a lot about them. Many times, someone who is mean will say, “I’m not being rude, I’m just being honest.” “But they often forget that...

Morning Mantra: “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.” Adaptability is the most important trait for a happy life.  It’s not strength, it’s not beauty, it’s not intelligence, or cleverness.  Because life is always changing, you must be adaptable.  Every day offers us ways to see changing circumstances as lessons on flexibility and acceptance.  If...

Morning Mantra: “Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” Appreciation is an antidote to negative emotions. It’s a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is not taking things for granted; it is present – oriented. Appreciation is a combination of understanding, quiet amazement, a...

Morning Mantra: “I’m way more interested in how life feels to me than how it looks to others.” So, our trip to the horse show yesterday definitely didn’t go as planned.  I had to make a tough decision for the benefit of my horse.  A decision that felt right but probably looked to others like I was letting my fear run things. When we got to the show my horse was “up” but still looking to me for gui...

Morning Mantra: “Life itself is a privilege, but to live it fully, well that’s a choice.” Today I am showing my green Off the Track Thoroughbred in his very first show and my first show in almost 20 years. I am terrified. But I know we will be fine. We’ve put in the work, and I have an amazing barn family and trainer cheering me on. I decided that I am tired of being a spectator. I want to LIVE my...

Morning Mantra: “Laughter is an instant vacation.”   Whenever we get into our self-importance mode, we begin to believe that life is all about us. We believe that the things that happen are directed at us and against us. We take things personally. We think about ourselves and our problems too much and become too attached and invested in our opinions.  Humor can make a serious difference. In the wo...

Morning Mantra: “Wise are those who realize that they hold the fate of their love in their hands, and blessed are those who keep it alive. “ Love doesn’t self-destruct on its own. We choke it with unkind words. We starve it with empty promises. We poison it with toxic blame. We break it by trying to bend it to our will.  Life is finite and fragile, and just because someone is there one day, they m...

Morning Mantra: “Relax and enjoy the journey. There is no need to rush through life.” I do not want to be known as a woman who is always rushing, always holding herself together and pushing through. I would like to be known as a peaceful woman, a compassionate woman, a curious, joyful, pleasure,-loving woman.  A woman who works hard and rests deeply, who loves fiercely and lives gratefully.  A wom...

Morning Mantra: “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” We all wish for an easy life, but it’s the toughest of times that really build character, and let’s you know what you are made of.  Anyone can give up, that’s the easy route. But strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on, but you do anyway.    To hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell a...

Morning Mantra: “Find a way, not an excuse.” The habit of making excuses can become a way of life.  When you make excuses, you are giving up your power to change your circumstances. When you realize this, things become clearer. One of the best days of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. This is the day your life really begins. No apologies, or excuses, no one to lean on...

Morning Mantra: “Stop expecting and start accepting." One of the most difficult things for me is to not be disappointed when things don’t turn out like I had planned. But the secret to happiness is letting go of what you assume your life is supposed to be like right now, and sincerely appreciating it for everything that it is.  You can still strive for the things you desire in life, but you m...

Morning Mantra: “Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.” There are people that will take advantage of you if you show them kindness. They see you as the weaker person because you give of yourself instead of taking. Knowing this, show kindness but with awareness. Most people that get burned by a “taker” pull back and stop extending the kindness, but showing generosity to others is essential to you...

Morning Mantra: “A playful heart stays young in spirit.” You know when someone walks into a room and their energy and light draws you to them? Many times, that person isn’t even pretty or handsome by societal standards, but they exude such a peace and positivity that you want to be in their presence. This is what I strive for as I age. It is difficult to grow older in this day-and-age, especially...

Morning Mantra: “Today is a new day with new blessings and possibilities.” Every morning when we wake up, we have 24 brand new hours to live. What a precious gift.  You’ve been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good.  We have the capacity to live in a way that these 24 hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and to others. What you do today is import...

Morning Mantra: “I will be the best me I can be.” I don’t try to be someone else because I am good at being me.  God made me for a special reason and if I change who I am I will not be following my purpose. Even if I feel awkward sometimes being me, I don’t pretend to be something I’m not. Even if I fail at things I still keep trying, as me. Even if I tried to be something that I’m not, I’m still...

Morning Mantra: “I can do hard things.” Strangely, life can get harder when you try to make it easier.  Exercising might be hard, but a body that never moves makes life harder.  Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.  Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder.  Relationships are hard, but loneliness is harder. Work is hard, but not having an...