Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine any brighter.” You never look good trying to make someone else look bad. Especially now, with life for most being tough enough already. Thanks to social media it’s easier now than ever to try and outshine someone, but that doesn’t mean you should. Pointing out someone’s flaws, mistakes, or trying to one-up them makes YOU loo...

Morning Mantra: “You can’t always have good days, but you can face bad days with a good attitude.” I’ve been talking a lot about choices lately in these Morning Mantras because sometimes I think we forget we have so many.  Another big choice we get to have is our attitude.  You get to decide how you you feel about, and respond to any given situation, person, or day.  Instead of just reacting to it...

Morning Mantra: “Sometimes the only closure you need is the understanding that you deserve better.” Throughout your lifetime some people will discredit you, disrespect you and treat you poorly for no apparent reason at all. Don’t consume yourself with trying to change them or win their approval. And don’t make any space in your heart to hate them.  Be strong enough to know when enough is enough. T...

Morning Mantra: “Life is too short to waste time.” If you made a mistake, apologize.  If you are thankful, say it.  If you are confused, ask questions.  If you learn something, teach it.  If you are stuck, ask for help.  If you are wrong, admit it.  If you can give, give. If you miss someone, call them.  And if you love someone, tell them, now. Life is too short to let your pride, ego, shame, fear...

Morning Mantra: “Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and love.” Beneath every behavior, there is a feeling, and beneath each feeling is a need.  When we meet that need, rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom. We can learn to control our behavior.  We can learn to control our feelings (thinking), but our needs are basi...

Morning Mantra: “I can show empathy and understanding without needing to fix things, accept blame, or change who I am.” If a person doesn’t want to take responsibility for the consequences of their choices and actions, don’t accept the job. It’s actually not your job to make sure others understand you,  to explain your No,  to take on their energy,  to make them happy,  to regulate their emotions,...

Morning Mantra: “Your life is your story, make it a good one.” Life is like a book with many different chapters. You can’t just skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character.  You won’t enjoy it all, some chapters will make you cry for weeks.  You will read things you don’t want to read, but you will also have moments when you don’t want the pages to e...

Morning Mantra: “I choose to believe in miracles and unexpected blessings.” We have been taught to believe that miracles are these huge events.  That they only happen occasionally.  But I believe that miracles happen everyday, you just have to believe in them to see them.  They are all around you. The magic of a sunrise is a miracle. Can you witness it an not be in awe? The amazing human body and...

Morning Mantra: “Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” If you are going to accept anything in life it should be that it is hard. We resist life when we think it is always going to be butterflies and rainbows. When we resist, we live in a state of dissatisfaction.  Accepting that life is hard allows you to move through the resistance to a place of peace amid the chaos.  This doesn’t mean you d...

Morning Mantra: “If you want the rainbow, you gotta out up with some rain.” You can’t know happiness without first knowing sadness. You can’t understand loss, without first having something you don’t want to lose. You can’t know your strength without first feeling weak. You can’t appreciate peace without first knowing what it feels like in chaos. And you certainly can't understand love withou...

Morning Mantra: “You have spent enough time trying to be enough in someone else’s eyes, now it’s time to be enough in your own.”  You are enough.  You don’t have to be tidier, thinner, funnier, or smarter. You don’t have to be more assertive, more ambitious, more social, or more productive.  You can keep growing, but you don’t have to be more of anything in order to be enough, you already are perf...

Morning Mantra: “Fear isn’t you.  It’s something moving through you.  It can leave out of the same door it came in.” Stop expecting so much from yourself. You had a fright. It's OK to be scared.  Slow down and take comfort in small steps. Celebrate each small step as a victory.  Each small step is progress. But you are not required to make progress each day.  Some days are just difficult, and...

Morning Mantra: “You are not your thoughts or feelings, you are the consciousness behind them.” You are not your feelings; you just experience them. You are not your thoughts, you are the person thinking them.  You are the conscious being who is aware of all these things. See your feeling as the rain you walk in. You are not the rain; you feel the rain on your skin.  You don’t become the rain as y...

Morning Mantra: “Sometimes peace in your heart is more important than giving someone a piece of your mind.” Endings don’t require drama or toxic behaviors. It’s OK to bow out gracefully. You can end something because it’s not what you want, or it doesn’t fit where you are going, or you’re tired of trying to make it work.  You can end something because your needs have changed, or you can no longer...

Morning Mantra: “The time it takes is the time it takes.” This mantra is such a beautiful reminder to enjoy the journey and the many lessons we get to learn along the way.  So many times we want to rush to the finish line, totally missing the point of the journey. Slowing down allows you time to notice nuances, to breathe in beauty, to expand your consciousness and to be present in the moment.  In...

Morning Mantra: “Mistakes are why we have erasers on pencils.” My dad used to say this a lot. Usually in response to a mistake made by one of his kids. It is a truth for the ages. Stop thinking every choice you make is forever.  Stop thinking you need to stick with something you chose if it is not working for you. Make more choices. Take more risks. Make more mistakes. You can change your mind. Yo...

Morning Mantra: “Love is a verb.” Everyone has their own love language. Some people are very verbal, always telling others how they feel.  Some people are demonstrative, always giving gifts or doing things.  If you aren’t great at speaking your feelings out loud, or  you aren’t confident enough to demonstrate your love, there are beautiful ways that you can express it: Respecting someone’s time. ...

Morning Mantra: “God comes to you disguised as your life.” Any conscious attempt by us to engineer or plan our own enlightenment is doomed to failure because it will be ego driven. We will try to “succeed” during our failure and try to control our times of discontent. We must remember that unexpected weaknesses, failure, and humiliation force us to go where we never would otherwise. To grow, we mu...

Morning Mantra: “Life doesn’t always give you what you want, it gives you what you need.” Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in Patience,  Timing,  Alignment,  Empathy,  Compassion,  Faith,  Perseverance,  Resilience,  Humility,  Trust,  Meaning,  Awareness,  Resistance,  Purpose,  Clarity,  Grief,  Beauty,  and Life.  Either way, you win. #BeOpenToGettingWhatYouNeed #B...

Morning Mantra: “If you’re going to rise, you might as well shine.” Being positive doesn’t mean you live in Candyland. Positive people have real problems. They get angry, they challenge people and fight hard for what they believe in. But they are also self-aware and accountable for their emotional state. Positivity is not about wearing rose-colored glasses and rolling over when the going gets toug...

Morning Mantra: “You will never truly understand something unless it happens to you.” To truly understand what someone is experiencing you must have experienced it yourself.  You can try to understand, you can have compassion for them, but true understanding requires you to stand in their shoes of experience.  To know what they know.  To have seen what they have seen. To experience the emotions th...

Morning Mantra: “Life has no remote, get up and change it yourself.” Only you can change your life. And it begins with mindset. And mindset creates habits. And habits can change your life. Changing your mindset begins with thinking new thoughts.  Instead of thinking why your life can’t be changed, start writing down HOW you want it to change. And what you can DO to make it change.  Start by thinki...

Morning Mantra: “Let today be the day you stop dreaming of a better life; let it be the day you act upon it.” An amazing thing happens when you get honest with yourself and start doing what you love, what makes you happy. Your life literally slows down.  You stop wishing for the weekend. You stop merely looking forward to special events. You begin to live in each moment, and you start feeling pres...

Morning Mantra: "Life is figuring out what matters as you go.” What we all must accept is that you’re never going to figure it all out. You’re never going to figure out the world, or why the things that happen happened. You're never going to figure how to ensure that your future is flawless. You’re never going to figure out how to be perfect, because it was never meant to be perfect.  In...

Morning Mantra: “Instead of saying you HAVE to, start saying you GET and see how it changes your day.” Instead of I HAVE to exercise, say I GET to. So many people are unable. Instead of saying I HAVE to go to work, say I GET to. So many people can’t find work. Instead of saying I HAVE to go see my family, say I GET to. So many people don’t have one. Instead of saying I HAVE to feed my animals, say...