Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “People don’t always need advice, sometimes they really need a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand." Stress, grief, disappointment, shame, fear, or any other powerful emotion hits us all a at different times throughout our lives. The last thing anyone needs at those times is someone judging their pain. Compassion for others is the ultimate expression of y...

Morning Mantra: “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” It can feel like the world is out of control these days and there is nothing you can do to change it. Well, there is if you focus on your small part of it. If you feel like doing your part to change the world, start by giving thanks for all the blessings in your life, rather than bemoaning all that’s missing from it.  Then, start compleme...

Morning Mantra: “No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you have gone through is part of what you are meant to learn.” You are not stuck, you are in pain. And pain passes. Then leaves you with superpowers you never knew you could have. A knowledge of strong you can be. A new depth of character. An ability to relate to more people in life. An increased empathy. And a fearlessness that can...

Morning Mantra: “When peace is your highest priority, your choices become clear.” Nothing is worth your inner peace.  Take action as circumstances require, but never surrender your peace. Stop. Breathe deeply. Close your eyes and breathe again. Then, and only then, take action- from a peaceful state. Inner peace begins the moment you choose to not allow anything outside of you control your emotion...

Morning Mantra: “What you do makes a difference, you just have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” It’s easy to think you don’t make a difference in a world of social media where we value people having huge followings and 1000’s of likes.  But your impact on other people is bigger than you think.  Someone still giggles when they think of the funny thing you said.  Someone still sm...

Morning Mantra: “If we only fought as hard to understand as we did to disagree.” I’ve always felt that disagreement is merely confusion in disguise.  When we don’t understand the other person’s perspective we tend to disagree. So often we are so busy trying to get them to understand our view that we don’t even attempt to understand theirs.  We listen to respond not to hear what they are saying. Wh...

Morning Mantra: “If you spend all your time preparing for the storm you’ll forget to enjoy the sunshine.” Worrying about what MIGHT come or happen is like praying for chaos. It won’t stop it from coming, it will only rob you of the beauty of today. When you find yourself seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath, then ask yourself what you can do RIGHT NOW to find peace.  Then do...

Morning Mantra: “I will never have this version of me again, let me slow down and be with her.” Whether you love and accept everything about yourself or you are still trying to become the best version of yourself, make sure you make time to just be with yourself.  To show up and really appreciate your strengths, your gifts, and what makes you so unique. To take the time to identify your dark side...

Morning Mantra: “A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.  I feel like the best explanation of friendship is the comfort of knowing that even when you feel alone, you’re not.  True friends make you feel heard, seen and accepted. They give you total freedom to be yourself. True friends aren’t the ones that try to make you...

Morning Mantra: “It’s not always the strongest that survive, it’s the most adaptable.” It’s okay to be happy one day and sad the next.  It’s okay to feel confident one day and anxious the next.  You don’t have to feel the same every day.  You just need to learn to accept and adapt to how you feel. Too often we suppress our feelings so we won't be considered too reactive or sensitive.  But the...

Morning Mantra: “Yesterday’s broken resolutions are today’s opportunities to start over.” Well, it’s almost the end of the first month of the new year.  The time of year that we realize we might have broken our New Year’s resolutions. This realization might make you feel defeated, disappointed in yourself, and ready to give up. But those are just feelings generated by negative self-talk.  It’s not...

Morning Mantra: “Happiness is not by chance but by choice.” One of the first steps of happiness is deciding that you want to be happy and knowing what that means to you. What happiness looks and feels like to you will change over your lifetime so you have yo have conversations with yourself on a regular basis of what that looks like to you. To be happy is a choice you make every hour of every day....

Morning Mantra: “If you never ask, the answer is always No.” Did you know that 65% of the time you ask for something you get it?  Room upgrades at hotels, a promotion and raise, a free dessert if your meal wasn’t that great, you get the idea. So, if more than half the time you will get it, what holds us back? It’s usually fear and/or feeling unworthy. Fear of speaking up or fear of rejection is so...

Morning Mantra: “Instead of looking how far you still have to go, take a moment of gratitude for how far you have come.” I’m struggling with this a little right now.  I have owned my horse for almost two years and sometimes I feel like we aren’t making any progress with his physical and mental issues or his training goals. I truly understand the value of taking things slow with horses, but it gets...

Morning Mantra: “If it’s your calling, it will keep calling until you LISTEN.” Your calling isn’t something someone can tell you about.  It’s what you feel. It’s the thing that lights your soul on fire.  You know it’s the thing you are supposed to do.  And nobody can tell you what that is because it’s inside of you. If you are not sure, find your passion, it will lead you there.  What is it that y...

Morning Mantra: “Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you’ll never get the same day twice.” Today is here. This day. A day you will never get to relive.  This fact can act in two ways, as a reminder to spend your precious time wisely, or as a reminder that bad days eventually end.  Either way your life becomes easier. We take our time on earth for granted. We rush thr...

Morning Mantra: “Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and moving on.” Letting go when someone says something that hurts your feelings or does some little thing that is rude is difficult.  So difficult, that you might find yourself obsessing about it all day. The other person could even be completely unaware of the fact that they cut in front of you or triggered you, but that does...

Morning Mantra: “You will inspire some and trigger others. Both are medicine.” Have you ever been told you are too much? Too loud, too active, too weird, you try too hard. Or maybe you’ve asked to speak up? To stop being so serious? Well, those comments are made by people that are triggered by you.  They see a part in you that they wish they could be more like.  They don’t have the confidence to s...

Morning Mantra: “Faith ends where worry begins.” Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.  Yet worry can creep in and steal it. Worry = Anxiety about what MIGHT happen. Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no real purpose but to rob us of our faith. Worry is usually fear in disguise.  Not fac...

Morning Mantra: “You can have a good life in spite of your past, or a bad one because of it.” The choice in how your past affects your future is always yours.  You can decide to NOT let it define you and create a beautiful life from what you’ve learned and conquered.  Or you can use your past as an excuse to continue to make poor choices, ruin relationships and limit yourself. I understand that th...

Morning Mantra: “You’ll know your tribe by their vibe.” Have you ever met someone and right away knew they were your people?  Or maybe you sensed that they were NOT?  That is energy at work.   Your people are the people your soul recognizes.  The ones that make you feel the most YOU.  The right people for your soul HEAR you differently, they SHOW UP differently, they SUPPORT YOU differently, and N...

Morning Mantra: “Be patient with yourself when becoming someone you haven’t been before.” We all want results fast.  Whether it’s with ourselves, our horses, our redecorating, our life! It’s a slow journey. Change is a process, not an event. Actually, the journey IS the process.  Each step is necessary.  Each turn, each setback and each goal reached is all part of it.  You can’t rush it.  You also...

Morning Mantra: “Strength is the courage we find in life’s most difficult times that makes our souls grow.” When you need a reminder of what strength looks like, look at yourself. Look at what you’ve done, how far you’ve come, all the things you’ve moved past, and overcome. Repeatedly, constantly, daily. You are strength, you are strong, you are your living, breathing reminder that you have the st...

Morning Mantra: “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and create a life you are happy to live.” Maybe it’s time to redefine success.  Too often we let society, our boss, our parents, or other people we know tell us what they think it means. We grab onto the ridiculous notion that you must have a certain amount of money, a certain car, and look a certain way. Then we near...

Morning Mantra: “Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes.” If we don’t tell people how we feel, how will they know? The art of genuine communication is one that is necessary for yourself and your relationship with others. In our digital world it is even more difficult to have heartfelt conversations. Without the energy attached, the inflection, and active listening you can easily misinterpret...