Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: “Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.” If you’re feeling uninspired, focus on your mind. Excite it. Expose it. Open it.  If you’re feeling unmotivated, focus on your heart. Find your why. Do something that matters. Be of service. If you’re feeling unhappy, focus on your body. Nourish it. Rest it. Move it. Don’t focus on the feeling, focus on the fix.. #BeWilling...

Morning Mantra: “Be yourself no matter what they say.' For every person who thinks you’re too quiet, there’s a person who thinks you’re an amazing listener. For every person who thinks you’re too clingy, there’s one who loves how much and how openly you care about others. For every person who thinks you are too loud, there’s one who admires how you dare to stand out from the crowd. For every...

Morning Mantra: “Live life giving grace to others.” The next time you meet someone remember that it is just a tiny moment in that person‘s entire journey. Don’t judge them based on one encounter and use it as a representation of their entire existence.  Maybe they had a bad day, maybe they lost someone that they loved, maybe they are struggling with their mental health. You just never know. You’ll...

Morning Mantra: “Don't ruin a good day because of a bad yesterday.” So, things didn’t go exactly how you’d planned yesterday. It can be a big disappointment when you think things will go a certain way and they don’t. Actually worse than bad, they fall flat.  There is only one thing you can do- move on. Of course you can grieve yesterday’s outcome, and you should evaluate how things went so wr...

Morning Mantra: “You cannot make people see clearly when they find comfort in their fog.” Denial is selective reality.  In some cases, denial keeps us blind to the things we don’t want to accept because our mind tell us we are not ready to handle them.  In other times we know the truth, but we stay in denial because we don’t WANT to believe or accept it. It can be frustrating to have a relationshi...

Morning Mantra: “Walls keep everybody out, boundaries teach them where the door is.” When you decide to set a boundary with someone you might ask yourself, “What if they get mad at me?”  The truth is if someone gets mad at you for having boundaries, it means that they’ve benefited from you not having any.  It’s not your responsibility to keep people happy every minute of the day. You are not respo...

Morning Mantra: “A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies.” The highest form of love is consideration.  When you think about how things would make someone else feel. When you pay attention to the details.  When you hold them in high regard when making decisions that could affect them. In any bond, how much you care about them can be found in how much you consider them. #BeCons...

Morning Mantra: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” Once you believe that you are worthy of a deep, profound love, you will open yourself up to receive it. Being open and vulnerable is scary but without it, true intimacy is not possible. And when you learn about this love try to nurture it, which is difficult in our modern world.  Look into more eyes than...

Morning Mantra: “Let whatever you do today be enough.” Quiet, the voice telling you to do more, and be more, and trust that in this moment, you who you are, where you are at, and what you are doing is enough.  You’ll get to where you need to be in your own time. Until then, breathe. Breathe and be patient with yourself and your process.  You are doing the best you can amid your struggles and that...

Morning Mantra: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.” For things to change you must do something differently. Doing things the same way and expecting things to turn out differently can’t happen.  Change can be scary, but so can remaining stuck in the same unhappiness. It might help to remember that change is not an event that happens overnight, it’s a proce...

Morning Mantra: “So many people love you, don’t focus on the people who don’t.” What is it about the human ego that wants to focus on what we don’t have instead of recognizing and appreciating all that we do? It’s a natural phenomenon but one we can choose to change. Recognize that the ego relies on familiarity, it is reluctant to change its focus. It needs drama to be fed. It wants to be the cent...

Morning Mantra: “My peace is my priority.” I’m at a place in my life where I will not deal with anyone or anything I don’t have to. If there’s drama, I’m leaving, I’m unfriending, I’m unfollowing.  I’m not engaging.  Make a snarky comment on my page- delete. Bully me at the barn- good bye. Disrespect my feelings- see ya. Not value my work- time to move on. I’m going to do anything I’ve have to do...

Morning Mantra: “More kindness, less judgement.” I love this exercise by Ram Dass on how to learn to be less judgey. Go into the woods and notice the trees. You will see all the different trees. Some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are others. And you look at the tree, and you allow it to be.  You want to understand why a certain t...

Morning Mantra: “It won’t happen overnight. But if you quit, it won’t happen at all.” Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of you doing it. The time will pass anyway.  So you might as well put that passing time to the best possible use. To me time is not measured in years, it’s measured by what you do, how you feel and how you spend it. Setting a goa...

Morning Mantra: “Until I’m carried out, I will carry on.” The world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows all the time. It can be very mean and hurtful place. It doesn’t care how tough you are. It will try to beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. We all have to realize that it isn’t how hard you get hit by life. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward....

Morning Mantra: “Gratitude transforms every negative situation.” You are allowed to be both disappointed and grateful.  You are allowed to want a better life at the same time you are grateful for the life you have.  You can embrace the sadness of loss and still be grateful that it ever happened. We get told that we should always be grateful- and this is true- but an attitude of gratitude accompani...

Morning Mantra: “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Appreciation is the highest form of prayer or meditation, it acknowledges the presence of goodness wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.  It fills the most basic human need- feeling appreciated. I’m sure we all know the feeling of helping out, or showing up, and not bei...

Morning Mantra: “Trust your journey.” Sometimes, when something doesn’t work out as you wanted, there’s something better coming your way. Although it’s difficult to believe in “something better” from where you stand, sometimes redirection is a helpful intervention.  It’s leading you away from problems you could not predict, and towards benefits, you could not imagine.  Sometimes mistakes lead you...

Morning Mantra: “The grass is greener where you water it.” We often hear people say the grass is greener on the other side. If you think that is true, it's time to stop comparing your lawn with someone else’s. The truth is it’s greener where you water it. It’s greener where you nurture it. It’s greener where your attention flows. We each only have a certain amount of “energy” to focus on thin...

Morning Mantra: “In order to learn and grow, you have to be teachable.” When you hear only what you want to hear, you’re not listening to learn.  When you read only to confirm what you already know, you are not growing.  Stretch yourself. Be teachable. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from everyone you can.  There will come a time when you will be grateful you did. #BeTeachable #HorseHip...

Morning Mantra: “Impossible is just an opinion.” The word itself says “I’m Possible” so let your imagination run wild, dream the biggest dream you can, start a new project, learn a new language, anything is possible! For every reason it's not possible, there are 100s of people that have had the same dreams and succeeded. Go ahead and believe and then try- it’s quite possible you will succeed!...

Morning Mantra: “Healing also means taking an honest look at the role you play in your own suffering.” Personal accountability is essential to growth. Understanding that you alone create and control your thoughts, emotions, actions and reactions. Sometimes you can play a role in your own suffering by standing by waiting for other people to change instead of being accountable, and deciding what you...

Morning Mantra: “What I am looking for is not out there, it’s in me.” Today is the day you stop searching for happiness outside yourself.  Searching for happiness in things, places, and others, is driven by the ego.  Happiness based on the ego is temporary, for if those things, or people are gone, then there goes your happiness. You have everything you need to be happy, inside yourself.  You have...

Morning Mantra: “In order to appreciate the value of an anchor, we need to know the strength of the storm.” Find something that anchors you. Life can be challenging, but that anchor is what will help you to not get caught up in the stressors of life.  It will be that humble reminder to have faith and trust that everything will always work out.  Without an anchor we float aimlessly, getting battere...

Morning Mantra: "Be the energy you want to attract." It’s easy to be positive and upbeat when things are going well. The real challenge of living with a positive attitude, is when life starts handing you problem after problem.  Yet that is the time when a positive outlook can make the biggest difference.  Your thoughts create your vibes which then influence your life.  So find the positi...