Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "Don't miss the sun today worrying about the rain tomorrow." Why fill your thoughts with worry? Does it ever change the outcome? No, it only ruins the day you are in. It only wears you out with nothing to show for it. It's like sitting in a rocking chair- it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. Utilize that energy in a more productive...

Morning Mantra: "If you don't recognize that perfect is the enemy of good, you'll miss a lot of joy." Stop trying to be perfect, it's not possible. It can actually have the reverse affect on your happiness.  For no one and nothing is perfect, and if that is the standard you have set, you will constantly be unhappy, and you will miss the wonder in the average, or good enoug...

Morning Mantra: "What the mind suppresses, the body expresses." Feeling emotions is a beautiful part of the human experience. Sometimes it serves us well to take a beat and learn how to deal with certain feelings, but suppressing your emotions long term can lead to physical issues. Unexpressed emotions such as anger, frustration, sadness, or disappointment can manifest in the body physic...

Morning Mantra: "Take a walk on the wild side." What does it mean to be a wild woman?  To me, being wild, is a woman of any age that feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life. It means you are free to unbridle your mind from conditioning and fear. Free to release your untamed spirit and let it soar. Being a wild women allows you to be yourself without asking perm...

Morning Mantra: "Learn the difference between your intuition guiding you and your trauma misleading you." First of all, your intuition will never scare you. Your intuition is a whisper, a loving nudge, a gentle guide.  It doesn't scream, berate, or criticize- that's all in your head. Those are your past wounds being triggered. That would be the ego getting it's panties in...

Morning Mantra: "Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Healing happens through feeling it." Learn to sit with that fear or anxiety you are feeling. Breathe through it. Visualize the best possible outcome. Underneath those difficult feelings is your light, your power, your ability to get to the other side of it. Don't push it away or pretend it's not there, or numb it. Sit with...

Morning Mantra: "Walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will." Try something different every day and you will learn something new. Convince yourself that you have no limits to what you can learn. Challenge yourself. The challenges don't always have to be extreme. It can be as simple as taking a new route to work or trying a new skill you've never done....

Morning Mantra: "Search for the good and you'll find it." If you look for people that don't like you, you'll find them. If you look for people who leave you out, put you down, lie to you, or treat you bad, you'll find them too. But... If you look for people who need a friend, you'll find them. If you look for people to include you, laugh at your jokes, and value...

Morning Mantra: "Wake up every day with the thought that something wonderful is going to happen." Today is the day that Christians around the world celebrate Easter.  A day of hope. A day of celebration and promise. A day of healing after so much suffering. May you and your families find hope, promise and healing today, May this day be the start of something wonderful. Happy Easter. #BeF...

Morning Mantra: "Risk is better than regret." The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.   Life is all about risk; either you risk it and go for your dreams, or you do nothing and risk regretting it forever. So do it! Take the chance! Be brave. Be curious. Allow the unexpected. Embrace the unknown. In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take. #BeARiskTaker #BeHapp...

Morning Mantra: "You can't litter negativity everywhere you go, then wonder why you have a trashy life." You reap what you sow. If you put negativity out there, that's what will come back to you. So don't act so surprised when it does. Being positive doesn't mean you'll never feel negative or have negative things happen, it means you will recognize it and overcom...

Morning Mantra: "You are entirely up to you." You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough. You have to not care what other people think about who that is. You have to decide that you are in charge of your life. Not society, not your ego, not the people who want you to fit into the box they have created for you. You get to decide who you are. You get to decide w...

Morning Mantra: "Be the reason someone smiles today." It's not very difficult to shift the negative narrative for yourself and for others. Just smile at a stranger. Compliment a co-worker. Send a hand written note to someone in your life. Pick some flowers and put them on your counter, or desk, or maybe drop then off where they are needed. CALL (not text) and actually SPEAK to a fri...

Morning Mantra: "Cry a river. Build a bridge. Then walk your butt right over it." In other words, feel the feels, then let it go. Don't stifle your pain, but don't wallow in it either.   Go ahead and cry if it hurts. Release the pain. Throw yourself a big ole pity party, for a day, or two. Then, roll up your sleeves, and get busy getting happy again. Loose the weight of the hur...

Morning Mantra: "A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink." Strong women aren't born that way. We are forged through the challenges of life. With each challenge we grow mentally and emotionally. We move forward with our head held high and a strength that cannot be denied. A strong woman has been through the storm and survived.  She winks because she understand...

Morning Mantra: "Life is a like a test full of questions. People fail because they try to copy other people's answers, not knowing that everyone has a different set of questions." Each one of us will be tested by life.  But, we each have to answer the questions on our own.  No two people see the world (or life) the same.   What seems like the answer for what makes a person happy, sa...

Morning Mantra: "Be the rainbow to someone else's storm." Maybe you feel like you have nothing left to give, give anyway. Maybe you feel like your help won't be appreciated, help anyway. So many times people that are going through a storm are too embarrassed or proud to ask for help. They think it makes them look weak, or they fear rejection if they ask. Offer support through k...

Morning Mantra: "Sometimes life doesn't give you what you want, not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve much more." We all are limited by what we believe.  You may want something because that is all you can currently imagine or what you think you deserve. But life has unlimited potential, unlimited opportunities, and God has a plan for you. Be patient.  Work h...

Morning Mantra: "Look back and be grateful. Look ahead and be hopeful. Look around and be helpful." My favorite quote by my favorite guru, Dr. Wayne Dyer, is "if you change the way you look at things the things you look at change," and the mantra this morning is a perfect example of how this can be. Instead of looking back with regret or sadness, look back and be grateful for a...

Morning Mantra: "Action expresses priorities." You define what's important to you by what you devote your attention to. If you find yourself not having enough joy in your life then you are not prioritizing it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Read that again. The truth...

Morning Mantra: "Don't give up before the miracle happens. " Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to reach down inside yourself, to hold on to that strength you find, and know that tomorrow is a new day with new possibilities. But if you can hold on long enough to see things through, and trust that you can survive this rough patch, you'll come out a new person. When you least ex...

Morning Mantra: "Be the things you loved about the people who are gone." What was it about them that you kept in your heart?  Was it the kindness they showed you when you were feeling down? Was it the guidance they offered when you felt lost? Or maybe it was their generosity, sense of humor, or work ethic? These were not just their lessons, they were a sharing of energy. We carry a littl...

Morning Mantra: "Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." Be curious. Be spontaneous. Be full of wonder at the beautiful world we live in. These will take you further than anything because your imagination is your only limit. You can learn from others for sure, but to create and look for the wonder, allows you to offer your interpretation of what you see, think, and feel. It...

Morning Mantra: "I pray you heal from things that no one ever apologized for." That's a tough one, the absent apology. It's difficult to move on after being hurt, but it's especially hard without the person that hurt you owning it, and asking for your forgiveness. Forgive them anyway. Many times the only person suffering is you. They don't realized how much they hurt...

Morning Mantra: "If you want good things to come your way, you need to start believing that you deserve them." Sometimes the hardest part of chasing your dreams is believing you are worthy. Well, here's the truth. You are. Sometimes we accept less than we deserve because we think that a little is better than nothing. This happens because you don't know your worth. Every. Single...