Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "I release all that weakens my light and welcome that which is in alignment with my soul." There’s a quiet softness that arrives with growth. Not because something is wrong, but because your system is learning how to release old versions of safety.  It recognizes old patterns that once felt necessary as heavy and misaligned. Change doesn’t always feel loud — sometimes it...

Morning Mantra: "Be proud of yourself for how hard you are trying."    Nobody sees the battles you fight every day. No one truly understands how hard it is to do what you do. They judge you. They criticize you. But they could never be you. Despite all the difficulty, you manage to smile, to find the beauty in the world, and to help others. Despite the challenges, you continue to work to...

Morning Mantra: "Hate is heavy. Let it go."  Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but hasn't solved a single one. It's a heavy burden to carry in your heart.  It clouds the light of love that lives there. It hurts you more than the object of your distain, heck, most of the time they aren't even aware of your feelings. Even if they are the most damaged, hurtful,...

Morning Mantra: "I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good I can do."  Great opportunities to help others are out there but feel unattainable to most people, but small ones surround us everyday.  I see these huge fundraisers for worthy causes and I want to help but always thought what I can offer won't matter.  Then one day I realized my commitm...

Morning Mantra: "Don't let new wisdom lead you to criticize your past decisions." Cut yourself some slack.  You did the best you could with what you knew at the time. Learning more information shouldn't make you feel bad about the choices you made before. If you regret some of the decisions you made in the past, don’t be so hard on yourself. At the time, you did your best with...

Morning Mantra: "The bad news is nothing lasts forever. The good news is nothing lasts forever."  Remember, life has seasons. Time after time they arrive and they leave. You may feel like you won't survive a season of struggles, but I assure you, you will.  The circumstance will change and so will your season. When you are encouraged to "treasure" the amazing moments becau...

Morning Mantra: "Aging is just another word for living." As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind.  Life humbles you.  As you grow older, you stop chasing the big things and start valuing the little things. Alone time, enough sleep, a healthy meal, long walks, and quality time with loved ones. Simplicity becomes the ultimate goal. Grow...

Morning Mantra: "Happiness is not built; it is uncovered beneath layers of tension and attachment." We often searches for happiness as something to attain, achieve, or secure. You may believe it lives in the next relationship, the next success, the next moment of recognition. Yet your Soul senses a deeper truth — that it can slip away the tighter you grip it. The more you chase happiness...

Morning Mantra: When your mind spirals into "what if", return to "what is" What is here.  What is real.  What is within reach.  The mind spirals when it’s trying to solve uncertainty without enough information. Returning to the "what is" brings the nervous system back into contact with reality, where choice actually exist.  The body is the fastest anchor to the presen...

Morning Mantra: "You deserve people who make you feel chosen not tolerated." Taylor Swift has a song about being tolerated in a relationship and it got me thinking about some of my relationships.  Am I doing more to try and get them to choose me?  Am I putting up with behavior that I shouldn't to feel included? We must never accept being relegated to the status of being tolerated in...

Morning Mantra: "The right path will feel like relief not resistance." The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Is to stop looking at the path and feel it instead.  Does it feel good? Does it feel like it aligns with your goal? Your values? Your best self? This doesn’t mean that the right path is always easy. It means that the right path is the one you are willing to ke...

Morning Mantra: "Love gently, kindly, fiercely, bravely as an expression of your light and spirit." The people who change our lives are the ones who lead with love. The ones who listen. Who try not to judge. They see the good in us even when we feel bad about ourselves.  Loving in the form of listening, empathizing, tolerance, non judging and physical expressions is engaging the best of...

Morning Mantra: "Today I will take a moment to simply be." You don't always have to be moving forward. Sometimes you just need to float for awhile to catch your breath and enjoy all the beautiful things you miss when you are rushing through life. S...l...o...w..... it all down.  Pause from your full calendar and task list. Remind yourself that THIS is life, right here, right now. Pa...

Morning Mantra: "Learning how to take nothing personally will change your life." Most of what people do has nothing to do with you.  Let their mood be theirs.  Let their actions be theirs. Let your life be yours. That’s how you take your power back. Learning this is freedom. When you stop taking everything personally, you will claim your energy, your peace, and your power. What belongs t...

Morning Mantra: "You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be." You are not stuck, you are just committed to certain patterns of behavior because they helped you in the past. Now those behaviors have become more harmful than helpful.  The reason why you can’t move forward is because you keep applying an old formula to a new level in your life. Change the formula to get a diffe...

Morning Mantra: "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them." Life is hard. There is always going to be something that you have to "deal" with. Accepting this fact, and then employing ways to help yourself, is the key to a happy life. Don't be to ashamed to build a tribe of support around you. Don't be embarrassed to try counseli...

Morning Mantra: "Actions speak louder than words." We can all TALK a good game but what are you actually DOING?  I can tell you I'm going to have a peaceful day then get in my car and scream at every driver that doesn't drive the way I think they should.  How peaceful is that? You can tell your kids you love them but if you ignore them, criticize them or create a home filled wi...

Morning Mantra: "Be soft for the sake of every hard heart."  It's not your imagination, the world and many of the people in it have hardened.  Maybe it's because of all the chaos of late.  Maybe it's because of all the pain and suffering we are aware of now- 24 hours a day- thanks to TV and social media. Whatever the reason, it is more important than ever, that YOU stay so...

Morning Mantra: "Today will be a peaceful day." Peace is not far away. It is one breath away. One pause away. One kinder choice away. One step away from anger. One step toward compassion. One step without the weight of resentment. One step in the present moment. One step in patience. One step with understanding. Sometimes, the quietest steps echo the farthest. #BeAnchoredinPeace #BeHappy...

Morning Mantra: "Remove one unhealthy habit instead of adding another healthy one." You only have so much time in your day.  If you keep adding things to do you are more likely to NOT do some of them.  So why not start your health/healing journey by removing a bad habit. For example, if you start walking but still smoke the two will cancel each other out.  It's better to stop smokin...

Morning Mantra: "It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and demands on yourself are higher. The one that follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places where they can create, heal, learn and become the highest v...

Morning Mantra: "Save your emotions for someone who values and understands your heart." Find someone who is sure of you. So sure that he or she will stay while you find your way into being the best version of yourself. They choose love over imperfection and growth over over past mistakes. They will love you, especially on your hardest days. Real love means having a partner who supports y...

Morning Mantra: "I love and show up As I Am."  Our level of belonging can only be as deep as our level of self acceptance, because true belonging can only happen when we present our authentic, imperfect self to the world. When we judge ourselves and others we cannot accept them as they are. To understand this go into a forest and look at the trees.  Some are tall, some are thick, some ar...

Morning Mantra: “Until you know your options you will continue to feel stuck.”  When you only see one possible path forward, you limit your chance of success. Rather than complaining about the situation, or worrying about possible failure, give yourself more options. Take inventory and ask yourself what options do you currently have? Then consider, what new options could you develop? Are there oth...

Morning Mantra: "How your life feels is more important than how it looks." You know it when it feels right. It just fits.  With who you really are. Trying to appear a certain way to impress others, or because you think you need to, will never feel right. Even if you manage for it to look perfect, if you don't feel loved, honored, valued, and heard, you will not be able to sustain it...