Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "You can't make someone love you by giving them more of what they already don't appreciate." If someone asks you to do more and you have a big reaction inside, it might be a sign that you are already doing too much. Listen to your gut, you know what is true, what is working, and what is not. No one will tell you to set boundaries with yourself, especially if the...

Morning Mantra: "Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." Today, as you go about your day, try to remember that that there is probably someone having a tougher day than you. There is always someone trying to be positive in the face of a battle. There is always someone that needs love and support. There is always someone that needs to be lifted as life...

Morning Mantra: "Don't trust your fears, they don't know your strengths." Fear is a liar anyway. It puts things in your head that aren't true.  Some times it takes all the strength you have to overcome it, but you can and you will. Don't let fear try to defeat you. Glance at it and smile, knowing that within you is an infinite strength, and that is where you have deci...

Morning Mantra: 'I'm not in competition with anyone, I want us all to be happy." A flower doesn't think about competing with the other flowers, it just blooms.  With each other blooming, they are even prettier than without. The sun doesn't compete with the moon, each shine when it's their time. The same can be said of people. We don't need to worry about what oth...

Morning Mantra: "If you don't like the road you are walking, start paving a new one." This quote by Dolly Parton pretty much sums up life's journey.   It's not as much about where you are going as it is about how you get there. It's ABOUT the journey. The road you take. The happiness you find along the way. And, if you are on a road that you don't like, you can a...

Morning Mantra: "Wrong is wrong. Even if everyone is doing it. Right is right. Even in no one is doing it." It seems like humanity is faced with a choice these days; which side of history will you be on? Deep inside you know what your best self would do at all times. You make your own choice whether to listen to that voice or not. So... Choose to be kind. Choose to be compassionate. Choo...

Morning Mantra: "Your mind will constantly rewire itself to suit the information you feed it." If you constantly complain, gossip, find excuses, etc.; it will make it much easier to find other things to get upset about. Likewise, if you constantly search for opportunities, abundance, love, and things to be grateful for, it will make it much easier to find a reflection of those things aro...

Morning Mantra: "Don't be afraid to start over again. This time, you are not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience." Just because the past didn't turn out like you had hoped, doesn't mean the future won't.  Go ahead and try again. You are better equipped this time. You know what works, and what doesn't. You know what brings you joy, and what...

Morning Mantra: "Starve your distractions. Feed your focus." Beware of distractions that come your way.  They make it easy to quit, to give up or give in. They make detours seem like good ideas.  They keep you from moving forward toward your goal. They prevent you from healing. But you can't really blame the distraction, it's your focus that is the issue. There will always be d...

Morning Mantra: "Don’t wait for happiness and joy to come to you. Let them come from you." Don’t wait for the circumstances to be perfect to feel joy. Circumstances come and go. Let your joy transcend them and transform them.  You have the privilege of being alive and the ability to move beyond any past disappointment, or current stress. Fill your heart with joy and you’ll be amazed at h...

Morning Mantra: "You being you, is a gift to every single person in the world." You will never make anyone else's life better by agreeing to not be yourself.  It may seem so on the outside, but every soul in the Universe is invested in every other soul living in line with their truth. So anyone asking, or requiring, you to live in opposition to your essence, to who you really are, i...

Morning Mantra: "You can pretend to care, but you can't pretend to show up." Yesterday was my father's memorial service and I gave thee eulogy. He was so many things to so many people that it was hard to pin point what he stood for...until I thought about the common thread.  He showed up. This mantra quote by George L. Bell was one of his favorites.  He felt that if you truly c...

Morning Mantra: "Dear Stress, let's break up." Stress is self-created. We can decide to stop manufacturing it and the greatest weapon over stress is our ability to choose our thoughts. Stress is not what happens to us, it's our reaction to what happens.  Therefore, if you can control your reaction, you can control your stress level. You CAN choose internal calm and joy amid the...

Morning Mantra: "Your purpose in life is not to love yourself, but to love BEING yourself." If your goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inwards, towards yourself.   You end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to correct the feelings towards yourself, or fashion yourself into something you can approve of. If your goal is to love BEING y...

Morning Mantra: "If outside validation is your soul's only form of nourishment, you will always be hungry." Far too many people seek validation from external sources, be it family, friends, social media, their boss.  The problem with this is that if it is not received, or maybe not given in the way you want, it chips away at your self-esteem. Be your own validation. Set your own sta...

Morning Mantra: "Try to witness the emotion instead of becoming it." Let's get real, you probably won't be able to do this when you are emotionally flooded, so give yourself a break. However, there will be moments when you can stand back and observe the flow of your thoughts and emotions. When this happens you will be less likely to get caught up in the stories your mind spins,...

Morning Mantra: "Focus on your own voice, it's the only one that matters." You know yourself better than anyone else, yet you crumble at the words of someone who hasn't lived one second of your life. Sometimes you've got to ignore the critics, just listen to yourself, and be okay with no one else understanding. You have all this useful knowledge and wisdom within you, it&a...

Morning Mantra: "Stop over thinking everything. You're breaking your own heart." Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head. Over thinking can lead to problems that don't even exist, and can prevent you from making decisions. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to not think at all.  Not to wonder.  Not to imagine. Just breathe and have faith that everything wil...

Morning Mantra: "Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to do it is courage." A lot of walking away will do your life good. Walk away from arguments that lead you to nowhere. Walk away from people who deliberately put you down. Walk away from trying to please people who never see your worth. Walk away from thoughts that undermine your peace of mind. Walk away from your mistakes...

Morning Mantra: "Just because your past wasn't perfect doesn't mean you aren't." We are not our past. We are not our mistakes. We are not what was done to us. We are not what we did. We ALL are beauty. We ALL are truth. We ALL are love. We ALL are enough. We ALL deserve abundance. We ALL deserve happiness. Because we are ALL perfectly imperfect. Let go of anything that is...

Morning Mantra: "Some people create their own storms, then get upset when they get wet." There will always be those people in your life (maybe it's you?) that create drama. The peace they seek scares them so much that they self-sabotage their happiness. They quit jobs, break off relationships, stop paying bills, over spend, drink or eat. Then they complain about it. They look for pe...

Morning Mantra: "Someone else is dreaming about what you have." Remember, that house that you think is old and ugly, is a dream house to those without a roof over their heads. The kid who makes you angry, is the dream child of those who cannot have kids. The job you complain about is the dream job to the unemployed. The legs you think are too fat or skinny, are perfect to those who canno...

Morning Mantra: "It couldn't have happened any other way." Throw away the illusion that you could have done or said things differently in the past. Your actions were due to your state of consciousness at the time. It had to be that way. It helps to remember that we all do our best from our current level of consciousness. Shift your mind out of the past and into the present. Focus on...

Morning Mantra: "A good laugh heals a lot of hurts." We never know what’s going to happen in life.  There is so much to be serious about that we can find ourselves afraid to be happy or light. More than ever, we are aware that we can’t control everything, but one thing we can do is find the joy! We can share some laughs.  We can try to inspire others to find joy in between the big moment...

Morning Mantra: "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can walk, then crawl. Do whatever you can to keep moving forward." Strength is built in the moments where you think you can't take another step, but you do. You take it because you know that is the only way through. You take it because you understand that life is tough, but you are tougher. Yo...