Horse Hippie’s Morning Mantras

Morning Mantra: "I am not my hair or my skin, I am the light of love that shines within." People are not as beautiful as they look and talk. They are only as beautiful  as they love, as they care, as they share. Just think about it, physical beauty has a different definition throughout the world.  For example, in some cultures being thin is looked at as a negative, yet in the US it is a...

Morning Mantra: "Create a life of healthy habits not a life of restrictions." Daily habits create your future. Simple things done daily encourage you every time you do them. Change doesn't have to be big and bold, the small, simple additions will often have the most lasting affects. When we try to improve our life or health through restrictions it creates a mindset of lack, which is...

Morning Mantra: "What you think about, you bring about." Your subconscious mind is a powerful resource that can work for you or against you.  The subconscious mind makes no judgments -- it simply carries out the orders sent to it by the conscious mind.  If you are constantly filling your thoughts with the negative like worrying about what could go wrong, what others think of you, or your...

Morning Mantra: "If you never heal from what hurt you, you will bleed to death on people that didn't cut you." Every person on this planet has suffered some sort of trauma.  Especially over the past year. When we are hurt, it is human nature to close off  and protect ourselves from more pain. Trauma teaches you to close your heart and armor up.  Avoiding emotional pain is necessary...

Morning Mantra: "It's OK if all you can do is put one foot in front of the other." Some days in life are all about following your dreams, hopes, and vision for the future.  But there are some days where life is about just putting one foot in front of the other. And that's OK. Do what you can with what you have. #BeOkWithJustOk  #BeHappy #BeHorsey #BeHippie #HorseHippie #Morning...

Morning Mantra: "You are what you do not what you say you'll do." Keep your word. When you say you will do something and don't, you teach people to not trust you. Keeping your word is a sign of respect, to others and to yourself. If you tell someone you're going to do something they'll remember. If you don't do it, they'll remember that too. You might still...

Morning Mantra: "Love yourself so fiercely that when others see you, they know how it should be done." Relationships start with loving yourself first.  How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you. Loving yourself starts with liking yourself, which starts with respecting yourself, which starts with thinking of yourself in positive ways. #BeInLoveWithYou #BeHappy #BeHorsey #B...

Morning Mantra: "It's better to be alone than to wish you were."  I used to think that the worst thing in life was to be alone.  It's not. The worst thing in life is to be with people that make you feel alone. It takes a strong person to be alone in a world that is accustomed to settling for anything just to say they have something.  #BeOkayWithBeingAlone #BeHappy #BeHorsey #Be...

Morning Mantra: "Your life is your story, write well. Edit often." When you are writing the story of your life, make sure you are holding the pen. Make sure it's full of adventure. Make sure it has interesting characters, an exciting plot, a beautiful setting, and a touching theme. #BeTheAuthorOfYourStory  #BeHappy #BeHorsey #BeHippie #HorseHippie #MorningMantra #inspirationalQuotes

Morning Mantra: "It's not our job to fix people. It's our job to love them when they are broken." I spent most of my adult life thinking I could fix broken people. But you can't fix someone. It's not your job and it's not possible.  They have to fix themselves. You might only be able to love them from afar. It's hard. It hurts to see someone you love sufferi...

Morning Mantra: "Mind your own business."  It's super easy in today's virtual world to poke your nose into things that really don't concern you. It's easy to have an opinion about how other people are doing things. If you find yourself doing this ask yourself why you want to add stress to your life?  Life is hard enough. Why make other people's business your burd...

Morning Mantra: "Do more of what you love."  Life is short but it is wide if you fill it with things you love. Every six months I make a list of what is working for me and what is not. I put things I love in one column and what I am doing every day in another. Then I compare columns. If they are unbalanced, I adjust to add more of what brings me joy.  This means I will have to give up ce...

Morning Mantra:  "Life is a series of choices, and every choice you make, makes you."   Every positive change in your life begins with a clear unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. Every choice leads you closer to the best version of you, or further away.  Sure, crappy things happen out of nowhere, but you still have a CHOICE on how you r...

Morning Mantra: "We fall. We break. We fail.  But then.  We rise. We heal. We overcome." Everyone, I repeat, Every. Single. Person. has times in their life when they fall, when they are broken, when they fail miserably. But you must always get back up. Get back on the horse so to say. And try again. The quality of your life depends on it. You have no choice unless you want to surrender t...

Morning Mantra: "New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." When I received the email from my landlord that he wasn't going to renew my lease it was a huge shock and very painful. I couldn't believe it! My shop had survived the Covid shut down (thanks to many of you) and I was eager for the busy holiday season to provide a little breathing room in my budget. It was...

Morning Mantra: "Surround yourself with those that want to see you grow."  There are people in your life that only want the best for you.  They are supportive, generous, and encouraging. They carry the light of love in their hearts. There are others who have their own issues with self esteem, and they can only see people as a threat or as competition. Their hearts are un-enlightened. Fin...

Morning Mantra: "Don't dream your life, live your dreams." Decide what kind of life you want then say no to anything that doesn't fit with that. Everyone knows deep down inside what their dream life would be.  I don't mean dreaming of being rich, famous or adored, but a life based on who you are, your values, your passions. So, if you know what this life looks like, don&ap...

Morning Mantra: “Life goes on.” You’ve got to take the good with the bad, the happy and the sad. Appreciate what you have, and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from your mistakes, but never regret. People change, things go wrong, but always remember, life goes on. These three words sum up everything I know about life, it goes on. #BeAcceptingofLife #BeHappy #BeHorsey...

Morning Mantra: "You can learn from those who agree with you, but many times you can learn even more from those with whom you disagree." Your own perspective is important, it enables you to make sense of the world. Always keep in mind, though, that yours is not the only view.  Every human on earth has their own unique perspective of the world we share. If everyone you knew held the exact...

Morning Mantra: "Choose your thoughts wisely, they are a conversation with the Universe." Did you know that nothing can destroy iron, but it's own rust? Likewise, no one can destroy you, but your own mindset can. Thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, actions lead to reactions. In other words, it all begins in your head. Control your mindset (thoughts), control the out...

Morning Mantra: "Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." Most people think that patience is passive waiting, but it's not. Patience is an active acceptance of the process needed to reach your goals and dreams. Patience recognizes that things can happen in a different way and different timeline than the one you had planned. Patienc...

Morning Mantra: "Make someone smile every day. But never forget you are someone too.” It’s easy to get caught up in people pleasing.   I used to be really bad at saying Yes when I really wanted to say No. I used to put other people's needs ahead of my own. I used to do things out of obligation not desire. I used to do anything so people would like me. THEN. I. STOPPED. I realized that th...

Morning Mantra: "Faith is not knowing how it will happen, but believing it will." Faith doesn't take away the problem, it takes you through it. Faith means that you continue to believe it will get better, even when you have no reason to believe. Faith means you never give up, because you see the tiniest bit of light in the darkness. Faith renews the sense of possibility, the sense t...

Morning Mantra: "Stop trying to be liked by everybody, you don't even like everybody." There is a difference between be liked and being valued.  You can like someone and not value you them.  You can also value someone and not particularly like them. If you want to find people who truly value you then you have to be yourself.  Every imperfection, every past mistake, every awkward mom...

Morning Mantra: "Pain has taught me to appreciate the things that don't hurt."  I've experienced quite a bit of physical pain in the last few months.  It seemed that as soon as I was over the pain from my kidney stones, my back went out. But there was a few days in between and I remember thinking, "Wow, I'm not in pain." How many days am I not in pain and don&apo...