YOU are the creator of your reality. Your reality is dependent on your choice to expand  your consciousness. You can choose to “expand your perceptual field.”

Your “perceptual field” is determined by your choice of the myriad different persons, places, situations, and things that you choose to perceive, or not perceive. Your physical feelings have a direct effect on your perceptions, and your perceptions have a direct effect on your feelings.

Hence, you can create a “feedback loop” where you may choose to send out fear, and fear returns to you. On the other hand, you could put out a feedback loop in which you focus on “sending out love,” in which, love returns to you.

Also, fear limits your perceptual field to a very narrow range, not allowing all the possibilities to be seen. However, love, especially Unconditional Love, expands your perceptual field. 

This is about your inner perceptual field. By your “inner perceptual field” I mean your inner reality that is constantly created and re-created by your thoughts and emotions.

When your inner perceptual field is guided by peace and calm, your emotional body remains a clear window through which you can perceive your outer reality. On the other hand, when your inner perceptual field is guided by confusion and anxiety, your emotional body creates a blurry, and often self-focused, perceptual field that often creates a sensation of “being a victim.”

You will have this feeling of “being a victim,” because you do not feel as though you are the one who is creating your reality. In this case, there are many frightening possibilities on which you could focus your awareness to create more and more anxiety and fear in your world. The perceptual field is Powerful. You have a choice as to how you wish to experience creating your reality. This is true empowerment from within.

What are you most grateful for? Who are you most grateful for? What experiences do you cherish with all your heart? The power of gratitude is in align with the power of love, and love is the highest vibration there is. To practice gratitude is to practice love. When we find ourselves in a negative or positive experience the best action we can take is to take a moment and thank it. By thanking the moment we let the universe know that we accept and take responsibility for what we have attracted into our human existence. When we have acceptance we are metaphorically saying that we are a co-creator in this life.

By being a co-creator, it is up to you to manifest what you want into your life. Do you want love? Do you want peace? Do you want true, deep relationships? What do you see when you look at your life? How deep are you looking? When you swim through the depth of your life you realize you are swimming through troughs and crests of your own ocean. We live in cycles, and if we cannot be thankful for both the darkness and the light in and around us we become out of sync and sometimes deranged.

Gratefulness is love from every inch of our soul. By defining a circumstance as good or bad we are resisting and what we resist persists. Allowing the shadow to surface and becoming friends with it, we then resist no more and the flow of life force flows through us with ease, hence raising our vibration.

Gratitude makes all the difference on our path. On our journey when we come across certain ‘obstacles’ we can either see them as ‘obstacles’ or as lessons. To learn our lesson is to acknowledge our lesson, by thanking it. And so shall we transcend. We can all look back at a situation in life where we didn’t truly appreciate what life was laying before us, only to realize later that it was the perfect piece to our puzzle. Gratitude is the key to our purpose, and expands awareness of ourselves.

Gratitude is a new perspective. It is living through Source. Source doesn’t look for Beauty, source sees Beauty. Source is love, love is a vibration, and gratitude is the practice. Be grateful. Be love and watch your life transform.