The Mind's Reality

My fiancé and I watched a show last night on common illusions that trick the brain. It talked about assumed shadows making it seem that things were two different colors when they were the same or altering a shadow to make your brain think something was taking a different course. It was just one more reminder for me how much we create our own reality. It was perfect timing as always. I woke nearly every hour last night knowing that in between I had been sleeping because I could vividly remember dreaming. I woke this morning feeling tired. It would be easy for me to complain that I got no sleep last night and yet I know to the contrary that I did sleep. I could say that I didn't sleep well because I woke so often and yet obviously I was falling quickly back asleep. And I could say I was not ready to get up this morning and yet I woke at my usual time without an alarm and could not get back to sleep. I could tell myself all these potentially negative things and yet that is just one perception of my mind's reality. The other perception is that I slept quite a bit and had some cool dreams which my mind allowed me to remember by alerting me to each one. I can even choose to believe that my body got just enough sleep as evidence by it's waking on time. So the choice is up to me. Gratitude is the same way. I could choose to drag my feet or I could choose to be grateful for those dreams and the sleep I got. And in fact I AM grateful for the sleep I got. I'm grateful for the dreams that were short yet full of meaning. I'm grateful for the chance to do lots of dream interpretation today to see what has been running in my subconscious lately. I'm grateful to wake on time even without an alarm. And I'm grateful to still have energy and alertness to start my day. I'm grateful for the timing of that show last night to remind me my mind creates my reality and so much of it is choice.
What will you choose for you reality today? What are you grateful for in this moment? How can you turn something you previously thought of as negative into a positive and supportive reality? May your day be blessed with the ability to see reality as a choice and may you choose something beautiful. Have a beautiful day!