Annette Carter I promised to share more of my thoughts and experiences on manifestation. Enjoy!
Part 1 of 3: The Power of Manifestation
I was 19 when I first saw the movie “Field of Dreams”. To this day, it is still one of my all time favorite inspirational movies. I fell in love with its many important messages: Dare to dream. Believe in your dreams. Have the courage to commit and step through magic doorways. Don’t listen to bullies. Surround yourself with Bliss Champions. “Go the distance!”
In the movie, the main character Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, has a dream challenging to plow through his corn fields to build a baseball field. While his neighbors and relatives make fun of his dream and his bank threatens foreclosure, his wife believes in him and so does he. His dream kept saying, “If you build it, he will come”.
Without any guarantees of what would happen next, and at great financial risk to his family, he plowed through his cornfields and built the field. I’ve watched this movie at least twenty times over the years. While this movie is mostly about having the courage to make irrational dreams come true, it reminds me of the power of manifestation in my own life.
In addition to the movies messaging about dreams, I was always particularly drawn to the house featured in the film. It was mostly in the background, but I became enamored by its charm. It is pictured below. A beautiful white Victorian built among corn fields, with a magical wrap-around porch. The porch stirred emotions inside of me that I’ve carried with me all these years. I visualized living in one similar my entire adult life. The emotion I attached most to the thoughts was desire.
The house in the movie seemed like the perfect setting to visualize dreams, enjoy a sunrise or sunset, spend quality time with family and friends, read a great book, share some wisdom, play board games and watch kids play till it gets dark. Throw in a pitcher of lemonade and some home baked chocolate chip cookies, and it seemed like it would be the perfect dream home to me.
Over the years, I always jammed on the car breaks every time I saw a similar looking house. My wife Lori Lochtefeld can attest to the multiple near car crashes. There is a similar looking house in my hometown of Menlo Park. I can’t count how many times I have slowed down to stare at it with the same desire I felt in 1989 when I first saw the movie.
31 years later, if such a home presented itself in my dreams, would I be willing to “go the distance” like Ray? Would my wife support me? If I build it, will they come?
Part 2 tomorrow
