Since last week’s blog post was about how you can use music to manifest love, now let’s talk about how you can use movies and TV shows to manifest true love! Yes, seriously, and it’s really powerful!
Have you ever watched your favorite show or movie and just felt such a pull in your heart for the on-screen couple? You truly yearned for what they were going through, you wanted them to be together, or you screamed in delight when they finally kissed (looking at you Jess & Nick season 2 of New Girl!).
Well, all these scenarios conjured up feelings within you. You teared up at the heroine’s confession of love to her best friend, you smiled so big when the hero proposed to his love, you felt butterflies and excitement before they were even together but you just sensed and knew and felt there was something brewing there and they had to wind up together because they were so obviously meant to be, and you had to excitedly tune in every single week just to see if this would finally be it!
Your subconscious mind doesn’t understand the concept that you are feeling these feelings from watching other’s fictional love. In fact, whatever you feel, your subconscious mind takes it as if it’s happening to you!
Example to help further explain this science-wise: There was an experiment done with Olympic athletes, where they were told to visualize and feel as if they were really running their event in their mind. Turns out the same sequence of muscles fired off within them as when they are actually running their event. Crazy, right? Honestly, if you even try it now - close your eyes and visualize sprinting or swimming or biking or whatever sport you’ve participated in (I was a swimmer so I always picture being in a lap pool doing breaststroke), you’ll definitely feel a muscle or two twitch. It’s awesome.
So long story short, your subconscious mind can’t really tell the difference between real or imagined. So if you’re feeling it now, it accepts it as face value as if it’s happening to you right now.
Our subconscious mind really holds so much power in manifesting, so whatever is stored down there often gets projected into our energy field and comes back to us fully manifested. Sometimes because it comes from the subconscious mind we may not even be aware we actually manifested it!
So, if you really feel all the feelings from the TV show / movie couples you love, your brain may actually register it as happening to you which may in turn make you subconsciously manifest it!
So, I have two perfect examples of how I unintentionally, subconsciously manifested parts of my love life from TV:
When I was in high school, Gossip Girl was brand new and of course, naturally as a high schooler who loved fashion, dramatic tv shows, and was a native New Yorker - I loved it.
I was 16 years old, never had a boyfriend or real romance before, but I loved any tv show or movie or book that dealt with a good love triangle. I was a sucker for the yearning and the drama and the choice between two. I remember specifically watching the Blair, Nate, and Chuck love triangle and being like “omg I want that.” When in turn now as an adult, I see that they were all terrible and I definitely DO NOT want any of that 🤣, but my 16 year old self thought it was so romantic. (LOL)
I was also really into the OC and remember specifically Seth Cohen being like “16 years of my life, I had no one and now two girls want me.” And I remember loving that plot line too.
Well, you know where I’m going with this haha …. All of that that legit turned into MY reality. I had one classmate who I had had a crush on like me, then he lost interest. Then another boy I had been friends with, well there was suddenly a spark there and he asked me out and then because I decided to date him, then the first original boy wanted to date me again (of course lol high schoolers). To be perfectly honest, it was not as fun and romantic as they make it seem on TV, it was really hard and involved lots of tears and everyone involved got hurt in someway.
Now, I look back on it and it definitely taught me a lot. I don’t know what either of those boys are up to in life but I wish them well and hope they have good true loves of their own.
I fully realize now that I had been feeling so much within my heart for the love triangles on TV that I inevitably wound up manifesting a legit love triangle with me at the center!
Several years later, I once again would unintentionally manifested a romance into my life that mirrored a TV show I loved…
As I aged into my twenties, the dramatic couples of the OC and One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl no longer seemed appealing to me (thought I still loved the shows), and instead I took up new TV love role models. I continued to adore.
Mainly, Jim and Pam on the Office.
So, I actually watched most of The Office in High School and college as it aired lived on TV, and I really loved Jim and Pam then. But fast-forward a few years to 2016.
I had been working as a videographer for a summer camp, but come the end of summer, the job ended and I needed something new.
As my days were filled with searching for jobs online, my nights were filled with re-watching The Office on Netflix for the first time since I had watched it all live…. And let me tell you, this time Jim and Pam just really hit me. I related to Pam because she was an artist and kind dorky but super cute, and I just loved Jim, and I loved the dynamic between the two of them. I loved their playful nature, I loved that they were legit best friends and couldn’t wait to tell each other everything and crack jokes and pull pranks. I loved that they were always doing grand romantic gestures for each other and that they were so connected. And I remember truly feeling all the feelings for them. I really, really felt it in my heart and would experience every single emotion with them.
I legit even cried with Pam when Jim finally asked her out, and cried again at their wedding when Jim says his whole: “people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl I worked with, but I think even then I knew that I was waiting for my wife.” 😭
I remember just thinking “I want that!”
I didn’t do anything specifically to “manifest” it honestly. I just remember feeling so much love for their love and knowing in my heart I wanted something exactly like that.
A few weeks later, I was hired by my former dream company to work for.
Long story short, over time, I started to become super best friends with one of my co-workers. There was never anything romantic initially there, it was just genuine friendship. We’d laugh about the silliest things, we’d have deep life chats, we even got to a point where outside of work we just texted each other constantly because we loved talking to each other that much. He so quickly became one of my true best friends and genuinely just one of my absolute favorite souls. He was silly, he was romantic, he was so intelligent, and he had a sarcastic sense of humor so similar to Jim.
Honestly, I didn’t even realize how similar our relationship was to Jim and Pam.
And I also didn’t realize that I had been falong in love with him.
Luckily, he felt the same, and nearly two years after we first met we finally started to date. Surprise - it’s Justin and we’re still together!
So yes, I 100% manifested my true love by feeling all the feelings from The Office! It’s no coincidence that I just happened to meet my true love right after wishing for a Jim-Pam romance and had a very incredibly similar situation. Office besties who couldn’t help but fall in love with each other.
If it’s possible for me, it’s possible for you!
If you’re looking for more ways to work on getting all those love vibes: watch rom-com’s (there’s so many this time of year!), watch tv shows with great romances, and you can even read books with cute loves, and truly feel all that love radiating in your heart.
Imagine yourself in those romantic scenario. Imagine yourself living out your own rom-com. Imagine how happy you’d feel. Imagine it being beautiful and romantic, imagine it making you cry with happiness, and imagine how much your heart would glow!
If you can see it in your mind’s eye and feel it in your heart, you can definitely manifest it. Honestly the more and more you pretend it’s real, and the more you embody the version of you who already is living out your dream love story, the more likely it will manifest for you!
Another recommendation, if you love writing, try doing some creative writing and writing out your own love story!
& if writing isn’t your thing, keep visualizing or acting it out or pretending. Whatever resonates best with you, just feel and believe!
Also, it’s super important to note: make sure that the love stories you’re absorbing are positive, healthy relationships. We don’t want dramatic Chuck-Blair-Nate love triangles!
A lot of TV and movie couples can be pretty toxic. I’m sorry please don’t @ me, but one big example of this is Ross and Rachel. When I was a teen watching re-runs of Friends on Nick at Nite, I totally wanted them to be together….but as an adult trying to rewatch it, I recognized that Ross was very controlling, he wanted her to give up her career because he was jealous, he blatantly tried to “mark his territory” in front of other guys even though Rachel assured him she only wanted to be with him, he legit cheated on her and then gaslighted her about it… it’s just not good.
So please scan fictional couples before you try to manifest with their love!
I remember also realizing lots of toxic tv couples was the reason young me equated love with drama, because that’s what shows like Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill and even Friends showed me love was!
But true love isn’t drama at all.
Like Taylor Swift said: “I once believed love would be burning red, it’s golden.” (Daylight)
It’s magical and secure and calm and romantic. It’s not boring, it’s still exciting and fun and surprising and thrilling, but just sans drama. It’s all the good stuff. It really is golden ☺️
I hope this helped give you some things to think about! And I hope it helps you manifest the great, amazing, movie-worthy love that you deserve!
