All About Manifestation

In this week’s episode, I open up about something deeply personal that happened right before I hit record—a meditation that moved me to tears. I’ve spent the last year planting seeds, keeping my head down, and working with so much intention… and now I’m starting to feel those manifestations taking shape. It’s overwhelming in the most beautiful way.

I share how I approach manifestation from a place of light, love, and clarity—no dark energy, no spell work, just pure alignment, gratitude, and specificity. I talk about the lists I’ve written, the “movie clips” that randomly play in my mind, and why tapping into your own intuition and purpose can change everything. If you’ve ever wondered how to manifest with intention—or if you’re simply craving a reminder that your dreams are allowed to be big—this episode is for you.

Episode Highlights:

[0:22] – Opening up about meditation, emotions, and why the tears flowed
 [1:05] – The truth about manifestation and clearing up common misconceptions
 [2:18] – Making deeply specific lists and noticing “movie clip” visions
 [3:40] – How intuition and intentional thinking guide my manifestations
 [5:05] – Full-moon energy, rituals, and the plaques that keep me aligned
 [7:01] – Reflecting on my toxic divorce, healing, and finding gratitude
 [8:10] – Dreaming bigger than ever and stepping into my purpose
 [9:35] – Using manifestation for light and love—not darkness
 [10:20] – Inviting listeners to reach out, connect, and stay anonymous
 [10:37] – Where to find me on social media and when new episodes drop

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Transcript

Caryn Portnoy: 0:02

Hi everyone, and welcome to the music of Life. I'm your host. Karen Portnoy, before I get into this episode, please comment, ask questions, share some of your experiences, and don't forget to subscribe. Hi everyone. I don't know if I'm if I sound congested, I'm not sick. I'm not congested. It was just I was just meditating, and I started crying because part of the meditation was about manifestation, and I was just sitting in all the things that I've been manifesting for the last almost a year, and my tears came from the reality that they're starting to come true. It's just overwhelming to me, because I've been planting all these seeds for myself for over a year and, and, you know, like you just kind of, I've been nose to the grind, my head down, focused on what I'm working towards and what I'm trying to build for myself. And I have a lot of different irons and a lot of different fires, and I'm working on different projects and and I've been busy, and I've been working really hard, and I just, I'm starting to see the fruits of my labor. And so I wanted to talk about manifestation in this episode, and I think that there is some misconceptions about how to manifest, and you know what it's all about. And I just want to clear up a couple of things. First of all, it's not about like, wishing for an outcome or something. I think a lot of people who manifest, you know, relate it somehow to witchcraft or spell work. And I don't get involved in that stuff at all. So I'm nervous about, you know, entities and dark energies involved with that. And I just, I don't want to deal with, like, dark magic or anything like that. I fully sit and embody light and love and that's it. So I don't get into spell work on any level. However, I think it was about maybe five or six months after I moved out of our house where I made lists of things that I wanted in my life. And I was taught that, you know, you have to be very specific, like, the more specific, the better. And you know, the universe wants to hear what you want, so they can make it happen for you, or it can make it happen for you. However, whatever you believe. And so I made lists of qualities and traits and examples and specifics about everything that I want for myself in my life. And it's one thing to kind of keep reading over your lists over and over and over again, and it kind of gets embedded in your mind at some point. But it's, it's more than that. It's, um, I would have like, small, like movie clips in my mind about how things might be in the future, or what I would want them to be, or sometimes they would just play out, and I wasn't guiding it. It was just, I don't know. And then I would think about it and say to myself, like, is this a premonition, or is this something I'm actually actively manifesting? I don't know. I don't I never really thought much about premonitions before, but I could literally just be sitting on a couch watching TV, or sitting on my bed, or I don't know wherever I am, and I could just like something, I'll pop into my mind, and it'll relate somehow to the list that I make. So I think that when you when you're tapped in, when you're aware, when you're intentional, and you just kind of like, let your mind go in terms of what you want out of life and how you see your future, and how you see love coming into your life, and how you see work coming in and playing out, and what about like a new soul tribe of close people who truly have my back and support me, just all these different things. Is, you know, areas in in my life that I just, I just have, like, movie clips running through my mind, and they change all the time. It's not always the same one, but it's, you know, when I reflect back on my list, it's like, this is like manifesting what I've been writing all this time and there, there are definitely times that I sit with my list and I just read them out loud over and over again. I have other things that I say when I'm trying to manifest something, and sometimes I wait until the next full moon, because I know that moon energy is makes manifestations more powerful. So whatever, if you believe in it, then it works. If it doesn't, then it doesn't. Recently, one of my friends sent me a house warming gift, and part of that was something that I keep right in front of me, where I record this podcast in my master bedroom closet, but I hung it up here because it's where I see it the most frequently. So it's like three different plaques. And one of them says what you imagine you create, which is so true. The next one says what you think you become, also so true. And then the last one is what you feel you attract. And I love all three of these because they I mean, this is like, who I am right now. This is totally where I am. And then there's another plaque with the seven chakras on it, and it says, for each color of each chakra, there's a word for it, like I am focused, I am motivated, I am grateful, I am strength, I am blessed, I am worthy, I am loved. So I love that I could look at these things while I'm creating content for my podcast and while I'm talking to you guys, but I'm just so grateful, and I'm so happy to see my life unfolding the way I feel like it always was meant to be. But you know, it couldn't have happened any other way. You know, having to live through all the pain and suffering that I went through in my in my toxic divorce, was nothing that I would wish on any person I know or don't know. I mean, no human should have to go through what I went through and yet, and I've said this before, I'm at a place now of gratitude for it, because had it not happened exactly the way it happened, I would never be the person I am right this second. So for all the lessons that came out of it, for all the growth and the evolution, and I'm I just, I'm so grateful, and to know the direction that I'm heading in is even more exciting, because I just, I never allowed myself to dream this big before. And you have to dream that big. You have to we have one life here, and why wouldn't we just shoot for the stars? I think there was a saying. I forget who said it, but it was something like, like, shoot for the shoot for the moon and land on the stars. Or maybe it was vice versa. I don't remember, but it was, it was basically like, even if you shoot so high that you don't think you'll ever, ever, ever reach it. It's like, well, at least you'll land in the stars or the moon. I mean, that's like, no small feat either. So I don't know. I'm just so freaking proud of myself. I can't even it overwhelms me, honestly. And the fact that I got here all by myself, like I did the work, I did the healing, I did the crying, I did the pain, I did the suffering. I mean, obviously, and I've said this so many times, it was me with God, but as far as like human help, it was me and God and and that was it. I'm very clear what my path is moving forward, what my purpose is and what my mission is in life, and it only gets better from here. So to all of you who believe in manifestation and maybe do some rituals or practices or whatever you want to call it, for me, I write, I make lists, I speak it into existence, I meditate on it, whatever it is, whatever works for you. But I'm here to say it works, and I would only encourage you to use it for good and light and love and don't get into all the dark stuff. Because it's really bad and you get really bad karma from it. Anyway, I'm going to wrap it up for now. If you have any comments or feedback or input or anything you want to share with me, I would love to hear from you. You can leave me some information or your contact information on my website. I promise I will keep you anonymous, which is podpage.com/the, music of life, and I'll see you guys next week. Please join me every Thursday for a new episode. You can reach me at my website, which is pod page.com/the, music of life, and you can find all of my social media platforms on my website, so that would be Instagram, Tiktok and Facebook. Thanks again for listening. I'll catch you next time you.