Hi, I’m Joanne Cary. Welcome back to the Embodied Soul Podcast, a multi-dimensional space intended to support you in mastering, living, being and thriving as the embodied soul you are.
This week, I’m going to explore something that I think so many of us face on the spiritual path — and honestly, in life — which is the dance between those long-range manifestations, those big soul visions that might unfold over years or even decades, while still being fully alive, present, and nourished in the life you’re living right now.
Because one of the things we don’t talk about enough is that your biggest visions are often slow-burn manifestations. They’re not always linear, and they don’t always require you to hold obsessive focus on them every single day. In fact, they usually don’t.
And yet, they do require you to maintain the frequency of them. Not the focus — the frequency.
That’s what we’re going to dive into today.
So if you’re ready to join me, pull up a comfy chair, invite in your soul, and be open to receive exactly what you need to live, be, and thrive as the embodied soul you are.
We all have visions that live inside our hearts. Visions that are too big to check off a list in a year or two. They’re the soul-level ones — maybe the home, the relationship, the community, the work you feel called to be doing, the world you feel called to help create.
Those visions aren’t created in a weekend workshop. They unfold through seasons. They unfold through alignment. They unfold through the very way you show up energetically in your everyday life.
And this is the key:
You do not have to think about your long-term vision every day for it to manifest. You just have to live in the frequency of it.
So let me talk a little bit more about that.
Some of you know this story, but many of you don’t. The life my husband and I have just stepped into — the home we’re completing, this entire environment we’re living in now in the mountain in Costa Rica — this has been a 27-year manifestation.
Twenty-seven years! That is a long time to hold the vision.
And let me tell you, I was not visualizing it every single morning for 27 years. I was not making daily vision boards or even yearly vision boards, for that matter. I was not building my life around it every second.
But what I was doing was living in alignment with the things that lit me up in the present moment.
That’s what carried the frequency.
That’s what kept us moving toward this long-held dream.
Even during the seasons where it felt like nothing was happening, or everything was paused, or life was taking us in a very different direction — like five-plus years in California, as an example — that present-moment alignment, not constant focus, is what ultimately allowed this manifestation to land.
This is something I want you to really take in:
Doing what lights you up right now is often the most direct path to your long-term vision, even if it looks completely unrelated.
For me, the channeling, the light language, the transmissions, growing this community, sharing my heart and my multi-dimensional experiences — all of that kept my field open. It kept my frequency elevated. It kept my soul online.
And that was the energetic support for the bigger manifestation.
So even when the external steps were slow — even when we were taking baby steps or pausing completely — the larger vision was still building because the frequency was being maintained through my joy, my expansion, and my devotion to what was lighting me up in the now.
And the funny thing is, unbeknownst to me at the time, this long-held dream of creating a vacation rental, of having a space to host people in small groups, was actually deeply synergistic with what I was being called to through my channeling, my light language, my community work.
What looked separate wasn’t separate at all — and isn’t separate.
It is all working toward the same unfolding.
But let’s talk for a moment about the other side of this, because it is real.
There are times when we feel out of alignment with our daily lives. Maybe you’re in a job that drains you. Maybe your relationship is challenging. Maybe your day is filled with tasks or situations that feel tight, heavy, stressful.
And when that’s happening, it becomes very hard to hold the frequency of your future vision — not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because your energy is pulled into what isn’t working.
Do you hear that?
What isn’t working. What’s going wrong in your life.
And this is where many people get stuck.
They assume they need to fix their whole life to get back into alignment, or that they have to push harder toward the future vision.
But often, it’s much simpler than that.
You just need to create small packets of joy, connection, lightness, creativity — anything that nourishes your field.
Those small energetic openings do more for your long-term manifestation than hours of forced focus.
And that includes meditation that maybe you’re forcing yourself to do because you think it’s the right thing to do.
I want to share something that happened recently in our community, because it illustrates this beautifully.
Someone mentioned that she suddenly had the urge to read and read and read, and she couldn’t put her books down. And then she started to judge herself. She felt guilty. She felt like she was wasting time. She was even considering setting a timer to limit the reading because she thought she should be doing other things.
And I smiled because I’ve been there.
Years ago, when I found the Seth material, I was just opening up spiritually, and I was obsessed with it. I would go to bed exhausted — like, absolutely ready to go to sleep. And then I’d think, “Ooh, let me just read for a few minutes.” And then suddenly, it was hours later — 1 or 2 in the morning, and I’d go to bed pretty early.
But here’s what’s important:
I was energized. I was fed. My field was being worked with. I was being tuned and prepared for my next level, even though I didn’t understand that consciously at the time.
And that period didn’t last forever.
And in truth, it lasted exactly as long as it needed to.
Here’s what I told her:
When something lights you up that strongly, it’s not random. It’s your soul pulling you into the frequency you need. It’s feeding you for your next step on this path.
And if you shut that down out of guilt or self-judgment, you end up cutting off the energetic nourishment that’s trying to come in.
Does that make sense?
So here’s the core message of this episode:
Your long-term manifestations don’t require daily focus. They require energetic alignment.
They require joy in your life today — not in some future moment.
They require you to follow what lights you up.
They require you to give yourself permission to be led by fascination, by desire, by curiosity, by what feels alive in your body and in your field now.
Your future isn’t created by obsessing over it.
It’s created by living in resonance with it right now.
It’s those small aligned moments that you allow yourself today — those packets of nourishment, those things you’re drawn to that make you lose track of time — they are part of the path. They are the signposts that are leading you forward. They are the frequency keepers. They are the bridge between your present and your future.
So my invitation for you this week is simple:
Notice one thing — just one thing — that brings you joy or curiosity or lightness right now.
It can be tiny. It can be simple. It can be something you’ve secretly been craving but haven’t allowed yourself to do.
And give yourself permission to follow it, because that one aligned action in the now may be the very thing that moves your long-range vision closer to you in form.
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