Embodiment · “Being Precedes Having”
Follow Your Highest Excitement
In each moment, take action on the available option that carries the most genuine excitement, to the best of your ability, with zero insistence on a specific outcome.
Follow your highest excitement: At each real choice point, among the options actually available now, act on the one with the most genuine excitement — take it as far as you can, to the best of your ability — and hold zero insistence on what it produces. Then re-scan and repeat. Excitement is the instruction; the outcome is not your job.
What it is
The single operative instruction at the centre of the Bashar material: stop trying to figure out the “right” goal in the abstract, and instead use your own excitement as a moment-to-moment compass. In any given moment you usually have several things you could do.
The practice is to notice which of the genuinely available options carries the most aliveness, charge, or interest for you — your “highest excitement” — and to act on that one, as far as you can take it, while holding no demand about where it leads.
Bashar frames excitement not as frivolous fun but as a felt signal pointing toward what is most authentically yours to do next. The discipline is in the structure: you do not get to keep the excitement and dictate the result.
The Method
Bashar states the Formula as a small set of steps (faithfully described; short quotes only):
- Act on your highest excitement. “Act on your excitement, your passion, whatever is most exciting to you, in the moment.” Among the options actually in front of you right now, pick the one with the most genuine charge — not the most prestigious, the one that feels most alive.
- To the best of your ability. “Do this to the best of your ability. Take it as far as you can go until you cannot take it any further.” Excitement is a starting flag, not a half-gesture; you follow it until you’ve genuinely exhausted what you can do, then let the next exciting option present itself.
- With zero insistence on the outcome. Act “with absolutely no insistence, assumption or expectation of what the outcome should be.” You drop any demand that this action produce a particular result. The excitement was the instruction; the result is not your assignment.
- Stay in a positive state regardless of what happens (Bashar’s added clause) — choose your state independently of how the outcome looks.
- Keep investigating your beliefs (links to the companion practice) — when you can’t act on an exciting option, a belief is usually in the way; surface and release it. A practical loop: at a real choice point, scan the options that are actually possible now, feel which one carries the most authentic excitement, act on it fully, release the result, then re-scan. Excitement is read in the moment, not pre-planned for the whole life. (Sourcing note: paraphrase plus short quotations from the publicly published Formula; not a reproduction of any recording.)
Source & Lineage
Darryl Anka (b. 1951) has channelled the entity “Bashar” since 1983, describing him as an extraterrestrial from a parallel-reality civilization. The Formula is the most distilled, widely circulated piece of the material, presented in foundational transmissions such as Blueprint for Change (1990) and codified on the official site.
It restates, in channelled idiom, an older lineage — Joseph Campbell’s “follow your bliss,” the New Thought emphasis on desire and feeling, and the Seth material’s “you create your reality” — but compresses it into an action rule for the present moment.
The Traditions' versions
The move — let felt interest/aliveness choose your next action, then release the result — recurs across very different lineages; Bashar’s signature is the tight three-part rule (excitement + full effort + zero insistence) applied moment to moment: - Follow your bliss (Joseph Campbell) — orient your life by what most enlivens you, trusting doors to open.
- Person–activity fit (Sonja Lyubomirsky) — the empirically grounded cousin: choose well-being activities that genuinely fit you rather than forcing prescribed ones.
- Core desired feelings (Danielle LaPorte) — navigate by the feeling-states you want rather than fixed external goals.
- What wants to happen (Ervin Seale) — sense the emergent next step rather than imposing a plan.
- Wu wei / yielding (Laozi) — act along the line of least resistance rather than forcing.
Common refinements
Confusing excitement with escape. The highest genuine excitement is not whatever distracts you from discomfort. Distinguish authentic aliveness from avoidance.
- Dropping the “best of your ability” clause. Skimming the surface of many excitements without taking any to its end is dabbling, not the Formula.
- Secretly keeping the outcome demand. “Follow excitement so the thing I want will arrive” reinstalls insistence. The release of the result is not optional.
- Reading it as a licence to quit obligations. Excitement is followed within your real responsibilities and integrity, not by torching them.
- Pre-planning the whole life from it. Excitement is read in the present moment among real options, not forecast years ahead.