Bashar’s 5-Step Formula: Follow Your Highest Passion
- Iain Beaton
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Exploring the wisdom of Bashar, channelled by Darryl Anka
Written by Iain Beaton
There are many places from which we can draw wisdom. Sometimes an idea resonates because of who said it. At other times, its value becomes apparent simply because of what happens when we put it into practice.
For more than four decades, Darryl Anka has entered an altered state of consciousness through which he says he channels an extraterrestrial being known as Bashar. Through these sessions, Bashar has offered perspectives on consciousness, beliefs, human potential and the way we navigate our experience of life.
Of course, the idea of channelling will resonate with some people more than others.
What I find particularly interesting, however, is Darryl Anka's own attitude towards this.
He has frequently explained that it isn't necessary to believe that Bashar is literally an extraterrestrial consciousness speaking through him. He openly acknowledges that he cannot prove this to another person. The information could be interpreted as coming from Bashar, from another level of consciousness, or perhaps from some deeper aspect of Anka himself.
For him, the more important question is:
Does the information work for you?
Rather than becoming caught up in proving where the wisdom originates, we can examine the wisdom itself.
If an idea resonates, explore it. If applying it creates something constructive in your life, use it. And if it doesn't resonate or prove useful, simply leave it behind & scroll on!
It is in that spirit that I want to share one of Bashar's most practical teachings — what he describes as a kind of instruction manual for living your best life—
Act on your highest passion.
Take it as far as you can.
Have zero insistence on the outcome.
It consists of five interconnected steps—
1. Act on Your Highest Passion
Act, first and foremost, on whatever you are most passionate or excited about.
Bashar describes the bodily sensation of passion and excitement as a signal from the deeper self — an indication that something resonates with who you truly are. In his terminology, it reflects your “signature frequency.”
When several possibilities are available to you, look towards the one that contains the greatest degree of genuine excitement or passion that you are capable of acting upon.
You don't necessarily need to know where it will lead.
Recognise the next opportunity that carries the greatest excitement and take the step that is available to you.
2. Take It as Far as You Can
Once you recognise what excites you, act on it to the fullest extent that you are able.
Continue until you genuinely cannot take it any further, or until the excitement naturally begins to diminish.
There is an important distinction here.
Has the excitement genuinely run its course, or are fear, doubt or limiting beliefs causing you to pull away from something that still excites you?
If the excitement naturally fades, look again at what now contains the greatest degree of passion or excitement available to you.
That becomes your next step.
3. Have Zero Insistence on the Outcome
Act fully on your passion, but release your insistence on how the result must look.
The physical mind naturally tries to predict outcomes. We imagine what success should look like, how something should happen, when it should happen, and where a particular path ought to lead.
But we cannot always know what the ideal outcome actually is.
Sometimes events may unfold exactly as imagined. At other times, the outcome may be entirely different — and potentially better than anything the physical mind could have anticipated.
4. Stay in a Positive State Regardless of What Manifests
Following your passion doesn't mean that everything that happens will necessarily be something you prefer.
An unwanted situation may appear and our immediate reaction can be:
“Something has gone wrong. I shouldn't be experiencing this.”
But immediately defining an experience as negative can prevent us from recognising what it might have to offer.
Instead, Bashar suggests remaining in as constructive a state as possible and asking what can be learned, understood or gained from what has occurred. Even an experience you would not consciously have chosen may reveal something valuable — perhaps an unexamined belief, a different direction, an opportunity for growth, or information that would otherwise have remained hidden.
The situation itself does not necessarily determine what you receive from it. The state from which you respond can influence what you are able to discover within it.
5. Examine Your Beliefs
The final step is to explore the beliefs you carry and question whether they genuinely belong to you.
Throughout life we absorb ideas from parents, schools, friends, society, culture and countless other influences. Some genuinely resonate with us.
Others may simply have been accepted without ever being consciously examined.
Fear-based beliefs in particular can influence our choices while masquerading as truth. When we discover a belief that no longer serves us — or recognise that it may never truly have been ours in the first place — we can begin to let it go.
Bashar captures this rather playfully with the phrase:
“Don't be a belief thief.”
In other words, we don't have to continue carrying someone else's beliefs simply because they were handed to us.
Instead, we can begin discovering what genuinely works for the unique individual that we are.
Drawing Wisdom From Different Sources
This brings us to another useful point Bashar makes towards the end of his teachings regarding this process —
Finding what works for you doesn't mean choosing one teacher, philosophy or system and accepting everything within it.
Wisdom can come from many places.
You may discover something valuable in one teaching, another piece somewhere else, and something equally meaningful from an entirely different source.
Rather than feeling that we must subscribe completely to any single philosophy, we can explore different perspectives, recognise what genuinely resonates, and integrate those pieces into an understanding that works for us.
Sometimes the particular combination that serves you may not already exist.
You may have to create it and that, Bashar suggests, is part of the creative act.
What you discover through that process may even become useful to somebody else — not because they need to follow your particular path, but because it may encourage them to discover what uniquely works for them.
Bringing It All Together
What appeals to me about this teaching is its simplicity.
It doesn't require us to know exactly where life is taking us before we begin. Nor does it suggest that following our passion guarantees that everything will unfold exactly as our physical mind expects.
Instead, it asks us to recognise what feels most alive and meaningful now, act upon it as fully as we reasonably can, and remain open to what comes next.
Along the way, we pay attention to the beliefs influencing our choices, remain willing to learn from experiences we may not have preferred, and allow ourselves to draw wisdom from wherever we genuinely find it.
And ultimately, we return to the simple thread running through the entire teaching:
Act on your highest passion.
Take it as far as you can.
Have zero insistence on the outcome.
If you find yourself drawn to this process but notice that something seems to be holding you back, that in itself may be worth exploring through one of my clearing sessions.
Sometimes the beliefs influencing our choices are obvious to us; at other times, they can sit beneath conscious awareness, shaped by past experiences, conditioning and ideas we've carried for many years. A clearing session can offer an opportunity to explore what may be creating that resistance and help create greater clarity around what genuinely feels right for you. By recognising and releasing patterns or conditioned beliefs that may no longer serve you, it can become easier to move forward with a greater sense of freedom and apply principles like these in a way that feels authentic to who you are and getting the results we want to show up in our lives.
Have fun and, and more importantly, excitement exploring these concepts and let me know in the comments what worked (or didn't work) for you.
Thanks for reading and please feel free to share this far and wide.
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