The Bashar Recap: The Formula for Following Your Highest Excitement

This week's episode is a little different — we're joined by our friend Seth, a fellow attendee at a live Bashar event, to recap a day that got emotional, funny, and surprisingly practical. What started as "let's talk about the Bashar event" turned into a real conversation about the formula for following your excitement, a feeling none of us could quite name, and what it means when your heart gets so full it has to spill over.

The Formula Nobody Told You About

Seth — an elementary school teacher, husband, and father of two who has followed Bashar's material for close to three years — was one of the people chosen to ask Bashar a question live, in front of a packed room. Getting there took its own kind of trust: he lost his ticket the morning of the event, never panicked about it, and just kept enjoying the day. By the afternoon session, his number was called anyway.

When we asked him to break down the formula he's been following for years, it came down to this: follow your highest passion or excitement for as long as you can follow it, without attaching to how it turns out. When that excitement starts to waver, ask whether it's fading naturally or whether a limiting belief is talking. If two paths feel equally exciting, take the one that's more accessible. Then stay open and keep following it as it shifts. It's not complicated, but it isn't easy either — it asks you to keep choosing curiosity over control, over and over again.

The Emotion We Couldn't Name

Seth's first question to Bashar was about a feeling he'd had for the better part of a year and never had a word for it - something between unfiltered joy and a quiet kind of somberness. He described it as the feeling of sitting on a porch in the rain, or a wave of emotion that hits out of nowhere and just has to come out as tears, whether or not anything is technically wrong. Bashar's answer stuck with all of us: it isn't trying to teach you anything. As he put it, this moment is precious.

Listening back, we realized we both know that feeling intimately, even though we'd never used the same words for it. One of us described it as a heart getting so full, of connection, of people showing up, of gratitude, that it simply has to overflow; not one moment of joy but many moments compounding into a single wave. The other calls it painfully beautiful and beautifully painful: the particular ache of standing still with nothing left to do and feeling, all at once, how perfect a moment is and how fast it's going to be gone. Different words, same recognition, that everything is here on borrowed time, and that's exactly what makes it worth feeling all the way through.

Zooming Out to See the Connections

When we asked what this feeling actually is, the answer that stuck was a kind of zoom out. Picture a time lapse video that starts on a single eye and keeps pulling back, past a face, a room, a country, a planet, until you can no longer tell the difference between where you started and how far out you've gone. That's what this feeling is like: a moment where you can suddenly see how every choice you've made connects to this one, and to all the ones before it.

None of it requires privacy, either. You don't have to find a quiet room to let it out. Wherever you are is enough. You're supported, and you're allowed to feel it right there.

Permission to Start Your Highest Excitement

Seth's second question was about how to actually teach that formula to his own students. Bashar's answer was simple: kids need more unstructured play and dialogue with one another, that's how they actually learn. Then he added the line that got the loudest reaction of the day: if you are not okay with the system as it is, maybe start your own school.

Seth was honest that the idea had never really landed for him before that moment. He is going into his sixth year of teaching, and he was clear that he has no idea where, or even if, that idea goes next. That is the formula working as designed: no five year plan, just staying honest about what excites you right now, and following it one step at a time.

What You Can Take From This

If you want to try the formula this week: notice what genuinely excites you today, and follow it without needing to know where it leads. When that excitement fades, pause and ask whether it is closing naturally or whether a limiting belief just talked you out of it. If two options feel equally alive, pick whichever one is easier to actually start. And when a big feeling shows up, whether it is joy, grief, or that strange mix of both, let it move through you wherever you are. You do not need permission, privacy, or a five year plan first.

Walking out of that event, none of us had a five step plan. What we had was proof that following your excitement, staying honest about your feelings, and trusting the timing works, one ordinary Tuesday at a time. Thank you, Seth, for coming on and showing us what that actually looks like.

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