About Me

I was sitting in my living room, feeling depleted. Defeated. The warm sunlight streaming through the window felt like a mockery - a stark reminder of the joy of life I was not feeling. Had never truly felt.

“This has to change,” I whispered to the empty room. “Something has to give.”

I had read countless self-help and spirituality books, attended lectures, and even completed a week-long fasting retreat. My bookshelf sagged under the weight of promised transformations. Yet I still felt miserable. The effortless life and spiritual enlightenment these teachers promised remained stubbornly out of reach.

I felt cheated - thrown into existence without a manual or guide. My inner world was a battlefield - negative self-talk running rampant through the trenches of my mind, low self-esteem building walls around any possibility, a profound lack of personal power and agency keeping me frozen in place. I sought distractions and escape. On several occasions, I considered escaping the physical world altogether.

Yet, a sliver of hope always remained in the background. “There has to be a way to break free of this mental prison.”

On one such dark afternoon, while staring at the wall with tears in my eyes and contemplating the void, a realization struck me with unexpected clarity.

I can end this misery.

I can choose to leave the physical world. With how I felt, life was not worth living. It was not an experience I was willing to continue.

As dark as that realization was, it was also liberating. Suddenly I had a choice, I was no longer powerless.

I chose to stay, to see if I can truly change.

Taking it one day at a time to see if I could transform myself from the inside out.

“What if,” I thought, picking up a journal that had collected dust for months, “I focus entirely on changing how I feel? About myself. The world. Other people. My place in it all.”

I wrote a question across the top of the blank page: Could I feel better—happier, lighter, less guilty, more joyful—by changing how I see myself?

To become the person I wanted to be, to experience the life I craved - this became my single focus.

After all, all the teachers I admired had the same resources at their disposal that I did - mind, will, imagination. Most of us aren’t handicapped in these areas, so why couldn’t I recreate myself, by myself?

Even if the whole “manifesting” and “creating our own reality” concept was utter nonsense, if I could change how I felt and thought and experienced my life, that would be enough.

That’s what I set out to do. And that’s where the seed for GrittyPath was planted - to share my journey, what I’ve learned and experienced, in hopes that it might make your path a bit easier, faster, less lonely.

What I’ve discovered is that personal change is not about forcing positive thinking or repeating affirmations until they feel true. Real transformation is about understanding and accepting a simple but profound idea explored in great depth by Neville Goddard: imagination creates reality, and our self-concept is the key to it all.

Not in some vague “think good thoughts” way, but in a specific, testable approach. I found that when I created imaginal scenes - fully immersing myself in how a desired experience would feel if it were already real - my inner state began shifting. Sometimes the shift was immediate, other times it required a consistent practice. But it demonstrated to me that it is possible to change my self-concept, my very identity.

The fascinating thing is that over time, my outer world began to reflect these inner shifts.

The most powerful discovery wasn’t manifesting specific objects or outcomes (though that happened too). It was realizing that I could select a completely different self-concept and live from it now, rather than waiting until I’d “earned” it through struggle.

And yes, occasionally it did feel like I was committing a mental suicide.

Here at GrittyPath, you won’t find hype or promises of overnight transformation. What you will find is:

• Practical breakdowns of personal transformation techniques that you can test yourself, today
• Real stories of both successes and setbacks from my own experiments
• A focus on changing your self-concept first, rather than chasing external outcomes
• Tools for handling doubt, bridging the gap between theory and results

I write about the power of imagination, changing self-concept, revision technique and other personal development and spirituality techniques - not as abstract concepts, but as practical tools you can apply to your daily life.

Some days the path feels like walking barefoot over broken glass. Other days, it’s like discovering you’ve had wings all along.

The name “GrittyPath” reflects that we’re on a journey (probably a never-ending one), and it takes real grit - to dive into our consciousness, face our greatest fears and demons, accept them, transform them, and be reborn.

Over and over.

I’m still walking this path, still learning, still failing and succeeding in cycles. I share it all here, and across my channels.

If any of this resonates with you, I’d love to continue the conversation:

Connect with me on X @MyGrittyPath for insights and experiments. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for deeper dives into these practices.

Here’s to the gritty angels - those of us willing to do the messy, unglamorous work of transforming ourselves.

Welcome to the gritty path.

Reinis
May 2025
Northern Europe