You hustle and grind because stillness terrifies you.
You can't shut off at night.
The loop runs:
- What if?
- I don't know how.
- I don't know what.
You forget to eat.
You skip the gym.
You haven't seen your friends in months.
And it's stealing more than your time.
The insight and solutions that used to come easy.
The joy you had when you started this.
The certainty it's unfolding.
The hustle is an identity running the show. An old version of you that thinks staying busy keeps you safe.
A mental concept built from beliefs you collected since you were young, shaped by feelings you couldn't process at the time and learned to suppress.
The business level you're on is activating it. Saying:
"hey, let's remove this, so we can flow again.."
But you ignore the call. You try to solve an internal problem with more thinking, more tools, more effort.
You drain and spiral. Again and again..
To come back to flow, you have to turn around and work with the identity running the show.
It starts at the root.
Identity → beliefs → thoughts →stored emotion.
The trigger — anger, fear, frustration etc.. — is the entry point. The emotion is the invitation for that level in business.
When it happens, pause. Instead of reacting and escaping into your mind, become aware of it.
Locate the emotion in the body, behind the stories, the constant: I need to, I must to, I have to..
Where does it live in your body?
Feel the emotion with unconditional love, with pure eyes. Don't judge it. Just feel it completely. Breathe into it, and decide to let it go.
That's it.
The charge releases. The thoughts slows down. You come back to the present. The joy returns. The next step becomes clear.
This is the inner game.
Working from the inside out.
Reading signals and symbols like a true master of this game.
Im at my parents place, visiting. sleeping in my room.
Remembering years ago, in this same room, feeling alone and depressed. Addicted to porn, sex, drugs. Anything that could numb my pain.
One night, taking so much c0caine, mixing it with a j0int afterwards. I thought I was gonna die. My heart was literally trying to leave my body (haha), and I was really close to call ambulance, but at some point, I just accepted, I surrendered,i told myself its okey if I die, i would end the suffering. so I laid there in my bed crying, doing nothing, just letting go completely.
maybe that was one of those experiences that shifted something.
but I know for sure that inside that same room, I had my first spiritual awakening, ive cried, worked, isolated myself.. I learned early that im alone, everyone around me already suffers, so I can't put anything else on them,
I carried a mask, the drugs helped me to smile on the outside. . what killed me most is that nobody knew.
a couple of years later, in that same spot, im reflecting..
where is this person ?
I think he took his life, but not physically, but internally.
Died to that identity.
he is not escaping anymore,
he is sitting with what is.
sad? feeling it.
happy? feeling it.
fear? feeling it.
etc..
no push, no pull. Just being.
layer by layer, identity by identity,
just remembering who he was before the play, before this place.. a place called home, in the heart.
not sure why im sharing this,
but I guess , it might look like ive got things figured out on the outside, I dont.
I'm just a kid, wearing an adult suit.
Im crying,
laughing,
suffering,
feeling,
being.. Im just me.
So if anyone read this, and feel themselves in a hard situation, remember,
its just the mask. You can take it off, for now. Let go, surrender. Die.. to your identity .
(been off from X for some time, figuring things out. But I'm coming back, love you all)
@theninthhouser thank you for sharing.. im glad that you've found your way through.
I would never want it to be different
it forced me to look within
to find answers,
to shed layers..
and what was left was the most magical and purest thing ive experienced.
all love 💙
Im quitting X.
For the past days,
I've been spending time with cousins and family in Malta, drinking, smoking cigarettes, watching the beach from my balcony and just disconnected.
No escapism,
just being.
An amazing weekend.
I've decided to take 7 days from social media and some other cheap dopamine sources (dopamine detox)
When it comes to X,
I'm still figuring it out what I wanna do.
I really like being here, but I've been noticing that theres a lot of noise, stress and need to "get somewhere"
Thats not me.
I started this to share and transmit my own journey
inspire other to find themselves back to the present,
without any need to "earn money" or "monetize it".
Id probably come back,
but won't spend as much time on the platform,
and without any specific "niching down",
or "targeting"
Been getting some opportunities to build,
AI, Tech, Web, Apps .. Gonna focus more on that
BUT
I'll still share everything I wished I had over the years,
the journey:
from the mind,
back to the heart (presence),
because at the end, thats what we all seek.
Peace, freedom, joy, bliss, flow.
See you guys next week,
while I figure things out.
Love you all!
'
Tomas
Im quitting X.
For the past days,
I've been spending time with cousins and family in Malta, drinking, smoking cigarettes, watching the beach from my balcony and just disconnected.
No escapism,
just being.
An amazing weekend.
I've decided to take 7 days from social media and some other cheap dopamine sources (dopamine detox)
When it comes to X,
I'm still figuring it out what I wanna do.
I really like being here, but I've been noticing that theres a lot of noise, stress and need to "get somewhere"
Thats not me.
I started this to share and transmit my own journey
inspire other to find themselves back to the present,
without any need to "earn money" or "monetize it".
Id probably come back,
but won't spend as much time on the platform,
and without any specific "niching down",
or "targeting"
Been getting some opportunities to build,
AI, Tech, Web, Apps .. Gonna focus more on that
BUT
I'll still share everything I wished I had over the years,
the journey:
from the mind,
back to the heart (presence),
because at the end, thats what we all seek.
Peace, freedom, joy, bliss, flow.
See you guys next week,
while I figure things out.
Love you all!
'
Tomas
"But how do I know which identity is blocking me?"
You don't have to figure it out.
Life shows you every day.
Someone asked me this in my comments and I think most people overcomplicate it.
You don't need a personality test or a deep psychological profile.
You just need to pay attention to when you react.
Every time you react negatively to a situation, that reaction is a pin on the map. It's pointing directly at whatever you're holding onto inside.
Frustration,
anger,
uncertainty,
fear,
any of those are signals to a resistance within you.
An identity you're gripping that's keeping you stuck on this level.
You don't need to analyze it or trace the origin story.
You just need to notice you're reacting, find where you feel it in your body, and sit with it.
The identity reveals itself through the trigger.
It comes to you through the people and situations that fire you up.
You never have to go hunting.
I used to think my triggers were problems I needed to solve.
Now I see them as the game telling me exactly what needs to go before the next door opens.
For years, every problem in my life was filtered through a role I forgot I was playing.
Every situation.
Every challenge.
Every conversation with my family.
All of it processed through "the entrepreneur who has to make it work." That was the role. And I was so deep in it that I thought I WAS him.
It's like an actor who plays a character called John.
John has problems, stress, fear, limitations. And the actor goes so deep into the role that when he comes home at night, he's still John. He tries to fix his real life through the lens of John. Gets frustrated when it doesn't work. Never once considers that John was the problem, not the situations.
I was doing the same thing.
When things went wrong in business, it felt like I was being attacked. Personally. Because there was zero separation between the role and the person underneath.
The day I saw it, the situations stayed exactly the same.
But the suffering around them just fell away.
Same business.
Same challenges.
No John...
A friend asked me:
"How do you actually surrender? How do you let go? I don't get how to do it."
I told him: you're not doing anything.
Surrender is being.
That's why your mind can't figure it out.
The mind wants steps.
A process.
Something to execute.
I asked him: when you fall asleep at night, what do you do?
He said: "I just lay down. I relax. And yeah, that's it."
I said: that's the same thing as surrendering. You're not doing anything. You're not fighting. You're not changing. You're not fixing. You just let go and it happens.
The problem is the mind is always fighting.
It wants to control the feeling.
Change it.
Understand it.
Fix it.
And that fighting is the thing keeping the feeling alive.
When I say sit with the emotion, I mean literally just be with it.
Like sitting next to a friend who showed up at your door unannounced. You don't have to talk. You don't have to fix them. You just let them be there.
Can I just let this feeling be here for now? Not forever. Not even for an hour. Just right now. Yes or no.
That's the whole practice.
Your mind will tell you it needs 10 more books before it can do this.
It doesn't.
It needs to stop fighting long enough for the feeling to move through on its own.