"The moment we realise our actual state of being, we experience ourselves anew."

​When working as a general practitioner, I met many patients with existential problems, which I was not equipped to handle with my medical knowledge, it stressed me.  In 2006, I therefore began practicing mindfulness, and a few years later I started a psychotherapeutic training. Both of it made me turn the attention inward. At the same time, I began facilitating mindfulness groups with patients after work hours. These people were of different ages, genders and illnesses. The changes and healing processes that occurred in these people had a great impact on my identity as a doctor, since I could not define  my role as a doctor in the way I used to.  At the same time, I asked myself questions like: "Who am I?"

A kind of identity crisis arose, which I believe contributed to a mystic experience I had in 2010. An experience of everything  being connected, accompanied by an intense feeling of love. This experience changed my perspective on life and my life.

I embarked on a new personal journey, where I sold my medical practice and began writing books about the connectedness of body, mind and consciousness. I became aware that we are much more than our body, we are also that which observes our body, emotions, thoughts and behaviour.

 

Along the way, it became clear to me that the great unexpected feeling of love and connectedness I experienced in 2010 was a "fragrance" of something beyond words to describe.

With these realisations, my life continues with ups and downs. The difference is, that it is much easier to accept life as it is. It gives a great freedom and above all an inner peace and  joy.

 

Now I live life based on what my body calls for, that is mainly nature, movements, food, meditation, contemplation, silence, creativity, music, singing, intuitive dancing and appropriate amounts of work and sociability.

 

It is clear to me that there are many healing paths, and that we ourselves are the best to navigate in this "jungle." Health is usually conditioned by something external and tends to come and go. Inner silence is a source in all of us which holds a remembrance of our original wholeness and connectedness. Healing arises in loving awareness of our sensations and emotions while letting go of the belief in having control over life.  I convey this and more through lectures, podcasts, workshops, books, blogs.

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It makes me happy,  if I in some way may support other people in trusting their own sensations and having faith in life, including their own paths to healing.  Knowing that this also happens through life experiences and from a longing for inner peace and freedom. 

 

VOLUNTEER WORK: I am a volunteer counselor at the children's hotline under Børns Vilkår.