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

​When I worked 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 education. 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.

A new personal journey took shape, 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 bodies, 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 that is beyond words to describe.

With this realisation, 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 quiet 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 paths to well-being, and that we ourselves are the best at navigating them. I convey this through lectures, podcasts, workshops, books, blogs and more. Well-being is usually conditioned by something external and tends to come and go. Inner peace is a source in all of us in the remembrance of our connectedness. The path goes through acceptance of emotions such as anxiety and fear and in letting go of the belief in having control over life.

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It makes me happy,  if I in some way may support other people in trusting themselves and having faith in life, including their own paths to well-being and physical healing. Knowing that this also happens naturally through life experiences and from a longing for inner peace and freedom, and in having faith in that which is greater than humane beings.

 

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