My Path to Heart-Based Healing

My journey started with a question.

When I was sixteen, I had a spontaneous spiritual awakening that fundamentally changed how I understood myself. Standing in front of a mirror, a question arose within me - very clearly and unexpectedly:

“Who are you?”

For a brief moment, it was unmistakably clear that I was not my body, my history, or my personality, but something far more expansive - consciousness itself. I didn’t yet know how to live from that knowing, but it never left me.

Years later, my body forced that question back into focus. I was diagnosed with autoimmune conditions, and despite medical treatment, it became clear that managing symptoms was not the same as healing. I began searching seriously.

I earned a medical degree and became a family physician in Austria. Yet my thirst for true healing led me to explore far beyond conventional medicine. I studied alternative healing methods, trained in energy medicine, and worked with indigenous healers in the Amazon rainforest.

I learned a great deal, and I improved in many ways - yet I still felt broken.

For a long time, I assumed this meant I simply hadn’t gone far enough.

The real shift came in 2009, during a second spiritual awakening that lasted nearly two weeks. This experience was very different from the first. It was marked by clarity, inner stability, and a deep inner joy.

During this time, my heart felt wide open. There was no effort involved, no technique, and no striving to become something else. Instead, there was a natural sense of presence and completeness. I experienced myself as a timeless soul - whole, aware, and already at rest.

From this state, something essential became clear: when we are connected to the heart, striving simply ends. There is no longer a sense of lack or the need to fix ourselves. Nothing essential is missing.

This experience also allowed me to perceive the human energy field and its connection to emotional and physical patterns. But more importantly, I could see why so much healing work remains temporary. As long as healing is approached through effort, analysis, or self-correction, it is rooted in the assumption that something is wrong.

What this awakening showed me was that healing doesn’t begin by fixing ourselves. It begins with a shift in consciousness - a return to the heart.

At the center of that understanding was a truth that has guided my work ever since:

Without access to that higher consciousness, true healing isn’t possible. From the mind alone, we can understand our problems, manage them, and improve for a while. But healing that lasts requires a shift in our state of being - and the access point for that shift is the heart.

Working from the heart revealed something else that changed everything. Healing doesn’t happen by endlessly correcting what feels broken. It happens when we reconnect with the part of us that is already whole and complete - the soul. From there, the emotional system steadies and the body shifts into a healing mode, allowing change to become stable and sustainable.

This understanding became the foundation of my work and the basis of everything I teach today.