How I Healed My Life: From Crises and Cancer to Self-Empowerment

Copyright © 2014 Dagfrid Kolaas.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-9359-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-9361-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-9360-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014903739

Balboa Press rev. date: 3/7/2014

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part I: Dagfrid’s cancer story

My first meeting with the cancer riddle

My personal meeting with the cancer issue

On my own

Tests at Haukeland Hospital

Waiting period

Temptation to give up after a long life

Love and miracles

What makes me want to live?

Excellent helpers at the hospital

Angels, do they exist?

Something unexpected happens

Treatment for body and soul

An interesting coincidence

A life-changing experience

Now what?

My prayers are heard

God and breasts

What can I do myself?

The Health House in Sogn

Experience results in expertise

Oh, that Jesus!

Friends are like diamonds

Next checkup

All those miraculous cures

My life as a city person

Art therapy

Pen pal

Relapse

My best moment in bed

The New Medicine

I need to learn more!

CT scan

Arranging workshops

Could the spread of cancer be caused by new conflicts?

Little me … or?

Cancer cells

My new mission

Advice to cancer patients

Hope and support

Love and forgiveness

Exciting new acquaintance

What now, Dagfrid?

Help, I am invited to a TV show!

It’s not always easy to share knowledge about this research

Not everyone who experiences a shock will get cancer

Cancer is often detected in the healing phase

For cancer patients

Meeting a woman diagnosed with cancer

Bent’s adventure in God’s laboratory

Fungi, bacteria, and viruses are our helpers

Exciting research on mammography

Astounding research report on cancer

My medicine chest

The joy of creating this book

My background

From teacher to farmer

Bent Madsen’s background

Part II: The META-Medicine model of the disease process

Introduction

The natural life processes

The disease process from stress phase to healing phase

Escaping emotional isolation

Transformation of emotions

New understanding about cancer spreading?

Part III: Excerpts of the directory of mind-body

Introduction

Excerpts from the mind-body directory

Bibliography

Foreword

By Rune Amundsen

Author, speaker. and ex-psychologist

Essentially, there are two ways of looking at life: either everything is meaningful or everything is meaningless. Dagfrid goes for meaning. Dagfrid goes for the idea that human beings have been given the gift by Nature—or God if you like—of being able to create their own reality.

It stands to good reason that, if we are able to make ourselves sick, we might as well use our powers to make ourselves happy and well; and what is more—and what is of utmost importance—is that the experience of sickness and health both have an intrinsic holy nature.

Dagfrid tells us a story of power—the potential power of inner knowledge and joy that had hidden itself and had lain dormant in the deepest crises of her life. Most of her life was in ruin, both in terms of social life and her faltering health. But she managed to turn it all the other way around; the crisis became a gift of renewal and inspiration for herself and the people she met along the way.

One of Dagfrid’s biggest assets is courage—courage to explore … courage to make a difference.

Her book of hope is one of those stories that charms and paves the way for others to find their own unique paths. She points the way to the inbuilt self-healing process of Nature and helps us ultimately to rest peacefully and joyfully in the miracle of the aliveness of our bodies.

Dagfrid tells a story about discovering her inner healer. Not in solitude and isolation; that is not the way of Dagfrid. Neither did Dagfrid rely solely on the inner healer; she sought help from modern medicine as well as from complementary medicine and even explored spiritual paths and exercises.

Dagfrid has actively explored the process of her illness in terms of its social, psychic, and physical ramifications. The stories her illness needed to tell her resulted in healing and joy. She made her discoveries. She found her way.

A scientist in the sense of knowing and living her skill by experience, Dagfrid shares openly and candidly her life and discoveries with us. She has important things to say, and her book and her being in the world are invitations to join in and explore and enrich our own lives.

There is no doubt that illness is a stern teacher. But any illness has the power to show us its illusionary nature, and indeed it has the power to even teach us by experience the illusionary nature of death and separation itself.

Preface

Welcome, dear reader.

Life is one long process. There are always new things to learn. That is one of the exciting things about living.

Many years ago I was certain that I knew almost everything. Later on a lot of what I had thought of as truths were turned upside down.

Because what is truth?

I believed academic medicine and all scientific research were safely grounded in great wisdom and truth. Then, when I was confronted with a cancer diagnosis, my inner voice started to tell me otherwise.

The recent unveiling of false cancer research did not surprise me. Maybe it is just the tip of the iceberg as has been said several times in the media. This has also given me additional energy to come forward with my story based on what I have actually experienced in my own body.

I share everything I have learned about cancer because I have already experienced that some of my fellow humans could benefit from my experiences.

I have not been sitting here healthy today without the help of many people who have been with me during my journey. They have shared their wisdom and love and have supported me in my choices.

This led me to finding new strength within myself.

New insights came to me, and I have been able to leave behind the old ones that no longer are useful. My experiences have enabled me to grow, let me become truer and wiser. I have even become more closely connected with my own power.

In great love and humbleness I thank all the helpers and teachers who made my life possible and thereby helped to give me the pleasure of writing my story.

Thank you to my two sons who showed me their great love when I needed it most. Thank you to friends, family members, doctors, and the psychologist who, each in his or her own way, have contributed to help me to go on. They showed me new truths and supported me in my own choices on this magical journey that life is. One big thank you to the doctor I met in the middle of my cancer journey. She did not believe in my choice and thereby forced me to stand up for myself and to take responsibility for my own life.

This incident turned out to be very important for my entire cancer story—and for me.

My story was very complex. I had several shocks, one on top of the other. I had to process massive heaps of conflicts.

The best thing for me now is to live one day at the time, and today I am glad that I did not know how long it would take to work through all the shocks and conflicts.

It is also important for me to leave behind me the processes that I have been through. I must live as much as possible in present time. It has taken me a while to reconstruct my cancer story.

Modern cancer treatment is based on fighting and killing. Most people feel fear just hearing the word cancer.

I believe in cooperation, even between our wonderful, wise,