Sentenced to blindness - now what?
Listen to the first chapters of the audiobook Sentenced to blindness – Now What?
A Journey from Hopelessness Street to Possibility Road.
A JOURNEY FROM HOPELESSNESS STREET TO POSSIBILITY ROAD
Is it possible to change your thoughts and see possibilities rather than limitations? Is it possible to change your perspective on your life’s greatest problems? This is what Morten Bonde investigates in his book Sentenced to Blindness – Now What? A Journey from Hopelessness Street to Possibility Road.
With research into the human mind, the practice of mindfulness behavior and meditation, and four challenges in four months to reprogram his subconscious mind, he shares how he decided to become greater than his greatest life-challenge: BLINDNESS!
Morten Bonde has an eye condition that is slowly making him go blind. In 2016, his vision was so severely reduced that his life couldn’t continue as before. It had been all go with a family and a career as senior art director at the LEGO Group. Then his whole world collapsed. But when everything was at its bleakest, he experienced a sudden clarity for how to regain zest for life and emerge from the darkness stronger than ever before. He succeeded in returning from hopelessness to regaining a positive and indomitable view of life.
The book is available as an AUDIOBOOK, PAPERBACK, and E-BOOK here.
PART 1: HOPELESSNESS STREET
When you get started with the book, you’ll discover that Part 1 is about some of the challenges I’ve had to deal with in relation to my eye condition, but also about who I was as a person throughout my life until 2016.
Part 1 is about how I slowly moved further down Hopelessness Street and ended up living a life of stress, depression and limitations. The purpose of Part 1 is to help you better follow my footsteps to the realization that I had to change the way I handled these limitations. And remember that the challenges I talk about in Part 1 could have been completely different challenges. They could easily have been the challenges you are experiencing in your own life.
I hope it’ll make you curious and interested in the tools I found to move forward and that you’ll explore further how I was able to change the way I viewed my world and my life. The anecdotes and comments you’re going to read reveal some of the topics that we’re going to work on in Part 2. These little hints might just kick-start ideas in your subconscious—and that’s what we’re going to talk more about in Part 2.
PART 2: HEADING FOR POSSIBILITY ROAD
I hope that you’ll stay with me throughout Part 1, but if for some reason you don’t want to read my personal story in Part 1, then I’d recommend at least starting with the chapter “Meeting at the municipality: An experience that changed everything” and then delving into Part 2 where I share a lot of knowledge and the tools I used to change course from Hopelessness Street to Possibility Road.
I’m still dumbfounded about the fact that I knew nothing about how to change habits and behaviors—something that so many people are now struggling with. I can’t understand why we don’t learn about this in school. If you find Part 2 too theoretical and distant from what you already know, or if you just can’t relate to meditation, mindfulness or brain research for beginners, try moving on to Part 3, but remember that in order to understand the deeper meaning of the examples I share in Part 3, it may be helpful for you to go back to Part 2 afterward.
PART 3: ARRIVING AT POSSIBILITY ROAD
In Part 3, I arrive at Possibility Road, and I share the story of how I used the knowledge that I tell you about in Part 2 to change many of my limiting beliefs. I’m going to show you how action, knowledge and determination gave me new, strong core beliefs and that these were now predominantly positive.
You could say that Part 3 is a recipe and inspiration for how you, too, can work with your own limiting beliefs. The examples given could have been accomplished in various other ways. The most important thing to understand in Part 3 is that if you want to change your limiting beliefs, you have to DO instead of just THINKING, worrying and ruminating.
If, along the way, you find yourself wondering at strange encounters and conversations with the mysterious Letter Men, don’t despair or get confused. Just read on. It’ll all make sense in the end.
Happy reading.
REVIEWS
*****
Much needed positivity
After hearing about this book I purchased it (about 3 months ago) and didn’t read it right way out of the fear of what I’d be confronting. Once I started reading it though I couldn’t put it down. 3 years ago I was diagnosed with same disease (Retinitis Pigmentosa) and like the author it came right at the height of my career as I was entering mid life. I can so very much relate to the feelings of fear and dread about what the future holds. Fear over how the encroaching darkness will affect my marriage, my kids…how I will cope with the loss of independence. He writes about exactly what I’ve been experiencing and writes about exactly what I need to hear; the positivity of possibility.
This is a book that encourages anyone who is dealing with a life altering disease. The author does not hold back when discussing the reality of the hard times and that just adds to the message of positivity and hope that permeates the book. I highly recommend to anyone coping with a life altering disease and also to anyone who knows someone who is.
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An uplifting read
Morten is a brave, strong man who decided that blindness would not prevent him from living and loving life. He learned that he may not have the power to control a medical condition causing him to lose his eyesight, but that he COULD choose his attitude towards it, that would direct the path of the rest of his life.
Morten’s story and his understanding of the ways that we can re-program our way of thinking are valuable and applicable to everyone, not only those facing vision loss. This book provides hope and concrete strategies for self improvement that everyone can benefit from. I recommend the read!
*****
Very inspiring book
I could very much relate to the personal story, all the limiting beliefs sounded very familiar. I highly recommend reading the book „sentenced to blindness – now what“ to anyone who is craving to make a change in their lives but doesn’t exactly know how to start or put it into practice. Even if going blind is not your personal struggle, you will definitely benefit from it. I personally have already read several great inspirational books, but this one sort of serves as a road map and gives you insight into which steps exactly to take in order to reprogram your subconscious mind and subsequently change your life.
As a nice bonus it also has an intriguing storyline and is a very entertaining read.
Enjoy!
*****
I love this book!
I love this book. I can relate to all the negative thoughts and changing it to positive. I’ve been doing this on my own., I’m still working on it but reading your book did help me. All lot of great tips and ideas. Thanks. Very awesome book.
