...excerpt from the Sistine Chapel

Break the Chains... Online Self-Empowerment

Many of us feel as though we are in chains; we cannot move in the directions that we wish to move. We seemingly cannot change anything meaningful in our lives; we have the same old jobs, the same relationships regardless of who it is with, the same feeling of helplessness that we have had forever. How do we break those chains and LIVE a productive, satisfying and meaningful life?

When Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, people thought differently about reality. The image portrays a man being rescued by an Angel of Mercy, to be freed from his chains. We know today that there aren't any angels with golden wings that are going to rescue us from the prisons we live in. These were fantasies of the middle ages: that some external force was going to come and rescue them. Now we are starting to take more responsibility for our lives, and we know that the Angel is within.

So many of us have gone through the majority of our lives feeling alone or depressed for some unknown reason, or apparently at the beck and call of other people's whims. All of this may be summed up as a lack in something that is called PERSONAL POWER. This personal power is ours for the recognition of it within ourselves.

We have asked ourselves why some people can stand in front of a group and speak as though they hadn't a care in the world, and yet it takes an act of congress for us to do the same thing? We never stop to find out if they are scared too; we assume that they are completely self-confident and worthy and that we are unworthy. We support our views and beliefs by manifesting events in our lives, and then take those events as facts about ourselves. This is a cycle that keeps us chained and bound within our beliefs.

Let's break those chains and find our personal power!