There is something inspiring about modern day warriors, like boxers. They run, they spar, lift weights, punch the punching bag and of course, shadow box. Shadows have always intrigued me.

The other day I saw a huge shadow on a lawn as I drove past it. I wondered, what huge bird could have made such a big shadow. But then I remembered that it didn’t have to be a huge bird at all, just a bird flying high with the sun hitting it just so – that the shadow appears huge.

Like that bird, a small thing can loom so hugely that we are distracted by the deception of a larger than life shadow. Suddenly, we are boxing a shadow that belongs to something that is really quite small, but that we allowed to grow, under the diminishing spotlight that is our own spirit power. We are in a ring fighting what seems like a large foe, not realizing its true size.

Daily shadows can be our children not doing well in school, an elderly parent, difficulties at work and worrying about bills. We all have these shadows, but at least we know what we are boxing. Life is not easy for a lot of people and each moment can present a possible battle, which we can cower from or choose to look at directly. Once we assess that this particular battle has no form, other than that which we give it, we realize we have won that battle and in fact, flexed the inner muscle that is our spirit power.

The growth and power of the self demands that every challenge, every heartbreak, every monster in our past and mind be faced down and conquered. Like disciplined boxers, we are running, lifting weights (and carrying them around in the form of worry, guilt and despair), punching the punching bag (or air or pillow or even the wall) and we shadow box ourselves!

As long as we punch at shadows looming formless, we cannot see the power that is innately ours. At times like these we are our own shadows — our defeated and lost side casts a big shadow and we box with it until we are exhausted. We never think to allow our more valiant selves to shine and realize all we need to defeat our shadows is to put on ALL of the lights. When we turn the light on the shadow and the looming it casts disappears.

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