Stretching was 'Believing'—A Prayer Toward a Future Not Yet Reached

Those who stretch themselves, grow.
The environment you place yourself in, the people you associate with, your skills—
People grow by the amount they stretch.
The phrase 'your current actions create your future' is often used
to mean that you should not neglect your efforts.

But—is there a 'truth of the soul' in that?

When we reach out our hands, there is always a 'future we want to believe in' there.
In this article, we will unravel 'what growth is' through the resonance of the structure of destiny.

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〈Trilogy〉 'What is Growth'

Episode 2 | Stretching was 'Believing'
—A prayer toward a future not yet reached

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Beyond your current self, toward a future that has already begun to resonate

'I'm trying so hard, but I can't reach it.'
'I feel like I'm stretching myself, but it's all for nothing.'

When we feel that way, somewhere along the line,
we are pulled back into the frame of our 'current self'.

But, in the first place, 'stretching' is
a phenomenon where you go beyond your current self and
have already resonated with your 'future self' first.

Even though you can't reach it, you want to stretch your hand out.
Even though it's uncertain, you end up believing.

If all of that
was a 'prayer to believe in a self you have yet to see'—

Because it resonated, I chose it

We make 'efforts'.
But that doesn't mean we work hard toward every single sound.

Among the many choices,
there is 'one resonance' that we just can't help but be drawn to.

Things you can't do yet.
Things that aren't going well.
Things that are too early for you.

Even so, you reached out your hand.

That is surely because it 'began to resonate'.
Because you chose the sound that resonated with your future self first.

Within that choice, there was already 'belief'.

Stretching was an expression of a prayer called belief itself.

If life has no structure, prayer creates the structure

In astrology and destiny studies, there are sometimes people with a 'void structure' in their birth chart.
For example, the 'Ming Wu Zheng Yao Ge' in Zi Wei Dou Shu.
A chart without a central star, where the structure of one's own axis does not exist beforehand.
Actually, I myself have this kind of chart.

For such people—
the path opens by strongly wishing 'this is how I want to be,'
and by leaping into the structure that resonates with them.

Believe in the future first, and throw yourself into it.

I put that in fancy terms, but
in short, it's like saying 'the environment and the people you surround yourself with are everything.'

That is how, while stretching,
you choose a way of life where you 'create your own structure.'

'Stretching' is, in other words, the sequence of
not believing because there is a structure, but having a structure born because you believed
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Stretching is also an act of offering your current self
toward the structure called by the future.

By paring down, you reach the future

When we say 'doing our best,' it feels like 'adding' something.
But perhaps true effort
lies more in 'paring down' than in adding.

Doing less, but better.
This is a belief shared among some executives in the United States.

'Do less. But do it better.'

Decide what not to do.
Protect what you will not compromise on.

Pour everything into what you truly want to deliver.

That is to say, it is also the act ofparing down the unnecessary things of the present
in order to resonate with the future you have chosen.

Stretching might actually begin with a very quiet,
yet certain 'courage to pare down'.

A story about ballpoint pens, pencils, and crayons

There is an anecdote that when NASA developed a ballpoint pen that could be used in space,
Soviet cosmonauts took 'pencils' to space instead.
That is the story.

We sometimes try to find the method first.

But in reality,
because there is a 'future we believe in,'
the method is found later. that is how it works.

I have had a similar experience.
I will warn you in advance, please don't laugh.

A story from my time living in America.
While other food companies were using markers with ink that wouldn't freeze in cold storage,
I, who was in the same situation, thought, 'Oh! Crayons can be used in the refrigerator,'
and I was happy to adopt a very inexpensive method.

Rather than what is necessary,
what you believe in and what you will continue to believe in is
much more important, and

there is no such thing as a world where only this method will do.

Stretching is a quiet prayer for the future

I haven't made it yet.
I still can't reach it.
Even so, I want to try believing.

Toward the future that has resonated in that way,
we continue to reach out our hands, clumsily.

Stretching might be a quiet, strong prayer
to believe in your future self.

There is no guarantee that you will reach it.
Even so, there is a sound that has already rung out ahead.

Reaching out toward that sound—

I suppose that is what we call 'growth.'

📖[Next Story] The future was 're-questioning'—going beyond correctness to change your trajectory

🔄[Read from the beginning] Effort was 'choosing'—toward a future that resonates by not packing it full

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Stretching Is Believing

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If a feeling that cannot be put into words remains.

Just as you are,
please try touching what lies ahead.

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🖋️ Destiny Coach Yuki Shoji
Proponent of Destiny Structure® / Resonance Studies™