{"id":2412,"date":"2022-11-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2022-09-26T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:44:09","slug":"breathing-room-recognizing-the-signs-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Breathing room; recognizing the signs of life and death."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday, November 26, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you love, you sense the energy of love back towards you, if there remains some &#8220;life&#8221; to it. Situations and relationships that feel lopsided, where you\u2019re putting in 95% and you\u2019re getting 5% back, can wear you down. It could be one of two things: 1.) It&#8217;s completely dead. 2.) It simply needs breathing room. However, when you see someone clutching to the past, trying to resuscitate what has <em>already <\/em>passed it is very sad to watch. You have to recognize when it&#8217;s time to let go; however, sometimes a situation just needs you to back up, even if it&#8217;s withered, simply so it can breathe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failing to see lifelessness is pitiful. You have to be open to the signs of \u201cdeath,\u201d if it is <em>truly <\/em>is over. Clutching to someone or some situation will smother it, and eventually kill it. But if there is even a seed of hope, the best way to deal with it is to back up, back down, and create some space for breath to reignite on its own. It won&#8217;t flower if you hover over it, clasp onto it, or cling like a doting mother. But be careful that you aren&#8217;t clinging to what&#8217;s already lifeless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When something is dead, it feels strangely quiet. It\u2019s often difficult to know the difference between faith and desperation. Faith cannot resurrect a lifeless relationship, a dead-end job, or a creative idea that isn&#8217;t blooming. Neither can pretending. When aliveness withers, acknowledge it. Either you need a funeral to say goodbye, or you need to to backup so it can breathe. At a deep level, you&#8217;ll know if you&#8217;re smothering it; if it&#8217;s already dead; or if it just needs some breathing room, so it can love you back. Pay attention to the subtleties of aliveness in everything, everyone, and particularly in yourself.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 26, 2022 When you love, you sense the energy of love back towards you, if there remains some &#8220;life&#8221; to it. Situations and relationships that feel lopsided, where you\u2019re putting in 95% and you\u2019re getting 5% back, can wear you down. It could be one of two things: 1.) It&#8217;s completely dead. 2.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1400,1403,1397,1401,1402,1399,1398],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation","tag-how-do-i-keep-going","tag-how-do-i-know-if-i-should-quit-my-job","tag-how-do-i-know-if-something-is-over","tag-how-do-i-know-if-something-is-worth-saving","tag-how-do-i-make-a-relationship-better","tag-how-do-you-know-if-its-time-to-end-things","tag-how-do-you-know-when-to-end-it"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}