Bob Proctor teaches that everything is always creating or disintegrating (the Law of Transmutation), and that Spirit is always moving towards expansion and fuller expression, not disintegration.

I have observed this to be true of civic organizations.  Either the organization is struggling to live, or it’s struggling to die.  This is because an organization that is creating is attractive – it will attract people to itself because Spirit seeks to create, to increase. The attractiveness is what causes the challenges or “struggles” as I call it, because the growth must be accommodated. If it looks like things are static, that is not struggling to live, so instead, it is struggling to die. If the organization is not creating, neither is it attractive. An organization that isn’t attracting new members and creating new energy cannot live for very long. It is dying.

Years ago I participated in a church that was struggling to live – we were contemplating having Sunday-school classes in the restrooms because there was no place else to have them, and we needed more space.  One of the other members was figuratively pulling their hair out in frustration until I explained this concept.  I told them: this is what “struggling to live” looks like, feels like.  The alternative is to be struggling to die.  The strain of figuring out how to handle the need was still there, but their perspective on the subject was changed – it was no longer stressful for them.