I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not slow down as breath, as breathing.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not breathe, and therefore rush within my mind as shooting stars.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to get caught in the running dialogue within my mind, instead breathing and been here as breath.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to get caught in the automatic thinking process, instead of breathing here, and slowing myself down as breath.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to rush and run and be all unsettled, not realizing all it takes is one breath, to be here.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that all it takes is one breath, to slow myself down.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I will slowdown in future when I am free and less things to do, implying that now I am too busy to slow down.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear slowing down, believing then I will have to deal with issues.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear slowing down, and believe that I must not slowdown, as it is for losers to slowdown, while I must run and rush to achieve things, to make myself a winner.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear slowing down because I believe that slowing down is for losers.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear slowing down to the breath, really slow, because I believe then I am missing out on ‘life’, not realizing in rushing I am really missing out on ‘life’.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear placing a “hold”, a “pause” between in-breath and out-breath, because I believe it will interrupt my life’s flow, not realizing placing a “hold/pause” will interrupt the movie within the mind, and will ALLOW life flow.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear ‘pausing’ the mind even for a moment between in-breath and out-breath, because I believe that I have more important things to do like automatic thinking, daydreaming, wishful thinking, internal backchats, etc

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear ‘pausing’ because I believe it will interrupt the movie in my mind which is apparently so important than anything else.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear breaking the habit of continuous automatic thinking.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear breaking away from energy, therefore I forgive me for accepting and allowing non-stop automatic thinking as normal habit.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize, I need a new habit, a life habit, to break the non-stop automatic thinking process, to stop the non-stop energy consumption. Just like burning a light bulb, thinking burns the physical substance.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize I must direct myself to make a commitment to place the “hold/pause” between in-breath and out-breath. This is something I can clearly do, so I direct myself to breathe-in, hold, then breathe-out.

I commit myself to place a “hold”, a “pause” between in-breath and out-breath.

I commit myself to place a “hold” following every in-breath.

I commit myself to realize the importance of this “hold”, as it cuts the unceasing mental movie.

I commit myself to place a 4-count “hold/pause” following in-breath.

I commit myself ‘no matter what’s going on in my life’ to get into the habit breathing with a “hold/pause” in place.

I commit myself return again and again to place “hold/pause” between in-breath and out-breath.

I commit myself to return again and again even if I miss occasionally to place a “hold/pause” between in-breath and out-breath.

I see/realize/understand the time has arrived, for me to make this a commitment, a life habit, to breathe-in, hold, breathe-out.

When and as I see going into guilty, shame, or regret whenever I miss a breath, I simply return to breathing with the ‘hold/pause’. No regrets, no shame, no petty, simply return, restarting with this breath here.

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