Good evening @davidpress. Congratulations on your teaching career. I hope you have wonderful memories of your students and colleagues.

To answer your question about examples of "letting go". Yes, it has helped. Giving up alcohol was easy when I started using medical cannabis. It only took one "accident" to make me sit up and take notice. I had a Jack Daniels Special Select one evening (my all-time favorite). Later I took my cannabis dosage. Well, it wasn't late enough and I had an "overkill" reaction. I also gave up my favorite red wine which wasn't so hard because the owners of the winery retired and it was no longer available. Coffee was a no-brainer. If you are trying to stay calm mentally and have your body stay calm physically....why would you drink coffee. And you are chatting with someone who was the Marketing Director for a coffee company where every employee was required to drink the product.

......and now for the most difficult.....finding ways to let go of "sugar". I had to do a lot of research to find out how sugar just appears to sneak into everything. I make my own fruit and vegetable smoothies and add just a bit of agave. I have never liked the cake and always just ate the icing.
Let's just say, I give it my best shot.

Are you thinking about or trying to let go of some habitual behaviors?

May you have happiness and the causes of happiness.
Chris