In this reflective self‑help talk, Emmett Miller MD explores the challenge of breaking habits and addictions, describing how the “monkey mind” clings to familiar patterns. He emphasizes the profound sense of freedom that follows when a habit—whether smoking, excessive drinking, or an unhealthy relationship—is finally released, and stresses the need for deep, conscious letting‑go to truly free oneself.
You have let it go. Or maybe you can remember breaking a bad habit or an addiction. Because when you have a habit or addiction, boy, it's really hard to think about letting it go. But once you break it, I feel so free after having broken that habit of smoking or drinking too much. Or think about relationships that you finally let go of and So it's the monkey mind that becomes attached to things, because we understand in our conscious mind that we have to let go of things. And when something is let go of, we need to release it from ourselves deeply.
