Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. So lots we got to get to this morning. and of course before we get to any of it.

We have a ritual on this show.

And this is a ritual that we use. audience. So lots we got to get to this morning. And of course, before we get to any of it, we have a

ritual on this show. And this is a ritual that we use every single day because the work of Black

Talklandia is not easy work. It is in fact quite difficult. And we know that in addition to the

fact that we are called to have these conversations, we are also called to be living lives as

human beings. And that

means that we face difficulties. And frankly, it's hard out here for a human. So we want to make

sure before we start doing the heavy lifting of analyzing what's happening in the world around us,

we want to make sure that we are doing everything that we can to focus in on a key set of

emotions that will allow us to,

yes, engage in these conversations, yes, learn this information, but also feel empowered about

our ability to do something about it. The ritual that we use is called a moment of gratitude,

and it is designed to help us really curate a set of emotions that include joy, gratitude,

and appreciation because we have learned from lived experience and the science confirms for us

that when we are rooted, enjoy gratitude and appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by fear,

loneliness, and depression.

So we take this ritual pretty seriously.

And that's kind of easy to do because it is

super simple. So simple. In fact, it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're

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