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. We got a lot to get to today. And, of course, before we get to any of it, we also have a

ritual on this show because frankly, Black Talk Landia be hard. Like sitting in this space every

day. It's not the easiest of things to do. And so this ritual is one that allows us to intentionally

curate a set of emotions that, frankly, we find to be far more palatable and empowering and those emotions are

joy gratitude and appreciation and the reason we focus on joy gratitude and appreciation is because

we have learned through lived experience and the science has confirmed that when we are rooted in

gratitude for example our bodies cannot also simultaneously be trapped by fear right you're like

biochemically you just cannot do both of those. And so when you're rooted in joy and appreciation, really hard to be trapped by loneliness and depression. And we intentionally curate those emotions through a ritual that we call a moment of gratitude. And the ritual is pretty simple. It goes a little something I like a yes. In just a minute, you're going to hear music. And when you hear that music, it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us, because when we hear it, we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, deepest, most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled, non-cleansing, and weary soul uplifting, the most amazingly juicy breath. As we kick off our most important segment

of every single day, it is we got to do it.

We really do have to invest in our wellness practice. Every day, folks, we got to do it.

We really do have to invest in our wellness practices and in the ways in which we can amplify

our emotional well-being and our state of well-being so that we are able to do the work

of being the change agents that we were sent to this planet to be.

I want to shout out the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Newbian family, the podcast family, the YouTube family.

I have love for every single one of y'all and especially those of you who cross-pollinates all of

those spaces. Extra shout out to you. Yesterday we introduced a concept of small things, small

acts producing phenomenal results or, producing phenomenal results,

or contributing to phenomenal results, I think is a better way to frame it.

And I want to continue that conversation today.

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