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 have a process that we have to respect here. And protocols suggest that we do something

before we get into the news of the day. That something is a segment that we call our moment of

gratitude. And that segment comes typically before we dive into the news. And it's an important

segment because it helps us to get rooted in something, a point of inspiration that would allow

us to really cultivate a sense of joy, gratitude,

and appreciation. And the moment of gratitude is pretty simple. It's not very complicated. It is so

simple. In fact, it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear

music. The music's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us as we collectively

begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most

lung capacity expanding and joyful heart invigorating, troubled mind cleansing, and weary, soul-uplifting,

the most amazingly juicy breath. Certainly that you've ever taken with a couple million people

at once as we kick off our most important segment of every single day. It is time for our

moment of gratitude. Every day we got to do it and every day it matters. And today is no different. We are continuing with our

pulling on some of the texts from the Buddhist tradition that have been sort of very informative

for us as it pertains to understanding things like attitude and notions of community. And

today we're sort of sticking with the concept of attitude and how we approach the challenges

that we're facing, how we approach

the circumstances in our lives. And that's a very important thing to be aware of because what we

know is that circumstances are going to what? Circumstance, which means that we have to have the

appropriate emotional positioning in order to make sure that we are navigating our circumstances

with the most amount of

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