Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got a message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil.

And making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we get

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

So we break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

So we have a ritual on this show because newcomers, you should just know that

typically when we're doing the work of Black Talklandia conversation, it's kind of hard, right?

Like talking about what's happening in the news all day, every day from a race, gender,

culture, identity, politics, and the law kind of perspective, not the easiest of things to do. And so when you add to that, the fact that life be life and all of us are just trying to live it as best we can, the reality is that we need something to help us get centered before we dive into the heavy

analysis of what's happening in the world and the reality is that we need something to help us get centered before we dive into the heavy

analysis of what's happening in the world.

And because we know that we are able to choose the emotions that we want to entertain,

we use a ritual called the moment of gratitude to empower us to choose emotions of joy,

gratitude, and appreciation.

Now, the reason we settle on those emotions as the ones that we're aiming for is because we have learned both from lived experience and from the science that when you are rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, you cannot also be trapped by fear, by loneliness, or depression. And when you're trying to make the world a better place, fear, loneliness, and depression can be insightful. They can help you understand things a bit more. But I ain't nobody got time to be trapped by any of these emotions. We got work to do. So the ritual that we use to help us get in a proper emotional energetic frequency is called a moment of gratitude and it goes a little something like of these. In just a minute, you're going to hear music. When you hear the music, it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us.

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