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 we got a lot to get to today. and of course before we get to any of it,

we have a ritual on this show.

And this ritual is one that we use

that is going to allow us to intentionally and proactively curate a set of emotions that are happy. And we do that because when we are dealing with the work of Black Talklandia, we know that that work is kind of hard. When you are living a life as a human

being, especially right now, it can be kind of hard. And so before we do the work of assessing and

analyzing and dissecting and considering and all the analysis that we have to engage in, we want to

make sure that energetically we are in the best position possible. So we have a ritual on this show

called a moment of gratitude. And that ritual is

designed to allow us to sit in a space of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. Because when we are

sitting in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression.

The ritual is pretty simple. It is so simple. In fact, it goes a little something like a

in just a minute. Hit it!

In just a minute, you're going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you

to join the rest of us because when we hear it, we will collectively begin taking the

slowest, the deepest and most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating,

troubled mind cleansing, and weary soul uplifting the most amazingly juicy breath.

As we kick off our most important segment of every single day,

it is time for our moment of gratitude.

Thank you. Everyday folks, every day we got to do it. We get to do it. And every day day we got to do it.

We get to do it.

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