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. Newcomers, you should just know that because we, as you can tell, this is a heavy show. This is the only two-hour show in the Monday through Friday lineup. This show has been described as all shot, no chaser, something that I'm very proud of because we have a limited amount of time. I got to get back to work. I just got off Zoom calls early this morning, so we got a limited amount of time to make as much sense about all of the things happening as we possibly can. So newcomers, because of that and because the work that we do here is so heavy,

we have a ritual on this show that we use to really give us a moment to tap into a set of

emotions that we know are very important and they just feel really good. And those emotions are

joy, gratitude, and appreciation. Now, the reason joy, gratitude, and

appreciation are important is because we have learned through lived experience and the science

has confirmed that when you are rooted, for example, in gratitude, you cannot be trapped by fear.

When you are rooted in joy and appreciation, it's really hard to get lost in depression and loneliness.

And so we have this ritual that I consider the most important part of this. it's really hard to get lost in depression and loneliness.

And so we have this ritual that I consider the most important part of this entire show.

I don't care what stories we're covering.

I don't care what conversations we're going to have.

The most important part of this show is the moment of gratitude because we are not going to be able to solve these problems merely with our intellect.

Have you seen how intelligent we are?

We are brilliant. We are genius. If solving the world's challenges were simply a function of our intellect,

well, then most of them would have been solved by now. Like, we know, for example, we know how much it's going to cost to cure hunger. Like, we got people on the planet right now who could write

a check today to solve hunger for everybody on the planet and still

have billions of dollars left over like it's not a matter of intellect we are often when we're

talking about the news also describing matters of the heart matters of the soul matters of the

spirit however you describe that even for my atheist out there matters of a discontented emotional

emotionally unregulated system i got something for everybody i don't care what you practice or not. I just know that it is important for us to be intentional about the emotions we sit in before we do the work of analyzing Black Talklandia. So this ritual is called a moment of gratitude. And it is pretty simple. It goes a little something like this. 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 are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most

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