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 focus on today. And of course, before we get to any of it, we have a ritual

on this show that we use every single day to make sure that when we approach these very difficult

topics, we are able to do so with an attitude of gratitude. And we like that attitude of gratitude

because what we have learned from lived experience and what the science confirms for us is that

when you are rooted

in gratitude, you cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. It's very important.

When you're rooted in joy and appreciation, you cannot possibly sit. Your brain cannot occupy being

rooted in joy, gratitude, and, and being fearful. Right.

So it's very important that before you do any analysis, before you do any negotiations,

before you do any sort of engagement with other people around any sort of topic,

be a good, bad, or indifferent, get your spirit right.

Get your mind right.

And do that because that is going to ensure that when you engage with that topic or when you engage with that person, you're able to do so from the best possible vantage point.

Who wants to be engaging with somebody from the least possible, the least probable, the least potential holding position to be?

Nobody wants that.

So this ritual is one that we call a moment of gratitude.

And it's pretty simple.

In fact, 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 long capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating, and troubled mind cleansing, and weary soul, uplifting, truly the most amazingly juicy breath 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. I'm not a little bit Every day we got to do it and every day it matter.

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