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 ritual on this show, and we use this ritual every day to make sure that we are

doing what we can to tap into, to the greatest extent possible, a sense of joy, gratitude,

and appreciation. And we do that every day because, as I said, every day we do Black Talklandia

and that's hard. It can be challenging. And so the moments of gratitude are super important

because they allow us to

make sure that before we get to the heaviness of the conversation and the seriousness of just

our lived experience as humans walk in this planet, it allows us a moment to intentionally

jush up emotions that are designed to allow us to be our best selves. And for us, those emotions are, as I said, joy, gratitude, and appreciation. The ritual is pretty simple. It is so simple. In fact, it goes a little something like this. Hit it. In just a minute, y'all going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because we will collectively begin taking the slowest the deepest the most lung capacity expanding

the most joyful heart invigorate and 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. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it.

Every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians.

Shout out to the YouTube community,

the podcast community. We just bringing everybody together. And I absolutely love it. Now,

we have been spending this entire month talking about power, right? How to recognize it,

how to stand in it, how to reclaim it, how to wield it. And that has been really important because it's been rough out here.

Have you seen outside? Outside? It's a rough outside. And all of that recognizing of our power and

acknowledging it, standing in it, becoming more comfortable with it and wearing it as a second

skin, really as a skin from the inside out, it can feel, if done well,

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